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🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | Banda snatch was the final storm. |
0:04.0 | Relax, don't you wear, to where you want to go to where relax. |
0:10.0 | Relax, don't you ask, where to where, relax. |
0:14.0 | And lets you see the bigger picture. |
0:16.0 | Stefan, you're worried me. |
0:20.0 | You're stepping out of this. You're stepping out, is it? |
0:22.6 | He's Stefan. |
0:23.6 | Your fate has been dictated. |
0:28.6 | You're not in control. |
0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler special. |
0:40.9 | I'm Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate, and today I'm joined by Catherine Van Aeron-Arenunk, |
0:45.3 | staff writer at Vulture. |
0:47.6 | Fans of the anthology series Black Mirror got a surprise at the end of 2018. |
0:52.3 | Instead of the show's eagerly awaited fifth season, what turned up on Netflix |
0:55.5 | was an interactive film called Bander Snatch. Like an adventure game or a choose-your-own-adventure |
1:01.3 | book, the story, devised by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, allows you to make decisions as you go. |
1:07.2 | Some of the choices are comically inane, which sugary cereal to have for breakfast. |
1:15.4 | Some are momentous, should your character, a teenage computer programmer named Stefan, |
1:21.3 | accept a job at a legendary software developer or break out on his own. The choices get more important as you go, and so does Stefan's conviction that he's not in control of his own actions. |
1:26.5 | Eventually, he tries to rebel against the unseen force compelling him to act. |
1:30.4 | That is, you. |
1:31.6 | And the results are, well, you decide. |
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