Beast Games

I've never watched any of Mr Beast's YouTube shows but I was tengentially aware of him and what he does from various news stories over the years. I'll admit, the commercials did pique my interest so I decided to watch.

I thought the setup and structure of the games were very interesting. It's clear they gave the games & rules a lot of thought and then decided how they could 'crank up' the visuals, intensity, or price of the games. So from a game-perspective, I give it a high score (they clearly had a lot of money to spend on the show).

What shocked me most (but shouldn't have) is how utterly unintelligent, shallow, and incredibly immature 99% of the contestants are. There's really no reason for people to be crying (!) when they have to make a decision about something! It's the people, contestants, that ruin this show. I'm very worried for the future of this country based on the immaturity of these people. It doesn't make for a 'good show', it just make me glad I don't know, or work for, any of these people.

So uhh this show is quite interesting but like the challenges are just disappointing. The show is very entertaining and I want more episodes now but there was way to much I will pay you to get out type of challenges. Like its very boring and repetitive. The show is clearly unfair with many of these stupid self sacrifice type of challenges as well as a ton of put your faith in other people types of challenges. These don't show off the skill of the people competing and only really gives an ability to make a stupid story about this one persons sacrifice. And don't get me started on the one person can eliminate the entire row type of challenge. These are just chance and hoping that the people in your row are nice enough to sacrifice 100k just to allow you to stay in the challenge for a longer period of time.

With only two episodes out now, the show seemingly sets the tone for the rest. Getting to the last 500 is primarily luck based, preying on the uncertainties of people that may not be that wealth. The show even specifically zooms in on those that have lost out due to them simply being unlucky. The one 'skill-based' game was difficult to follow with there being so many people, making the experience chaotic to say the least. Most annoying of all is the constant repetition of everything that this show is going to do, including, but not limited to "the biggest price in entertainment history!", which I believed we heard about 8 times throughout the first episode. Ugh..

...too many forced emotional moments and cliché talks about integrity, fairness, conscience, and women's empowerment. In this reality show, those who preach fairness often apply double standards-like in a recent episode where contestants could anonymously take as much money as they wanted from a pile. Many criticized those before them for being greedy, yet they themselves took an bigger share of the remaining balance.

The cast feels bland and lacks diversity. While the games are decent, it's odd to watch a high-stakes competition with only one final winner, yet constantly hear moral lectures instead of smart gameplay discussions. The tone just doesn't fit the nature of the show.

Enjoy watching the eliminations and challenges, despite the apparent necessity for lots of screaming and praying and hilarious declarations of love to fellow competitors. Could have well done without the mawkish virtue signalling and heartrending sob stories throughout - every competitor more tragic than the last - to the accompaniment of sad string sections and musically induced pathos! May go down well in some places, and there was hardly a dry eye in my house either, but for a different reason - we found it totally nauseating. Please just stick to the game, the Korean versions, though less money, are far more entertaining.