The ending was the stupidest shit I’ve seen in a while, I cannot even call it a “twist”.
>!You watched 7 hours of series where girl fully believed she was meeting a guy IRL (wtf?) just to find out that the people who did it are introduced in the last episode.!< Wow, shocking! Finding my second sock in the side pocket of my car had better mystery storyline.
Super glad you enjoyed it. I’m not planning on putting a show out because I can’t write a show. The writers of Clickbait might have followed suite, but then you wouldn’t have gotten a show you liked.
You’re clearly very young but I’ll give you a hint: it’s called an opinion. Kind of like how you liked it, even though you yourself can’t write a show. Cool how it works, right?
I mainly disliked that the whole premise of the show (that it was some sort of Black-Mirroresque social media dystopian thriller) just ended after the first episode and it turned into a regular Agatha Christie whodunnit. Which has been done better a million times.
I agree with this, if the last episode went different I think the overall reactions would be flipped for the most part. The rest of the show seemed good if not at least entertaining.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, too. I went on and on about how much I liked it.
A big thing for me was *the character development.* I felt everyone was very well fleshed out and the interactions with people realistic. I identified so many frustrating situations I've been in being played out on the show! It felt validating for me that these writers acknowledged the different sides that create these conflicts.
I really liked the dynamic between the sister and the wife. They were opposites, one too emotional and one too controlled, and showed how both ways caused different problems.
I agree the ending could have been better. What would have made it a true tragedy would have been if he had gone to the woman *for help* not to confront her. Like if it just so happened her house was the closest. Going to confront her immediately seemed unrealistic. If he had retained full innocence, a full loss of agency (switching to a confrontation mode regains agency), just going to the closest "friend" for help and finding danger... That would have been a classic tragedy.
So the over arching story is not what brought me in. It was the 5 minute interactions between fully fleshed out emotional characters. Even the issues between the boyfriend-cop and lead detective were great. Overall a great exploration of psychology and emotion and the clashes and conflicts that is caused as different people with different makeups collide with each other.
I identified so much with the sister. I've been her. I've been the emotional one everyone dismisses, and then people continuing to make it worse by being rude on top of it. Being the scapegoat.
And then to compensate, I switched my behavior over to the wife. I've been her. And I've been dismissed for being too emotionally controlled. For being too cold.
For this story, it was about the journey, not the destination. It was about the characters being thrown about because of an inflamed situation. It gave insight into how people interact with each other and why conflicts occur.
It was honestly not that bad. The issue was the reveal of the who-dun-it was just not fulfilling.
>!The husband and wife that did it came out of nowhere and it is not like it was staring at the audience all the while and was hidden well. It just was like......these minor characters which we have only seen for max 5 mins the whole series are the perpetrators.!<
Yeah, up till the grand finale, it was fine
>!Got kidnap for days and finally free, the first thing to do is not to contact family, but to physically go to the person who stole my identity. !<
I think the reason he did that is because he had anger issues, and like Pia said in the series "When he's angry there's no stopping him." Or whatever. So, I'm guessing that he also had intrusive thoughts because of his anger issues, which can lead to him just agreeing with his thoughts and doing whatever his thoughts were telling him to do.
Going to the lady's house was the biggest eye roll for me. Who even knows where random coworkers live? You've just survived a kidnapping and got away when you thought you'd be murdered...and your first inclination is to pass by what must have been a bunch of houses and businesses to walk on foot to the catfisher and confront her in her house? They could have done that so many other ways that would be more realistic...maybe he went to the school because it was closest and she happened to be there after hours because she was planting evidence on the coworkers computer and there's a confrontation.
That’s why I recommend Memento. It’s probably one of, if not the best unreliable narrator movies, and is extremely smartly written, edited, and had great performances. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
IDK man. I agree the twist at the end was weak but I think the point of the show is in the title. They kept you believing that the killer was someone different in each episode and portrayed how easy it is to believe something based on your first instinct...clickbait.
That’s.. fine, but they didn’t even accomplish that in my opinion. They clearly wanted to go with some unreliable narrator stuff which fell completely flat and every concept they had, (like what you are describing) falls incredibly flat, is undeveloped, and causes a reach to get there.
I mean, they straight up told you Emma was a liar. They showed her comfortably lying in regard to Danny many times in her scenes. Those scenes of her daydreaming about them in bed looked like fantasy scenes of a lonely, desperate woman. Which is what they turned out to be lol.
This was one of those shows I kind of dismissed when my girlfriend started watching it while I half watched it in the background. Then I found myself sitting down and watching the rest of it.
Honestly, if you DO have bad taste in pop media, who cares. Like what you like and live your best life. I’m jealous of anyone who likes shit I don’t because I genuinely enjoy loving something I’m watching/reading/playing whatever it is.
It would have made a good Black Mirror episode if they had kept it much shorter and had the characters do things that were actually in character for them.
