Some of those options (which breakfast cereal do you eat?) appear to be entirely meaningless. The story itself branches like an old Choose Your Own Adventure novel, asking viewers to click on one story option or another at specific decision points. The episode, set in 1984, follows a programmer named Stefan ( Dunkirk’s Fionn Whitehead) who’s struggling to complete an interactive video game full of user-directed choices. Entire marketing schemes are being designed with these entertainment detectives in mind - HBO’s Westworld spent its entire second season baiting the faithful with stunningly obscure puzzles featuring binary and hexadecimal code glimpsed in passing.īandersnatch may not have been designed specifically for decoding in the same way as those puzzles, but it’s still exactly the kind of complicated project the Reddit secret-miners thrive on dissecting. Users have banded together to squeeze every possible clue out of mysteries from the real-life murder story behind the podcast Serial to fictional conundrums like Jon Snow’s parentage in Game of Thrones.
At Reddit, competing to pull apart entertainment has become a regular industry.
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But the abrupt drop was more or less the crack of the starter’s pistol to a legion of detectives and decoders over at Reddit, who’ve seemingly revealed every single way the movie can play out.