Scare PewDiePie

Lots of intended scares, with people jumping into the screen, a lot of screaming, and flickering lights. Each setup comes with its own inherent fright, as when PewDiePie is thrust into a (staged) mental ward with off-kilter patients lining the halls. Some blood, a dead body or two, implied electrocution and torture, and at least one instance of people turning on one of their own and bloodying her face.

A recurring plot follows a woman's obsession with PewDiePie. There's some flirting but little more.

PewDiePie utters a constant stream of red-letter language throughout each episode. "F--k" (and every imaginable version of it) is edited, but everything else goes: "s--t," "damn," "goddammit," "bulls--t," "Jesus Christ," and so on.

Parents need to know that Scare PewDiePie is a Web series from YouTube personality and gamer PewDiePie. The show puts its star through a series of supposedly terrifying challenges in different settings that are staffed with actors. In each case, he has a task to complete to earn his freedom, much like in a video game. The actual fright level of the show is mostly laughable, with minimal blood, a dead body or two, and only the occasional violence (a woman is attacked by patients in a mental ward, for instance). Despite that, PewDiePie responds to every scare with excessive, strong language ("f--k" is edited; "s--t," "goddammit," "bulls--t," and so on are audible) and an implausible sense of forced terror. The result is somewhat entertaining, but it's hard to see it as anything but a thinly veiled ploy for more airtime from this Internet star. Note that PewDiePie came under fire in 2017 for posting anti-Semitic videos and imagery, and his Disney-owned studio dropped him. YouTube also canceled his show.