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What You Wish For (2023)
Nick Stahl deserved better
I am not a big fan of this movie (which I'll get to in a bit) but I am in general a fan of Nick Stahl. I wish he had more opportunities for being in films with a budget over a few million because I emjoy his acting in general. He wasn't given a lot to work with concerning the script but I thought he did okay with it.
To the film itself...the only other real positive I'll say was that I was interested enough to watch it until the end, and there was an okay amount of tension at times. I kept assuming at some point Nick's character would be eaten.
Speaking of being eaten...why oh why must it be cannibalism? It's a recently revived film trend it seems. The protagonist chef being forced to cook for cannibals? So overdone. Ravenous is a great old school cannibal movie that makes sense in a gross context.
In this film, there's REALLY no explanation for why cannibalism is taking place. "Eh rich people am I right?" Is the basic explanation given for why it's happening at all.
Then it just...ends. Yep. "Okay I'm a cannjbal chef now" in some lazy writing. Nick audibly confirms he's taking on the job which is just completely implausible if you think about it for just a second. Oh well.
Nick stahl and some of the other actors do decent with the total lack of a good story that they are given. The film looks decent but also definitely low budget. One location. Meh script.
Speak No Evil (2024)
Everything happens exactly like you think it does
I'm not really sure I understand why this film is being reviewed as incredibly tense and unnerving.
Because it's just...not?
The story is extremely familiar and has been done and redone a million times in cinema. "Nice couple" who are also obviously very eccentric invite normal people to stay at a remote home. Are the eccentric people going to turn out to be crazy murderers?
Um, of course they are! You know what would've been unexpected? Literally anything else. The story progresses exactly like you think it will. The bad guys are who you think they will be. The little boy is who you guess him to be.
About 5 minutes into this film I imagined how the plot would go, and I was nearly scene for scene correct. I've seen a lot of films but I don't think I should be able to do that.
The acting was good all the way around, so a few stars for that. But I can't rate a film very high if it's supposed to be tense and it has absolutely no tension whatsoever.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
My review by way of a Sad Superfan
There has already been a ton said about this film and why it's a cultural failure, so I'll lend my 2 cents via the anecdote of what I saw in the theater when I watched episode IX my first and only time seeing it.
Now, first of all, I say "cultural failure" because, although Episode IX was a financial success when it came out, the bad blood it created via the fandom has stalled any further Star Wars film production since IX was released in 2019. 5+ years and counting. I'm assuming Disney fears one more Star Wars film failure and the franchise will be cooked. Maybe it already is?
Anyway, back when I saw this film around opening day, I noticed a coworker of mine in the theater. He was the biggest Star Wars super fan that I personally knew. I didn't sit with him, but he was near enough to me that I could hear him breathing nearby. This guy was a loud breather.
As the film began and progressed, with sideplots introduced and then later jettisoned without reason, I noticed his breathing changed a little. Louder, faster.
Around the time of the wookie death fakeout and "somehow Palpatine returned" the breathing was even more noticeable. Knights of REN going nowhere. Breathing. Huge army of Star Destroyers out of nowhere? Breathing. That kiss? Loud cough emitted.
As the credits began to roll, I heard a BIG SIGH. The loudest maybe I've ever heard in my life. Then silence.
My coworker never talked about Star Wars again.
After Midnight (2024)
Was finding its footing, but season 2 is a big step back
I will preface this review by stating I watched every single episode of season 1 of After Midnight, and the little amount of season 2 that has come out as of this review (so far). Before reviewing a late night show of this format, I figured I needed to watch enough of the content to be fair, so I watched it all.
What did I see? Well, I knew the series was going to take some time to find its footing, and after a couple of months, I think it did. Did I think that season 1 was perfect? Absolutely not. But it's season 1 after all, I thought, it needs more time to cook.
I really enjoy Taylor Tomlinson as a comedian and her style of comedy, so in season 1 I enjoyed her monologues when she did them, and I liked getting to see new comedians I hadn't before, as well as some of my old favorites like Drew Carey. I felt like season 1 started to get a little repetitive with the "contestants" near the end of the season, but again, season 1 bumps that'll get ironed out eventually.
Towards the middle / end of season 1, there began the show tweaks. Less monologue, more monologue. Switch out contestants getting eliminated, or how they get eliminated. Switch out the end game. Etc. Mostly bad changes, I thought. But again, season 1.
