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The show is quite shocking. For some it may be not, I understand not everybody has empathy, as some people haven't developed quite as far their empathetic skills. I say that because some people have watched it and they can't see past the stalker or realize how shocking everything that's in the series is.

I very rarely get shocked by any movie. Mostly because most movies out there at the end have a very unrealistic artistic value to them. Each minute that passes you feel like you're just watching a movie.

Well ... not here. I watch the series, and so many scenes are so awkward as they can be in real life. You rarely feel second-hand shame (cringe) in movies. And when you do, it means that both the acting is good, the script is very well played, and the direction is well done. The series feels real, and it is real. It's the real life story of the actor Richard Gadd who plays himself.

I'm writing this review and yet I haven't even watched the 6th episode yet. I'm already feeling Ive watched TOO much!

It's not like personally I've not done drugs, or haven't been in awkward situations. It's the exact opposite, that makes it the series feel so ... close to real life? So close that it feels like it's happening in front of you. As said, the scary part is that it doesn't feel like you're watching a film! It feels real ... and that's scary. Especially when you know for a fact that all these are the reality of the comedian himself who wrote the series.

And don't misunderstand me. It's not that it's just based in real life. Many films have, yet many of them don't feel real. As said, it's very well and honestly written and every scene feels entirely real and as awkward as it would feel in real life.

This is a series if you want to watch something that touches the ground of reality, and yet is shocking. But don't get overhyped, because overstimulation and oversaturation from hollywood movies can make somebody really insensitive to reality. Remember that this is reality, not a marvel movie.

It's like the director took a bad AI, told it to "generate a bunch of spooky Japanese stories", and generated a bunch of "spooky" stories where there is absolutely no "gotcha" moment or something to say to the viewer either morally or emotionally in any way and never ends with an explanation of anything that happened and neither anything really makes sense in most of the stories. Like ... for example

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A mountain that attracts radiation better because it's higher even though the laboratory is deep underground the mountain and the radiation has to go through all that? How does that make sense? And why that specific mountain? And why it spawns undead? Like literally nothing makes sense and the author makes no effort to properly explain why any of that happens except of "its a high mountain thus attracts radiation". Sure, why the undead? Why does it attract radiation? Why anything happens here? What's the whole point of the story? It's not even scary or spooky. It's just an underwhelming story.

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If I would use ChatGPT it would generate better stories and more meaningful stories than the ones in this series. And I'm serious. I've seen better stories from ChatGPT.

Is the end worth it? Nah.

The end in some kind of way tries to justify that Ted and Robin should be together. When clearly they did try a hundred times already. So, the plot trying to justify their non-platonic love makes itself look stupid, as if there was something blocking them from being together. It would be great if they really did fit together, like Ted and the Tracy, the Mom in the 8th and 9th season did really freaking fit! But now Ted wants Robin? When the plot clearly showed that he was happy with Tracy? Without even justifying why suddenly he wants Robin instead of Tracy who he had 2 kids with?

And the last straw? The kids. The freaking kids. Why would the kids, just like that, agree that "Hey, our dad likes aunt Robin instead of our mom who they seem to love each other. Dad, go find Robin and tell her you love her!". Not even Disney stories try to sell you that kind of nonsense. Even they are more realistic than that.

Should you watch it? Absolutely. The end has nothing to do with how good the show is. A good ending can just save a bad show, and bad ending can ruin a masterpiece (see Game of Thrones). But this is a sitcom, not a legendary story about Dragons , Queens and Kings. It's a show to make you laugh and relax. So, sit down, get chill and watch it while you make yourself a nice coffee. Or tea, I dont judge.

I think it is one of the best, if not the best (for me at least), sitcom show that exists.

It's a bit disappointing going to see a movie based on the strong title it's using and then feeling like you got your time wasted.

The whole movie is not about Hacking, it's about smuggling. And how did they achieve to get the smuggling business working I hear you say? Oh by Hollywood Hacking. Which means (very little spoiler but it's covered on the start of the movie) that literally our main protagonist wrote in Google "Darkweb", got registered in the team called "Darkweb" (So the page is not even in the Darkweb) and out of nothing he just "hacks". It doesn't explain the background job or anything our protagonist does except for the foreground part of the story. Which is that somehow they get packages from someone/somewhere (we don't actually know, the story leaves us blind) and they sell them to some contacts they happen to know.

It doesn't show anything from the "Hacking" part because obviously, it's too technical and more boring than it seems. The movie makes Hacking (the 0% of the movie because in literal terms, there is no hacking, just a little bit cracking) pretty much look like a Video Game in which the hacking part is concluded by the push of a button, some terminal lines (for pretty much unknown reason) and looking at a computer screen.

They created things out of nothing (Fake ID's and Credit Cards, how did they make them ?) and pretty much nothing gets explained in the movie. The only thing close to this was at the start of the movie where our protagonist searches "How To Code", which part was NEVER used in the movie. So that part was pretty useless as well.

The only little bit exciting part was the goodbye kiss of the movie. It made a -you could call it- a little bit good plot twist but after all this hay the movie gave us, I couldn't be much excited because it still leaves many parts unexplained and the movie still doesn't deserve even a little bit the title "Hacker".

Summary ....:

This movie is not about hacking, but smuggling. If you want real hacking and cracking, go watch the series "Mr.Robot". Although, even this does not have anything that could excite you very much on the Hacking part but at least it would worth the Title "Hacker". This movie does not. It's a poorly made "Clickbaitish" title.