Like April Fools’ Day writ large, prank shows don’t make a whole lot of sense. Ostensibly funny, they mostly make victims of people who are too trusting and provide an inexplicable social justification for being a jerk.
“Punk’d” wasn’t too bad, because celebrities can definitely pay for therapy, and “Impractical Jokers” is mostly just annoying. But Netflix has a new idea for pranking the populace, and it’s even worse than its predecessors.
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