Netflix's The I-Land spoils a twist in its *trailer*
Note: contains huge spoilers for The I-Land from the outset (much like its own trailer)
Caught up with The I-Land on Netflix yet? It's the YA limited series about a group of young hotties who wake up on a desert island with no memories but lots of threats facing them. They fall foul of sharks, cannibals, assassins and each other, before they realise – this is deep, guys – that maybe our worst enemy is ourselves.
Eventually they piece together the awareness that they're living in a digital simulation, and that they are all criminals being tested in a virtual-reality environment to see if they're suitable for parole.
Neat twist. A bit Matrix, but not the worst idea we've ever come across. And yet Netflix decided they were going to blow it not in the first episode (you don't discover it till episode three) but in the trailer. And not just in the trailer but in literally the first line of the trailer.
See for yourself, above.
"Miss Chase, can you please tell us the first thing you remember from the simulation?"
Admittedly coming cold to the trailer you wouldn't know that that was a twist reveal, but then again, having heard it, it'll never be a twist, will it? Because you know from the outset that this island adventure, where everyone's fighting each other, is almost certainly a flashback of some kind (or at least that the interview is a flash-forward), and that what you're watching is "a simulation".
"But Digital Spy, the 'simulation' might have referred to anything," you might say, strangely taking the side of Netflix in this hypothetical argument. But it didn't, did it? And the seeds are sown: this show involves a simulation of some kind, and the context of the clips heavily implies what we later discover to be true – that the islanders have been placed there artificially by the authorities and that all is not as it seems.
So why did they give away this massive twist? Unless they thought that the premise – a dozen or so young hotties fighting each other on a paradise island – wouldn't hook enough viewers by itself.
If that's the case, then we can only assume they haven't seen the viewing figures for Love Island this year.
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