Bandersnatch Archives

Bandersnatch Review: A Tedious DIY Film for a Generation That Hates Making Choices

Netflix’s interactive film Bandersnatch is a gimmick, a new toothpaste you must taste before declaring it as unfamiliar. I get what it’s trying to do, but I don’t want to goddamn choose someone’s cereal, or the song they must listen to. I could live with the world being a little less interactive really.

Manik Sharma June 1, 2016

Technology

From the Jetsons to Black Mirror: When Did the Future Go from Utopia to Dystopia?

In the last two decades, our approach to technology in pop culture has swung from the unremarkable Jetsons to dystopian web series like Black Mirror or A.I.SHA. What changed? At some point, we had to deal with the very immediate prospect of robots taking our jobs, and inevitably, the world.

Kahini Iyer March 27, 2016