One of the things about trying to tell a story from eight different points of view is that when you’re in the point of view of a character, they never see themselves as bad people. Thinking that way, even after how far they’ll go - including almost killing a child - seems to require a large amount of empathy. And weirdly enough, I think that the couple at the end, I think of them as innocence misled - misguided innocence. It was really important for me to understand her psychology and the feelings that she got from impersonating Nick and how that somehow kicked into something sexual and then how it completely unravels in the worst possible way. ![]() And so, I feel like, what happens in the final episode, it was really important for me to try to understand what happened from Dawn’s point of view. One of the things I wanted to do most of all was create a thriller that didn’t rely on psychopathy or sociopathy I was interested in how ordinary people get into these circumstances. Speaking to the innocent intentions, why was it more important that the willingness to kill to protect a secret be circumstantial, rather than an inner darkness that was lurking the whole time? That was always the intention because I think that that’s what happens in real life: people can fall down these quite innocent rabbit holes, particularly with the internet, particularly now, and unleash surprising and sometimes tragic real world consequences. We knew from the start that she had done something she had opened Pandora’s box - and quite innocently, as well. So, we knew that that was going to be part of it.Īt what point did you decide the culprit was going to be this particular woman, Dawn? One of them was obviously catfishing, and we were particularly baffled and intrigued by the instances of women impersonating men. ![]() With so much going on in the series, Variety spoke with co-creator Tony Ayres to break down the decision-making behind the whodunnit.Īt what point when you were developing “Clickbait” did you decide who was really going to be responsible for the deceit surrounding Nick?Ĭhristian and I created the show from two or three real things that we had read about this new class of crimes on the internet. And when his son (Jaylin Fletcher) turned up on Dawn’s door, the same fate almost befell him. ![]() He left his kidnappers alive, but confronting Dawn - and her husband - did him in. (Why women would want their online boyfriend to photoshop them into an image with him, rather than meet in person and take a real one, was never discussed.) Eventually he realized that the woman who had set up his work station knew his password and therefore had access to the original photos. While Nick was being help captive, he looked at some of the “proof” of his online relationships and realized the images were photoshopped. Things turned much darker, though, when her secret was found out. Dawn was a catfish who started out communicating with these women out of sheer curiosity. Nick ends up paying for the mistakes of his assistant Dawn (Becca Lish), who was the one behind all of the dating profiles.
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