The latest GSN doc, Game Shows Greatest Moments (or whatever it was called) was probably the weakest of the series so far. Given how great the other 3 were, that still means it was quite watchable.

At this point we may have exhausted the gamut of funny/surviving/good video quality bloopers out there, but that's probably thanks to the 10+ blooper shows we've had in the last 5 years.

This particular special leaned a bit too much on Dating Game and Newlywed Game and even most of those were clips I'd seen already. What I did like was that it wasn't specifically a blooper show and they mentioned some of the "positive" moments in game show history, namely Ken Jennings and Thom McKee. But they could have probably extended that to some other big winners, like Norma from Card Sharks and Michael Larsen, both of which are obviously in their library.

I wasn't keen on Chuck's involvement in the show. Not because of him specifically, but because they had him interjecting a little comment about almost every individual clip. It was kind of overkill.

Overall the documentary series remains more than strong and I'm looking forward to the upcoming installments.

 

posted by Brad @ 2:23 PM   0 comment(s)