Frosties or Sugar Puffs? In December’s widely-discussed Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, main character Stefan is faced with a lot of serious choices — whether he should work from home or in an office, whether he should jump from a balcony or simply encourage his mate Colin to jump, whether or not to kill his dad or […]

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Press X to lawyer up. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch very quickly became something of a social phenomenon upon its release during the last days of 2018. In case you somehow missed the interactive Netflix event, here’s some bullet points: It has been hailed as “the future of TV“. It boasts multiple endings. People have made flow […]

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This will never end. Black Mirror was always pretty adept when it came to completely consuming our minds. With regards to television, very few shows in recent years have made us take a step back and look at ourselves and society as a whole the way Black Mirror has. And even though we have come […]

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Here’s how Bandersnatch was made. Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch certainly opened many doors for the future of television, through its innovative use of a choose-your-own-adventure structure — making it a half-television, half-video game hybrid. Released on Friday 28 December last year, it instantly became one of television’s most talked-about spectacles of the year. Now, the […]

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“There is a balance to be struck in our engagements with social media.” Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is the talk of the entertainment world at the moment as the Netflix special continues to confound, confuse and consume. JOE’s Rory Cashin hailed the interactive special as “the future of TV” in his day-one review when it landed […]

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was something of a game in and of itself. The feature-length episode of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series saw the viewer control the actions of Stefan as he descended into madness — leading to five possible different outcomes (most of which were typically grim). Throughout the episode, Stefan is working on building […]

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