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- We learn in the final episode of Clickbait that Nick was kidnapped and video-taped by the brother of a woman who committed suicide when she thought Nick had broken their online affair. However, that’s not who killed him. Nick was killed by Ed (Wally Dunn) to protect his wife Dawn’s (Becca Lish) dark secret.
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Sep 9, 2021 · The Clickbait finale doesn't disappoint, giving us a surprising ending that ties up all loose ends for the Brewer family. The catfish is Dawn, an admin at Nick's school.
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Aug 26, 2021 · Warning: spoilers ahead! 'Clickbait' creator Tony Ayres explains that jaw-dropping finale ending.
- Sydney Bucksbaum
- 11 min
Aug 25, 2021 · Netflix's 'Clickbait' has a wild twist ending involving identity theft, catfishing, old people, and the murder of Adrian Grenier's Nick Brewer.
- Meghan O'keefe
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- What Happens in Clickbait’S Ending
- Who Was Posing as Nick Brewer?
- Why Did Dawn Frame Nick?
- Why Did Ed Kill Nick?
- How Did Dawn Pass as Nick?
- Clickbait’S Real Meaning
Nick’s kidnappers are revealed to be Simon, the brother of a woman Nick was seemingly having an online affair with, and Simon’s friend Daryl. However, when Simon discovers that Nick never messaged his sister and thus was not responsible for goading her into committing suicide, he allows Nick to escape and track down the real culprits. Nick immediat...
Nick’s lonely, unhinged receptionist, Dawn Gleed, was posing as Nick Brewer on numerous dating sites and apps. After Nick himself set up a profile on a dating app and began messaging a woman, he evidently lost interest in infidelity and his receptionist (who had synced his phone and laptop to her own) continued the messaging. Like the gormless husb...
It is unclear why Dawn decided to act as Nick for two years across a variety of sites and apps, giving false hope to dozens of women in that time. The twist ending explains that she was lonely due to her childless relationship, but this (potentially offensive) answer could be viewed by many fans as an insufficient motive to prompt two years of iden...
The question of why Ed decided to kill Nick can only be ascribed to blind panic and the heat of the moment. In practical, rational terms, the choice to move from identity theft (a relatively serious crime, although less serious without Nick’s finances being involved) to murder and kidnapping makes no sense. However, neither does Cassie's death in P...
Outside of her catfishing victims being extremely gullible and Nick being incredibly unobservant, there is not a lot of explanation for how Dawn managed to pass as her boss over the years. Why Nick never received notifications from dating apps despite Dawn using his accounts constantly (via her phone) is never made clear. Meanwhile, the question of...
As the title implies, Clickbait’s ending hopes to offer an excoriating condemnation of contemporary online culture. The series is intended to be a Black Mirror-style cautionary tale that warns viewers against trusting anyone on the internet and wags a finger at the world’s addiction to technology. Of course, Clickbait’s limited understanding of how...
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Aug 26, 2021 · This is the show's original core mystery, and it's solved surprisingly earlier than you might have expected: Nick was abducted by a Sacramento-area man named Simon ( Daniel Henshall) and his...
Sep 2, 2021 · Dawn and Ed convince him they had nothing to do with Nick's disappearance and pretend to take him home, but bring him to an abandoned warehouse to kill him. Kai manages to escape from Ed before ...
Sep 9, 2021 · What Happened at the end of Clickbait? Poor, poor Kai. At the end of the series, Nick and Sophie's younger son discovers the location of Nick's colleague Dawn and her husband Ed. It turns out...
