A thrilling Netflix telenovela about an orphan out for revenge against a group of teen girls who abandoned her as a baby has left fans frustrated as hell thanks to one simple-to-solve plot hole.
The streamer’s latest hit, Pact of Silence, tells the story of Brenda, a powerful social media influencer with millions of followers and too much time on her hands. So much in fact that, despite her success and wealth, she’s obsessed with finding her biological mom, and her mom’s school-aged best friends, after they left her to die as a newborn. Brenda hopes to track the now-grown women down, one by one, to discover who her real mother is and punish the lot of them for the trauma and suffering she endured while homeless and living alone as a young girl in Mexico.
Which, fine. That sounds like a pretty sh*tty thing for a parent to do, even if they were just a scared teen girl at a private boarding school terrified of what their parents would think. And, technically, Brenda wants to give each of the girls their comeuppance, so while she’s saved something particularly nasty for her bio mom, all of the women will eventually suffer her wrath. But the show drags viewers along for 18 (yes 18!) episodes, making them question who actually gave birth to the baby in a past timeline as Brenda pursues her form of f*cked-up justice. And that long, drawn-out reveal has really struck a nerve with fans on social media, especially since in 2023, the year of our lord Taylor Swift, DNA tests are, you know, a thing that exists.
Brenda took the revenge thing too serious .. if you want to know who your mama is, just go do a DNA lol #Pactofsilence
— Nana Osei 🇬🇭🌍 (@ChipsyStryder) October 17, 2023
This hun could have easily just collected DNA from all these women to find out who her mother is #pactofsilence
— RISAI Wanders ✈️ 🧘🏾♀️ (@risaiwanders) October 18, 2023
https://twitter.com/PineappleSkies7/status/1714384304636063960
I've never hated a "victim" so bad 😂 Brenda is so annoying and this movie is trash. I'm still gonna watch tho #Pactofsilence
— Chinny (@valleryarh) October 18, 2023
Watching Netflix series #pactofsilence, the premise is ridiculous especially in 2023. A DNA test or simply directly asking were more logical, time saving & less destructive than the route she took. Brenda is exasperating as a protagonist and at this point I’m rooting against her
— #RunIrisRun ⚡️💜 (@AlexisWaverider) October 25, 2023
Brenda spent a lot of time with those bitches who wouldn’t speak a word of who grave birth that night why wouldn’t she just get a DNA test from each of them. A hair strand or something #PactOfSilence
— That Girl 💅🏽📸 (@toniascott971) October 19, 2023
https://twitter.com/LatifahLives/status/1715576935072288890
Brenda been face to face w all the ladies and didnt do a dna? All this extra calculated shit and she coulda just got their dna #pactofsilence
— Miss HennyTea☕️ (@dirathedoll) October 21, 2023
https://twitter.com/nizharnee/status/1715809979838447995
A cup, anything!!
— Miss HennyTea☕️ (@dirathedoll) October 21, 2023
(Via Tudum)