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* CrazyJealousGuy: One of the possible motives as to why Nick was abduted [[spoiler:and murdered. Specifically, that Sophie's once affair partner killed him after Sophie ended their relationship months ago.]]

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* CrazyJealousGuy: One of the possible motives as to why Nick was abduted [[spoiler:and murdered. Specifically, that Sophie's once affair partner Curtis killed him after Sophie ended their relationship months ago.]]



** [[spoiler:Sophie's own cheating partner becomes a suspect once it's revealed she had an affair.]]

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** [[spoiler:Sophie's own cheating partner Curtis Hamilton becomes a suspect once it's revealed she had an affair.]]

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* TheBully: When Sophie's sons return to school, a bully by the name Michael Hastings calls out to the eldest and accuses his mom of sleeping with the entire facutly.

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* TheBully: When Sophie's sons return to school, a bully by the name Michael Hastings calls out to the eldest and accuses his mom of sleeping with the entire facutly.faculty.


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* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Simon's friend and accomplice Darryl eggs him on to kidnap Nick and is the one to escalate the situation by putting the 5 million view condition to killing Nick.]]
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** The two sons also get this treatment. The eldest takes after his mom and is more withdrawn, non-confrontational, tightly wound. The younger one seems to have some of his father's anger issues from when he was younger, exhibiting some mild [[AxCrazy Ax Craziness]] upon hearing [[spoiler:their father is dead, vowing to slit the throat of the murdererl, and decking TheBully antagonizing his older brother giving him a bloody nose.]]

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** The two sons also get this treatment. The eldest takes after his mom and is more withdrawn, non-confrontational, tightly wound. The younger one seems to have some of his father's anger issues from when he was younger, exhibiting some mild [[AxCrazy Ax Craziness]] upon hearing [[spoiler:their father is dead, vowing to slit the throat of the murdererl, murderer, and later on decking TheBully antagonizing his older brother giving him a bloody nose.]]
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* TheBully: When Sophie's sons return to school, a bully by the name Michael Hastings calls out to the eldest and accuses his mom of sleeping with the entire facutly.


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** [[spoiler:Sophie's own cheating partner becomes a suspect once it's revealed she had an affair.]]


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** The two sons also get this treatment. The eldest takes after his mom and is more withdrawn, non-confrontational, tightly wound. The younger one seems to have some of his father's anger issues from when he was younger, exhibiting some mild [[AxCrazy Ax Craziness]] upon hearing [[spoiler:their father is dead, vowing to slit the throat of the murdererl, and decking TheBully antagonizing his older brother giving him a bloody nose.]]
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* TheMistress: Episode 4 is titled this and appropriately follows [[spoiler:Nick's mistress Emma Beesly as she learns about Nick's kidnapping, goes to San Francisco to see the Brewer family for herself, and finally give whatever information she has to the police and reporters.]]
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* CrazyJealousGuy: One of the possible motives as to why Nick was abduted [[spoiler:and murdered. Specifically, that Sophie's once affair partner killed him after Sophie ended their relationship months ago.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The catfisher who used Nick's pictures and pursued Maggie under the false identity. Because of their deception and callousness, Maggie kills herself which sets off Simon's murderous rampage that gets Nick killed.]]

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The catfisher who used Nick's pictures and pursued Maggie under the false identity. Because of their deception and callousness, Maggie kills herself which sets off Simon's murderous rampage that gets Nick killed.killed, upends the Brewer's life, and exposes them to public ridicule and the magnifying glass of tabloid news.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Maggie Burton after Nick unceremoniously breaks up with her and who Nick was supposedly one of many of his victims.]]


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The catfisher who used Nick's pictures and pursued Maggie under the false identity. Because of their deception and callousness, Maggie kills herself which sets off Simon's murderous rampage that gets Nick killed.]]
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* AmbitionIsEvil: One of the major themes in both Ben and Roshan's episodes, though it is much more overt in the former's episode sine [[spoiler:his boyfriend seems to break up with him over it.]]


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* CowboyCop: Roshan is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech accused of this]] by his superior for withholding information, going off on his own, and generally not being a team player. And from what we see of Roshan in the first two episodes, he's not exactly wrong.


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* IncestSubtext: [[spoiler: Simon's clearly obsessive over his sister and his KnightTemplarBigBrother vibes reek of romantic feelings for his sister due to his stalking of her via her computer's webcam. It's made only ''marginally'' less creepy by the fact they're NotBloodSiblings, but orphans who grew up together.]]


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* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Simon towards his sister Maggie, [[spoiler:to the point that he decides to kidnap and abuse Nick when she commits suicide when he seemingly dumps her via text.]]
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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: Simon tries to scare off Emma from talking to detectives and then tries to take out her car with a truck with fake license plates. In so doing he gets his face caught on camera. This leads to him trying to run from police and finally getting arrested.]]
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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: Simon tries to scare off Emma from talking to detectives and then tries to take out her car with a truck with fake license plates. In so doing he gets his face caught on camera. This leads to him trying to run from police and finally getting arrested.]]
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Nick's password in his computer is "[=butchbrewer=]", which was his childhood hamster. [[spoiler: It's how he knew Doreen was the one who had ruined his life.]]

