I saw that the episode was getting a sequel. For me that episode is significant because that was one of the shows that opened my eyes since it has the whole feminism push along with the "evil white male nerd". I remember a review of that episode saying that it was a great stand for girl power and how it stuck it to all the white nerds who think that the 80s were the pinnacle of pop culture. I would've loved to have asked the lady that wrote this article why they keep remaking stuff from the 80s if they were so terrible.
As an 80s baby I do miss the anthology series. As a kid I watched The 80s Twilight Zone reboot, Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock reboot, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Hitchhiker, and Tales from the Crypt. Are you afraid of the Dark on Nickelodeon was a good show as well. Black Mirror could've been great but I forgot the time we lived in. They did a good episode about social credit scores but of course the episode that won awards and rave reviews was about lesbians (along with one lesbian living in a home where her Christian parents didn't approve).
My favourite ever Black Mirror episode is the Choose Your Own Adventure one - Bandersnatch - so nostalgic for me. The VR Horror one was good as well.
Yes! I read a bunch of choose your own adventure growing up. Bandersnatch made me want to buy a bulk order of those books. VR one was good as well
I was lucky enough that my school library had about 30 of them. And then I moved on to Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstones Fantasy series with a similar but enhanced mechanic. it must have been a big influence on me as I'm actually using a program called Twine to write a really long CYOA for adults at the moment. I totally forgot about Bandersnatch when I did my top 10 shows - so I retconned it in at 11
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t made more Bandersnatch style episodes
Supposedly it had very mixed reviews from viewers - some people just didn't get it at all. And I think it was fairly expensive to shoot as it had 5 hours of footage.