So I watched this thing. I’m a bit of a Survivor fan, so I decided to watch “the newest reality show from Mark Burnett” when I flipped past it.
What a depressing pile of crap. Not a surprise at all but the average depth of the people involved couldn’t even be measured with an electron microscope. Obnoxious self-centered clueless idiots, a transvestite sudeductress meets the bigest arrogant ass on the planet, blah blah blah. The really depressing part is that I doubt they even had to edit creativly to get the story. No soap opera written in existence has the creativity to imagine these level of losers. People really are that anoying and stupid, it just makes me wish I had been suddenly struck down by an embolism, rather than following through with the stupid thought “let’s give it a chance.”
Wow, you thought it was real? I thought it looked like the most contrived bullshit I’ve ever seen.
If anyone wants to see a Casino show well done, I recommend Discovery Channel’s “American Casino”. It actually takes a look behind the scenes as opposed to Mark Burnett’s “crap shoot”.
I was interested in this show. I thought we would learn what it takes to start up a casino, what you have to go through, what the money situation is like when it is open…how much you need in reserve. You know, stuff like that. Instead we get a two minute clip with the guys getting there gaming license (or whatever it’s called) and we watch a bunch of actors act like some of the worst humans I’ve ever seen. What a piece of crap, Im a little disappointed.
I watched it. I didn’t expect much. . . and that’s what I got. Oh, it had the look and feel of a Mark Burnett show (“The Apprentice,” for example) but even The Donald wasn’t as schlocky as the garbage FOX fed us last night. I’m not a big fan of Las Vegas in the first place, but this was one big ick after another. . . with the biggest being the good old professional gambler, Chuck! UP-CHUCK would be a better name for him. What a pathetic jerk! (Hey! He may become this season’s new Big Thing!) I am surprised my hero, Andre Agassi, got into bed with these guys. Oh, sure. . . I see dollar signs all over the place, but that’s all.
Geez…who the hell talks like that other than in a really crappy mafia/casino film. I live here i Las Vegas and nobody talks like that unless they are pretending not to notice they are on “reality television” and want to come across as Louie The Icepick.
Steaming pile of crap that I will never bother to watch again.
FTR, not that it improves the show any, but I heard an interview with Burnett saying that he was extremely disappointed with how the show turned out, since FOX imposed massive constraints on what he could show. They apparently wanted to take all the sin out of Sin City for broadcast purposes.
I wondered why the owner who was Las Vegas born & raised spoke with a New Jersey accent.
I had to laugh at the owners’ paranoia (or at least, the script’s paranoia) over card counters. I can count cards. I’m not yet ready to retire.
And jeez, why are we pumping the career of a certain lounge singer? He gets the “theme song” during the credits; he sings it again during the show; and he gets an ad for his CD on screen.
god, that was awful. I’m embarassed for Mark Burnett. A real casino reality show would be interesting. A contrived, scripted (and badly scripted, at that) casino “reality” show was painful.
Where can I contact Mark Barnett to get the hour of my life back that I wasted watching this piece of crap? American Casino is to this show as Picasso is to Leroy Nieman.