‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ marks the dawn of a new era in television

This is a choose-your-own-adventure review of the brand new choose-your-own-adventure Netflix special, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. 

You can choose to remain entirely spoiler-free until you experience it for yourself. In which case: this is quite simply a brilliant, groundbreaking piece of interactive television. One that has cracked the code as to how you let the viewer make interesting storytelling choices without spoiling the immersive mood of good drama. 

(Important spoiler-free caveat: Netflix hasn’t yet cracked the code of how to show this interactive episode on Chromecast or the top-of-the-line Apple TV 4K. It does work on Roku, for some reason the company can’t quite explain, and on a console, laptop, tablet or phone. Which is odd, because all you really need to play is a left button, a right button and a select button — things every TV remote has.)  Read more…

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