Cluelessly Unscripted: A Showbiz Romance Mystery by Patricia Puentes

Author:Patricia Puentes [Puentes, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Patricia Puentes
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Sol was searching online on her laptop while talking to Luke on the phone. She thought she remembered something else about The Privateers being on the news for reasons other than the usual casting announcements, trailer launches, and season renewals. She wasn’t sure if the information would be relevant to Luke or the case but decided to offer it anyway.

“Here it is!” she said when she finally found an online article about what she was only vaguely recalling. “Not sure if this is anything, but when the show premiered last year, their Twitter account got hacked.”

“Whose Twitter account? Meshflixx’s?” Luke asked her, sounding engaged once again.

“No, no. The show’s own account. The streamer’s audience development team creates individual accounts for their prominent shows as a way of reaching more people. They can post a new trailer, release behind-the-scenes photos of the cast, choose GIF-able little clips from the show…”

“What did the hacker do?”

“Nothing major really. It could have been bad like posting insensitive or offensive things,” Sol said. “In this case, they just put out one poll regarding the quartermaster, with a picture of Leonardo Pascual, the actor who ended up playing that character. He’d been rumored as a possible contender for the part for a few weeks but hadn’t been officially contracted yet, even if there was a lot of online chatter about him. The post from the hacker was simple: Should this very beautiful man play one of the two leads in the upcoming The Privateers? Yes won by a big margin. Meshflixx was able to recuperate the account after that. They maintained that Leonardo had been hired before the results of the poll and that the hacker’s action didn’t sway them in any way.”

“First a hack and now this,” Luke said.

“Yes. Seeing how odd things keep happening, it makes sense that Meshflixx decided to have this latest event investigated. I guess they want to ensure that everything runs smoothly going forward,” said Sol.

“But they may be halting the investigation soon.”

“In this industry, it’s all a matter of perception and image more than anything else. They don’t necessarily need to do everything they can to clear the case of the theft. It only needs to look like it.”

“Right,” said Luke. He was probably determining how absurd the whole showbusiness industry could get.

“How much is your agency charging Meshflixx?” Sol asked.

“To be honest, I don’t know,” admitted Luke. “I’m nowhere near that kind of information. I can only assume as much as they can. That’s why my managers shipped me to Barcelona and like surveillance work so much. It’s easy to inflate an invoice that way.”

“That may not agree with Meshflixx right now,” said Sol. “They just reported their financial results for the first quarter of the year, and things don’t look as comfortable as before. There’s pressure to bring costs down.”

“Thanks for all the insider analysis,” Luke said. “We can go back to flirting now if you want.”

“As much as I’d love that,” said Sol, and she truly would, “I need to sort out this trip to LA.

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