I Tried Netflix’s Choose Your Own Adventure “Black Mirror” Movie And Here’s How It Went

IT IS STRESSFUL.

WARNING: Contains spoilers.

If you haven't heard, Netflix has released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which is a choose your own adventure movie.

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I LOVE Black Mirror and I LOVED choose your own adventure books as a kid, so I'm pretty hyped for this one.

Here's how Netflix describes it:

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"In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings."

Without further ado, I decided to nosedive right in to see what this was about.

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It doesn't take long for you to get to make your first decision — you get to choose breakfast. As someone who spends entirely too long trying in the cereal aisle trying to decide what to buy, this was a tough one for me.

Of course, I wound up going with the one that had "sugar" in the name.

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Anyway, you get to make more fun choices, like what music to listen to.

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But then it gets a little more meaningful. You're helping make choices for this dude's career path.

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Or what he discusses with his therapist.

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And even whether or not he takes the medication she prescribed to him.

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This is honestly thoroughly entertaining but I'm indecisive and you only have seconds to make decisions, so I was very uneasy throughout it.

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The main character is super stressed trying to create a video game, and his uneasiness is adding to my anxiousness. Like, I can't even make good choices for myself in real life, how can I guide this man through his trials and tribulations?

So, more stuff happens and eventually the main character seems to figure out that I'm making choices for him and now he's screaming at me to give him a sign that I'm here.

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So, I let I'm know what's up and tried to tell him I'm watching him on Netflix.

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Of course, it's 1984, so he doesn't really grasp the idea of Netflix.

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Now he's back with his therapist trying to explain what I told him, and I feel like I've done more harm than help.

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So, the therapist is basically like, "If someone is controlling you for entertainment, why are you just sitting in a boring room, shouldn't there be more action?" Then you get to choose if you want more action, and these are the two options:

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I went with "fuck yeah."

If you get the option for more action and choose "fuck yeah" like I did, be prepared for shit to ESCALATE VERY QUICKLY.

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Yep, above are just a couple of the choices you get to make.

After all the chaos, you're given an option to jump back to a checkpoint so you can make things play out differently, or just accept the end credits.

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I let this be the end my journey, but best believe I'll be going back through this to see every other outcome.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

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STRESS RATING: 9/10 (brace yourselves, indecisive folks.)

ENTERTAINMENT RATING: 9.5/10

DESIRE FOR NEW BLACK MIRROR EPISODES ASAP: 10/10

LINE FROM THE MOVIE THAT IS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, "SHOULD I WATCH THIS?": "It's your choice." (But yes, you should try it for yourself!)

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