The “thriller genre” can be a bit of an oxymoron.
Thrills are predicated on the unexpected, but genre is about playing to certain conventions.
If you know the conventions, then you can’t be thrilled because you’re expecting what comes next.
That’s not to say that all thrillers are inherently boring, but rather something more akin to the Taken movies where it’s oddly comforting rather than something that would genuinely get our adrenaline pumping.
John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein’s Game Night takes this premise and runs with it, consciously poking fun at the tropes of …
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