Beast Games

Greetings from the other side. After watching the first two episodes that dropped, I found this show kinda boring.

Yes, he gives away a ton of cash, which is cool, but too many people get eliminated through no fault of their own. Some are asked to sacrifice themselves, while others are booted because someone in their row is greedy and hits a button.

It's not a "game" if you can get booted because of something that someone else has done. Imagine going through a bunch of stuff, and you get sent home because someone in your row hit a button that gives them 100k? That would tick me off.

The games are nothing special, like don't let a ball hit the floor.

Anyways, the only thing I liked was the amount of money he gives gives away. I was getting tired of him saying Five Million Dollars! Oh, I also see no use for his 5 friends either. The one dude was annoying as hell. Fake laughing, and saying "No way!" Or "What's happening!".

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..

If your thing is to get a constant headache from listening to childish screaming hosts, overly exaggerating every single event, then this show is for you. Do Americans not know how to speak at normal levels? If you're easily amused, this is for you. This is a extremely bad version of the much better quality Korean shows. I couldn't even watch one full episode. And, as if the hosts aren't bad enough, the obnoxious contenders are just as bad and completely fake. It's as if somebody's daddy had a spare few million and gave it to his boy to play with as he wanted, without any skills whatsoever. Really painful show to watch. And you'll end up with a headache.

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.

I've gotten addicted to South Korean reality shows following the original "Squid Game" and MAN, do they make ours look stupid. Every one is either a test of raw talent, physicality, or intelligence and almost every contestant is unique and compelling.

In these American knock-offs (the dreadful American version of Squid Game and now "Beast" games) it's hundreds of the dumbest most useless people they could find, apparently. Is this commentary on our country or just a failure of the casting folks?

Seriously, a "score at least a 100 IQ" to get in would have made this infinitely more watchable. As it stands it's an endless parade of neck and face tattoos and a sea of people with little to no reasoning capabilities, and all of the "games" are mostly just another reskinned version of the prisoner's dilemma or just plain dumb luck.

Come on America, we can do better than this.

5/10 because I have to justify how I've watched all four of them so far and will probably watch the rest. Lol.