Maximum Exposure

I watched a few episodes and thought it would be very interesting except I just could not watch it with the awful announcer they cast. His voice was like listening to a chicken being plucked, tortured, and then burned alive, and that's just his voice not what he was saying. The stuff he was saying was even worse, he would make the most offensive horrible comments about horrifying videos. Now he's on the Los Angeles Country radio station with the same awful voice, I just wish he would go away and wish that no one would ever hire him again for any voice overs or acting. Hey guy if you are reading this GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU.

I heartily disagree with anyone who says Cam Brainard (the surfer-dude announcer) completely ruins this show. In fact, his hilarious commentary is what makes this show unique and eminently watchable. His penchant for pointing out "sweet mullets" and freeze-frame "guess the outcome" trivia can and will make you laugh out loud. Most of the footage of the show is of idiots doing idiotic things, which makes it very hard to feel sorry for any of them, and they never ever show anyone getting seriously hurt or killed. In the rare situation where someone is a truly innocent victim, he assumes a serious persona. But for the rest of the idiots, it's open season.

This is the only "reality" TV show I watch, and it's edited for those who, like me, have short attention spans and don't like the shaky hand-held COPS footage, or the super-blurry and pseudo-serious "World's Wildest Police Videos." This show is, to use a term coined by Tom Wolfe, "Pornoviolence" in its finest form. Let's be honest: people watch these shows because they love to see bad stuff happen to other people. They love to see humans at their worst, doing stupid things, and paying the penalty for it. That's why you're watching. You want to be entertained. You want to laugh with your buddies, and talk about how you can't believe how dumb some of these people are. No harm in that, people, it's human nature! So why, then, do viewers get so offended by the humorous slant of the show? It's because in today's culture, it's not deemed acceptable to laugh at the misfortune of others. Some shows, like "World's Wildest," proclaim to be educational shows which show you what can go wrong and how to deal with it. Such proclamations are pretentious, self-effacing and obviously false; anyone can see that simply by watching the show. It's entertainment, pure and simple, and shouldn't masquerade as anything else.

So grab a beer, order a pizza, invite some buddies over, and laugh over episodes such as "Men Are Stupid" and "Earth: The World's Most Dangerous Planet." You'll get exactly what the titles promise: entertainment, with little or no educational value, but without the contrived "we're here to teach you something" façade.

I love this show.

Sweet mullet, dude!

I love this show, because unlike other shows that are like it, this stands out as being more on the very entertaining side. The best thing about is Cam, the "Smart-Aleck Announcer Dude". The show shows people doing stupid things, accidents happening, bad weather, and ULTIMATE PAIN. Each episode has a title name such as "That's Gotta Hurt", "The World's Most Dumbest Guys", "Born to Lose", etc. That's another thing good about it is that each episode is about one topic, crashes, pain, stupidity. Other shows like Real TV just show random videos about different topics. Another good thing is the music. Unlike other shows that play suspenseful dramatic music, Max X stands out with a huge variety, such as dance music, crazy ass music, and wild killer guitar music. That's what I love most about Max X is that some of the clips have wild, awesome guitar rock music playing in the background. The thing also about Cam, the narrator, is that when it comes to stupidity, he makes fun of them, instead of being serious, and he sometimes makes fun of other races from different countries. Like in one, "He says when it comes to stunts, Belguins are losers." But no need to get offended. But when it comes to death, or someone getting killed, which isn't shown often in this show, Cam takes it more serious, but still has that surfer voice of his. And also when whatever's happening in the video, they sometimes replace it with cartoon like sound effects. So the best thing that you can do when you see that Max X is on, grab a bag of chips, sit back, and relax. Cause Max X has got you now!!

My family and I always loved this show. It was far better than any other show of its ilk, primarily because the smartaleck announcer dude actually had amusing comments for the videos.

Most shows of this type are beyond lame, and the worst aspect of that lameness is the incredibly crappy, unfunny, and boring voice-over commentary.

Max X, on the other hand, was always top notch. Even when the show aired the same videos as other similar programs, the commentary (and inflection of the announcer dude) was *funny*, really funny.

I miss the show and I wish I could buy both seasons.

I disagree with the prior review about Cam ruining the show and being an idiot. True, he does say idiotic things which are not doubt planned to go along with idiotic events that people get filmed doing, and his commentary makes Max X one of the funniest shows around. While it may seem cruel for the announcer to poke fun at some of the mishaps suffered by the subjects of the films, most of the footage is of people doing things that is bound to get them into some difficult, if not harmful situations. Examples- the skateboarders who leap with their boards onto stairway railings and then crash and burn, the guy who leaped from a tree while tied to a rope (bungee jumping?), the guy who tried to jump an apartment building on his bicycle ala Evel Knievel. There are hundreds more images, but almost all of them are of people doing something foolish, and you quickly lose empathy for the subjects. Also, Cam does take a serious tone when dictated, for example, a South American hostage situation, and he does not disrespect true victims.