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A seemingly perfect husband is video taped holding a sign claiming he's a murderer . Everyone is super quick to believe it, but there's more to the story than meets the eye. I think keeping it a mini series was a smart decision . The pacing is quick, there are no unnecessary romantic story lines and the acting is fairly believable. Very watchable!

The story line of the series was entertaining, but it could have been so much better... Pia was just plain annoying. What's with Netflix script writers having to create their main women characters to be hysterical raging looneys? No one would want to help Pia and her attitude, but Netflix has her Tinder match a detective who is supposedly still interested after experiencing her rage behavior. Yeah right...

Even the series is interesting, the conclusion ruins a little bit the great work. It is because of the lack of credibility if you think about it.

There are several important plot holes with no explanations. To add, no answers to critical issues and characters. Why their behavior / actions?

So, overall a great idea and execution, except for the last episode. A bit unbelievable conclusion.

Even of that, it's an good show/entertainment.

It was actually quite depressing the whole time, but I was still invested in the story. I really enjoyed everyone's acting, I thought it was a highlight of the show. I think the concept is interesting, but I feel like they should have titled it something else, though they might have spoiled it. The show starts out as one thing, and in the end is so different than what we thought at the beginning. I will give them an A for plot twists!! I thought I had guessed the mystery way back in episode two, and I almost thought I was going to be confirmed right, but was proven wrong and it went somewhere I never thought of!

This is really well made and tells a story, that does begin with one thing and turns out to be something else entirely. At first you kind of think and feel this being a Saw style show. Of course with someone in peril and the public being the judge of that said person ... what would you do? Now I know that I might try a few things differently, but overall the suspense and everything happening seems legit.

Every episode will show happenings mostly from one perspective ... while further developing the story. Sometimes going into the past just to come back to the present. There are many twists and turns all around and I would say they work out quite well. There is one thing that we see during the final episode (which depicts the "past" as in happened during other episodes that were prior to this), that does not sit well with me. A decision by one major character, that can only be called ... fatal and not very bright. First places to go after something happened to you and all that ... you'll figure it out.

Apart from that, the acting is really good and all the twists and turns work. Even the final one as I would call it. You may feel it is weak, which is fair enough, but it does make sense in the overall context of things. Well told and well edited, you get suspense from start to finish ... not to mention many different emotions.

Despite there being a million plot holes and bad acting, this show is still quite gripping. Yes the actors' performances are average at best and also yes some of the characters are stupid as sh! T and the others too annoying. Yet at the end of every episode you're like what's next. The writing may not be neat, but it leaves you curious at the end of each episode. For me the series started off well with the first episode being about the Sister, then came the second episode that of the detective which was bad bad bad. The next few episodes were decent and the third last episode very good. This show is worth watching for the 6th episode itself imo. Even the penultimate episode is good. But then as you may have guessed already the final episode is _____.

This is really that kind of show that is not very well made but will still hook you. It's worth a watch. But be careful and don't get your hopes too high. I give it a 6/10.

A man is kidnapped and a video on line says he is an abuser of women and has killed one. At 5 million views, he dies. We start at this beginning, and each episode shuffles back and forth in time. And each episode shows from a different person's perspective, Rashomon style. Each episode goes deeper into the mystery uncovering more secrets. The main problem is that as it gets deeper into the story, the more outrageous the plot points become. And the final real answer is the biggest of let downs in recent trlevision. Add in some really annoying characters, this becomes a copy of any Harlan Coben mystery on Netflix.

Clickbait was an entertaining mystery with an interesting premise. I formulated a theory to the ending that I was extremely proud of...however, the ending was not foreshadowed. At all. It made me feel like I wasted my time a little bit. I also think some of the acting was lackluster. Would've gotten a much higher rating if they stuck the landing. Unfortunately, the whodunnit was a fail.

At first, I thought it was a common dark web creepy kind of stuff but each episode passing by and the story becomes interesting to me. So many twists, with a good massage. And this kind of story is new to me. I can nitpick some stuff but I decided to ignore those, I really liked the story, that's why came here to review I liked how they ended the story in one season. Must watch.

The show is interesting enough to follow through. The plot is ok. But the characters aren't especially likeable (the neurotic sister is the Worst) and they aren't credible. Both reactions and responses are often weird - like the writers have poor social skills and lack of feeling for the real world. The Cop for example is behaving like a social worker. And others are like "why are you running away? Because i Wanted to talk. Do'h! People are often behaveing like they are from Mars. Its watchable - No less No more.

I've watched a lot of crime TV with my mom and can usually peg the actual murderer very quickly, but this series did leave me surprised at several points! The ending some would consider a stretch but I personally think it worked. Overall, I enjoyed how the series focused each episode on a different character (if you don't like the character that's the focus of Episode 1, give it until episode 2!) and it really left me wanting to see what came next and which character deep-dive they would do next.

Ultimately, it was enjoyable and I believe it was well-acted. The characters really grew on me, and I became pretty emotionally invested midway through the show. I think it's worth a shot to anyone who enjoys a "whodunnit"!

I watched all 8 episodes at one go.

Yes I finished them all.

Overall I think it's alright.

There were some twists and turns and some inconsistencies here and there but still it was entertaining to watch. Engaging to want to continue.

The "whodunit" part was a bit far fetched but you judge for yourself if you also finish this all.

One star for one episode. Lol.

At its heart, Clickbait is a murder / mystery movie that has been broken up into 8 parts, each, for the most part, telling the story from the viewpoint of a different person. Besides a few flashbacks here and there, it is also mostly told in chronological order.

A murder / mystery story draws people in by divulging clues and bits of the story here and there, but in a way that viewers can participate and form their own theories and guesses as to what happened and who the murderer was. You know "I think so and so did it, they acted funny just now and aren't what they seem" and then later "Oh, no, it couldn't have been them. That's ruled out."

Unfortunately this is one of the major ways in which Clickbait fails. The conclusion of the series is such that we weren't given any clues or backstory whatsoever for the murderer(s). It was essentially random. The killer could have pretty much been any character (even a minor one) we saw at any time through the entire series. No hints. No groundwork to lay motivations. None of it. I think that is one of the main reasons people feel so cheated and dislike the finale so much.

Additionally, the series flat-out cheated and showed us things that were untrue and never happened. I do realize the concept of the unreliable narrator. But we generally have some inkling when this is happening. We get an idea we shouldn't really trust this person's viewpoint entirely. In more than one episode, we are shown things that did not actually happen, and it isn't clear at all that these things were something imagined or fantasized. To me they came across as flashback scenes, which are also used throughout, but in hindsight they weren't.

This "cheating" totally misleads us in an unfair way as to our impression of one of the characters. We are shown them doing something they did not do, and we have no reason to doubt it.

Another gripe of mine is people behaving in a totally ridiculous and unrealistic manner. Let's say you've been put through something life-threatening and incredibly traumatizing, you're hurt and injured, and you manage to escape from it. What do you immediately do? Get help. Contact police. Contact family. You don't do what was shown in episode 8, and that kind of absurdity ruins a story.

To conclude, I can tell you this... after watching 7 out of the 8 episodes, you'll never, ever figure out who the murderer was. Don't even waste your time or give it a second thought. Don't bother discussing it with your friends or going into any sort of detective mode. You're just wasting your time.