So did anyone else watch the end of Unan1mous? How many of us were dumb enough to watch most of that show? LOL
When it went to the commercial break where JD Roth said that there was either a check in the box or everyone was going home with nothing, all I could think was that it would be poetic justice to our idiocy if it was empty.
how perfect would that have been? After being sucked in week after week, BAM, no one wins! Ha ha!
What the heck was the point of that show? I didn’t even hear about it until last week and I’m still not sure what it was about, as I didn’t watch an episode.
Okay, the premise is that nine people are put in this completely sealed-off underground bunker. No TV, radio, telephone, computer, mail, or any contact with the outside world, for that matter. At a certain point, they have to vote on who gets the big money (starts off at 1.5 million, counts down). The decision has to be unanimous. If anyone voluntarily leaves before a decision is reach, the money is cut in half. (There was someone who had to leave for some medical reason; it didn’t cut the money.)
Aaaaaand…that’s it. Billed as a “social experiment” of some kind.
Whatever…I didn’t see the point after the first episode, and all the twists added to make it “interesting” just left me cold. Final ep was pretty anticlimactic. Try to add some “drama” with the ticking down of the cash, but failed miserably since it’s a measly $1 a second.
My problem with the program (and my mother’s, incidentally): What’s stopping anyone from leaving? If you’re certain you won’t win, and you can’t stand everyone else, and you’re tired of being cut off from the world, why not leave? You lose nothing. You get to escape this madness. I’m astonished only one person went for it.
(My other problem is the host, a guy who makes Ryan Seacrest sound like a diplomat. DAMN, what a smarmy pain in the butt. No wonder they didn’t make him face the vic…er, contestants in person.)
Eh. There was an entertaining program in here something, but it never came out. Looks like one of those one-and-done deals.
So what happened? I figured it’d end with nobody getting any money, because there appeared to be no reason for anyone to let someone else get the money. I didn’t watch any of it, so I’m going by the promos that I’ve seen.
Yes, please explain this. Why would anyone be persuaded to vote for anyone but himself?
I saw the first episode wondering the same thing. It turns out they are not allowed to vote for themselves.
I saw the first episode wondering the same thing. It turns out they are not allowed to vote for themselves.
That makes no sense. If A, B, C, D, E, and F, all vote for G, but G has to vote for someone else, it’s not unanimous.
Well, it’s accepted that a person can’t vote for themselves so it only has to be unanimous among the other members of the show.
With nine players, you have to get eight votes. (As it turned out, the winner had to get 6 out of 7.)
I’m glad Rhoda won, 'cause at least she’s a babe. But other than her and Gay Edgar, everyone else on that show was a reprehensible sumbinch. Not that I really cared. It was so content-free that I might as well have stared at a blank screen for a half hour each week.
I guess my time replaying old episodes of The Venture Brothers was well-spent.
It could have been spent worse, anyway.
Her name is Tarrah. Single mother, IIRC. Out of $1.5 million, she got a shade over $380,000. (It actually would’ve been a lot more had that one person not left.
And yes, it’s supposed to be a “social experiment”. Basically, who can win over everyone else.
Didn’t see the point, there were too many logical holes, and I HATED that obnoxious punk of a host (and I’ve never found Ryan Seacrest even mildly annoying). I don’t see a second time here.
Sorry, Fox…ya win some, ya lose some. Split up American Idol if you’re running short on programming.
Or here’s an idea – Arrested Development!