Imagine your Grandfather trying his hardest to be "hip" and "suggestive" and "provocative". This gives you some sort of idea of just how incredibly creepy Host Alec Baldwin is as a game show host. He is not fun, or entertaining - just incredibly sad. Baldwin so so bad he is painful to watch.
Remember all the things you loved about the iconic game show Match Game? Well, you will not find ANY of those things on this version which should be called "Anti Match Game".
When the game show first premiered back in the early 1960s it flopped. The basic premise was, and is, incredibly boring. The original show wasquickly cancelled - but not taken immediately off the air. With nothing to lose, the man who wrote the questions decided to write questions which were quirky, and suggestive.
The audience Loved the changes.
The Producers of the current show have apparently never seen any of theold shows. Everything which was charming, and quirky, and entertaining about the several decades worth of past Match Game shows ... is totally missing here.
The Producers do not know the difference between "double entendre" and"flat out creepy". They do not know how to be "naughty" within a g rated format. The initial questions featured sexual lubricants being sold at Costco and a limerick in which "hickey' was the only possible answer. There is absolutely no finesse here.
Another big problem are the "celebrities". No one would ever accuse Brett Sommers or Charles Nelson Reilly of being "Stars" - but they actually HAD personality. They could think on their feet and deliver snappy one liners with the best of them.
The current "celebrities" are incredibly bland and insipid. I normally like Rosie O'Donnell and Deborah Messing - but here they come across as being wooden and dull. Rosie appears to be heavily medicated -- or so over botoxed she cannot make any facial expressions.
The show ends up being awfully - so painfully bad it is impossible to sit through. I would love to watch a sympathetic reincarnation of the Class Match Game - but this is certainly not that.
Remember all the things you loved about the iconic game show Match Game? Well, you will not find ANY of those things on this version which should be called "Anti Match Game".
When the game show first premiered back in the early 1960s it flopped. The basic premise was, and is, incredibly boring. The original show wasquickly cancelled - but not taken immediately off the air. With nothing to lose, the man who wrote the questions decided to write questions which were quirky, and suggestive.
The audience Loved the changes.
The Producers of the current show have apparently never seen any of theold shows. Everything which was charming, and quirky, and entertaining about the several decades worth of past Match Game shows ... is totally missing here.
The Producers do not know the difference between "double entendre" and"flat out creepy". They do not know how to be "naughty" within a g rated format. The initial questions featured sexual lubricants being sold at Costco and a limerick in which "hickey' was the only possible answer. There is absolutely no finesse here.
Another big problem are the "celebrities". No one would ever accuse Brett Sommers or Charles Nelson Reilly of being "Stars" - but they actually HAD personality. They could think on their feet and deliver snappy one liners with the best of them.
The current "celebrities" are incredibly bland and insipid. I normally like Rosie O'Donnell and Deborah Messing - but here they come across as being wooden and dull. Rosie appears to be heavily medicated -- or so over botoxed she cannot make any facial expressions.
The show ends up being awfully - so painfully bad it is impossible to sit through. I would love to watch a sympathetic reincarnation of the Class Match Game - but this is certainly not that.