Bandersnatch
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week on Spoiler Specials, Sam Adams and Vulture staff writer Kathryn Van Arendonk discuss the new Black Mirror interactive episode “Bandersnatch”. Do we really want interactive content from Netflix? Is there a base version of “Bandersnatch”? Does Black Mirror have to always assume the worst possible outcome? Make the decision and listen to them discuss!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.8 | That to snatch was the final storm. |
| 0:07.7 | Relax. |
| 0:08.7 | Don't you're where to where to where. |
| 0:10.5 | When you want to go to where relax. |
| 0:13.0 | Relax. |
| 0:13.9 | Don't you see the bigger picture. |
| 0:20.6 | Relax. It's definitely you're worrying me. and lets you see the bigger picture. |
| 0:23.6 | Stefan, you're worrying me. |
| 0:26.6 | Steve's stepping out of this. You're Stefan. |
| 0:27.6 | Your feet has been dictated. |
| 0:32.6 | You're not in control. |
| 0:35.6 | You're not in control. |
| 0:44.6 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Sam Adams, the senior editor at Slate, and today I'm joined by Catherine Van Aeronaunk, |
| 0:49.9 | staff writer at Vulture. |
| 0:54.9 | Fans of the anthology series Black Mirror got a surprise at the end of 2018. |
| 1:01.5 | Instead of the show's eagerly awaited fifth season, what turned up on Netflix was an interactive film called Bandersnatch. |
| 1:10.5 | Like an adventure game or a choose-your-own-adventure book, the story, devised by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, allows you to make decisions as you go. Some of the choices |
| 1:11.5 | are comically inane, which sugary cereal to have for breakfast. Some are momentous, should your |
| 1:16.5 | character, a teenage computer programmer named Stefan, accept a job at a legendary software |
| 1:21.6 | developer or break out on his own. The choices get more important as you go, and so does |
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