I have watched season 1 so far as that's apparently the good season. The other seasons are supposedly cash grabs after the huge success of the first season about Matt, the guy in a fake reality show where everyone else is an actor. It's hard to replicate such stuff as you need gullible people too and if they mess up there is nothing you can do to save the show. I guess this happened in season 2 and that's why it has lower ratings?
I decided to watch this after watching Jury Duty with a similar concept. Jury Duty was a ton of fun, but overused toilet humor waaaay too much. It got disgusting and lame at many points, but still overall was fun.
Season 1 here meanwhile is way too sexualized. I actually really like they didn't go the modern American way. They showed boobs when a porn star with a perfect body came by. When a bikini on an actress slided to the side they of course did censor it. But what irritates me is how extremely horny Matt is all the time. They make him out to be this good guy who wins $100K while being super nice. In actually he's a horndog and it get pretty disgusting. He hits on 3 of the 4 women. With one he straight away asks her jokingly to sleep with him. With another he constantly talks about her hot body and constantly claims he wants to hook up with her. Not really respecting boundaries. And he flirts so heavily with the third one that the directing crew tells her to stop it. And when she stops the flirting by claiming she likes the host instead he right away tries to vote her out and does it in every round thereafter. He's constantly talking about hooking up with these models while he himself is out of shape and works a minimum wage job. There is also a scene where they have to lick the chocolate of a very attractive blonde and he straight away goes for her boob even though he doesn't like chocolate and stops soon after. This is quite frankly in bad taste as we don't even know what the deals or agreements are. He just looks bad in such situations and without him being a great guy this show doesn't work as well as it should. In Jury Duty they made sure to never make the guy look bad so the show always worked as we were rooting for him. Here it was harder as he kinda messed up a lot of the time.
Still the show remains fun and very interesting. Especially the love triangle with the host and 2 actresses was fun as heck. I couldn't stop laughing. The initial episodes where they overdo the gags are too much as it was clear he would figure it out very soon if they kept it up. It was too silly. The love romance gags meanwhile were very realistic. Kristen Wiig was also awesome. Her subdued humor was on point as she never screamed. She is naturally funny and it made it feel funny yet real.
They also overplan the events to minor details and never let Matt influence anything. At one point he wants to vote out the woman he flirted with, after she shuts down the flirting, and makes other contestants say yes to it. Yet they already planned for another hated contestant to get immunity and have to force a result in a competition for immunity that is clearly fake and makes Matt question the event because of it. It was pointless to protect the other contestant here as for once Matt didn't want him out. So they could have made the scores play out naturally and let Matt do well. There were a lot of forced events that made Matt question stuff. Every single contest was planned with winners and losers. It makes the show look less realistic when they mess up this often.
Overall season 1 was fun. I'm for sure a fan. But you can't really recommend this to everyone. A guy licking boobs without asking is a bit much similar to how Jury Duty had the nasty toilet humor. I would love to watch season 1 with Matt's commentary. Would be super fun too I figure. But I will also try to check out the other seasons because frankly this is pretty damn fun and even slightly worse seasons may not be terrible. Though I figure the lower scores are there for a reason.
I decided to watch this after watching Jury Duty with a similar concept. Jury Duty was a ton of fun, but overused toilet humor waaaay too much. It got disgusting and lame at many points, but still overall was fun.
Season 1 here meanwhile is way too sexualized. I actually really like they didn't go the modern American way. They showed boobs when a porn star with a perfect body came by. When a bikini on an actress slided to the side they of course did censor it. But what irritates me is how extremely horny Matt is all the time. They make him out to be this good guy who wins $100K while being super nice. In actually he's a horndog and it get pretty disgusting. He hits on 3 of the 4 women. With one he straight away asks her jokingly to sleep with him. With another he constantly talks about her hot body and constantly claims he wants to hook up with her. Not really respecting boundaries. And he flirts so heavily with the third one that the directing crew tells her to stop it. And when she stops the flirting by claiming she likes the host instead he right away tries to vote her out and does it in every round thereafter. He's constantly talking about hooking up with these models while he himself is out of shape and works a minimum wage job. There is also a scene where they have to lick the chocolate of a very attractive blonde and he straight away goes for her boob even though he doesn't like chocolate and stops soon after. This is quite frankly in bad taste as we don't even know what the deals or agreements are. He just looks bad in such situations and without him being a great guy this show doesn't work as well as it should. In Jury Duty they made sure to never make the guy look bad so the show always worked as we were rooting for him. Here it was harder as he kinda messed up a lot of the time.
Still the show remains fun and very interesting. Especially the love triangle with the host and 2 actresses was fun as heck. I couldn't stop laughing. The initial episodes where they overdo the gags are too much as it was clear he would figure it out very soon if they kept it up. It was too silly. The love romance gags meanwhile were very realistic. Kristen Wiig was also awesome. Her subdued humor was on point as she never screamed. She is naturally funny and it made it feel funny yet real.
They also overplan the events to minor details and never let Matt influence anything. At one point he wants to vote out the woman he flirted with, after she shuts down the flirting, and makes other contestants say yes to it. Yet they already planned for another hated contestant to get immunity and have to force a result in a competition for immunity that is clearly fake and makes Matt question the event because of it. It was pointless to protect the other contestant here as for once Matt didn't want him out. So they could have made the scores play out naturally and let Matt do well. There were a lot of forced events that made Matt question stuff. Every single contest was planned with winners and losers. It makes the show look less realistic when they mess up this often.
Overall season 1 was fun. I'm for sure a fan. But you can't really recommend this to everyone. A guy licking boobs without asking is a bit much similar to how Jury Duty had the nasty toilet humor. I would love to watch season 1 with Matt's commentary. Would be super fun too I figure. But I will also try to check out the other seasons because frankly this is pretty damn fun and even slightly worse seasons may not be terrible. Though I figure the lower scores are there for a reason.