Category: Gaten Matarazzo
Netflix Defended Its Upcoming Prank Show Hosted By Gaten Matarazzo
Netflix is doubling down on Prank Encounters hosted and produced by that Stranger Things kid Gaten Matarazzo. Not since Terrence Howard’s Fright Club has a prank show sounded so gross and pointless, but Nexflix released a statement reassuring folks that the premise of PE isn’t as bad as it sounds. Netflix says that the cannon fodder for PE all came in under the pretense of a “one-day, hourly gig” and they got paid for it. So calm your tits, these lazy gig economy schlubs wouldn’t know what to do with health insurance, PTO, or weekends and evenings off anyway!
Gaten Matarazzo Is Hosting A Prank Show That Hires People For Fake Jobs, And The Internet Already Hates It
In the grand tradition of Punk’d, Scare Tactics, and Jackass, Deadline reports that Netflix has ordered eight episodes of a series called Prank Encounters, in which innocent strangers will be pranked on the job by 16-year-old Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin on Stranger Things. The basis of the pranks is that people are hired for fake jobs, not knowing their new job is fake, and they were only hired so strangers at home can laugh at their misfortune. If that seems kind of like a cruel set up, then you might be one of the many people who called the show out before a single episode has been released.