Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 28, 2018
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16

Critic Reviews

  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Dec 28, 2018
    20
    "Bandersnatch," as creative work and not as experiment, falls so short of the standard "Black Mirror" has set that to put it forward is to risk the credibility the series’s first four seasons have earned. ... Too little thought, ultimately, was given to how this plays as television.

Awards & Rankings

15
#15 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018
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#89 Most Shared TV Season of 2018

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User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 277 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 192 out of 277
  2. Mixed: 46 out of 277
  3. Negative: 39 out of 277
  1. Theghostgamebr
    Dec 28, 2018
    10
    Giving less than an 8 for this movie is ridiculous. If you complain that it seems unfinished you are totally wrong, its obvious that it isGiving less than an 8 for this movie is ridiculous. If you complain that it seems unfinished you are totally wrong, its obvious that it is impossible to create an infinite range of possibilities because of your choices and netflix did an incredible work at dealing with it.
    On top of that its an amazing movie that you can watch more than one time. Strongly recommend.    … Full Review »
  2. MoviesForever
    Dec 28, 2018
    5
    I am not sure if this episode of Black Mirror is nothing short of genius or blatantly and shockingly bad. Despite, it is just overwhelminglyI am not sure if this episode of Black Mirror is nothing short of genius or blatantly and shockingly bad. Despite, it is just overwhelmingly underwhelming, anticlimactic and overly disappointing.… Full Review »
  3. saitama-man
    Dec 28, 2018
    0
    Ok Netflix, you tried.
    If it is an interactive product, the least you can expect is that each path has some kind of connection between your    Ok Netflix, you tried.
    If it is an interactive product, the least you can expect is that each path has some kind of connection between your decisions and something makes sense. Bandersnatch fails (and a lot) in that.
    Several endings that leave the viewer simply not understanding anything about what happened, much less how their decisions affected the story, aside from several holes in the script (which become so obvious that they do not even have to be listed). Bandersnatch seems much more an incomplete work and a film that was "extended" to become interactive than a really "special episode" Black Mirror. For example, one of the first decisions you make is simply not planned and takes you to an immediate end, that's not how you make an interactive product. Maybe if the project was better planned at the end the result would be better. The only positive point is the acting of the actors, but the poor execution of the plot can throw all this down the drain.
    Black Mirror deserved much more than that, unfortunately the result is totally disappointing.    … Full Review »
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