turtleweitz

In my younger years, I was an avid watcher of South Park. I watched every episode season 1 - 15 because a friend asked me what the best episode of South Park was. I haven't watched much South Park in the last 10 years, but I heard about this episode. I know (remember episode 200?) that this is what Matt and Trey do best. I was not disappointed. I have my favorites throughout the years, but this is the most important episode of South Park. This is what the show was built for. And I'm glad to see it really be used for something like this. It's a call to fight back against evil anti-democratic tyranny and censorship. God bless Matt and Trey and the South Park team for showing the rest of us how to be Americans.

My brother and I easily got hooked on the game show Press Your Luck when we were kids. The exhilaration as the lights flashed on the board from big prizes to whammies back to big prizes. I used to day-dream about getting on the show and repeatedly hitting $X000 + a free spin.

And it was always bittersweet when a whammy came up because the contestant lost the money, but the whammies animations were so entertaining.

Michael Larson figured out how to beat the system (you've seen the commercial by now) and the details of the story that ensue do not fail to entertain at all.

Sure there's no true moral to this story. But the way it unfolded, and the details of this con man's, which you can read about on Wikipedia are fascinating.

So, to sum up, no true moral lesson, but a fascinating real life story that does not fail to entertain at all.

Extremely well thought-out choose your own adventure story. I spent some time exploring as many paths as I could (just like my choose your own adventure books from my childhood).

Some choices you make are minute and will have no consequence on your path. Other choices, many of them, are as extreme as choosing the red pill or the blue pill.

And that is essentially what Bandersnatch is about. Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? One choice will have boring results and the other will take you further down the rabbit hole.

Will Poulter does not get enough credit for his nasally video game genius, whom he reprieves in a season seven episode, as well.

I loved Bandersnatch for what its writer did with the choices, which, in themselves, are a statement.