Netflix confirmed it Black mirror: BandersnatchThe interactive film that challenges your interactive adventure is removed from the platform on May 12, 2025.
Unbreakble Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The ReverendThe bizarre selection of your sequel to adventure to the successful comic series, will also vanish on that date. With their departure, Netflix officially closes the book on its short -lived experiment with interactive narrative.
When Bandersnatch Left at the end of 2018, it was an autonomous ambitious Black mirror experience he recited Fionn Whitehead AND Will Poulter And he gave the spectators to control the narrative, branches in several finals in 312 minutes of total movies.
The series was described as a “mental story with multiple endings” and the story followed a young programmer in 1984 who begins to adapt a fantasy novel written by an unbalanced author in a video game.
While the reality fractures, the viewer guides him through the choices that determine how – and if – survives the psychological spiral.
After the release, Netflix was all-in on the format. Todd YellinSo the vice -president of the Netflix product said that the company has planned to “double” with interactive content. But that push moved away in silence. Yellin left in 2022, and now the final remains of that experiment are rubbed.
A spokesman for Netflix explained that the technology used in Bandersnatch “He served his purpose, but now he is limiting as we focus on technological efforts in other areas.”
And where is it exactly Netflix who focuses his technological efforts now? Games. The streamer went all-in in the construction of a games wallet. His recently renewed TV interface now presents playable games on Smart TV, too Too hot to manage 3 AND Oxenfree—A “interactive story” that checks with your phone.
Therefore, the interactivity is not completely dead, but the format chosen by your film because we knew that it is retiring.
With regard to Unbreakble Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The ReverendThat fell in 2020 as farewell to the four seasons race of the Sitcom. The description recited: “Kimmy gets married, but first he has to thwart the evil plot of the reverend. It’s your move: what should he do later?”
In the original announcement, co-creator Tina Fey He said the interactive ending “It will be a great way to officially complete the series”.
Now, ironically, both projects that have once been invoiced as “the future of television” are eliminated in silence.
Source: Variety
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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