.keeneTV says don't fall for Netflix's Clickbait, a disastrously muddled limited series that attempts to grapple with internet accountability:
draws you in with a compelling premise. Family man Nick Brewer is kidnapped, beaten, and forced to hold up cards for an internet video that claim “I abuse women” and “I killed a woman.” As if that wasn’t provocative enough, it ends with: “At 5 million views I die.”
From there, Nick’s wife Sophie , his sister Pia , and his sons Ethan and Kai work with police and race against the clock to try and track down who made the video and where Nick is now. But there’s also a question of how they grapple with what the video suggests. Is the man they know and love an abuser? Possibly a killer? Can they understand, perhaps, the vigilante’s motives?
But again, like a good clickbait article, once you get in there, it’s all nonsense. Any of the interesting ideas raised by the series are subverted not to make us question our relationship with online media, but to undermine any decent point the series might have made.
For those still not deterred, the series does give the crime itself a clear ending with a full explanation by the end, and boy howdy is it terrible. This is yet another series that wants to be taken seriously thanks to the trappings of prestige drama, but gives us nothing but dreck. And yet, it’s too boring and offensive to be camp, either.
The whole thing leaves me wondering who this was for, or what the series was even trying to say. It evokes the same “why did I get involved in this?” feeling of being lured under false pretenses to an article that leaves you feeling tricked. Don’t let thisAllison Keene is the TV Editor of
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