Season 2 so far has seen show changes that have pivoted it towards a more traditional talk show, and it's an unfortunate thing, in my opinion. The segment from season 1 that was the "fake talk show portion" has become a full on talk show. The most recent episode even brought on a guest who wasn't a comedian. That's fine ON A TALK SHOW, but this isn't supposed to BE a talk show, right?
Right, producers?
My greatest fear is that After Midnight has been a CBS long con all along. They introduced the show in season 1 as an @midnight successor, a "fake game show", and now in season 2 have slowly morphed it into a talk show, with some game show elements.
The "games" portion of this show, you know, the show that touts itself as "a fake game show where we make fun of the internet", now only consists of 2 segments even about the internet. 2 lame games that have nothing to do with the internet, a very long extended boring talk show portion that resembles James Cordin's old show, and then a lackluster ending where no one is eliminated and they play a random video for a few seconds. Zzzz.
I know I'm not alone in my criticism of season 2.
I also know that the format of After Midnight will change more, but whoever is making these changes seems to almost obtusely do the opposite of what people are criticizing this show for. It's a good way to get cancelled. Oh well, traditional tv is dying anyway.
Unsolved Mysteries: Who Was Jack the Ripper? (2024)
This series is so lazy
By season 4 I can safely say the only "Unsolved Mysteries" aspect of this series is the use of the original music. It's literally identical to every other modem true crime documentary with the addition of the familiar music.
In 2024 I cannot believe we are still getting Jack the Ripper documentaries. How tired. How boring. Like you're going to be covering any new details on this crime case from more than 100 years ago? A complete waste of everyone's time.
"Unsolved Mysteries", the original series, probably 80-90% of the cases were solvable, but nobody is ever solving the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Not now. So what's the point of this case being covered, again?
Space Cadet (2024)
Far-fetched, missing something
Space Cadet follows a very typical Hollywood troupe that's been around since the late-1970's, and on its screenplay alone isn't a bad idea. The execution left a lot to be desired, however.
For me to remain interested in a film, you have to at least enter the realm of plausibility. Do I believe Rex could fake her references? Sure. Do I think it would take NASA weeks of personally calling such references, to find an imposter? Of course not.
First of all...do employers even call references? Second, the fact that she lied about going to M. I. T. Would've been instantly verifiable. "Sneaking into NASA" just doesn't work. Maybe if her friend was a hacker I could have believed it.
Then, the climax of the film was just utterly stupid. No way in a million trillion years would they have sent Rex on that mission. Are we supposed to believe NASA only had 4 astronauts at the time, in total?
It's also annoying that nowadays if a lead character is white her friend group has to be a rainbow of representation. Just stop. Nobody cares. Just make people seem real.
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Decent and predictable
Inside Out 2 has a somewhat engaging story but is basically just a retread of the previous film.
Most of the story of the original film was watching Hope traverse the mind of Riley to reach an endpoint, and the story of Inside Out 2 might be a bit different, but the action of the story, the how it gets there, is nearly the same.
There are some new emotions in the film that aren't nearly as entertaining as the originals, but hello nepo baby!
The animation itself is bright and beautiful, the highlight of the movie.
Inside Out 2 has charming moments, but it just can't hold a candle to the imagination, humor, and heart of the first film.
The fact that this film is a box office juggernaut is somewhat baffling to me, but I guess that just shows how far down the movie industry has gone as a whole. Everything is mostly awful so mediocrity gets celebrated.
Hit Man (2023)
Decent setup, very bizarre final act
I believe there are 2 cardinal rules to filmmaking, if you stick to these things most people will enjoy your film. They are:
1) The audience should like your protagonists
2) Have a good ending
"Hit Man" breaks both rules. It pains me to say that, because 75% of the film I mostly enjoyed. I thought the leads acted well, good chemistry, etc.
The film wasn't that funny, if it was trying to be a black comedy, which I "think" it was? But as a romantic film it was okay enough. Unfortunately the ending just wasn't well conceived.
I thought the final act, as the cops closed in on Madison being a killer, was well set up. But the film decided to give Gary, the male lead, not only a different personality at the end of it all, but a completely different moral compass as well.
I looked forward to the final scene between the protagonists, Gary and Madison, and their showdown with a dirty cop.
