![]() In Bandersnatch’s most surprising iteration, Stefan demands to know the truth: Who is controlling him? If you choose to answer honestly - that his life is actually entertainment on “a streaming platform from the early 21st century” - he soon winds up back in Dr. As he struggles to finish his game and keeps hitting coding roadblocks, we’re given yet another choice: Should Stefan hit his desk in anger or totally destroy his computer? Doing the latter ends the story in much the same way as pouring tea on his computer did in the earlier branch. If you’re tiring of Bandersnatch by now, this is your chance to call it a day for Stefan Butler and destroy his life’s work. (If Stefan visited her after seeing Colin, he also gets the pills, but the session doesn’t go nearly as well.) Once you make Stefan take his medication, the story leaps ahead to another sudden conclusion: It’s Christmastime, Stefan has been taking his pills for months, and his game has been released on schedule, but the critic only gives it two-and-a-half stars for seeming like it was made on “autopilot.” ![]() Haynes instead of following Colin, she’ll give him the pills and you’ll have to decide whether he should flush them or take them. Haynes for a session and get a prescription for pills. One way or another, Bandersnatch pushes the story forward so that Stefan has to visit Dr. The former choice ends the story with Stefan’s suicide, and his game is finished “abruptly” without him. ![]() If either of them dies in this one, it’s no problem because they’re still alive in another.) The viewer is told to either force Stefan to take the leap, or make him tell Colin to do it. (The logic is tricky, but basically, Colin tells Stefan that he believes in multiple realities. If you decide to make Stefan follow Colin instead of attending his therapy session, a long night of pot, acid, and philosophical musings leads to a terrifying moment in which Colin says it doesn’t matter if one of them jumps from his apartment balcony. Haynes, the kid spots Colin walking down the street. Yelling is actually the “better” answer here, as destroying Stefan’s computer ends the story. When Stefan’s father Peter (Craig Parkinson) comes in to his room after the boy’s spent solitary weeks working on his game, you face another choice: You can either force Stefan to shout at his dear old dad, or make him “throw” his tea all over his computer. It might seem like a sad ending, but given the carnage of the conclusions to come, this one won’t seem too bad in retrospect. If you make Stefan accept the offer, Bandersnatch flashes to an ending in which a rushed version of his game gets zero stars from a critic, as Stefan resolves to “try again” - inviting the viewer to go back and make him develop the game on his own. After Stefan Butler gets the chance to meet his idol Colin Ritman (Will Poulter) and develop his dream video game for Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry), he’s asked if he wants to “accept” or “refuse” an offer to join the Thakur’s team. The first “ending,” if you can call it that, comes early in Bandersnatch. While this list covers the major conclusions to Stefan’s story, it isn’t a comprehensive guide to every possible story route in Bandersnatch - there are more than we could possibly recount here - but it’ll help you understand where and how they all end. ![]() Below, Vulture has put together a condensed guide to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s main endings and what happens in each of them. Or if you rewind the whole thing to start all over again. Given that interactive quality, don’t be surprised if you wind up asking yourself all sorts of questions after you’ve watched Bandersnatch. Along the way, the viewer gets to shape Stefan’s path, in ways both cosmetic (should he listen to a Thompson Twins cassette or a Now That’s What I Call Music! compilation?) and much more serious, which veer into bloodshed, paranoia, and Black Mirror’s characteristically macabre humor. Essentially a “choose your own adventure” special, Bandersnatch follows Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), a doomed ’80s programmer who slowly begins to suspect that he’s the subject of a conspiracy - unless, that is, he’s actually just losing his mind. If you want to see every version of the Netflix interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, you better be prepared to watch many, many permutations of the same story.
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