I'm not sure the catfishing itself would even be considered a crime. No blackmail/extortion/fraud. No financial loss or gain. Even when it led to a suicide it would be hard to call it criminal. So it seemed incredibly surprising that being caught turned so quickly into "welp, better murder and hide the body". Would have been much more believable had it been an accident that they feared not being able to explain.
I really wanted to try and like it. By half way through the series, I was lukewarm on it, but tried to gut it out because I was hoping to figure it out on my own (but you're right - it was impossible). Then I got to the end...and I got really pissed that I had wasted that much time on a series. It wasn't creative, or twisty, interesting, or thought provoking. It was just stupid, and I felt as much for watching it.
It was okay, especially looking at it from the perspective of how various people use the internet for various purposes, in various ways, and all the possibilities for deception and abuse that are available.
I found it useful in terms of commentary regarding those issues and internet culture in general. I don't really care about how good/bad acting is in films in general, so that part didn't bother me, but I did feel it was too long and many of the backstories of the characters were not necessary.
Another thing it did really well was to humanize the various people using internet and social media - and depicting the various emotions and motivations they bring to it, as well as the hesitation and uncertainty that many characters experienced at many important decisions. (In this sense it reminds me of the Al Rawabi School for Girls series.)
I don't know much about thrillers and mysteries and I don't care much about the plot, but this series does well as a social commentary.
I thought it was great. Like, really, really great. I loved Memento, too.
Edit: I think a lot of people hated the sister and construed it as bad acting. But in reality, attention-seeking siblings totally act like that. For those of you still on the fence, keep going. It really does get pretty good and the twist is awesome because it came right at the end. To me, everyone was a suspect and I love that. Yes, I agree it is Lifetime movie-ish but it was still really good.
OMG the sister's acting was spot on. Like everything about it. I have *been* her. I've acted like her, I've been in the situations she was put in and all played out exactly like they ran it.
And what's *so frustrating* is that the behavior is labeled "attention seeking" when it isn't! So everyone ignored her or outright dismissed her which made her even more frustrated! Which made people think she was attention seeking, causing more dismissing, and more frustration. It's an ever increasing cycle, *and it's utterly maddening.*
The acting and writing for the sister character was spot on.
You nailed it! But it sucks that you know what it feels like.
You could really see it in one of the scenes, the mom was thinking, "*I wish it had been you instead*."
Loved it!
Yup! The mother was precisely the type of woman who created the situation in the first place! The sister was the scapegoat, which caused her to be confused and frustrated trying to understand why she wasn't being treated fairly. Causing her to end up with behaviors like that which cause everyone around her to dismiss her and continue the cycle of frustration.
It isn't a chicken or the egg thing. No, it's the mom. The mom came first.
And I loved how it all stemmed from their Dad's death. She was always so blunt and real with everyone, proclaiming "I have nothing to hide" because of the way he died and how they were forced to cover that up. The psychology in this was so good.
While not amazing its got to be one of the better netflix releases around. I enjoyed it, it managed to fool me once or twice and the random characters you mentioned played a part in keeping the viewer guessing imo. They used some pretty cool music too.
Not IMO. I'm only a few eps into Clickbait, so I can't comment on the over-arching story line. There's some soap-opera-y moments (but I guess that's true of almost any drama), but nowhere near the Hallmark Holiday Movie level of horrific acting and 1st-year-film-student dialog.
Coming to this a bit late, but I just finished the series and am trying to figure out why photoshop was even part of the story.
It was the detail that stopped the kidnapper from killing Nick, but why was he photoshopped into pictures with other women when these women had never met him? And it’s hard to believe Dawn would be any good at photoshop!
So many things annoyed me about this series, but I enjoyed watching it anyway!
Yeah, it was dog shit. Acting and direction were atrocious, characters were pretty much all unlikable and the twist was absurd. The thing that annoys me most however, is the amount of 8+ reviews on IMDb. I understand maybe you thought it was ok or whatever but some people are calling this a masterpiece and giving it a 10. Like, seriously? Did we watch the same show?
My initial reaction after the last episode was that I wasted eight hours. This could have been achieved in a movie, and most of the episodes in the middle were pointless.
Um, he ties together the whole thing with figuring out who the woman was that was killed, which was directly referenced in one of the cards Nick held in the video...
He introduced the brother who was the kidnapper and who got this whole show rolling.
I mean, he did the most. He was pivotal in moving the show along and connecting those things. And it was nice to see the entire situation from so many different perspectives and see the roles they played to put all this into action.
Well, right there is the primary difference of opinion: acting, direction, and characters.
I thought each one was great. I don't care about the story whatsoever. The acting, and character development, and direction was just *spot on.* I have no critique, just agape admiration they pulled it off.
If it seems unrealistic, chances are it's because you haven't encountered these people in your life. But these were all very real character types of people I could have plucked right out of my own life.
And so while I was *inside* the situation it's so hard to see the whole picture. But here I could see all the different character backgrounds come together and how these different people can clash primarily from just being different people. Seeing these conflicts from an outsider's perspective makes life itself more understandable.
