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) It's just a mix of sad and tragic and silly and awful. No spoilers here, but after several twists and reveals, all the layers are peeled back on the ensemble cast, reaching a conclusion that does offer up all the answers you might want, but not in a way that's particularly satisfying. Thus, it's a race to save Nick as the views go up, while Pia and Roshan ( Phoenix Raei), the primary detective on the case, try to figure out why someone would have targeted Nick like this, and Nick's wife Sophie ( Betty Gabriel) tries to preserve the family secrets which may or may not be involved. (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. Any television enthusiast knows that when it comes to bad shows, there's a wide spectrum of 'bad' possible.

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