ORBzine - Dead Pixels (2019) TV Review

Season 1

• Alexa Davies as Meg Jefferies
• Will Merrick as Nicky Kettle
• Sargon Yelda as Usman
• Charlotte Ritchie as Alison
• David Mumeni as Russell

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 1] Bears
Shown 28 Mar 19

We meet the main characters, a group of mundane office workers who do computer work for their nine-to-five and then spend their nights on a computer Fantasy game. Well, they also play it in their lunch breaks at work. It is an international interactive online game, so the British team has an American member. Unfortunately, the Koreans are better players so the Brits end up losing their castle.

The blonde lead, Meg, is sexually frustrated so she invites a cow-orker named Russell to join the game. The good news is that he spends a lot of money on his character. The bad news is that he is an annoying newbie. Instead of putting up with him, and getting him to buy them some gifts in-game, they just decide to mug him and steal his stuff.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 2] Tanadaal
Shown 28 Mar 19

Meg accuses a Fake Geek Girl of cultural appropriation. However, there is worse news for Meg. The game, Kingdom Scrolls, is about to be adapted as a movie. Vince Vaughn has been cast as the main character, Tanadaal. Naturally, Meg teams up with an alt-Right gang named The Flaming Shitheads in order to save the movie from Vaughn.

Meg seens to have given up on the idea of sex with Russell With nothing better to do, he invites a stranger he met online to come and stay in his home. Well, it is technically his mother's house. Anyway, it gets worse and worse.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 3] Betrothal
Shown 28 Mar 19

Nicky convinces Meg to marry him. In the game, of course, so they can exploit a loophole. Unfortunately it affects their RL friendship.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4] Big Nose
Shown 28 Mar 19

A famous Kingdom Scrolls YouTuber named Big Nose has died. Meg decides to take up where he left off, and brands herself as the newest Kingdom Scrolls livestreamer. She only gets a handful of subscribers, so she tries various methods of increasing her viewership numbers.

Nicky is torn by grief at the loss of Big Nose. Luckily the third flatmate, Alison ( Charlotte Ritchie ), decides to throw a party.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5] Patricide
Shown 28 Mar 19

Nicky has a troubled relationship with his father. Now his dad joins Kingdom Scrolls, and challenges Nicky to a duel. When Nicky defeats his dad's character, the nerd develops some self-confidence.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6] Hive-Mother
Shown 28 Mar 19

The team go after the Hive-Mother, in the climax of the game's campaign. They decide to cosplay, while they are in lockdown in the apartment.

Meg must choose whether she wants Nicky or Russell.

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Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2 , Episode 1 ]
Shown th October 2022

Reviewed in our special supplement

Season 2

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 1] Crates
Shown 26 Jan 21

After waiting eight whole months, the players finally get their expansion pack. Unfortunately the upgrade is a cash-grab. Worse, the game goes mainstream so the regular players get forced out by a flood of underage newbies.

The flatmate girl, Alison ( Charlotte Ritchie ), actually has a real life. She spends her salary, and her annual leave, on a glamourous trip to exotic Greece.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 2] The Chair
Shown 26 Jan 21

Nicky Kettle (Will Merrick) is still suffering from his crate addiction. The flatmate girl, Alison ( Charlotte Ritchie ), is more worried about the girl gamer - Meg Jefferies ( Alexa Davies ) - whose disentigration is physical rather than mental. Alison tries to get the gamers to restart their sex lives.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 3] Mission
Shown 26 Jan 21

The flatmate girl, Alison ( Charlotte Ritchie ), hires a man to fix the boiler. The girl gamer, Meg Jefferies ( Alexa Davies ), is attracted to him and tries to flirt.

Nicky Kettle (Will Merrick) tries to flirt online with a girl named Daisy. Unfortunately all the other males in the game world also fancy her.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 4] Raid Boss
Shown 26 Jan 21

The girl gamer, Meg Jefferies ( Alexa Davies ), tries to have a relationship with her new boyfriend.

Nicky Kettle (Will Merrick) tries to flirt online with a girl named Daisy. Unfortunately all the other males in the game world actively try to block him.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 5] Healthy Balance
Shown 26 Jan 21

The good news is that there is a new update to the game. The bad news is that it will take five hours to download. Since the Internet works in dog years, this feels like thirty-five hours to the gamers as they are stuck in the real world with their flatmate.

Dead Pixels (2019) [Season 2, Episode 6] Flanks/Yams
Shown 26 Jan 21

Nicky Kettle (Will Merrick) has an online sort-of girlfriend, Daisy. She gets invited to stay, so he tries to impress her. His idea of a romantic dinner is Flanks and Yams.