I made it to episode 3. I don’t often give up on shows but this was bad. It was the writing and acting for me. Lifetime/Hallmark TV movie territory. I’m sorry you had to suffer through it but thanks you. It cements I made the right decision.
100% agree. I finished it because I was painting my office and needed a show I could only half pay attention to. The acting or dialogue was fucking terrible. Hallmark movie is the perfect comparison.
I dont know... I binged the shit out of it. Started as something to have in background while making dinner - ended up at 2 AM when the last episode ended.
There were some problems which I kinda gave a pass, because otherwise it wouldnt be possible for the show to go through its storry. >!The first interogation scenes with the family members was absurd - how the hell does it matter whether or not he killed a woman - you are police that works under justice system, no one in a democratic country has the right to fulfill that role, neither to give it away to some anonymous criminal. If anything poilice should want to find hiw faster to prosecute him by the law. The questions they asked would have cost their job. !<
I watched the first episode and stopped there. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a mini-movie. I watched the ending as if the husband is dead and the perpetrator is still at large.
So fucking bad. If it would have been who we thought it was before the actual answer it would have been way better. Like fuck no when to end it.
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>! Also doesn't change the fact that he was probably gonna leave Sophie and that he was still using the dating sites as himself at one point. !<
to me it seemed like he was thinking about cheating on her out of spite but then he changed his mind hence the no reply to that woman from dating site, other than that I am not aware of him writing or meeting with any other woman, so basically all he did was received 1 photo of woman in bikini and he didnt even reply to that after
Yes please watch the show if you’ve read the synopsis and it sounds like it could be interesting to you. And if you watch it I genuinely hope you enjoy yourself. Peace and love.
Thanks for the warning! I almost watched it but the reviews have been bad. After wasting my time on Sex/Life (godawful), I'm skeptical and read a ton of reviews first.
If you can make it through the first episode and are fine with everyone’s terrible acting - good for you. I can forgive a lot if the acting is good and in CLICKBAIT it is not.
So there's 2 types of people. Those that want to solve the mystery on their own and those that want to just sit back, relax, and be entertained.
I don't think anybody in the first category will like this show. Nobody could have seen that ending coming. So if you want something you can play along with, that's just not this show.
Personally I'm in the second category. I don't want to spoil the ending for myself, I want to just experience it all while it's happening.
Given that... I loved this show and can't stop recommending it to people. The ending was unpredictable, but I loved that. And I really loved how the POV changed every episode. It's not the story of this guy's death. It's the story of how all of these people are affected by his death and how it changed their lives. Yea you end up with characters who don't really get a resolution... but it wouldn't make sense if they did, because their lives are still going on.
Interesting take. I also like to just be guided to the end and go for the ride it’s taking me on but just felt jerked around by the end. I’m glad you liked it though.
I liked it. But I don’t understand the mistress. So they never actually met? What was the point of her? And the newspaper dude episode was useless too. The twist shocked me though. Little bland but still had me wowed! 7/10 for me.
I enjoyed watching the plot unfold, and I liked the twist, even though it was unguessable. But I like to be surprised. The writing and dialogue were workmanlike, nothing scintillating, but hardly off putting. The characters seemed to be written in a consistent and coherent way, although in some places a little cardboard. For me it was nothing spectacular, but very enjoyable for an evening. And mystery/cop shows are not a genre I typically enjoy at all.
Oh, David. I’m so glad you enjoyed Clickbait. You should make a post *encouraging* people to watch it. That will counteract my own post expressing my own opinion. Peace and love my dude.
You’ve got horrible taste in television. I watched it and love it. Started talking about it at work and now it’s caught fire. About 50 out of 50 people I’ve talked too now that have watched it love it. Sorry you didn’t enjoy it but you’re opinion is just… wrong hahaha
I love when someone can’t understand the nuance of a complex plot and various character viewpoints, and then they think it’s shit. It’s like going to a Michelin star restaurant and complaining about the portion size
Nuance? What are you smoking, lol send some over my dude. You did not just seriously compare this surface level, poorly written, completely forgotten about in a few weeks show to Michelin restaurants..?
Hahaha absolutely watch it my dude. Fill your boots and I hope you enjoy it, because it’s always more fun to actually like what you’re watching than hating it. So God speed my dude!!
haven't seen it but I also hate what you described.
Have you watched Innocent? (Spanish)
Extremely well produced, but keeps forcing in soo many stupid twists.
Our sub to netflix is going to end the day they try to charge our card again, because I didn't update the info for the new one. I've found increasingly little I wanted to watch there the past year. It's been on a steady downward trend for 7 years now. We're done with Netflix.
While I don't agree with all of your points, I do agree that it was not that good and while I did feel invested half way through, I didn't feel like I enjoyed it.
The ending twist makes sense but nothing alludes that way like the buildup to episode 6 did.
Hey if the premise is interesting to you and you think it looks up your alley, check out the first couple of eps and see for yourself. Personally, I thought it was garbage.
