![]() You know how we keep saying there's too much TV out there? Well, one of the advantages to that is that you don't have to watch every new show that comes out. ![]() I know that, but I'm still writing this anyway. Watch other shows.Īnd yes, I'm writing this fully aware that there are people who will read this, decide to watch for themselves, and then will track me down on Twitter to tell me I'm some variety of oversensitive baby, and that the show isn't as bad as I'm making it out to be. This is less a review and more a public service announcement: Just don't do it. But instead, I denied myself such pleasures to focus on this core message: If you watch Clickbait, well, you were warned. Here's how seriously I take warning you away from this show - I take no pleasure in writing pans like this, so I originally considered writing this whole review as a joke about how Vinny Chase's recent career choices have been really bad, because I am low-key obsessed with the show Entourage and love to goof on it and Adrian Grenier. It's so bad, you really should just stay away, because not only is the initial taste pretty bad, the aftertaste is worse, and it lingers. Put it another way: You know how sometimes you'll taste something so bad that you instinctually look around for someone else to share that gross taste with? "It's so bad, you gotta try this?" Clickbait isn't like that. There's something intrinsically nasty and mean about this show's outlook on the world, and while it does contain something resembling a central thesis about how the Internet has fractured the ways in which we connect with each other, it's not exactly essential messaging. It is an unpleasant show built on a semi-compelling mystery, and yes, if you watch to the end the full mystery will be unveiled, but while you'll know what happened, you won't feel good about it. However, while there are some bright spots to Clickbait, they do not justify the overall experience of watching the show. But let me be explicitly clear about this: It is very rare that I will say "do not watch this show," whether it be to a friend in casual conversation or to readers in print, because key to my passion for scripted entertainment is the belief that there is redeeming value in pretty much everything. There's some strong acting from the ensemble, with Kazan and Gabriel in particular really carrying the material. RELATED: 'Clickbait' Ending Explained: What Happened to Nick (and Why) (A successful strategy towards keeping a mystery captivating these days is to basically change what the core mystery happens to be on an episode-by-episode basis, something which Clickbait does nimbly.) However, it comes from such a fundamentally nasty place that while you might get hooked on what's happening, by the end of the season you'll just feel bad about having watched it. It might even said to be captivating, if only by virtue of the fact that the fundamental mystery is well-plotted and evolved in clever ways over the course of the eight episodes. It's a fundamentally competent season of television, on the very basic level of successfully telling a coherent story. ![]() The new Netflix thriller Clickbait is not either of those things. Meanwhile, there is the enjoyably bad television that happily crosses the line into camp, where the basic experience of watching and poking fun provides enough entertainment to justify the show's existence. ![]() There are the ineptly made shows, the ones where you wonder if anyone involved had ever sat down to watch an episode of anything ever. Take a look at the first trailer in the player above or on YouTube.Any television enthusiast knows that when it comes to bad shows, there's a wide spectrum of "bad" possible. Ian Pirie, Kate Bracken and the always great Tony Curran also appear in the film.Ĭalibre has its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 22 June before its global release on Netflix on 29 June, where it’ll be available around the world. ![]() A deeply moral film, this atmospheric, slow burn thriller sees the friends forced to make some tough choices as the weekend of bonding and hunting turns tragic.Īs well as those classic survival films by Boorman and Hill, there are hints of Straw Dogs, An American Werewolf in London and Wake in Fright in this debut feature, with the thrills combined with an expressive use of the evocative Scottish landscape. Rising star Jack Lowden – fresh from playing Tom Hardy’s wingman in Dunkirk and Morrissey in England is Mine – stars as a soon-to-be father being dragged north by his old school pal (a flinty Martin McCann) for a weekend of hunting and too many IPA and Laphroaig chasers. ![]()
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