We’re gonna be stepping into new territory with this review,
as I’m not just looking at a film but an interactive
film. Netflix has been toying around with this idea for a while now, even
porting a version of Minecraft: Story Mode onto the service, but this is the
first attempt at something for more mature audiences. Getting into the details
with this one is going to be tricky, as this is the kind of feature where there
exist flowcharts that detail all the different choices and paths you can take
as a viewer/controller; I’ll be here all day if I tried to pin down this film’s
singular narrative. So, instead, I’m basically going to treat this like any
other piece of interactive fiction: How does it control, what’s the story like,
and is one worth dealing with to get to the other (i.e. would this have worked
better as just a standard feature)?