{"id":13188,"date":"2020-09-15T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:15:33","slug":"smiles-everyone-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13188","title":{"rendered":"Smiles everyone, smiles!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I found myself watching <em>Blumhouse&#8217;s Fantasy Island<\/em>, a horror reimagining of the late seventies show. It manages to be a really fun idea that somehow manages to fail at being compelling (or even that horrific, by Blumhouse standards) for the entirety of its 110 minute runtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I went down the rabbit hole afterwards and Youtube pretty much immediately shoved this in my face: an episode of the original featuring two TV gameshow hosts (of the ever popular <em>The Great Game<\/em> and <em>I Bet A Million!<\/em>) competing over a woman and trying to avoid the Door of Death. Bob Barclay is played by Gene Rayburn of <strong>Match Game<\/strong> fame. It&#8217;s quite good fun, even if the moral is a bit obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rMzQ2wxA_Nk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure there was a <em>Fantasy Island<\/em> careful-what-you-wish-for style reality show being floated around at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, sounds like ITV want more <strong>Alan Carr&#8217;s Epic Gameshow<\/strong>. Fingers crossed for <em>Epic Blockbusters<\/em>!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I found myself watching Blumhouse&#8217;s Fantasy Island, a horror reimagining of the late seventies show. It manages to be a really fun idea that somehow manages to fail at being compelling (or even that horrific, by Blumhouse standards) for the entirety of its 110 minute runtime. Anyway, I went down the rabbit hole\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13188\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3qI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}