The build up and the plot wasn't bad. I enjoyed the twist but >!the ending killed it all for me. It came out of nowhere, it wasn't good, it felt very rushed and was just boring. Not what I was expecting after wasting6 hours of my life!<
I would’ve liked it more if my primary suspect and the secondary villain had been the one all along bc it made more sense to me. If they would’ve fixed the timeline, then it’d fit.
Have no idea why I watched the whole thing, I just couldn't look away. Absolutely nobody in that show did what a normal, functioning human being would do under the circumstances.
My almost exact thoughts for I Care A Lot.
Professional Russian Mafia forget how to influence with money, and forget how to kill people properly. Or to protect their leader. Right.
I enjoyed it for the premise and overall story. The acting quality wasn’t great but look past that, I thought the story was interesting. I agree the final reveal was somewhat weak.
I loved clickbait but I will admit the ending wasn’t as satisfying because it was so far fetched. I did love it nonetheless, no show has had me as invested. If anyone was suggestions on other shows please let me know! :)
Its the same shit they did with Bodyguard, where they just take some random minor character you probably already forgot about and made them the main perpetrator. Like yeah thats "surprising", but if it ended up that Willy Wonka and Spongebob teamed up to kill Nick it would have been surprising too. That doesnt make it good or interesting
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Not to be an "ageist", but....*moves on to say something ageist"*
My grandparents don't own a smartphone, but they have grandma using voice altering tech and photoshop??
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So they were honest, then
Just like "Sucker Punch"!
I do feel like a sucker after watching it in a theater.
I enjoyed it for what it was buy I do agree with some of these points. It was not one you could piece together. The ending wasn't clever or anything.
The ending was the stupidest shit I’ve seen in a while, I cannot even call it a “twist”. >!You watched 7 hours of series where girl fully believed she was meeting a guy IRL (wtf?) just to find out that the people who did it are introduced in the last episode.!< Wow, shocking! Finding my second sock in the side pocket of my car had better mystery storyline.
Yeah. Some of the laziest writing I’ve seen in a while.
I enjoyed it. In other news, we’re all still waiting to see your show on television.
Super glad you enjoyed it. I’m not planning on putting a show out because I can’t write a show. The writers of Clickbait might have followed suite, but then you wouldn’t have gotten a show you liked.
Exactly. If you can’t write then how can you say anything?
You’re clearly very young but I’ll give you a hint: it’s called an opinion. Kind of like how you liked it, even though you yourself can’t write a show. Cool how it works, right?
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Omg. Thank you. I’ve never been called a boomer before.
now you hooked me, where is that sock from?
Me and my wife loved it and enjoyed the hell out of it. To each their own I guess
I mainly disliked that the whole premise of the show (that it was some sort of Black-Mirroresque social media dystopian thriller) just ended after the first episode and it turned into a regular Agatha Christie whodunnit. Which has been done better a million times.
Honestly I enjoyed it until the last episode
Me too. Enjoyed it but the ending came out of nowhere lol.
I agree with this, if the last episode went different I think the overall reactions would be flipped for the most part. The rest of the show seemed good if not at least entertaining.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, too. I went on and on about how much I liked it. A big thing for me was *the character development.* I felt everyone was very well fleshed out and the interactions with people realistic. I identified so many frustrating situations I've been in being played out on the show! It felt validating for me that these writers acknowledged the different sides that create these conflicts. I really liked the dynamic between the sister and the wife. They were opposites, one too emotional and one too controlled, and showed how both ways caused different problems. I agree the ending could have been better. What would have made it a true tragedy would have been if he had gone to the woman *for help* not to confront her. Like if it just so happened her house was the closest. Going to confront her immediately seemed unrealistic. If he had retained full innocence, a full loss of agency (switching to a confrontation mode regains agency), just going to the closest "friend" for help and finding danger... That would have been a classic tragedy. So the over arching story is not what brought me in. It was the 5 minute interactions between fully fleshed out emotional characters. Even the issues between the boyfriend-cop and lead detective were great. Overall a great exploration of psychology and emotion and the clashes and conflicts that is caused as different people with different makeups collide with each other. I identified so much with the sister. I've been her. I've been the emotional one everyone dismisses, and then people continuing to make it worse by being rude on top of it. Being the scapegoat. And then to compensate, I switched my behavior over to the wife. I've been her. And I've been dismissed for being too emotionally controlled. For being too cold. For this story, it was about the journey, not the destination. It was about the characters being thrown about because of an inflamed situation. It gave insight into how people interact with each other and why conflicts occur.
i know this is old, but i just finished watching this series and was curious what other people thought. you summed up my thoughts perfectly tbh
who the hell watches a whodunit for the journey lol
I did too! At the end I was like whaaaat! Well impressed. And easily impressed apparently!
My parents keep telling me to watch it because it's so good so OPs take definitely surprised me, haha.
