Summary
Blumhouse is back with another staggering series, this time about extreme exes, employing a unique reenactment gimmick to expand the studio’s Worst Roommate Ever series into a fully-fledged franchise.
Do you think your ex is bad? They’re probably not as bad as the exes in the Netflix series Worst Ex Ever. Blumhouse Television is marking the expansion of the studio’s Worst Roommate Ever into a franchise, and just like the first series, this is one you can’t stop watching.
It might, though, be triggering to some viewers, so discretion is advised. Each episode has heavy themes of abuse, rape, manipulation, fraud, and murder.
The eye-opening, shocking series tells the terrifying true stories of exes who have returned to destroy the lives of their former partners. Across the four episodes, each story is of an ordinary person with what seems like an ordinary relationship. Things started great, but they could never expect what would happen next.
Worst Ex Ever is diverse in its content, with each episode telling a different harrowing tale, meaning as a viewer you won’t hear the same story twice. This varies from exes trying to take full custody of their children, stalking, making false allegations, and even horrific murders.
Each episode has a strong pace and uses real police footage, first-hand accounts from the victims/survivors, former police, family, friends, lawyers, corroborators, and more. All help shape the cases and show the audience how their relationship was built, how it ended, what happened, how we’re taken through the investigation, and the outcome. This format becomes familiar quickly and puts the audience at ease.
Worst Ex Ever opts to use animations rather than live-action re-telling of the stories, which can be distracting and cheesy, taking away from the hard-hitting accounts. Using real actors would have had a harder impact on the audience, and would have made it easier to deliver relatable messages, thus creating empathy and compassion from the viewer.
Then again, the animations can create a clearer picture of what happened. A lot of documentary reenactments use dark lighting and costumes, with messy choreography which is difficult to navigate as a viewer. Worst Ex Ever using animations gives the series a unique edge.
That edge is enough for another compelling crime series from Blumhouse, and the content of the stories will certainly make for a few talking points. You can’t watch without shouting at your screen or discussing it with your friends and family.
What can we expect next? Worst Boss Ever? Worst Friend Ever? This franchise is growing and audiences are here for it.
