When the characters yell and beat their chests about exploitation, there’s nothing behind it Bloodshore is a poor, dull parody of its own message. #Bloodshore game movieThere’s no sense of catharsis even when you get the “good ending” because the movie wasn’t engaging or well-written enough to at least give me the illusion of escape in the first place. It’s 2021 and we’re all living in the same toxic mediascape that makes a fictional idea like Bloodshore possible.īloodshore’s whole vibe was exciting when I was a teenager and we had no mass lived experience of how technology was going to kick us back into Roman Colosseum-era levels of spectacle and complacency. But we don’t need these reminders or “how can you just sit there” rhetoric anymore-this isn’t the 1980s or 1990s or even 00s when there was still a kind of weird, raw excitement about web 2.0 and “social media” as a new part of everyday life. #Bloodshore game tvThere’s an especially hammy clip of a TV interviewer screaming at Eugene Christoph about how he can sit by and let his Kill/Stream erode our minds and bodies even further-that with every season of Kill/Stream, we stray further from god’s light, which isn’t wrong. Even when you’re choosing whose life to save or to spare a comrade unnecessary torture, Nick’s reason for being on Kill/Stream is already pushed out in the open-it’s all already rigged, what does it matter? But Bloodshore chooses to be a mostly mindless experience where the choices you’re given don’t feel substantial or meaningful, which is literally all you can do for a player in this format. There’s eye candy Gav (played by Glee alum and ex-boybander Max George), and Dev, a suspected cannibal who answers a very important aesthetic question: what if Julian Assange had grown up in Village of the Damned ?Īltogether, this could have made for a passable bad movie that touches on important topics like the voracious nature of internet culture, the role of personal agency and individual choice in media consumption, streaming labor and exploitation, and other meta-issues that permeate our world. The rest of his “drop group” is made up of awkward familiar stereotypes: Scarlett is the vapid, naive Instagrammer who isn’t remotely prepared for reality, Reah is a tough, confident MMA fighter, Otto is a cocky streamer whose fans are probably Gamergaters. Protagonist Nick Romeo is an ex-child actor looking to redeem himself on Kill/Stream for his own reasons. The real heroes of Bloodshore are its cast, a group of working actors that really makes the best of what they’re given. Now, in the 13th season, they’re trying to claw back viewers with a change of scenery and new rules. But after Kill/Stream’s original creator, the enigmatic Eugene Christoph, stepped down, the show has devolved into a seasonal slopfest. We learn that the show’s debut season had a specific gimmick: the contestants were notorious death row inmates who fought for their freedom and went on to become famous and mind-bogglingly wealthy. #Bloodshore game seriesThe corporate antagonist in Bloodshore is also Russian and runs the popular game series Kill/Stream, where “Z-list” personalities are dumped on an island and forced to kill their way to victory. In recent years, this particularly noxious breed of sensationalism took form as “ Game2: Winter ”-a Russian wilderness survival show where anything, including rape and murder, was supposedly “fair game.” Thankfully it turned out to be a market research experiment and not a real-life variation of dystopian fiction like The Running Man and most recently, Squid Game. The basic premise of Bloodshore is Battle Royale/Fortnite/Hunger Games meets overclocked streaming culture-not an especially distant concept based on our current reality where corporations will do anything to get eyeballs, clicks, and money.
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