Choose your own adventure… carefully

Between seasons four and five, Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive film that allows the viewer to chart a path for its characters. The format—which caused a bit of a dust-up with the company behind the Choose Your Own Adventure—was a creative and well-suited gimmick for Black Mirror, though like those much-loved kids’ books, viewers learned they had to to choose carefully if they wanted to set the story’s protagonist (Fionn Whitehead) on the most satisfying path.