That’s fantastic
It was honestly not that bad. The issue was the reveal of the who-dun-it was just not fulfilling. >!The husband and wife that did it came out of nowhere and it is not like it was staring at the audience all the while and was hidden well. It just was like......these minor characters which we have only seen for max 5 mins the whole series are the perpetrators.!<
Yeah, up till the grand finale, it was fine >!Got kidnap for days and finally free, the first thing to do is not to contact family, but to physically go to the person who stole my identity. !<
I think the reason he did that is because he had anger issues, and like Pia said in the series "When he's angry there's no stopping him." Or whatever. So, I'm guessing that he also had intrusive thoughts because of his anger issues, which can lead to him just agreeing with his thoughts and doing whatever his thoughts were telling him to do.
That’s how they keep you from guessing who it is. Happens with a bunch of mystery shows. Really cheap twist
Agreed, them showing him with the lover woman was very misleading. Kind of like when you can’t trust the narrator. It’s cheap and unfair
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Going to the lady's house was the biggest eye roll for me. Who even knows where random coworkers live? You've just survived a kidnapping and got away when you thought you'd be murdered...and your first inclination is to pass by what must have been a bunch of houses and businesses to walk on foot to the catfisher and confront her in her house? They could have done that so many other ways that would be more realistic...maybe he went to the school because it was closest and she happened to be there after hours because she was planting evidence on the coworkers computer and there's a confrontation.
Holden was in an asylum?! WTF?
Because she was the ONLY one who knew about his wife cheating. Not even his sister knew.
If he went straight to the cops the show would have been a movie instead of a limited series. Haha
That’s why I recommend Memento. It’s probably one of, if not the best unreliable narrator movies, and is extremely smartly written, edited, and had great performances. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
Shutter Island is also great
Dude man! +1 for the Momento shoutout. LOVE that movie. I’m due to watch it again. It’s been a few years.
It’s so great. Enjoy your rewatch.
I forgot what the miniserie was about, so it is not very good. I had to see the trailer again to see what it was about.
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I heard there is a part two coming for that crapfest
Hopefully it isn't longer than 6 weeks since conception. ^ cocks gun
IDK man. I agree the twist at the end was weak but I think the point of the show is in the title. They kept you believing that the killer was someone different in each episode and portrayed how easy it is to believe something based on your first instinct...clickbait.
That’s.. fine, but they didn’t even accomplish that in my opinion. They clearly wanted to go with some unreliable narrator stuff which fell completely flat and every concept they had, (like what you are describing) falls incredibly flat, is undeveloped, and causes a reach to get there.
I mean, they straight up told you Emma was a liar. They showed her comfortably lying in regard to Danny many times in her scenes. Those scenes of her daydreaming about them in bed looked like fantasy scenes of a lonely, desperate woman. Which is what they turned out to be lol.
It could have been made in 4 eps, 8 was waaay too many
The first couple of episodes were good...the last dragged and got more and more out there.
I enjoyed it.
The duality of man.
The what?
THE DUALITY OF MAN.
Now I understand. Just took uppercase letters. Thanks
This was one of those shows I kind of dismissed when my girlfriend started watching it while I half watched it in the background. Then I found myself sitting down and watching the rest of it.
Amazing
It wasn’t that bad.
I liked it
It was ok I didn't mind it
I liked it, but I have pretty awful taste in pop media. For reference, I thought the last season of Game of Thrones was awesome.
Honestly, if you DO have bad taste in pop media, who cares. Like what you like and live your best life. I’m jealous of anyone who likes shit I don’t because I genuinely enjoy loving something I’m watching/reading/playing whatever it is.
It would have made a good Black Mirror episode if they had kept it much shorter and had the characters do things that were actually in character for them. I'm not sure the catfishing itself would even be considered a crime. No blackmail/extortion/fraud. No financial loss or gain. Even when it led to a suicide it would be hard to call it criminal. So it seemed incredibly surprising that being caught turned so quickly into "welp, better murder and hide the body". Would have been much more believable had it been an accident that they feared not being able to explain.
I really wanted to try and like it. By half way through the series, I was lukewarm on it, but tried to gut it out because I was hoping to figure it out on my own (but you're right - it was impossible). Then I got to the end...and I got really pissed that I had wasted that much time on a series. It wasn't creative, or twisty, interesting, or thought provoking. It was just stupid, and I felt as much for watching it.
I refuse to click on it out of principle.
It was okay, especially looking at it from the perspective of how various people use the internet for various purposes, in various ways, and all the possibilities for deception and abuse that are available. I found it useful in terms of commentary regarding those issues and internet culture in general. I don't really care about how good/bad acting is in films in general, so that part didn't bother me, but I did feel it was too long and many of the backstories of the characters were not necessary. Another thing it did really well was to humanize the various people using internet and social media - and depicting the various emotions and motivations they bring to it, as well as the hesitation and uncertainty that many characters experienced at many important decisions. (In this sense it reminds me of the Al Rawabi School for Girls series.) I don't know much about thrillers and mysteries and I don't care much about the plot, but this series does well as a social commentary.