Up to this point, Gary was portrayed as a likable enough guy who seemed to want to do the right thing, even if he occasionally bent the rules it was for the right reasons. Until, well until...
...Gary mysteriously transforms at the end of the film into a cold blooded cop killer. Who kills his colleague, in a completely blatant act. Just 180 degree turn in character. Was the sex "that" good?
But besides being an out of character move, the twist makes the protagonists into negative characters, right at the end, so this becomes the lasting impression of them.
Weirdly, I think the director frames the actions as strangely just, because Madison's husband "might've been a jerk", but this was never shown on screen. The murdered cop was also talked about as being a bad guy but he was never depicted as a bad guy on screen.
So because we have to take the word of the characters that these people deserved to die, and that makes it okay? Weird, weird ending.
The Watchers (2024)
Bizarre, sloppy, and about 4-too many endings
I can tell that M. Night's daughter learned everything she did about filmmaking from her Dad, although that's not necessarily a compliment.
As with most of M Night's films, I don't really review them per se, I just list a bullet point of the most absurd moments, and I figured why not continue this trend with his daughter?
First of all, I'd like to point out that nepotism can be a very bad thing, and this film is an example of that. It only exists because of who the director's Dad is, and I guarantee you that someone else (who wasn't "a name") could've done more with the budget.
-The plot is so "been there done that". From the troubled adult with a troubled past who has to deal with supernatural monsters, to the "ancient beings who were once the friends of mankind". Every plot piece is a ripoff of a better film that came before it.
-Very "M. Night" quality of characters. No one says things the way real people do, and way too often people just kind of stand around and stare at each other. I just wanted to yell at the screen and say "would someone say something? Will someone talk? Would someone say something, anything like a real human would?" The dialogue was terrible throughout.
-A dude points out the monsters "always come". Always. Yet near the end of the film when he's just about to escape, he allows himself to die in an incredibly dumb way. The monsters had to be shown killing someone to "prove" how deadly they were. I guess?
-Notice how often in M. Night-adjacent films there is a scene at / near the climax where something is just so dumb visually you are forced to say out loud "That was stupid!" This film definitely contains that moment.
-My biggest issue with the film though is that it has about 4 endings. Obviously the director wanted the story to be wrapped up in a certain way, so we clumsily are lead through multiple different ending points to get us there. By the end it's so laughably anticlimactic. Definitely how not to tell a story.
The cinematography was decent. Everything else was pretty terrible, including some very wooden, unenjoyable acting from Dakota Fanning.
Wait to see this film on streaming. For free. You'll thank me later.
Quiz with Balls (2024)
Incredibly low effort game show
"The Quiz with Balls" has a lot of the same feel as Ellen's "Game of games", except it's a version of that game where they only play a single game type.
That concept just doesn't work. By round 3 of this game I lost all interest in it. Watching regular people answer trivia questions and then getting shoved into a giant dunk tank over, and over, and over again is just not compelling in any way. It's also not nearly as "hilarious" as this game wants us to think it is.
Jay Pharoah is a passable host but the show doesn't really give him any chance to be funny. They hire standup comedians to host these things so they can show off their improv skills but everything about Jay's delivery had a very scripted feel to it. He also didn't really seem to want to be there.
I'm calling it now, cancelled in one season.
IF (2024)
Strange pacing and tone shifts
I went into "If" with high expectations. I am a huge fan of most of the cast, and I think John Krasinski is a competent director.
About 30 minutes into watching this, I realized it wasn't going to have the broad, universal appeal of many films in this genre. It's extremely sad in parts, and then shifts to total silliness, then back to sad again. Films can be a lot of things at different times, but it was sort of whiplash here going from silly to sad and back again.
I was really looking forward to Steve Carrell's reunion with Krasinski, and that was all sort of an overblown letdown here. Steve's "Blue" character is basically a beanbag chair with eyes and emotions. He had almost zero impact on the film, in fact he really didn't even have that many lines at all.
The writing in this film also isn't the best, there are times where ithe plot just sort of wanders.
There's a scene about 1/2 into this movie that I think showcases what I'm talking about. The main protagonist girl wanders into a retirement community for imaginary friends, and stuff just happens. It has no bearing on any of the rest of the plot whatsoever. Like the film got lost on its way to a purpose for existing.
