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Black Mirror is too intelligent for a conventional television audience
Updated On: 06 January, 2019 09:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is intelligent and highly interactive, but passive viewers might not enjoy it

A still from the film, starring Fionn Whitehead, who plays gamer Stefan Butler
After engaging with Netflix's new original, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, for over an hour, we'd like to use the word "mind-blown", but that is only because it's too intelligent for a conventional television audience, like us. Again, we use the word "engaging" and not viewing, as Bandersnatch — the name is lifted from the fictional creature, which appears in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem, Jabberwocky, in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and shows up in the film like a looming ghost — is scripted and played out, partly by you.
An extension to the mind-numbing sci-fi series Black Mirror, which spoke of the dangers of newer technologies on the human race, Bandersnatch — written by Charlie Brooker, the creator of the original series — is a standalone movie, but with a twist.