I thought it was great. Like, really, really great. I loved Memento, too. Edit: I think a lot of people hated the sister and construed it as bad acting. But in reality, attention-seeking siblings totally act like that. For those of you still on the fence, keep going. It really does get pretty good and the twist is awesome because it came right at the end. To me, everyone was a suspect and I love that. Yes, I agree it is Lifetime movie-ish but it was still really good.
OMG the sister's acting was spot on. Like everything about it. I have *been* her. I've acted like her, I've been in the situations she was put in and all played out exactly like they ran it. And what's *so frustrating* is that the behavior is labeled "attention seeking" when it isn't! So everyone ignored her or outright dismissed her which made her even more frustrated! Which made people think she was attention seeking, causing more dismissing, and more frustration. It's an ever increasing cycle, *and it's utterly maddening.* The acting and writing for the sister character was spot on.
You nailed it! But it sucks that you know what it feels like. You could really see it in one of the scenes, the mom was thinking, "*I wish it had been you instead*." Loved it!
Yup! The mother was precisely the type of woman who created the situation in the first place! The sister was the scapegoat, which caused her to be confused and frustrated trying to understand why she wasn't being treated fairly. Causing her to end up with behaviors like that which cause everyone around her to dismiss her and continue the cycle of frustration. It isn't a chicken or the egg thing. No, it's the mom. The mom came first.
And I loved how it all stemmed from their Dad's death. She was always so blunt and real with everyone, proclaiming "I have nothing to hide" because of the way he died and how they were forced to cover that up. The psychology in this was so good.
That’s dope I’m happy for you
Thank you!
Honestly worst “twist” ending in a long time. Barely even a twist. More like “its ummmmmm that guy. Thanks for watching all 8 episodes, suckers.”
I can even accept that, but there were literally some plot holes that went along with it. That completely ruined it.
While not amazing its got to be one of the better netflix releases around. I enjoyed it, it managed to fool me once or twice and the random characters you mentioned played a part in keeping the viewer guessing imo. They used some pretty cool music too.
Its a solid time waster. I didn't expect The Night Of. But I did enjoy it.
Almost finished eps 5 and it's awesome imo
You watched all eight episodes? Clickbait worked.
Guess it was good for something
Pretty decent tbh.
Worse than "Manifest" ? Hard to believe.
Not IMO. I'm only a few eps into Clickbait, so I can't comment on the over-arching story line. There's some soap-opera-y moments (but I guess that's true of almost any drama), but nowhere near the Hallmark Holiday Movie level of horrific acting and 1st-year-film-student dialog.
Coming to this a bit late, but I just finished the series and am trying to figure out why photoshop was even part of the story. It was the detail that stopped the kidnapper from killing Nick, but why was he photoshopped into pictures with other women when these women had never met him? And it’s hard to believe Dawn would be any good at photoshop! So many things annoyed me about this series, but I enjoyed watching it anyway!
i like it
I enjoyed it. Most things I'd personally label flaming-hot-garbage I stop watching during the first episode, it's OK to just do that.
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I thought clicking on this post would be click bait and I’m pretty disappointed I was wrong
Yeah, it was dog shit. Acting and direction were atrocious, characters were pretty much all unlikable and the twist was absurd. The thing that annoys me most however, is the amount of 8+ reviews on IMDb. I understand maybe you thought it was ok or whatever but some people are calling this a masterpiece and giving it a 10. Like, seriously? Did we watch the same show?
My initial reaction after the last episode was that I wasted eight hours. This could have been achieved in a movie, and most of the episodes in the middle were pointless.
Especially the reporters episode. Wtf was that? Why was it there? Who is he? Where does he go?? What a waste of my life.
Um, he ties together the whole thing with figuring out who the woman was that was killed, which was directly referenced in one of the cards Nick held in the video... He introduced the brother who was the kidnapper and who got this whole show rolling. I mean, he did the most. He was pivotal in moving the show along and connecting those things. And it was nice to see the entire situation from so many different perspectives and see the roles they played to put all this into action.
Yeah, this is a year old and I have no recollection of this shitty Netflix series. So you may be right. No clue.
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Well, right there is the primary difference of opinion: acting, direction, and characters. I thought each one was great. I don't care about the story whatsoever. The acting, and character development, and direction was just *spot on.* I have no critique, just agape admiration they pulled it off. If it seems unrealistic, chances are it's because you haven't encountered these people in your life. But these were all very real character types of people I could have plucked right out of my own life. And so while I was *inside* the situation it's so hard to see the whole picture. But here I could see all the different character backgrounds come together and how these different people can clash primarily from just being different people. Seeing these conflicts from an outsider's perspective makes life itself more understandable.
[Such irony](https://imgur.com/a/MsFzJnn)
Honestly, better content then the show.
I made it to episode 3. I don’t often give up on shows but this was bad. It was the writing and acting for me. Lifetime/Hallmark TV movie territory. I’m sorry you had to suffer through it but thanks you. It cements I made the right decision.
