Black Mirror: Bandersnatch review — Netflix's interactive episode will make you question the concept of choice
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch review — Netflix's interactive episode will make you question the concept of choice

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With Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, as much as you are watching the show, you are also playing it. If making a choice in life is a source of anxiety for you, then the new, standalone, interactive episode Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, is best avoided. Best watched individually, where it is one person making the choices, Bandersnatch tells you the tale of a video game programmer in the’ 80s, who is trying to make an interactive game. The protagonist, Stefan Butler, has daddy issues, and a dream to create a breakthrough video game — an interactive one based on a choose-your-own-ending book named Bandersnatch. However, it remains to be seen if stories that do not themselves rely on ‘choice’ as a central theme could still be designed in ways that make for an effective interactive experience.

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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker had Bandersnatch idea that was considered 'too nerdy' for Netflix
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker had Bandersnatch idea that was considered 'too nerdy' for Netflix

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror film Bandersnatch was almost even more ambitious. …

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – How to watch the different endings and what happens
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – How to watch the different endings and what happens

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Bandersnatch then flashes to an ending in which a …

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker reveals old episode had scene that brought back former characters
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker reveals old episode had scene that brought back former characters

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Black Mirror co-creator Charlie Brooker has revealed he scrapped a scene …

Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones share Bandersnatch secrets
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones share Bandersnatch secrets

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free The Netflix twist was initially scrapped CB: We …

How Netflix’s ‘Bandersnatch’ can change the way we consume TV
6 years, 2 months ago

How Netflix’s ‘Bandersnatch’ can change the way we consume TV

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Should Stefan Butler have Sugar Puffs or Kellogg’s Frosties for breakfast? You are not in control.” Stefan’s hero, the master computer games creator Colin tells him: “Time is a construct. In fact, a show like Bandersnatch may give Netflix access to a whole new sort of data—product choices, music tastes, and most importantly, insights into deep recesses of the viewer’s …

Bandersnatch: Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Black Mirror's 'choose your own adventure' episode
6 years, 2 months ago

Bandersnatch: Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Black Mirror's 'choose your own adventure' episode

The Independent  

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Black Mirror season 5 release date: Bandersnatch has pushed back new episodes
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror season 5 release date: Bandersnatch has pushed back new episodes

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Over the festive period, Netflix subscribers enjoyed Black Mirror's first "choose …

Black Mirror Bandersnatch review: Netflix and Charlie Brooker revolutionise TV, rob you of free will
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror Bandersnatch review: Netflix and Charlie Brooker revolutionise TV, rob you of free will

Hindustan Times  

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Director - David Slade Cast - Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Choudhry Rating - 4/5 Black Mirror Bandersnatch review: Dunkirk breakout Fionn Whitehead leads the special movie ‘event’. Bandersnatch feels like a culmination of four seasons of Black Mirror - a show that always warned us this day would come, when humans and machines would somehow become …

Bandersnatch: What happened when we watched Netflix's Black Mirror film
6 years, 2 months ago

Bandersnatch: What happened when we watched Netflix's Black Mirror film

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✕ Close Netflix takes interactive storytelling to the next level with ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events …

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an experiment on us – Netflix explain why interactive episode is the grimmest yet
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an experiment on us – Netflix explain why interactive episode is the grimmest yet

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Netflix takes interactive storytelling to the next level with …

Choose your own ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ review: Lloyd or Ali? Click here for Robert Lloyd
6 years, 2 months ago

Choose your own ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ review: Lloyd or Ali? Click here for Robert Lloyd

LA Times  

Television Critic Friday night at midnight Pacific Time, Netflix, after some intriguing teasing, debuted a special episode of its Emmy-winning, British-born sci-fi anthology “Black Mirror.” Coming between its completed fourth and recently announced fifth seasons and entitled “Bandersnatch,” like the “frumious” creature Lewis Carroll advises shunning in “Jabberwocky,” it is a feature-length interactive episode, an adventure game about an adventure …

Choose your own ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ review: Ali or Lloyd? Click here for Lorraine Ali
6 years, 2 months ago

Choose your own ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ review: Ali or Lloyd? Click here for Lorraine Ali

LA Times  

Television Critic Netflix’s special episode of its Emmy-winning sci-fi anthology “Black Mirror” arrived Friday after some intriguing teasing and lots of hype. No matter if you’re the main character of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” or the viewer/player, free will is an illusion in this technological nightmare of a drama where time is subjective and narratives overlap like a layers-thick dish of …

'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Makes You Choose Your Own Adventure
6 years, 2 months ago

'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Makes You Choose Your Own Adventure

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'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Makes You Choose Your Own Adventure Enlarge this image toggle caption Netflix Netflix Netflix is hungry, and it's got its eye on a juicy slice of interactivity. Set in 1984, it's about a young programmer named Stefan working on a game adaptation of a famous "choose your own adventure" book. While it obviously makes sense for Stefan …

What to know before watching the ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ interactive odyssey
6 years, 2 months ago

What to know before watching the ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ interactive odyssey

LA Times  

Look out world, the “Black Mirror” interactive experience is upon us. In “Black Mirror,” “Bandersnatch” is a choose-your-own-adventure story that Stefan is attempting to adapt into an interactive video game, despite the author’s mysterious, murderous impulses while penning the original novel. There’s a reported total of 312 minutes of filmed material contained in “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” over five hours of …

Black Mirror Bandersnatch trailer: Netflix confirms release date for new 80s-inspired film
6 years, 2 months ago

Black Mirror Bandersnatch trailer: Netflix confirms release date for new 80s-inspired film

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Soon, reality and virtual world are mixed and start to create confusion.” The trailer confirms …

Netflix drops trippy ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ trailer. Is this the promised choose-your-own story?
6 years, 2 months ago

Netflix drops trippy ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ trailer. Is this the promised choose-your-own story?

LA Times  

If your New Year’s goal was to cut down on your screen time, Netflix and “Black Mirror” are here to keep you glued to the endless scroll. The streaming content provider just dropped the trailer for the upcoming film “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” which debuts Friday, and it’s just as beautifully unsettling as you expect. With shades of the 1980s perfection …

Black Mirror season 5: New series will feature 'choose your own adventure' episode
6 years, 5 months ago

Black Mirror season 5: New series will feature 'choose your own adventure' episode

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A “choose-your-own-adventure” episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror is reportedly …

Netflix is planning an interactive ‘Black Mirror’
6 years, 5 months ago

Netflix is planning an interactive ‘Black Mirror’

Live Mint  

Netflix Inc. is about to let you decide how your favourite show will end. ‘Puss in Book’ Netflix upended the business model of television by delivering new episodes of a season all at once—letting viewers watch shows on-demand rather than live. Video games The Black Mirror episode is the first of several experiments with live-action interactive programming for Netflix, and …

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