id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> With Netflix touting more than a trillion possible permutations for its first grown-up stab at an interactive movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, there's a lot to unravel.

Netflix has been making interactive choose-your-own-adventure videos for more than a year, but Bandersnatch is the first that isn't a cartoon for kids. The interactivity is simple: A or B choices that branch the plot. But Bandersnatch gives the model a self-referential spin by building the story around a choose-your-own-adventure novel.

Netflix press materials note the movie has "five main endings, with multiple variants of each." Discussions on Black Mirror subreddit, Discord and social media have tried untangling the knot. The pathways can be so convoluted that Netflix has nudged viewers to find scenes that few have uncovered weeks after the movie's premiere.

In fact, Netflix said that of the five main endings, one in which Stefan follows his mother on