The Sopranos and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch premiered 20 years apart, but they're oddly complementary

The New York Times

January 10 will mark the 20th anniversary of The Sopranos premiere. The groundbreaking HBO series and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch are "products of two different TV eras," says James Poniewozik. "The former lets the viewer direct the story (sort of) through a series of choices. The latter was the work of a creator who resisted catering to his audience and ended his series on a big, fat question mark. But as different as the two works are, they’re oddly complementary. Each is an example of the tension between two ways of seeing fiction. Is a story a puzzle to be solved or a mystery to be pondered?" ALSO: Mysterious Black Mirror posters pop up in Birmingham, England.