Post by ManekiNeko on Apr 9, 2006 2:36:11 GMT -5
How would you like to win $1,500,000? Are you able to convince eight other people that you're worthy? Could you persuade them that you are the one who should take the money? Welcome to Unan1mous, a reality show that airs on the Fox Network.
Unan1mous's concept seems very simple. Nine people are locked away inside of a bunker and live their lives a la Big Brother style, under very strict time regiments for eating, sleeping and whatever, until they can come to a meeting of the minds as to who exactly should walk away with the money. Not so rough, so what could go wrong?
What indeed? The Fox Network has absolutely no intention of giving away $1,500,000 so they decide to throw in an interesting twist... $1 gets subtracted from the group pot for every second that they do not come to a meeting of the minds, including such activity as sleeping, eating and using the restroom. The episode I witnessed was the 3rd episode and the pot had depreciated all the way down to $720,861 before a vote was even made. With only 3 votes and over half the pot gone, they certainly do not give you a lot of time to try and resolve this.
After a predetermined time, the whole group gets together for a vote as told by a synthesized voice that says such wonderful phrases as "Attention participants. Sleep time has expired", which tells them to go into a conference room. As a person may not vote for themselves, the other 8 people must cast a vote for one person in order to give whatever the pot amount holds to that person. During the vote is the only time that the clock showing the money depleting itself is stopped.
Host J.D. Roth, famous for Sex Wars, Moolah Beach and Fun House as the light-hearted host who likes to have fun is made to look a little more like George Gray with the facial hair to try to make himself look older. The question is: Can he play a convincing mean-acting host? I think he does a semi-decent job. Not great, but passable. Why? No matter how mean he is, he still looks like a kid with facial hair.
Many people hold this as an "I told you so" type of reality show after a couple of seasons of "Survivor" set the dark nature of man into full motion. What bothers me the most about this game is that there is no way to replenish the pot. What killed the Chair was a violation of the first rule of game shows... no one wants to see a person's money depreciate all the way to zero. Even with success stories in the field of game shows where everything was at risk (Jeopardy!, Press Your Luck, etc.) it was the totals that were going up that people liked to see. When they lost their money, that was in an instant.
During the 2nd and 3rd shows, if a unanimous decision was not reached, they would evict one person per show. This narrowed the field, and the human drama is neat to watch so that's a big plus for it's column.
In conclusion, if your idea of a quality half hour is watching a group of people living in a practically totalitarian state until they decide who gets a big chunk of money, if anyone does, then you would enjoy the high tension of Unan1mous. If not, you may want to tape The Amazing Race and watch that right after Deal or No Deal on Wednesday nights. I give Unan1mous
½ (one and a half cats carrying bowls of rice and chopsticks out of a possible five)
Unan1mous's concept seems very simple. Nine people are locked away inside of a bunker and live their lives a la Big Brother style, under very strict time regiments for eating, sleeping and whatever, until they can come to a meeting of the minds as to who exactly should walk away with the money. Not so rough, so what could go wrong?
What indeed? The Fox Network has absolutely no intention of giving away $1,500,000 so they decide to throw in an interesting twist... $1 gets subtracted from the group pot for every second that they do not come to a meeting of the minds, including such activity as sleeping, eating and using the restroom. The episode I witnessed was the 3rd episode and the pot had depreciated all the way down to $720,861 before a vote was even made. With only 3 votes and over half the pot gone, they certainly do not give you a lot of time to try and resolve this.
After a predetermined time, the whole group gets together for a vote as told by a synthesized voice that says such wonderful phrases as "Attention participants. Sleep time has expired", which tells them to go into a conference room. As a person may not vote for themselves, the other 8 people must cast a vote for one person in order to give whatever the pot amount holds to that person. During the vote is the only time that the clock showing the money depleting itself is stopped.
Host J.D. Roth, famous for Sex Wars, Moolah Beach and Fun House as the light-hearted host who likes to have fun is made to look a little more like George Gray with the facial hair to try to make himself look older. The question is: Can he play a convincing mean-acting host? I think he does a semi-decent job. Not great, but passable. Why? No matter how mean he is, he still looks like a kid with facial hair.
Many people hold this as an "I told you so" type of reality show after a couple of seasons of "Survivor" set the dark nature of man into full motion. What bothers me the most about this game is that there is no way to replenish the pot. What killed the Chair was a violation of the first rule of game shows... no one wants to see a person's money depreciate all the way to zero. Even with success stories in the field of game shows where everything was at risk (Jeopardy!, Press Your Luck, etc.) it was the totals that were going up that people liked to see. When they lost their money, that was in an instant.
During the 2nd and 3rd shows, if a unanimous decision was not reached, they would evict one person per show. This narrowed the field, and the human drama is neat to watch so that's a big plus for it's column.
In conclusion, if your idea of a quality half hour is watching a group of people living in a practically totalitarian state until they decide who gets a big chunk of money, if anyone does, then you would enjoy the high tension of Unan1mous. If not, you may want to tape The Amazing Race and watch that right after Deal or No Deal on Wednesday nights. I give Unan1mous
½ (one and a half cats carrying bowls of rice and chopsticks out of a possible five)
