The Final Straw

Take Giant Jenga. Switch out blocks for random items. Add in a host who is trying too hard, lame banter that falls flat. Then introduce over-caffeinated contestants coached to trash talk other teams. And you have a slow moving game which is 60% talk and 40% game play.

Oh, and there's a guy running around in a panda outfit, just to amp up the randomness.

This first episode should be the final straw.

This show is absolute trash. Not one joke landed and it just dragged on. Panda suit person with fake fire lighting a cannon that was just a glowing light which "shot" fake confetti. Even the laugh track was terrible... There is nothing redeeming about this show. 10/10 would not watch again.

I feel bad for Peyton Manning. Someone convinced him to put his money up for this. No structure. No intrigue. No nothing.

Without Peyton's name attached, I doubt there would be any Network to green-light this going forward.

Embarrassing.

Tried my damnedest to like this show because of the involvement of the normally hilarious Josh Robert Thompson but sadly, the simplistic game play, gimmicky editing, and Janelle James' complete and totally unfunniness (here and everywhere else) will no doubt doom this show to a short run. Hard to imagine that ABC has a worse current show than "Claim To Fame" but this is it.

So many things not to like about this game show:

-The host is trying her best but is just not funny in any way. Obviously went to the Amber Ruffin "do one tone" school of comedy.

-The game play itself is a very uninspired game of Jenga without any of the fun and random cringey trash talking.

-The bonus round, however, is the worst part of this game. Apparently in episode 1+2 the players were too easily winning money, so the producers changed the location of the bonus time capsules.

The end result is that after the change, episode 3+, it's now nearly impossible for the players to win any money at all.

Somehow, they've actually made this awful game worse in the middle of its debut season. Very much doubt this will get a season 2.