{"id":14944,"date":"2024-12-18T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14944"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:55:11","slug":"show-discussion-beast-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14944","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Beast Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2 eps on Friday 19th December, 1 ep weekly thereafter
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This has become a bit of a curio really. Mr Beast, world’s most famous Youtuber famous for his big money challenges and giveaways (and basically doing Real Life Squid Game<\/strong> in 30 minutes), now throwing his considerable weight around for Amazon Prime with a show with a very similar eliminatory premise – 1,000 people whittled down to 1 (so it’s Ultra Quiz<\/strong> then) – and a very similar (albeit bigger) prize – $5m which remains not “the biggest single prize in television and streaming” as X Factor US<\/strong> was offering it years ago and many shows have offered more in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Squid Game: The Challenge<\/strong> there have been stories of the contestants not being treated<\/a> in a way you’d hope to be treated. However despite this SG:TC<\/em> ended up being a hugely compelling final product in a way I was hoping it wouldn’t be really. This show is promising 41 different challenges, quite a lot more than the 6 large-scale games SG:TC offered (although not counting its Moral Dilemmas of course), it will be interesting to see how many are repurposed from Mr Beast’s existing video ideas and how the whole thing is paced – it’s meant to be six episodes total, so ought to be getting through them quite quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For such a big event show we’re slightly baffled by the lack of promo it’s had recently, you’d think Amazon would be pushing it a bit more, and next week on Boxing Day it crashes slap bang into Squid Game 2<\/em> on Netflix which may be diminishing returns but is going to get most of the press that weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might end up being really fun and good! Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 eps on Friday 19th December, 1 ep weekly thereafterAmazon Prime This has become a bit of a curio really. Mr Beast, world’s most famous Youtuber famous for his big money challenges and giveaways (and basically doing Real Life Squid Game in 30 minutes), now throwing his considerable weight around for Amazon Prime with a\u2026 Read More »<\/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":[803,187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3T2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944","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=14944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}