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Hotter than Hades

Just watched the debut episode of Hot Ones on the truTV website. The chicken wings were hot but the show was (in my opinion) sort of lukewarm. It wasn't the ugliest game show spectacle I've ever seen, but it wasn't anything I'd want to watch regularly.

Of course, the gameplay is secondary on this show. The showrunners are really selling the pure agony of the contestants as they ingest mouth-searing and stomach-igniting hot sauces. And I must say that the players on the premiere ep looked to be in genuinely torrid torment as the show wore on. They made liberal use of barf buckets, they stumbled around the set, they waved their arms, they made faces, they yelled and cursed and made sure that everybody knew the hot wings were HOT AND WE MEAN REALLY HOT.

If you want to know about the actual gameplay, the front game is a pop culture quizzer and the bonus round is a pop culture Pyramid knockoff.  Enough said about the game, because it's the hot stuff on the chicken wings that counts.

Hot Ones offered a glimpse of EMTs as they tended to the contestants at the end of the show. The showrunners must want us to know that they're not complete sadists. As for my timid self, I just eat my chicken wings with non-hot barbecue sauce. I don't want to use any barf buckets.

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