Overall it was "fine" but it has absolutely zero replay value.
Murder in the Heartland (2017)
Weird production distracts from the stories
This series is pretty typical of the true crime format: You hear the details from loved ones of the victims while police fill in the rest. Unlike some series of this type there is very little recreation of the events that are being described, probably due to a relatively small budget.
Drone photography has made way more of these shows possible, because even with a small budget you can get sweeping, dramatic landscape shots without much money spent. And the landscape shots in this show are impressive.
Unfortunately, due to a lack of recreations and the small budget, it's all the other non-drone photography that falls short in this series. There are so so many shots, weird random shots of the subjects being interviewed. There must be some directive from the producers that they get a lingering slow motion shot of everyone's backside. There are also tons of random shots of people doing their jobs. Feeding cows. Cutting the grass. Making biscuits. Just a lot of whatever camera work while someone talks in the background.
The production itself is also sloppy in that some of the details are just wrong. Incorrect dates displayed on the screen. Typos. Kind of amateur hour.
The stories themselves are okay, most are easy to follow and tell a concise narrative.
But with so many true crime shows out there, this one is among the sloppiest I've seen.
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
Good until the rails fall off
Late Night with The Devil is a decent film most of the way through it.
It begins with good atmospheric building, and the late-1970's feel was very authentic.
I thought all the acting performances were great, and also rang true for the time period depicted.
The film was made on a low budget for Hollywood, but I don't think that detracts from (most of) it. Instead, I think the "low budget" feel made the film seem even more like the time period it was in.
So why only 4 stars? It's because about 90% into the film it loses all steam. What should be the climatic moments of the movie are detracted from by some odd plot choices and the appearance of a big white turd.
That last sentence needs some explaining.
Although the low budget practical effects work for most of this film, when the most important special effects in the entire movie fall flat, it hurts the outcome, and this mainly comes in the form of a ghost that literally looks like a big white piece of dog poo.
Then there's another weird special effect involving...I don't know? Steppenwolf? Before the film ends.
As per usual with modern Hollywood horror films, it seems like the writers had an idea for a story but just absolutely no idea how to end it, so it ends with a thud.
A 8-9 stars film pulled down to 4 by the end of it.
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen (2024)
Nearly unlistenable
The entire internet is just one big circle-j of people pretending. Pretending they like certain things because they think it'll make them look like a good person.
Despite other rave reviews, I just did not enjoy any part of this standup routine. She leans into her accent in a very exaggerated way and it goes from grating to obnoxious. I know it's a fad among people with simple senses of humor to think "funny accent ha haha" but it's done so over-the-top it's the only thing I was paying attention to.
If I had been in the audience, I would've left. Standup is a hard job to do so 3 stars for making the effort, if nothing else. But this wasn't in any way funny or enjoyable to listen to.
Saturday Night Live: Ryan Gosling/Chris Stapleton (2024)
Mostly bad
The deluge of guest stars tells me that this show doesn't suffer from a lack of talent on a weekly basis, it suffers (heavily) from poor writing. Bottom line, the jokes are mostly just not funny. Bland. Safe.
Take this week's opener. Giving "high school jock who realizes her best days are behind her" vibes, Kate McKinnon pops by for yet another take on the alien abducted lesbian. Every version of this skit is identical. Woman gives "funny" names for her vagina and butt. That's the whole bit. As a side note, this is Kate's 3rd or 4th visit this season. Why did she even bother to leave?
The rest of the episode consisted of a lot of "breaking". Let me let you in on a little SNL secret: The breaking is on purpose. Jimmy Fallon had an old trick that if a skit was bombing, "fake break" to make it better. This entire episode was just break after break. One skit it made sense, the rest it just grew very tired and stale quickly the more it happened.
Loren Michaels just does not trust this new cast. So much airtime is given to guest stars, like he doesn't trust his own cast to be able to do the job well. Watch the goodnight part and you'll see them in the far rear, waving like "Hey remember us...the cast?"
Jenny Slate: Seasoned Professional (2024)
Like, this was difficult
I will preface this review by stating I think Jenny Slate can be a very funny comedic actress. I've enjoyed watching her in a number of film and tv bits, including her time on SNL.
That having been said, there is something fundamentally wrong with her delivery as a standup comic, at least in this particular special. "Like, like, like" every 3-5 seconds. It was really hard to sit through.
