They missed three out of the five. I thought it was a difficult category. The category was Movie Series By Sequel. It wasn’t just a generic movie category; you had to identify the movie series by the names of one of the later movies in the series. You think people are going to pick up on the fact that The Golden Army was the subtitle of a Hellboy movie simply by osmosis?
The only ones I knew were The Force Awakens, Rogue Nation, and Parabellum.
Yeah, I only got the first one.
I’m sick of Matt, and I’ll be glad when he’s gone.
I’m always sick of champions who go on for weeks. Amodio seems like a nice guy and good for him, but the idea of one person winning every day for a year terrifies me.
I got four out of five but that’s reading them; I didn’t see this episode live. It’s way easier to get these reading them, and even then “The Golden Army” totally stumped me. Even knowing it’s a Hellboy movie I have no memory whatsoever of a movie called that.
Ken Jennings and Holzhauer did that too, and Jennings openly said so. He didn’t pause as obviously as Matt does, but Jennings was the first contestant to clearly dominate at least heavily in part due to understanding that buzzing in first is the most important skill there is. Holzhauer practiced buzzer use for months. You have to be good at trivia games, but that physical skill is enormous; if Jeopardy was played in turns, it’d be a totally different game.
My bolding there. This seems like an odd choice; many who watch at home would enjoy the chance to ‘think along with the contestant’ in their wager-amount.
I suppose the producers believe that getting as tight a shot of the contestant’s face as possible (which doesn’t allow inclusion of their current dollar-total, as it’s too far down on the podium) is what’s most important. But I know I’d prefer to see the number, as I don’t necessarily keep a running total of what each player has while watching the show.
I like Matt; he’s a lot more likable than he was at first. I’ll miss him when he’s eventually gone.
I’m excited that Matt may break James Holzhauer 32 game win streak. James plays at a entirely different level for winnings. We may never see another champion earn so much per game.
James recently pointed out the difference. (it was a playful jab) I don’t believe he was being a jerk.
I’m not up to caring about the pause yet. I haven’t finished hating him with the fire of a thousand suns for “What’s.”
Apologies if this has already been explained, but is there some reason they can’t say Matt Amodio’s school is Yale? It’s always “a PhD student from New Haven, Connecticut.”
Mayim mentioned Yale in the contestant chat segment just this past week. But as for the contestant introductions, isn’t this just Jeopardy convention? The guy on the right tonight was introduced as “an undergrad student;” they didn’t say at what school. Contestants are always introduced as an “ophthalmologist” or “an electrical engineer,” not “an ophthalmologist at the Mayo Clinic” or “an engineer at Raytheon.”
I guess I missed that. It just felt like it was some sort of secret.
I think he was. (If you didn’t click the link, the tweet shows pics of James and Matt with their 23-day winnings: almost $1.8 million for James, $826K for Matt.) He’s saying he’s the ideal thing as advertised and Matt is the less-than-ideal reality that you end up with. Dick move, IMHO.
Although I was impressed as hell with James’ incredible knowledge base and game play, I always thought he was probably something of a jerk in person, and doing his best to appear like a nice guy on the show.
Matt is either a nicer guy, or playing one better than James did. I tend toward the former.
Yesterday’s game was relatively close. For much of the game, the other two were within striking distance of his total.
By the way, his total is at $955,201 and that dollar at the end bothers me. I wish he’d bet enough to get a round number.
Ha! I said that last night, too. Must be my inner-Monk coming out.
James didn’t bother me personally, but I’m a bit mystified by people who say they genuinely liked him or that he seemed like a “nice guy” or whatever. He seemed like much more of a socially awkward robot that Matt ever has been. Awkward, forced facial expressions, curt speech with a limited emotional range… as much as I hate the phrase “on the spectrum,” (a person isn’t “on the spectrum,” a person has autism spectrum disorder,) I feel James met the description of what people who say that are getting at much more than Matt does.
I always thought Holzhauer was “on the spectrum”, too, so maybe he genuinely thought what he said was funny, just gentle ribbing. (In person, maybe; in a tweet, where you can’t judge emotion, a dick move.)
James is that awkward on The Chase, too. He’s supposed to act like a dick (in a joking way) on that show, however. Matt just seems gentler, and less condescending.
I think it would be unfair during his run. But I would really appreciate a rule change that you have to use an interrogative that matches the answer and that you have to include the appropriate article.
Those were conditions in the original UK run. Your response had to be gramatically correct.