I’ll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter’s intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there’s the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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    Netflix reality competition shows are awful for this. Especially the Korean ones where they cut back to show like every single person’s reaction to the thing before either showing it or ending the episode.

    I’m already watching this shit, you don’t have to manipulate me into continuing to watch it and dramatize every mundane thing. Or pad the time out.

    Also Dan Brown.

    Used right, it can be effective, but some shitty writers lean way to much on them.

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      Oh man, I was so disappointed with the show Siren: Survive the Island. I thought it had an awesome premise and was hopeful since it was Korean that it won’t be your typical “reality show manufacturer drama”. I was so disappointed.