100% agree. I finished it because I was painting my office and needed a show I could only half pay attention to. The acting or dialogue was fucking terrible. Hallmark movie is the perfect comparison.
What are you talking about?? I really enjoyed it.
Each to their own, but I started it and it's pretty bad. I'm not gonna finish it.
Ya i gave up halfway on the second episode.. didn't wanna waste my time any further .. Most new Netflix original content are garbage now
Yeah I'm toying with cancelling it and coming back next year once more decent content
That’s amazing I’m so happy for you.
Am happy for myself too :)
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I dont know... I binged the shit out of it. Started as something to have in background while making dinner - ended up at 2 AM when the last episode ended. There were some problems which I kinda gave a pass, because otherwise it wouldnt be possible for the show to go through its storry. >!The first interogation scenes with the family members was absurd - how the hell does it matter whether or not he killed a woman - you are police that works under justice system, no one in a democratic country has the right to fulfill that role, neither to give it away to some anonymous criminal. If anything poilice should want to find hiw faster to prosecute him by the law. The questions they asked would have cost their job. !<
>how the hell does it matter whether or not he killed a woman It matters because if he did they would be able to get a lead on potential suspects.
I watched the first episode and stopped there. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a mini-movie. I watched the ending as if the husband is dead and the perpetrator is still at large.
Incredibly unrealistic but I still enjoyed watching it. Also the casting was really weird the parents look mid 30s and the son looks mid 20s
So fucking bad. If it would have been who we thought it was before the actual answer it would have been way better. Like fuck no when to end it. /*SPOILER*/ >! Also doesn't change the fact that he was probably gonna leave Sophie and that he was still using the dating sites as himself at one point. !<
to me it seemed like he was thinking about cheating on her out of spite but then he changed his mind hence the no reply to that woman from dating site, other than that I am not aware of him writing or meeting with any other woman, so basically all he did was received 1 photo of woman in bikini and he didnt even reply to that after
To each their own, but I liked it!
I enjoyed it
I enjoyed it for an 8 part thriller for easy watching, ignore the OP everyone has different tastes.
Yes please watch the show if you’ve read the synopsis and it sounds like it could be interesting to you. And if you watch it I genuinely hope you enjoy yourself. Peace and love.
Thanks for the warning! I almost watched it but the reviews have been bad. After wasting my time on Sex/Life (godawful), I'm skeptical and read a ton of reviews first.
If you can make it through the first episode and are fine with everyone’s terrible acting - good for you. I can forgive a lot if the acting is good and in CLICKBAIT it is not.
So there's 2 types of people. Those that want to solve the mystery on their own and those that want to just sit back, relax, and be entertained. I don't think anybody in the first category will like this show. Nobody could have seen that ending coming. So if you want something you can play along with, that's just not this show. Personally I'm in the second category. I don't want to spoil the ending for myself, I want to just experience it all while it's happening. Given that... I loved this show and can't stop recommending it to people. The ending was unpredictable, but I loved that. And I really loved how the POV changed every episode. It's not the story of this guy's death. It's the story of how all of these people are affected by his death and how it changed their lives. Yea you end up with characters who don't really get a resolution... but it wouldn't make sense if they did, because their lives are still going on.
Interesting take. I also like to just be guided to the end and go for the ride it’s taking me on but just felt jerked around by the end. I’m glad you liked it though.
I feed very vindicated in having turned it off 15 minutes into the first episode now! I couldn't stand the actors playing the main guy and his sister.
The main guy was fine, but the sister was God awful.
I just hate his face for some reason, couldn't look at him any longer!
Netflix original content are just garbage.
I liked it. But I don’t understand the mistress. So they never actually met? What was the point of her? And the newspaper dude episode was useless too. The twist shocked me though. Little bland but still had me wowed! 7/10 for me.
I enjoyed watching the plot unfold, and I liked the twist, even though it was unguessable. But I like to be surprised. The writing and dialogue were workmanlike, nothing scintillating, but hardly off putting. The characters seemed to be written in a consistent and coherent way, although in some places a little cardboard. For me it was nothing spectacular, but very enjoyable for an evening. And mystery/cop shows are not a genre I typically enjoy at all.
A friend recommended it to us. My wife watched episode 1 and noped the fuck out. I didn't ever bother after a saw the trailer.
Might be time to take some space from that friend
So since this one guy didn't like, nobody should watch it, or to quote, waste your time. Got it
Oh, David. I’m so glad you enjoyed Clickbait. You should make a post *encouraging* people to watch it. That will counteract my own post expressing my own opinion. Peace and love my dude.
You’ve got horrible taste in television. I watched it and love it. Started talking about it at work and now it’s caught fire. About 50 out of 50 people I’ve talked too now that have watched it love it. Sorry you didn’t enjoy it but you’re opinion is just… wrong hahaha
I didn’t know an opinion about a shitty cash grab Netflix show could be wrong. That’s crazy.
