![]() Questions are raised about Nick’s possible violence and affairs and his emotional abuse towards Emma. He’s all sass as he heads to the interview. Ben gets exactly what he wants.īen’s hit the Prime Time. Taking the information to Dakota, Ben states that he will take the story to another channel unless he is the one who gets to interview Sophie. Hacking into Sarah’s phone that he stole from the apartment, Ben finds messages from Jeremy, who ended a relationship with her. “Your reaction is what scared me, there are other human beings on the other side of your stories”, Cameron tells Ben before deciding to stay with his parents. Cameron, on the other hand? He’s mortified. Ben is chased by Simon before Cameron can successfully drive them away. Simon returns, and Cameron is unable to warn Ben before Simon spots him. Tracking the story, Ben sneaks into an apartment that belongs to Sarah’s brother Simon (Daniel Henshall). Instead of reporting the lead to the police, Ben decides to keep the information to himself. Although Maggie turns out to be a cat, he eventually finds the woman he is looking for, Sarah Oxley (Taylor Ferguson). With help from his boyfriend Cameron, Ben finds one of Nick’s deactivated dating apps. Bad news for Ben, Jeannine (Kate Lister) gets the interview. Whilst Dakota states that there is no way the Emma interview will stop, if Sophie did an interview, it would reduce the importance of Emma’s interview. Sophie is threatening to sue the news channel after Ben gained access to her home under false pretenses unless the interview with Emma gets stopped. Returning to the office, Sophie is there, and she has an attorney. He tracks down Tara, but she doesn’t reveal anything except “Jenny doesn’t know s**t”. He learns from Jenny that Nick argued with a fellow student, Tara Wilson (Grace Quealy), who then quit the volleyball team a week later. ![]() Det Amir decides to allow the interview to go ahead he thinks it may flush out the killer.īen next decides to visit Nick’s workplace to see if Nick had hurt any students. After Pia and Sophie spot him, he tells them that Emma is talking to the press. By the end of “Clickbait,” which has taken much time and used many talented people to state the obvious, viewers may themselves feel they were baited by a show with a grabby title and synopsis, one that spoke loudly but had little, in the end, to say.Clearly desperate to make prime time, Ben sneaks into the family home by posing as a delivery man. Perhaps this is where “Black Mirror” has the right idea: Its vignettes of life online range in quality and in novelty, but none runs longer than a feature film. But is there eight hours’ worth of story here? Or just endless amplification of that basic fact? “Clickbait” seems to be forcefully arguing after the viewer’s conceded: Yes, the internet has made anonymous misbehavior much easier. All the wilder flourishes are in service of the rudimentary idea that no one knows us online the series goes to strange places in continuing to make the case, with which it’s hard to disagree anyhow. But after starting in an extreme place, the show keeps pushing further past credibility, cutting corners on its investigation subplot in favor of increasingly bizarre demonstrations of the internet’s dark power. Some of the characters are drawn and performed effectively. That gets at the general misguidedness of a very watchable show that ultimately runs aground when trying to assert big ideas. It’s that “Clickbait” pats itself on the back for observing that tabloid-style media coverage can have collateral damage. What rankles most about Lim’s plotline isn’t that tales like these paint the practice of reporting with a broad brush (although that’s true, too). This story has been told elsewhere, and with more acidity and irony. ![]() A journalist played by Abraham Lim, constantly breaking the law to ensure he gets scoops about the Brewer scandal, exists as living proof that the media is engaged in a race to ethical rock bottom. Unfortunately, “Clickbait” comments much more effectively on character than on society.
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