Welp, was a nice escape while it lasted. On 12.05.2025, Netflix pulls "Black Mirror: Bunder" And "unbreakable Kimi Schmidt: Kimi vs. Reven" from the platform, ending her initially quiet efforts to remove all interactive specials. Unless there is a heart change and returned the "band" at some point in the future, viewers will no longer be able to return to 1984 and control the life of Stephen Butler (Fion Whitehead), a troubled young programmer working on a dark ambitious computer game.

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While it usually Places somewhere in the middle of the episode "Black Mirror" episode"Bandersnatch" broke a new terrain for the series after the release of December 2018, and its relevance to the franchise cannot be rejected. It was the first (and in the end it could be the only one) of its kind in the "Black Mirror"-an intra-internative film with the same mechanics of self-ownership-adventure as well as the video game in their story-and fans like me spent many hours playing to get all possible endings. Now, when Bandersnatch is gone from Netflix, the best way to look back on his legacy is to rethink those multiple endings and break them. Note that this does not include the end of the "secret", which allow the viewers to take over and play the game in the "Nohzdyve" universe, because just like the "bandersnatch" itself, the special website where you can get the game no longer exists.

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It is debatable to call the first scenario with a zero starvet as an "end", but it is still worth mentioning because of his comment on how to say "yes" to the big business, it often compromises one's artistic vision, resulting in an ordinary and unsatisfactory product. In addition, it's the fastest way to put an end to "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" ... until it's.

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Upon arriving at Takerzft's headquarters, Stephen meets the company's blunder founder and CEO, Mohan Takur (Asim Chadri). Impressed by the young man's terrain for Bandersnatch, Mohan invites Stephen to join Takerzft, where his work can be closely monitored. If Stephen accepts, the film flashes forward to December, where the game gets pathetic zero stars from five on a TV show called "Micro Game". Then you will be returned to Takerzft and once again ask if Stephen should join the company team or work on the game on its own.

It is clear that there is a mixture between Takerzft chief and his ACE programmer, Colin Ritman (Will Pulter) - the first is a technology brother obsessed with earning big dollars, while the latter is dedicated to the art of making video games. We also have to see what inspires his creativity in the second finish of the Zero Starvist.

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Here, Stephen carries LSD with Colin in his apartment, where he goes to the long tangent for interconnected parallel realities - an obvious reference to the multiple film endings and decisions made to get there. To prove his point, the eccentric programmer requires Stephen to choose between the two - who jumps from the balcony? If Stephen jumps, he dies, and a "band" gets bad reviews for his "sudden" end - as if someone finish the game for him. It is certainly a target, but not as much as the next two endings.

There are many cases in Bandersnatch where Stephen loses its reality, and most of them include someone else being killed. One of them may not include Stephen at all, but how is this possible?

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At one point in the interactive film, Stephen, while deliberately working on Bandersnatch, reveals that someone can watch it. Choosing Netflix (more information about other options) allows you to explain what a stream is and how you are controlled by Stephen's fate. This leads to another visit to his therapist's office, Dr. Haynes (Alice Lowe), and not surprisingly, she's confused by the concept, even wonders if Netflix is ​​a planet. It does not take long for things to get out of the rails; Stefan throws tea into the face of the therapist, and it encourages her to wipe a pair of sticks and cause him in the fight.

If Stephen jumps out the window, the film descended on what looks like a set "Black Mirror" - it turns out that he is actually an actor named Mike who looks too submerged in his role. But if Stephen holds around to fight D -Haynes, his father joins the fight shortly thereafter; Whether Stefan Karate is trampling or kicking him in the jewelry of the Butler family, the film ends with the programmer pulling out the office from his father, shouting maniac about how he and his "friend of the future" have destroyed the Day of the Therapist with their brand of fun.

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It would not be a typical "black mirror" episode without some kind of twist that opposes the laws of time and/or conventional logic, and here begins to play this "bandersnatch". You can get this end first by rejecting Takur's invitation, after which Stephen is considered prominent from the development process and in the office of D -Haynes. If you decide that Stephen should talk to Dr. Haynes about his mother (Fluur Kit), who died in a car accident when he was five, he would be taken to that point in his life, where he refuses to capture the train at 8:30 am with his mother without his beloved bunny.

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It turns out that his father, Peter (Craig Parkinson), confiscated the toy, and if Stephen goes with his mother at the train station without her, they take the train at 8:45 am due to a bunny -related delay. Unfortunately, the train moves away, killing both Stephen and his mother. This Also It kills 19-year-old Stephen right in the middle of his therapy session, as a decision of his five-year version to leave his home without his favorite toy much means that he died around 1970 and should no longer exist in 1984. It's a way to go to the mind, but hey, it's a "black mirror", so it's also too.

Alternately, you can kill Stephen in this "classic" black mirror ", later in a" band "by breaking into Peter's cabinet and entering the" toy "password to unlock it. This time, Peter will not confiscate the rabbit, but that will not change Stephen's fate if his five -year -old decides to capture the train with his mother.

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"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" becomes quite dark quite often during its combined five -plus time, and the end result usually involves Stephen to kill his father by hit him on his head with a glass ashtray. This may be the result of what the young man reveals that Peter has used him as part of his experiments "Pacs" (program and control of the study) for years-in that Easter-Eggic "Black Mirror" is so familiar to this, this is associated with the inspiration in the "Bandersnatch" universe, "Select-Selo-Selo". Or may be the result of choosing the symbol for the glyph "branch path" (as previously seen in Episode "Black Mirror" "White Bear") When Stephen asks "Who is there?" In the above scenario where it feels to be seen.

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Following the Pacs scenarios, Stephen is given the opportunity to choose a number, and regardless of the choice, he ends up in prison, with Bandersnatch being released to review the 2.5 embroidery reviews. There are also cases where Stephen can choose to kill other key characters in the film, and if he decides to kill Colin, this results in a "band" who never sees the light of day and Takerzft. As you expected from a slimy character like him, Takur is far more concerned about his company's fate than the fact that his top employee has just been killed, as is the killer's father.

Last but not least, there is a "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" that ends where the game will be released to review the reviews - the perfect five stars from Micro Play. But that end also reveals that Stephen has been arrested for the murder of his father - again, this is a "black mirror", not a show known for unequivocally happy endings. To get this end, you will need to have Stephen to cut his father's body instead of burying it. While the programmer initially moved away, his crimes were eventually discovered, and a "band" withdraws from the shelves after Stephen's arrest.

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But wait ... There are more! After this sequence, we have to see an adult version of Pearl Ritman (Laura Evelyn), Colin's newborn daughter from the scenes in the apartment. She grew up to become a programmer just like her father, and is working on restarting Bandersnatch. But just like Stephen, about 30-plus a year earlier, Pearl has a big trouble with the development of the game, and the final selection of the viewer is to make her throw tea on a computer or completely destroy it, resonating from the previous scene with Stephen. In any case, it rounds up the interactive film, with a dark prediction of Pearl, which probably loses its sensibility in a similar way.

"Bandersnatch" can be part of Netflix history as we speak, but even if it never returns, Creator "Black Mirror" Charlie Brooker hinted a potentially sequel. And, although it is not unthinkable to see Colin Ritman and Mohan Takur for the third time (they have returned to the episode of the 7 "game" season), it may be too much to expect the same selection setting-your own, given the Netflix pivot from the interactive content.

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