Black Mirror season five may be a feature-length, choose-your-own-adventure film

[Shawn Knight]

Why it matters: Netflix is looking to buck normalcy with season five of Black Mirror. Rumors suggest the series may actually be an interactive, movie-length episode starring Miley Cyrus. Fortunately, we won't have to wait too much longer to get some answers.

Word surfaced a couple of months ago that Netflix was working on a choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror episode. Details were scant but sources at the time said the episode could debut by the end of the year.

The fifth season of Black Mirror is also expected any day now.

Turns out, the two may be related.

Netflix last month in a tweet about its December programming schedule cited something called Black Mirror: Bandersnatch set to debut on December 28. The post was eventually pulled but now, a listing for Bandersnatch has appeared on Netflix’s website.

Curiously enough, it’s described as “a Netflix film” rather than a standalone episode. Engadget reports that the listing had a runtime of five hours and 12 minutes although as of writing, it’s listed as just two minutes long (perhaps Netflix changed it or this is for a not-yet-available trailer?).

The general consensus seems to be that season five of Black Mirror won’t be a traditional series at all but rather, an interactive movie of sorts.

A bandersnatch, according to Wikipedia, is a character from Lewis Carroll’s novel Through the Looking-Glass. It’s also apparently the title of a 1984 video game that never got released. The game was subtly featured on the cover of a magazine in a Black Mirror episode from a few years back.

WHHAAATTTT, Bandersnatch was referenced all the way back in Season 3 on the front cover of the gaming magazine in Playtest pic.twitter.com/LabQe7dX6v

— Ebejeevezner Scrooge ⛄❄️ (@jeeveswilliams) November 26, 2018

Miley Cyrus also recently confirmed that she’ll be participating in an upcoming episode of Black Mirror (could it be Bandersnatch?). The singer this past weekend performed as the musical guest on 2018’s final episode of SNL, narrowly escaping a nip slip.

This thread over on Twitter also has some interesting information if you’re looking to dive deeper.

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[treetops]

Couldn't really get into Black Mirror it's just like, social media woooo.....

 

[xxLCxx]

I gave up on “Black Mirror”. The last season is going to be the last indeed. After (another) distinctive drop in quality, this has become merely a “brand name”, where they have to keep pushing out new productions to fill their pipeline.
You can see the similarities to the decline in quality of the past “Game of Thrones” series. They made the right decision and took a break. BM should really take a break as well. Good writing takes time.