The trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the latest entry in the popular sci-fi anthology series, has dropped this morning. It confirms that the feature-length special will go live tomorrow, Friday December 28th, on Netflix. But it’s still not clear if the episode will be a choose-your-own-adventure experience, as per rumors earlier this year.
What we do know is that the special will have a distinctly retro feel, as well as a reality-warping plot. The action is set in 1984 and follows a young programmer adapting a “sprawling fantasy novel” — the titular Bandersnatch — into a video game. Pretty soon this task turns into “mind-mangling challenge,” because of course it does.
Judging from the trailer we can expect to see the virtual...