(As Nick pointed out, the horizon wasn’t level.) Simon deliberately left Nick alone in the truck with access to a Stanley knife so he could cut through his restraints and escape. Why did Simon let Nick go?īecause he realised Nick was telling the truth about not being the one who’d messaged Sarah, and that the ‘evidence’ beach photo of Nick and Sarah together was clearly a Photoshop fake. It was Dawn posing as Nick/Jeremy who irritably rejected Sarah because she was smitten with new cat fishing victim Emma, and told Sarah to make good on her suicide threat. Dawn used Nick’s photographs and personal details gleaned from their friendship to pose as versions of him on multiple online dating sites, to fulfil her deep well of loneliness as a childless woman whose husband played with train sets. ‘Maggie’ had never met ‘Jeremy’ in real life, and was being catfished by Dawn Gleed, the receptionist at Nick’s place of work. Nick Brewer had never met Sarah Burton (whose online dating profile was under the name ‘Maggie Oxley’ for reasons undisclosed). Was Nick responsible for Sarah Burton’s suicide? Daryl, who is not bright, did get excited about the video going viral and them getting “famous”, but whether he was expecting fame as a murderer, kidnapper or the anonymous maker of a video, is not clear. Whether they would have just let him go if the views hadn’t rolled past the five million point, we don’t know. No reason, other than they wanted to publicly expose Nick as an abusive cheat and destroy his reputation in grand style. Why did Simon and Daryl need the video to get five million views before killing Nick? So they ambushed Nick on his cycle to work, drugged him and tied him up in the back of a van, then filmed him holding signs saying “I abuse women” and “At 5 million views I die”, and released the video anonymously online. They thought Nick was the one taking advantage of Sarah, and he was responsible for her suicide. ![]() Simon and Daryl then found messages between Sarah and Jeremy on her phone, read about him in her journal, and tracked down an online photograph of him under his real name: Nick Brewer. Six months before they kidnapped Nick, Simon’s sister Sarah killed herself after she was rejected and goaded to do it by her online boyfriend ‘Jeremy’. That was Simon Burton and his stoner friend Daryl. ![]() For anybody still not clear on the ending, or for those who gave up halfway but still want to find out how things wrapped up, here’s what went down. In its frenzy to keep us all guessing until the end though, it took a few logic-missing leaps. The eight-part Netflix series is thick with twists, red herrings and ‘wait a goddam minute’ cliff-hangers that ensure you do as the title suggests and click ‘Next Episode’. The precise nature of Clickbait’s job was to create a twist-filled thriller, which it absolutely did. That is no mean feat and praise is owed to all concerned. ![]() ![]() Netflix thriller Clickbait started filming in Melbourne in December 2019, was forced to stop in March 2020, then came back eight months later and got the job done. Warning: contains Clickbaitfinale spoilers.įirst up, fair play to any production that manages to deliver in the middle of this pandemic.
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