Yeah, game play moved fast enough. My problem with prime time game shows has been the way they get stretched out and Password doesn’t have that issue. I’ll have to wait until there’s an episode without Fallon (good player but way too much excess energy) and watch again.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:10 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > I liked it. It's got some kinks to work out, and the game (and the host) > are too hyper for their own good, but for a premiere I can let that slide. > (Haven't seen episode 2 yet.) > > But I could do without the rehearsed, fake-shocked "oooooh" reaction from > the audience every time the password was announced. Even Jon Hamm was like > "c'mon!" > (That crap ruined the Jane Krakowski "Name That Tune" for me - why was the > audience shocked that somebody said "I can name that tune in three notes"?) > > On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 1:49:06 PM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: > >> I watched the first one and my only comment is on classic Password you >> could imagine the celebrities and contestants sitting in the green room >> before the show and studying thesauruses, and before this version you can >> imagine them sitting there and binging on cocaine. There was a lot of >> energy expended out there. >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 1:39 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I haven't watched yet, but it's nice to see a return to classic gameplay >>> after the atrocity that was Regis' "Million Dollar Password". >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 10:42:12 PM UTC-4 Brad Beam wrote: >>> >>>> Gameplay: Ludden classic >>>> >>>> Tiebreaker: “Super”/”Plus” puzzle >>>> >>>> Bonus round: tag-team Alphabetics, with replacement clues (first half >>>> only) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The password is… hour-long?! >>>> >>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/733efcdd-4225-47b3-9816-348acc818ec7n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/733efcdd-4225-47b3-9816-348acc818ec7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7a6a78b2-fb2b-447e-b6ed-8615e47dd199n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7a6a78b2-fb2b-447e-b6ed-8615e47dd199n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFEvwAnQdNo6OZmyGY2cxmYBn3cy%2BVma7u_4yrDT5PiAw%40mail.gmail.com.
