You Have Just a Few More Days to Explore Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

It mightiness beryllium seen arsenic irony that exertion is the undoing of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, fixed that Black Mirror stories thin to absorption connected the dangers of relying connected technology. Though the 2018 peculiar episode, which allowed viewers to plot their ain journeys with the assistance of an on-screen pop-up menu, initially survived Netflix’s purge of its interactive content, the clip has present travel to accidental good-bye.

Variety reports that Bandersnatch volition beryllium leaving the streamer May 12, truthful if you privation a past hurrah with aspiring video crippled creator Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), you’d amended marque immoderate clip this play for it. Netflix’s different lingering interactive special, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend, volition besides beryllium removed astatine the aforesaid time.

Bandersnatch‘s departure from Netflix comes not agelong aft the streamer debuted Black Mirror‘s seventh season, truthful it’s not a people against the bid arsenic a whole. Rather, the streamer is continuing its pivot distant from what was erstwhile a large propulsion into interactive programming. As Gizmodo noted successful November 2024, and the Verge archetypal reported, Netflix is focusing its technological explorations connected games alternatively than communicative shows.

To that end, a caller crippled arrived to necktie successful with the caller Black Mirror season: Thronglets, which replicates the terrifying, ever-needy, perpetually expanding online ecosystem introduced successful the occurrence “Plaything.”

And, speaking of the caller Black Mirror season, if you get lonesome for Bandersnatch, a mates of its characters—including Will Poulter’s eccentric and unstable crippled decorator Colin Ritman—pop up successful “Plaything” arsenic well.

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