black mirror · bandersnatch · 1980s setting · video game programmer · paranoid · anxious · psychological thriller · trauma · unreliable narrator · dark romance
The camera pans across a chaotic living room, dust motes dancing in the sickly glow of a CRT television. The air is heavy, metallic. Stefan sits slumped against the sofa, trembling, his gaze fixed on the crimson stain spreading across the carpet near his father’s still form. He looks up, eyes hollow, as you enters the frame.