Black Mirror: Bandersnatch‘s Choose Your Own Adventure is Chidi’s Actual Nightmare
HOW CAN I PICK BETWEEN SUGAR PUFFS AND FROSTIES? HOW?
YOU CAN’T HAVE SPOILERS CAUSE THE STORIES CHANGE!!!! IT IS A CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!!!! I’M OBSESSED!!!!!!
Just kidding, there are spoilers for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch in this article. Please choose if you want to continue or not.
Get it? Because it is a choose your own adventure? ANYWAY, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch came out today and we’ve all collectively lost our minds so please see the greatest collection of tweets about this movie that may or may not be 8 hours long.
If you’re like me, you know your music and you know it well, so when it came time to decide on what song to have Stefan listen to, there was no competition.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch trying to act like it was a hard decision but I clicked Thompson Twins so fucking fast
— rachel leishman (@RachelLeishman) December 28, 2018
One thing is very clear about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch though: Chidi Anagonye would have a breakdown.
me: i can totally make difficult decisions
me 3 minutes into #bandersnatch: pic.twitter.com/Ux7Cm23JRf
— kit danger⚡ (@bishreksuaI) December 28, 2018
The movie is a bit meta, pointing out that clearly someone is controlling Stefan.
#Bandersnatch
Stefan: i feel like someone’s controlling me making my every move
Me behind the screen: pic.twitter.com/LgTgXjhbvE— ~alex 🥀 (@xalexgarciaa) December 28, 2018
However, there are some choices we can’t escape.
Me trying to avoid ‘kill dad’ but Blackmirror having none of it #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/uU7wKXudku
— Elaine Clare (@ElaineClareB) December 28, 2018
One thing is clear though: This movie is not an hour and thirty minutes. Netflix straight up LIED.
Watching the 1 hour 30 min #Bandersnatch film for 3 hours pic.twitter.com/qwSeDL1Ee4
— Laura Rose Schumann (@LauraSchumann_) December 28, 2018
Naturally, part of the issue with a choose your own adventure is that eventually, the decisions get hard and harder to make. With Bandersnatch, the hard choices started with cereal.
“This is a choose your own adventure film.”
Me: “Ok, no problem.”
*frosties or sugar puffs*
Me: pic.twitter.com/5mxvKWBC42
— X (@XLNB) December 28, 2018
And sometimes, no matter our choices, we can’t escape the future.
Me after the Netflix asks me if I wanna “kill dad” for the 5th time #Bandersnatchpic.twitter.com/zTYEY1ZxS6
— Jack Mull (@J4CKMULL) December 28, 2018
But then again, most of us are demented and would have chosen to kill Stefan’s dad anyway.
Me picking Frosties for Stefan’s breakfast vs me choosing to chop up his dad #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/JRkCdey7Dw
— 🖤 (@OStylings) December 28, 2018
Your family may not understand your obsession but it is okay. We’re here for you.
your family when they ask what you’re watching and you try to explain it to them #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/TYYoBGNqNM
— zoe 🥀 (@bandershook) December 28, 2018
And, at the end of the day, we all may feel like God.
me after playing god and controlling stefan’s life and no matter what still killing him #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/0GGcKxI96u
— M ❦ (@morgansdn) December 28, 2018
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is on Netflix now and, beware, you’ll keep playing it for hours on end.
(image: Netflix)
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