We’ll keep you posted on Clickbait renewal news as it comes in. Currently, there’s been no news on whether Netflix has plans to grant the show a second season. Season renewals for limited series aren’t unheard of but they also aren’t a dime a dozen either. However, the popularity of the show has fans wondering if a season 2 could be in the cards. Here are their titles:Ĭlickbait is a limited series and the story does reach its conclusion by episode 8. Clickbait is one of those intriguing ideas that’s likely to lose followers as it progresses, a social-media-age whodunit that features a different character every episode, building toward. There are eight episodes in the first season of Clickbait. If you’re looking for a series that keeps you on your toes, this drama is the one for you. With Clickbait, every time you think you know what’s happening in the show another twist makes it clear that you don’t. Each episode reveals the secrets they’ve been hiding from each other and the lies they’ve been telling whether to themselves or to one another. The seemingly perfect husband and father has been kidnapped and his death is imminent if they can’t find him before a livestream of his capture hits five million views.įrom there, the series progress into a deep dive into the personal lives of the siblings and Nick’s wife, Sophie. However, instead of slipping into the melancholia of a broken bond, the series hops straight into a race against time to save Nick’s life. The show kicks off with family drama that reveals the cracks in the sibling relationship between Nick Brewer and his sister, Pia. “The Mistress” introduces one Emma Beesley, who claims she was in love with Nick, while “The Reporter” is mostly about a tabloid “journalist” (Abraham Lim) who doesn’t think twice about breaking the law if it means he’ll get the scoop that breaks this case wide open.Clickbait, Netflix’s latest thrilling original series, is a ride from start to finish. In the “Wife,” we learn Sophie’s relationship with Nick was far from perfect. “The Detective” focuses on Roshan Amir (Phoenix Raei), a cop who becomes close with the Brewer family, even as he faces his own domestic strife. There’s even a plot involving a tracking app that allows for hundreds of citizen detectives to stake out various patches of land in Oakland and then ping that area if they don’t find anything, thus narrowing the search for Nick.Įach episode of “Clickbait” follows the developing mystery from a different viewpoint. It’s an intriguing setup, and we get the expected conversations about the sometimes-toxic nature of the Internet, as the views start piling up and many commenters express their certainty Nick is guilty and should burn for his crimes. Is it possible Nick really did hurt women and actually committed murder? Is this some sort of elaborate revenge plot by a crazed stalker? There’s no evidence of Nick straying from his marriage or hurting anyone, let alone committing murder - or is there? Turns out Nick didn’t show up for his job as a physical therapist for a college women’s volleyball team in Oakland, and nobody has heard from him since he left a late-night message for Pia apologizing for his outburst and telling her they need to talk. Clickbait, Netflix’s latest thrilling original series, is a ride from start to finish. Battered and bruised, he appears in an online video, holding up handwritten signs that say, “I ABUSE WOMEN” and “AT 5 MILLION VIEWS I DIE.” (In a later video, he holds up a sign saying, “I KILLED A WOMAN.”) Is it some sort of sick prank? A Deep Fake Video? The next morning, Nick goes missing - and he goes viral. Fed up with years of Pia’s antics, Nick kicks her out of the house and says he wants her out of his life. In the opening chapter of the eight-part series, handsome family man and good guy Nick Brewer (Adrian Grenier) and his lovely and sweet wife Sophie (Betty Gabriel), along with their two teenage sons Ethan (Cameron Engels) and Kai (Jaylin Brewer), are celebrating the birthday of Nick’s mom at the Brewer home when Nick’s younger sister Pia (Zoe Kazan) makes a mess of things by showing up late, tipsy and confrontational. You’ll want to hurl the remote across the room, but don’t do that because you might break it. In the case of the Netflix social media-themed series “Clickbait,” it’s a “not.”ĭespite a gimmicky but admittedly attention-getting opening hook, some stylishly rendered visuals and the best efforts of the talented cast, this is the kind of show that grows increasingly desperate to hold our interest until the mystery is solved - and then throws a cold towel in our face by revealing a major character made an absolute howler of a decision at a pivotal moment in the story, a decision so ridiculous it undercuts everything we’ve seen until that moment.
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