I think she needs to listen to her own set from an audience perspective, maybe just the audio. This is not a joke nor an exaggeration, she says "like" 604 times in this special. Almost 8% of the words she said out loud during this routine was "like", that one word.
I don't think I need to say anything more about this special than that. I know some people use like as a crutch, but this was so overdone it was nearly impossible for me to hear anything else she said.
On the Line (2022)
Oh so THAT'S why it's a Netflix film
This film starts out decently enough. If you're a fan of trashy thrillers the "shock jock who tangles with.a crazy caller" is sort of an old troupe found in cheesy movies from the late 80's / early 90's.
But when executed well this style of film can be quite entertaining. When it's executed well. This was not one of those films.
Again, the premise was fine, but the execution left a lot to be desired.
For one thing, having a movie with twist after twist gets tiresome from an audience perspective. Around the 3rd twist people stop caring. I know I did.
But then at the very end this film just falls completely apart by committing the ultimate mortal sin of cinema: not mattering. Absolutely nothing that happens in this film ends up mattering, it's a complete waste of the audience's time.
I know Mel Gibson hasn't been mainstream successful in a long time, and he's a trash human being, but at least his films usually have a purpose. This one doesn't. Avoid, it ls a complete waste of your time. I promise.
Mike Epps: Ready to Sell Out (2024)
Not funny
Mike Epps delivered a standup routine like a time warp from the 1990's.
It's just him lazily standing around complaining about things. I learned a few things from his routine though: He's racist. He's sexist. He's anti-LGBTQ without even trying to be.
Standup routines where some hack stands around and brags about his own bad habits is just a painful thing to watch in 2024. I can't remember a single joke from this because I'm not sure what even qualified as a joke or humor to begin with.
Did you know Mike Epps does cocaine? Ha. Ha.
The worst part of this show though was hearing Mike complain about the gig itself, that he only even does this anymore because he needs money.
Netflix should've paid 10 young hungry comics each 1/10th what they paid Mike for this and I guarantee you what they would've created would've been much better quality wise.
Mean Girls (2024)
Really hard to watch
In this review I am comparing it a lot to the 2004 original, which I think is apt because this film begs the question, "Does this actually need to exist?" (Other than to make Tina Fey some cash), and I have got to say, after having actually seen the film, my answer is "absolutely not".
The cast is so underwhelming compared to the original. Any of the original actors in the core mean girls group are just head and shoulders above the new cast, in talent and in every other regards.
The musical aspect was a good idea to hide in the trailer, because in the actual film itself it just does not work. The musical numbers are nearly constant and begin awkwardly every single time they happen.
Fun fact: adjusted for inflation the original made $212 million in 2024 dollars, about double what the 2024 film took in.
I really wish this film had made zero dollars. Pointless cash grab that added nothing. Stop giving Tina Fey your money.
Not Dead Yet: Not Owning It Yet (2024)
Still spinning its wheels
I want to like this show. Truly.
It's got a talented cast of actors. I find it somewhat humorous that Brad Garrett has joined the cast. Between Lauren Ashe, Nico Santos, and others, it's become this castaway show of actors from previous sitcoms.
But that's not the problem.
The problem I'm finding with this show is that it's mostly no stakes and the plot is usually somewhat boring.
The protagonist can speak to the dead but it's played off now like it's a bad allergy she has to deal with.
So many interesting things could be done with the focal point of the entire show but they just refuse to do anything with it.
For example, in this episode the "conflict" is that the rich clueless paper owner has to deal with her even more clueless rich father. Yawn.
The show itself has a good concept and good actors, I just wish it wouldn't throw all of that aside to be a boring plain "sitcom" in so many of its storylines.
Kevin James: Irregardless (2024)
Heard it all before
Did you know...Boomers don't like video games? That they like beating their kids? I've NEVER heard that before!
Oh wait! My bad, I've heard the exact same material from literally every boomer-aged comedian. In their minds, the world would just be such a better place if we just hit our kids. Come on guys, it's not child abuse. Whipping people who can't defend themselves is how we achieve world peace!
Kevin James needs TV editing. He's not a comedian, not a good standup one anyway. He's a comedic actor. Huge difference.
This entire act was so lazy and boring. Complaining about VR headsets cuz it's a video game! Kevin really knows what America is talking about.
