Late last year, Netflix surprised subscribers with a new original release that was nothing like anything people had seen before from the world’s top source of streaming movies and TV shows. In fact, it was nothing like anything anyone had seen before from any of the popular streaming services out there. It was a new installment of Black Mirror, the popular dark anthology series Netflix had acquired a few years earlier. But there was something special about this particular episode.
The one-off called Black Mirror: Bandersnatch followed a young programmer named Stefan Butler as he created a video game in the 1980s based on an old choose-your-own-adventure fantasy novel. Actually, “followed” isn’t the best word to use here. The show didn’t merely follow Butler’s story, it let viewers write the programmer’s story themselves. Much like the choose-your-own-adventure novel on which Butler’s game was based, Bandersnatch stopped at various points in the show and asked the viewer to help choose what happened next. It’s an exciting and innovative format that brings a new interactive element to living room entertainment, and it’s something Netflix just confirmed it will focus on much more moving forward.
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