Each black mirror: the end of Bandersnatch explained

Welp, it was a great race while it lasted. On May 12, 2025, Netflix pulled “Black Mirror: Bandersnch” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy against the Reverend” of the platform, ending its initially calm efforts to remove all interactive specials. Unless the streamer has a change of heart and brought back “banders” at one point in the future, viewers will no longer be able to go back in 1984 and control the life of Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), a young programmer in difficulty working on a PC game with choice of choice.

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Although it is generally placed somewhere in the middle in the classification of “Black Mirror” episodes ,, bandersnch “innovated for the series when it was released in December 2018, and its importance for the franchise cannot be refused. It was the first (and can ultimately be the only one) of this kind in” Black Mirror ” – an interactive film with the same mechanics of choice of your story – and fans Hours to replay it to obtain all possible purposes. now that “Bandersncy” has started from Netflix, the best way to come back to review these multiple ends and decompose them. You can do no longer.

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It is questionable to call the first scenario of zero star a “end”, but it is always necessary to mention because of his commentary on the way to say “yes” to large companies often compromises his artistic vision, which results from a trivial and unsatisfactory product. In addition, it is the fastest way to end “Black Mirror: Bandersnch” … until it is not.

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After arriving at the headquarters of Tuckersoft, Stefan meets the founder and CEO of the company, Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry). Impressed by the young man’s field for “Bandersnch”, Mohan invites Stefan to join Tuckersoft, where his work can be closely supervised. If Stefan accepts, the film flashes in December, where the game receives one zero pathetic star out of five in a television program entitled “Micro Play”. You will then be brought back to Tuckersoft and you will wonder again if Stefan was to join the company team or work alone on the game.

There is clearly a juxtaposition between the Boss of Tuckersoft and its AS program, Colin Ritman (Will Poulter) – The first is a technological brother obsessed with winning big dollars, while the second is devoted to the art of making video games. We can also see what inspires its creativity in the second end zero star.

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Here, Stefan takes LSD with Colin in his apartment, where the latter takes place on a long tangent on interconnected parallel realities – an obvious reference for the multiple ends of the film and the decisions taken to get there. To prove his point, the eccentric programmer asks Stefan to choose between the two – who jumps from the balcony? If Stefan jumps, he dies and “bandersnatch” obtains bad reviews for his “sudden” end – as if someone had finished the match for him. It is certainly Meta, but not as much as the following two ends.

There are many cases in “bandersnatch” where Stefan loses his grip on reality, and most of them imply that someone else was killed. One of them could not even involve Stefan, but how is it possible?

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At one point in the interactive film, Stefan, while working carefully on “Bandersncy”, detects that someone can watch it. The choice of “Netflix” (more information on other options a little) allows you to explain what the streamer is and how you control Stefan’s fate. This leads to another visit to the office of her therapist, Dr. Haynes (Alice Lowe), and not surprisingly, she is disconcerted by the concept, wondering even if Netflix is ​​a planet. It doesn’t take long for things to go out of rails; Stefan throws tea on the therapist’s face, which prevents him from taking out a pair of batons and challenging him to fight.

If Stefan jumps out of the window, the film cuts which seems to be the game “Black Mirror” – it turns out that he is actually an actor named Mike who seems too immersed in his role. But if Stefan remains to fight Dr. Haynes, his father joined the fight shortly after; It does not matter that Stefan Karate cuts him or kicks him in the jewelry of the Butler family, the film ends with the programmer of his father, shouting maniac how he and his “friend of the future” ruined the therapist’s day with their brand of “entertainment”.

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It would not be a typical episode of “Black Mirror” without a kind of torsion that defies the laws of time and / or conventional logic, and this is where this end “Bandersncy” comes into play. You can first obtain this end by refusing Thakur’s invitation, after which Stefan is stressed by the development process and in the Dr. Haynes office. If you decide that Stefan should speak to Dr. Haynes of his mother (Fleur Keith), who died in a train accident at the age of five, he will be taken to this point in his life, where he refuses to take the train at 8:30 am with his mother without his beloved toy.

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It turns out that his father, Peter (Craig Parkinson), confiscated the toy, and if Stefan goes with his mother to the station without him, they take the train at 8:45 a.m. due to the delay linked to the rabbit. Unfortunately, this train derails, killing both Stefan and his mother. This Also Kill Stefan, 19, in the middle of his therapy session, because the decision of his five -year version to leave the house without his favorite toy means that he died around 1970 and should no longer be existing in 1984. It is a breathtaking way, but hey, it’s “Black Mirror”, so it’s for the course.

Alternatively, you can kill Stefan in this “Classic ‘Black Mirror” “later in” Bandersnatch “by entering Peter’s cabinet and entering the password” Toy “to unlock it. This time, Peter will not confiscate the rabbit, but that will not change the fate of Stefan if his five -year -old car chooses to take the train with his mom.

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“Black Mirror: Bandersnch” becomes quite dark quite often throughout its combined runtime of more than five hours, and the end result generally implies that Stefan assassinates his father by hitting him on the head with a glass ashtray. This can be the result of the young man who discovers that Peter has used it in the context of his experiences “PACS” (program and control study) for years – in this Easter way, “Black Mirror” is so famous for, this link with the book of the University for “Bandersnatch”, the AdaPption Book of choice. Or this can be the result of the choice of the “branching path” glyph symbol (as we can previously see in the episode “Black Mirror” “White Bear”) when Stefan asks “who is there?” In the aforementioned scenario where he feels that he is watched.

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Following the PACS scenarios, Stefan has the possibility of composing a number, and whatever the choice, he finds himself in prison, with “Bandersncy” released to 2.5 stars. There are also cases where Stefan can choose to kill other key characters in the film, and if he chooses to kill Colin, this translates into “Bandersnatch” without seeing the light of day and Tuckersoft who passes. As you can imagine of a viscous character like him, Thakur is much more concerned with the fate of his business than the fact that his best employee has just been murdered, just like the killer’s father.

Finally and above all, there is a “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” ending where the game will come out for delighted the criticisms – five perfect stars of “Micro Play”. But this end also finds that Stefan is arrested for the murder of his father – once again, it is “Black Mirror”, not a spectacle known for his happy ambiguity. To get this end, you will have to have Stefan cut the body of his father instead of burying him. While the programmer gets away at the beginning, his crimes are finally discovered and “Bandersnch” is drawn from the shelves after the arrest of Stefan.

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But wait … there is more! After this sequence, we see an adult version of Pearl Ritman (Laura Evelyn), the little girl of Colin of the scenes of the apartment. She grew up to become a programmer as well as her father, and she works on a restart of “bandersnatch”. But just like Stefan, more than 30 years earlier, Pearl has major problems with the development of the game, and the final choice of the spectator is to make him throw tea on the computer or destroy it pure and simple, echoing a previous scene with Stefan. Be that as it may, it rolls up the interactive film, with a dark prefiguration of pearls that can lose its mental health in the same way.

“Bandersnatch” can be a piece in Netflix’s story when we are talking about, but even if it never comes back, the creator of “Black Mirror” Charlie Brooker referred to a potential suite. And although it is not inconceivable to see Colin Ritman and Mohan Thakur for the third time (they returned to the episode of season 7 “Playinghing”), it may be too much to expect the same configuration of choice of your adventure, given the Netflix pivot of interactive content.

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