Official Discussion - Primetime [SPOILERS]

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Primetime

Summary

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

Director Lance Oppenheim

Writer Ajon Singh

Cast

• Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen
• Merritt Wever
• Anna Faris
• Skyler Gisondo as Dan Plumb
• Bokeem Woodbine
• Matthew Maher as Xavier Von Erck
• Phoebe Bridgers as Del

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 78

VOD / Release In theaters — September 25, 2026

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/signedtwice22]

If you felt sympathy for the predators during this movie then maybe that’s on you

[u/ohwordlmao → u/signedtwice22]

lmao seriously, i just finished my showing and cannot understand how that is such a huge narrative rn. the movie makes it super clear these guys absolutely suck. its not the main focus of the story because how fucking dumb and boring would it be for a movies main message to be that predators are bad people

[u/SufficientRespect542 → u/ohwordlmao]

I think a lot of people who are saying that haven't seen it and just hear people saying "the show was mostly mean to be entertainment and didn't really succeed at stopping pedophilia in a meaningful way" and think they're saying the pedos are depicted as the good guys. They're clearly not!

[u/Designer-Net4228 → u/signedtwice22]

Agreed. It’s mainly people that didn’t watch the movie that are just going along with groupthink to justify their anti-semitism. Ask any of these same people, and I would bet they have no qualms with the Epstein List and a certain person working tirelessly to cover them up..activists as performatory as Chris Hansen himself.

[u/Eddie__Sherman → u/signedtwice22]

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