I hope you sense the sarcasm. Low effort boomer humor garbage.
Saturday Night Live: Ayo Edebiri/Jennifer Lopez (2024)
How can you think that?
I sometimes wonder if my tastes diverge a lot from the mainstream, and tonight's episode of SNL in many ways confirms that to me. Not that it's a bad thing.
I have heard some high praise for this episode on Reddit, and maybe that's a small echo chamber but wow does it surprise me.
IMO this was easily the worst episode of the season. After watching her in "Bottoms" and seeing the same style of humor on display here, I can say confidently that I do not enjoy Ayo's style of comedy. She overacts in the extreme. There is absolutely nothing subtle about anything she does.
The voice is grating and hard to listen to. Just. Awful. On so many levels. How on Earth do people think she's some kind of comedic genius? Incredibly unfunny episode.
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024)
Slow moving and not funny
The main purpose of standup should be to get laughs..right?
In that sense this special wasn't successful. I didn't laugh a single time. I'm guessing the audience laughter came from some sunk-cost fallacy mindset on their part.
Okay, so it wasn't funny. Well maybe I could look at this more as a "one woman show" than a standup special. Maybe she'd have interesting things to say?
Turns out, no. Her act is the same sex-obsessed act that a lot of heterosexual women comedians tend to focus on, she just does it in a very long winded pretentious way.
She also has this knack for pacing on the stage, and combine that with her whiny sing-songy voice and I was just "no thanks" on this one.
Imagine the most boring person you've ever met trying to be sexy, and it'll give you some idea what watching this was like.
I will never watch another standup act by this person. No way.
Ted (2024)
Not particularly good; is this really 1993?
Sometimes in a series the setting is its own character, like NYC in Friends or Seinfeld. Or the time in which it takes place, like the 1960's being integral to plot of The Brady Bunch or Wonder Years.
For starters, I will say that I really enjoyed the "Ted" films, that style of "crude" humor doesn't really bother me at all, and I thought the films had smart, funny writing.
The jokes in the "Ted" tv series are a little more flat than the films. I don't really think cuss words are that funny, and sometimes the jokes literally are "dad says cuss word", "doll says cuss word", "sister says cuss word".
But the somewhat bland writing isn't really what bothers me about this content, it's that nothing really feels like the early 90's in this show. Imagine you took someone who learned about "the 90's" from Tik-Tok, and then told them to write a series based on what they learned. You'd probably get something like this series.
"Blaire", the sister, looks like a modern hippy with a 90's esthetic, although the blonde girl who had the joint is far worse. No girls in 1993 were referring to guys as "Bro", and I can't say I ever saw any person look like her back then. Was it not possible to find a 20-something year old who didn't use massive lip fillers to play that role, or is she Seth's flavor-of-the-month?
This is a minor qualm, but another thing that feels inauthentic about this series is that some of the "social ethical" conversations don't ring true for 1993-suburbia. Those conversations wouldn't even happen.
Bottom line though, the worst offense this series makes is that the premise of the "Ted" series is essentially exactly the same as the film, "Guy deals with foul bear shenanigans". It covers no new ground and probably doesn't need to exist.
Raid the Cage (2023)
Incredibly boring and repetitive
I'm easy to please when it comes to game shows, so if I take the time to actually review one it's probably because it's very good or very bad.
Let's put "Raid the Cage" into the "very bad" category.
First of all, the host is clearly just collecting a paycheck. He says "Raid the Cage" like he's just trying to get the words out as fast as possible, and the "other" host has the attitude of a Disneyland performer. Everything is just wonderful and exciting for her at all times in a very fake delivery.
The gameplay itself and what you can win is where this show really loses steam, however.
The game, answering trivia questions to build time to run into an arena to grab prizes, is very repetitive. Every round is exactly the same with slightly altered elements.
The contestants, flat out, aren't given enough time to grab much of value, and are so paranoid about running out of time that not much truly valuable stuff is ever won. Who wants random iPads and weird jewelry?
I don't enjoy game shows with absolutely no cash prizes. All you can win in this game is "stuff". Never cash. This is a first for me. "Shop Til you Drop", "Saie of the Century", and "The Price is Right" are all also prize gameshows, but at least you can also win money on them.
I think this is the first gameshow I've ever watched where if I was offered a chance to be on it I'd just turn them down. No thanks.