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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Nick's password in his computer is "[=butchbrewer=]", which was his childhood hamster. [[spoiler: It's how he knew Doreen Dawn was the one who had ruined his life.]]

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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Simon's accomplice Darryl is very excited about torturing Nick.]]



* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Sophie's ex-lover, who was the first suspect but had nothing to do with the case. Also Ethan's online friend Alison, who turned out to be an innocent girl.]]

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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Sophie's ex-lover, Curtis Hamilton, who was the first suspect but had nothing to do with the case. Also Ethan's online friend Alison, who turned out to be an innocent girl.]]


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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Simon, after his sister's death.]]
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Nick's password in his computer is "[=butchbrewer=]", which was his childhood hamster. [[spoiler: It's how he knew Doreen was the one who had ruined his life.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Detective Roshan believes he's been passed over for a promotion to Homicide due to his being a Muslim, but the head inspector explains that it's actually because of his CowboyCop tendencies. He ends up being promoted after he tones them down.

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* RealityEnsues: Detective Roshan believes he's been passed over for a promotion to Homicide due to his being a Muslim, but the head inspector De Luca explains that it's actually because of his CowboyCop tendencies. He ends up being promoted after he tones them down.
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* RealityEnsues: Detective Roshan believes he's been passed over for a pronotion to Homicide due to his being a Muslim, but the head inspector explains that it's actually because of his CowboyCop tendencies. He ends up being promoted after he tones them down.

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* RealityEnsues: Detective Roshan believes he's been passed over for a pronotion promotion to Homicide due to his being a Muslim, but the head inspector explains that it's actually because of his CowboyCop tendencies. He ends up being promoted after he tones them down.
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* RealityEnsues: Detective Roshan believes he's been passed over for a pronotion to Homicide due to his being a Muslim, but the head inspector explains that it's actually because of his CowboyCop tendencies. He ends up being promoted after he tones them down.
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* MistakenIdentity: Zoe is thought to be Nick's wife when she comes in with her black sister in-law, Sophie.

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* MistakenIdentity: Zoe Pia is thought to be Nick's wife when she comes in with her black sister in-law, Sophie.
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* IntrepidReporter: Ben Park is this, chasing the story through the second half of the season.

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* IntrepidReporter: Ben Park is this, chasing the story through the second half of the season.episode 4.
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* IntrepidReporter: Ben Park is this, chasing the story through the second half of the season.
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* BlandProductName: [=QueriNow=] is one for Google.

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* BlandProductName: BlandNameProduct: [=QueriNow=] is one for Google.
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* BlandProductName: [=QueriNow=] is one for Google.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Emma gets railed into a dumpster by the Mastermind in Episode 4.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Each episode title makes one character of the show the focus.

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* ClearTheirName

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* ClearTheirNameClearTheirName: Pia continuously refuses to believe the accusations against Nick, and tries to clear his name. [[spoiler: In the penultimate episode, Nick's son Ethan also works to prove his father's innocence. They succeed.]]



* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Sophie's ex-lover, who was the first suspect but had nothing to do with the case. Also Ethan's online friend Alison, who turned out to be an innocent girl.]]



* SocialMediaIsBad

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* SocialMediaIsBadSocialMediaIsBad: Zigzagged.

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Family man Nick Brewer (Creator/AdrianGrenier) is abducted after a fight with his sister Pia (Creator/ZoeKazan). After he is seemingly abducted, he appears online with a message accusing him of rape and saying that, at five million views, he's going to die. His wife (Betty Gabriel) and Pia race to uncover the truth.

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Family man Nick Brewer (Creator/AdrianGrenier) is abducted after a fight with his sister Pia (Creator/ZoeKazan). After he is seemingly abducted, he appears online with a message accusing him of rape and saying that, at five million views, he's going to die. His wife Sophie (Betty Gabriel) and Pia race to uncover the truth.



* ClearTheirName



* MistakenIdentity: Zoe is thought to be Nick's wife when she comes in with her black sister in-law, Sophie.

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* ImmoralJournalist: Ben Park chases his story with morally questionable methods, without caring much how it may affect Nick's family.
* MistakenIdentity: Zoe is thought to be Nick's wife when she comes in with her black sister in-law, Sophie.Sophie.
* RedOniBlueOni: Pia is blunt and impulsive, whereas Sophie is usually more stoic.
* SocialMediaIsBad
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* ClickbaitGag: Played for drama as Nick's video is given a deadline that he will die at 5 million hits.

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* ClickbaitGag: Played for drama as Nick's video is given a deadline that he will die at 5 million hits.hits.
* MistakenIdentity: Zoe is thought to be Nick's wife when she comes in with her black sister in-law, Sophie.
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* ClickbaitGag: Played for drama as Nick's video is given a deadline that he will die at 5 million hits.
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A MiniSeries that debuted on Netflix in August 2021.

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A MiniSeries that debuted on Netflix Creator/{{Netflix}} in August 2021.
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Family man Nick Brewer (Creator/AdrianGrenier) is abducted after a fight with his sister Pia (Creator/ZoeKazan). After he is seemingly abducted, he appears online with a message accusing him of rape and saying that, at five million views, he's going to die. His wife (Betty Gabriel) and Pia race to uncover the truth.

A MiniSeries that debuted on Netflix in August 2021.

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