Yeah idk what that's about. It's cheapened slightly by having a similar twist to White Bear, and it's definitely uncomfortable to watch once you know, but it's still one of the better episodes.
re: the twist.. i do feel like most of the people who love Shut up and Dance the most are those who started watching the show on season 3 and hadn't seen White Bear yet..
It's not the worst, but it's just White Bear without any of the genuine moral dilemmas that sprung from White Bear's twist. The idea of a kind of punishment that effectively prevents the person in question from ever actually legitimately reckoning with the terrible thing they did, thus being little more than state-sanctioned torture porn, genuinely asks us to think about what justice is, what it looks like and when are we just satiating our own lust for violence by using "acceptable" targets. Shut Up and Dance is just the "ha, you thought these people were innocent, but they were terrible the whole time! Aren't you disgusted for having sympathy for someone you were deliberately misled about?" part without the "and here's why that matters" part. Like the gross reaction you feel is the only point. It has nothing else to say that White Bear didn't say better.
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I also hate White Bear so maybe I just don't like ones that follow that sort of format.
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