WE DO NOT REWARD KNOWLEDGE, WE PUNISH IGNORANCE: I Survived a Japanese Gameshow was actually fairly amusing. The premise is great: ten - well, not very sophisticated - Americans go to Japan and participate in the normal range of humiliating physical game show stunts. I'm not sure I like the direction here. The sequences of the show itself are pretty good, but the reality-drama parts (oh, my, the Staten Island chick is self-absorbed) are tedious and the segments during the bridge between competition and elimination (the losers had to drive rickshaws, the winners get a helicopter tour of Tokyo) showed no local color at all.
Still, we'll give it another run next week.
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