‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Is Getting Pulled by Netflix

“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” Netflix‘s groundbreaking interactive movie, is fading to black.

The streamer will remove “Bandersnatch,” released in December 2018, as well as the interactive special “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverend” on May 12, 2025. Those were the last two interactive titles available on the service, seemingly marking the end of Netflix’s efforts to make the format a thing.

The removals were previously spotted by What’s on Netflix. Variety has reached out to Netflix for comment.

Netflix’s pulling the interactive titles comes as it leans more into gaming. Its newly redesigned TV homepage, for example, features games you can play on connected televisions, including “Too Hot to Handle” and “Oxenfree,” using your mobile phone as a game controller. A Netflix rep last fall told The Verge that the interactive TV technology “served its purpose, but is now limiting as we focus on technological efforts in other areas.”

“Bandersnatch,” starring Fionn Whitehead and Will Poulter, is a choose-your-own-adventure-style movie that includes 312 minutes of material (just over five hours). It’s set in 1984, when a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a sprawling fantasy novel called “Bandersnatch” — written by a mad genius who allegedly cut off his wife’s head — into an adventure video game. It’s a “mind-bending tale with multiple endings,” Netflix says in the title’s description.

A few months after “Bandersnatch” debuted, Netflix was high on the technology — with then-VP of product Todd Yellin saying the company planned to “double down” on interactive programming. (Yellin left the company in 2022.)