In Britain in July 1984, a young programmer named Stefan Butler is adapting a " choose your own adventure" book owned by his late mother, Bandersnatch by Jerome F.

The viewer may discover a locked safe that contains either Stefan's old toy rabbit or documents about him being monitored as part of an experiment. Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem " Jabberwocky" (which appears in Through the Looking-Glass), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to "shun / The frumious Bandersnatch", the name describing the creature's fuming and furious character.She’s also the founder of Signposts Ministries, a nonprofit for children with special healthcare needs. Minter also plays Davies in a hard-to-reach scene when the Bandersnatch author visits Stefan in a dream. Omar claims that the word bandersnatch refers to hyraxes, and that the warning to "shun a bandersnatch" only pertains if it happens to be frumious. The lighting, sound design and aspect ratio of the film change while this takes place, designed to make the viewer feel pressure.

Endings in which a reviewer gives a star rating to Bandersnatch were designed to encourage users to go back, though there is no way that, simultaneously, the game can get a good review and Stefan can have a happy ending. Of course, nothing is stopping you from playing regular chess or even checkers using only the pawns. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an experiment on us – Netflix explain why interactive episode is the grimmest yet". In other cases, certain loops guide viewers to a specific narrative regardless of the choices they make.The film received average rankings in critics' lists of Black Mirror instalments by quality, but garnered numerous awards and nominations, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards. Brooker and Poulter have suggested that the character of Colin Ritman could potentially show up in future Black Mirror stories, given that the character, in certain paths, seems to just disappear but has awareness of alternate timelines and realities. They train for a rendezvous at sea with a millionaire’s yacht that might net them the score of a lifetime.