Link to the nude Adam Grenier
The TV series is called
Clickbait, which is ironic, because I clicked on the title to see what it was about, without remembering that Netflix tries to trick you: clicking on the icon starts the darn thing playing, instead of linking to more information, like every other streaming service.
But it showed a birthday party, and a guy who I thought was Faly Rakotohavana of
Unprisoned saying "This present is from me and Eric." Obviously a gay couple. So I kept watching
Scene 1: It's an old lady's birthday, so the gift-givers are her adult children. The only other male at the table is a middle-aged man, so Eric may be Faly's father rather than his boyfriend. The short-blond-haired Pia gets very upset because the siblings were supposed to go together and buy Mom a bread maker, but they went behind her back and bought her a planter instead.
Mom says that it's ok, she loves the planter, but Pia starts yelling at Eric and the young lady on the other side of the table, probably her sister: "You always do this! You try everything in your power to destroy me! This is the worst night of my life, and it's all your fault!"
"The planter is fine, dear..."
"This isn't about you! It's about how those two hate me so much that they've sabotaged every plan I've ever made!" She runs outside and screams in the middle of the street as a car pulls up. Uh-oh, she's going to be kidnapped.
Cut to Pia walking through downtown Oakland, past a kissing gay couple. Eric texts to see if she's ok: "Sure, I just need to get drunk and hook up to try to forget this awful night!" She drops into a nightclub to dance crazily.
Eric and Faly appear to see if she's ok. Then they dance together.
Update: according to the IMDB, they are new characters played by Enzo Nazario and Kashmir Sinnamon. The director just thought it was a good idea to cast lookalikes of Eric and Faly, and have them ask if she's ok minutes after Eric asks if she's ok.
Scene 2: Drunkenness accomplished, Pia goes into the nightclub restroom, sits on the toilet, and looks at a dating app -- with both men and women as possible matches. She chooses Woody, age 36, .6 miles away. Uh-oh, he's going to stalk her.
They make a date to get a drink right now. She gets up, and -- splash!
Scene 3: Home to bury the cell phone in rice. She then takes some pills, eats yogurt marked "Elli," masturbates to porn, watches cute-cat videos....
Morning: driving to work, more pills, having to take over the phlebotomy for a nurse who can't find a vein: "Pia always gets me the first time," the cute patient Vincent, played by Jack Walton, tells her. I definitely don't want someone as unstable as Pia drawing my blood. He offers her some crazy youtube videos, like "Ghost Dog Caught on Camera."
Then a Vlogger shows a video she received of a guy holding a sign, "I Abuse Women." If it gets 5,000,000 views, he's going to die. Wait -- it's Eric, the guy from the head of the table last night! I thought this was going to be about Pia being stalked by a hookup.
Scene 4: Pia tries to call Nick -- who the heck is Nick? -- but he's not picking up. Then Sophie, either her mother or her sister, but she's in class all morning. So she drives to the University of Oakland, where Nick works, and shows the video to Matt the Volleyball Coach. "Did he come in this morning?" Matt checks: nope.
Next stop: the Balfour school, where Sophie works. Chased by the security guard, into the classroom where Sophie -- who was at the birthday party -- is lecturing on same-sex attraction in Twelfth Night.
Sophie sees the video. "But I saw him leave for work this morning." Ok, Nick is the one they were calling Eric last night, married to the sister, Sophie, with the teen or young adult as their son.
More misdirection after the break