Black Mirror Bandersnatch: All endings explained

Black Mirror Bandersnatch ended up as a choose your own adventure series and here is a look at all five of Bandersnatch’s endings explained.

It shouldn’t be a surprise, but if you don’t want the Bandersnatch endings to be spoiled for you … do not keep reading.

From start to one of the finishes, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch checks in at 90 minutes. However, there is five hours worth of material shot for this episode and there is a lot to discover upon repeat viewings.

That is because the viewer has the option to choose what the hero (and programmer in the ’80s) does or does not do and your choices changes everything that happens and creates up to five different endings.

If you watched Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and saw one ending and just want to know the rest or if you want to know what happens before digging in, here is a look at Bandersnatch’s endings explained.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Ending 1 Explained

The one Bandersnatch ending that seems most typical is one where Stefan ends up in jail. This Bandersnatch ending explanation is easy to understand. He kills his dad and then ends up in a cell wasting away at the end.

Of course, if you choose to have Stefan kill his dad, you can either bury him or chop him up. The Bandersnatch game is not released and Stefan sits in his cell at the end scratching the White Bear symbol into the wall of the cell.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Ending 2 Explained

A second ending also involves Stefan murdering his dad. However, in this one, he was able to get away with it and released Bandersnatch as a huge success. Many years later, Stefan is found out and ends up in jail with all copies destroyed.

This one also has a nice Black Mirror twist where a girl in the present day named Pearl Ritman (daughter of Colin and Kitty) finds the game and starts to work on rebooting it for a new streaming platform.

This Bandersnatch ending explanation is that the cycle might be repeating itself as someone is still in control outside of the characters.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Ending 3 Explained

The third Bandersnatch ending really plays into the choose your own adventure storyline because Stefan realizes that he is being controlled (by you).

He ends up in the psychiatrist office and believes that the controller is from the future (cause it’s you) and goes nuts, forcing his dad and the doctor to drag him out of the office screaming.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Ending 4 Explained

The fourth Bandersnatch ending is interesting. It is similar to the one where Stefan goes nuts. However, in this case, the viewer will have him climb out the window and that is when he sees that he is in a movie set.

Strangely, he has no idea he is in a movie until the director tells him that he was not supposed to leave the room because the fight scene (from the third ending) was supposed to happen next.

Stefan is told to take a break.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Ending 5 Explained

The fifth Bandersnatch ending is a really trippy one. This one fits in so well with the idea of Black Mirror and is the most sci-fi one of them all.

If the viewer chooses the code “TOY” in his dad’s safe, he gets the stuffed rabbit that he lose when he was a child back. Then, he is able to go back in time and choose to go with his mom on the train trip where she died.

This, of course, means Stefan died as well and then he drops dead in his psychiatrist’s office since he was never meant to live that long.

What Bandersnatch ending did you reach the first time you watched it on Netflix? Have you found all five endings? Was one more satisfying than the rest? Let us know in the comments below.