I'll be honest, I spent my whole childhood and teenage years thinking this show was incredibly dull. I just wasn't a fan of trivia. I've been watching this every night since I was little and I never got the trivia bug. I just find it really hard to be curious about everything. But it's the only show on TV where people aren't fighting, insulting and defaming each other, so that is a major positive.
Looking back, I feel kind of bad for thinking Alex Trebek was lame. I didn't know he was such a cool and laid back person until after he died. I thought the whole process to choose a host was silly and a waste of time. I don't even know why they had Ken Jennings and Mayim Balik rotate with each other. Her demeanor was so bizarre. Her laughter sounded fake, and she giggled at pretty much everything. She gave off a creepy vibe. Ken is the complete opposite. His laugh is slightly odd (he sounds like a rich person at a country club), but aside from that, he's charismatic, despite his odd-looking face. His manner of speech also doesn't sound phony like Mayim Balik's. She was less uncomfortable in that stupid show, Big Bang Theory. She's one of those actors who has no personality off screen. They can only be normal if they're given a script. What a shame. There was some drama with the constant changing of hosts, some of it politically motivated, evident from the reviews on here, but I'm not going into that because I like to keep politics out of things.
I had always been of the mindset that Jeopardy is complicated and I wasn't all that smart, but in actuality, it's a mixture of questions. They focus on science, history, geography, mathematics, technology, psychology, sociology, and literature, in addition to other random, miscellaneous stuff, like music and films. You don't have to be a genius, but more or less, have the type of brain that's geared towards memorizing unimportant facts, more so than other people. It's a something for everybody type of thing, so if you're a person who's just addicted to facts, then you'll love watching this with friends or family (but, just as a warning, the people in your life might not share your enthusiasm). This is literally the only intelligent thing on network TV, because otherwise, if you want something educational, you have to turn on PBS. I'd recommend not being intimidated like I was. The longer you watch, you'll probably find yourself answering more and more questions correctly.
