![]() ![]() “The JazzPrankers are going to love you”, he says to Carla (Rebecca Stone), his first fan turned co-host, and with those words his character is laid out it’s all about the views, nothing about the people. He pushes them to get involved, persuades them to go too far and pries on their support when things don’t go his way. ![]() And they’re ultimately expendable because of that biased trust. There’s a constant awareness that, though Jasper is meeting these people for the first time, there’s already a one-sided connection between them due the nature of YouTube: whilst they see Jasper as a friend, to him they’re fans. What should be a cheery start to the show, and Jasper’s new series, is welcomingly ominous as he promises: “I’m coming for ya’”.Īs Jasper gets out into the real world you see a subversion of the familiar relationships you might expect from a serial like this develop. Feeling squashed by the pressures of his family and his need to entertain his growing fanbase Jasper decides to get out, meet real people, and prank them good to the next level. Jasper has just hit 100,000 subscribers on his channel ‘Jazz Pranks’ where he’s known for his over-the-top pranks aimed at his sister Sienna (Angharad George-Carey). “What’s up JazzPrankers!” It’s this intro, one that isn’t at all far from real YouTube videos, that opens the show and introduces us to our anti-hero Jasper ‘Jazz’ Perkins (Corey Fogelmanis). ![]() However, with a handful of screen-based films coming to cinemas this year – namely, Aneesh Chaganty’s ‘Searching’ and Stephen Susco’s ‘Unfriended: The Dark Net’ – it’s evident that technology is moving ever closer to the realm of horrors, and Hayes captures this movement expertly. Launched on the recently collapsed US Subscription Video on Demand service Fullscreen in September last year this deliciously dark series now, in Hayes’ own words, ‘no longer exists’.
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