Black Mirror's "Bandersnatch" Is the Perfect Netflix Show

The latest installment of the dystopian tech anthology series Black Mirror, "Bandersnatch," set in the 1980s, is a choose-your-own-adventure movie about the troubled, twitchy Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), a young man who is single-mindedly adapting a massive choose-your-own-adventure novel, Bandersnatch, into a choose-your-own-adventure video game. At various points viewers are prompted to decide what Alex should do: Eat Sugar Puffs or Frosties? Make his game at home or in the office? A New York Times piece about "Bandersnatch" matter-of-factly explained Netflix's interest in this style of program: "The idea behind the interactive push is simple: Viewers will care more if they are complicit." It then quoted a Netflix executive as saying "If bad things happen, you'll feel even more crestfallen, because you were responsible. If the character is victorious, you'll feel even more uplifted because you made that choice."