Outside of Bird Box, Black Mirror‘s Bandersnatch was easily the most hyped TV event of the Christmas break, but in bad news for fans of the show, the choose-your-own-adventure episode was so ambitious that its production has delayed the upcoming fifth season.
Series creator Charlie Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss Bandersnatch, which is so complicated that neither could even seem to agree on how many endings there actually are.
Netflix and Jones think there are five “definite” endings, Brooker thinks there are more, but can’t say how many; fellow producer Russell McLean earlier said there are at least twelve, while director David Slade has also declared that there are some endings so secret that they will likely never be found.
Point is, the interactive episode was a major endeavour, taking an “enormous” amount of time and effort to put together, and per Jones, this means that the show’s fifth season, while it’s definitely happening at some stage, has been pushed back.
Netflix has told me that the fifth season of Black Mirror is still to come in 2019. Bandersnatch was not the fifth season, but a standalone interactive film, in case you were wondering.
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) December 29, 2018
She couldn’t give a release date, and Netflix hasn’t said anything yet about when new episode might arrive or how many there’ll be, but a vague timeline of “2019” remains set. Until then, I guess you can just kill time looking at the many, many Bandersnatch memes currently delighting the internet.
me when stefan asks who’s controlling him: #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/Mrh82QKFxB
— lucy ❤ (@maddenslucy) December 31, 2018
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Control#Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/kYIHgq4kg3— Chan (@cyborne_exe) December 31, 2018
My trying to pick a cereal vs. me choosing to kill the father #Bandersnatch pic.twitter.com/7Z0zOOIYwp
— tyler marie (@TylerMcdermottt) December 31, 2018
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