Bandersnatch: Charlie Brooker’s triumph of technology

Netflix won’t reveal much about how Bandersnatch works, but it has resulted in one of the most talked-about episodes of Black Mirror, writes Ed Power.

CHARLIE Brooker and Annabel Jones did not quite jump with joy when Netflix suggested, in May 2017, that they consider an “interactive” episode of their hit future-shock anthology Black Mirror. It struck the pair as gimmicky. As a former video game journalist, Brooker was all too aware of the industry’s lost years in the 1990s when studios poured millions into lugubrious “interactive” CD roms.