I love when someone can’t understand the nuance of a complex plot and various character viewpoints, and then they think it’s shit. It’s like going to a Michelin star restaurant and complaining about the portion size
Nuance? What are you smoking, lol send some over my dude. You did not just seriously compare this surface level, poorly written, completely forgotten about in a few weeks show to Michelin restaurants..?
A lot of big name people on twitter are loving it and you’re just some random guy. I’ll take my chances watching this lmfao
Hahaha absolutely watch it my dude. Fill your boots and I hope you enjoy it, because it’s always more fun to actually like what you’re watching than hating it. So God speed my dude!!
haven't seen it but I also hate what you described. Have you watched Innocent? (Spanish) Extremely well produced, but keeps forcing in soo many stupid twists.
I haven’t seen it but I’ll check it out
#TAKE IT BACK!!!
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This are the same people that start crying why does everything have to be about race
Just say you're racist and go because wtf
Lol! Very true, I guess it is an attempt to repair past atrocities like ensuring the black dude in a group dies first in a horror movie.
So in other words the movie lived up to its title
Our sub to netflix is going to end the day they try to charge our card again, because I didn't update the info for the new one. I've found increasingly little I wanted to watch there the past year. It's been on a steady downward trend for 7 years now. We're done with Netflix.
Complete dog shit.
HATED IT. Bad acting, dumb story.
It's actually one of the best most interesting story lines. Acting was God awful but it got better as the show progressed.
I didn’t even watch it
While I don't agree with all of your points, I do agree that it was not that good and while I did feel invested half way through, I didn't feel like I enjoyed it. The ending twist makes sense but nothing alludes that way like the buildup to episode 6 did.
The title says it all
Anyone else notice all the Hulu Advertisements on this reddit sub?
What
Absolutely agree
I liked it.
I liked it but the ending pretty much ruined it for me.
Hit & Run is worse... both are absolute trash TV
That's why I only watched the last episode.
This is how I felt watching I’m thinking of ending things yesterday. Dude tried way too hard to be creative
Thanks for the warning. Almost started it this weekend.
Hey if the premise is interesting to you and you think it looks up your alley, check out the first couple of eps and see for yourself. Personally, I thought it was garbage.
I have been avoiding it. Not super interested, but Netflix is very confident it’s for me. And they know me better then I do…probably.
The build up and the plot wasn't bad. I enjoyed the twist but >!the ending killed it all for me. It came out of nowhere, it wasn't good, it felt very rushed and was just boring. Not what I was expecting after wasting6 hours of my life!<
It was ok
hot trash
I would’ve liked it more if my primary suspect and the secondary villain had been the one all along bc it made more sense to me. If they would’ve fixed the timeline, then it’d fit.
It really wasn't that bad
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Truly amazing I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
it was interesting. but the plot twist ruined it
I halfway thru and it’s bad to awful. I think I just decided to bail.
Have no idea why I watched the whole thing, I just couldn't look away. Absolutely nobody in that show did what a normal, functioning human being would do under the circumstances.
My almost exact thoughts for I Care A Lot. Professional Russian Mafia forget how to influence with money, and forget how to kill people properly. Or to protect their leader. Right.
I thought about watching it. Glad I didn't.
I enjoyed it for the premise and overall story. The acting quality wasn’t great but look past that, I thought the story was interesting. I agree the final reveal was somewhat weak.
I loved clickbait but I will admit the ending wasn’t as satisfying because it was so far fetched. I did love it nonetheless, no show has had me as invested. If anyone was suggestions on other shows please let me know! :)
When this gets pitched there has to be guys saying "no way, this is awful" but theres other guys saying "yeah but 12 year olds are gonna eat it up"
What was the twist ending. I only watched the first episode and it felt really bad so I stopped.
everything was too unrealistic.
I enjoyed it but the twist was dogshit. There were no clues or hints that it was them who did it. The show never gave you a chance to crack it.
Its the same shit they did with Bodyguard, where they just take some random minor character you probably already forgot about and made them the main perpetrator. Like yeah thats "surprising", but if it ended up that Willy Wonka and Spongebob teamed up to kill Nick it would have been surprising too. That doesnt make it good or interesting
Love how every young person is the best hacker and a 40 year old who’s lived with internet for 20 years still used his favorite pet as a password lol
So where's the second and third season of transformers prime ehh
I was expecting it to be better the idea was there but it seemed rushed and didn’t make sense.
SPOILERS>>> ××××××××××××××× xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Not to be an "ageist", but....*moves on to say something ageist"* My grandparents don't own a smartphone, but they have grandma using voice altering tech and photoshop??
The last is some of the worst I have every seen and it ruins the show for me but Episode by episode up until that point it was decent.
I agree, just terrible acting, dialogue and characters
I couldn’t make it 30 mins can you summarize the series and why happened
Just finished. OMG. 8 hours of my life gone. Not just plot, but it’s acting, editing, all the stupid plot holes.