TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED

[defrog]

Warren Ellis tells me there’s a new game show on Fox where people answer potentially life-wrecking questions for a million in cash and prizes. While strapped to a lie detector.

Which I find hideous, yet funny, and strangely appropriate in the post-9/11 era. Interrogation as light entertainment. Fuck it. Why not?

I’m sure Alberto Gonzales will be a fan. Maybe he could guest host one week. Or maybe we could kill two birds with one stone and have the Gitmo detainees as contestants. Have a special waterboarding round. We could have the whole War On Terror wrapped up by Season 3.

Okay, that’d never work. It’d probably bum people out. Much better to watch middle-class American civilians voluntarily humiliate themselves and ruin their lives for money. That’s what people really want to see. And frankly, I’ve seen worse ideas for reality shows. The Swan comes to mind. Or Dateline To Catch A Predator. And American Idol, of course (which has become so pointless now that the producers are rigging it by letting failed professionals be contestants).

Whatever. For a show like this, both the contestants and the viewers get what they deserve. I just hope Mark Wahlberg (not that one, the other one) asks the question that got the original Columbian version canceled. Because we’ve all hired a hitman to kill our spouse at one time or another.

Well, some of us have. My pediatrician’s wife did.

I’m not making that up.

Hit me,

This is dF

Comments

[lorilori.livejournal.com]

We were just discussing the lie detector show here in my office. From what I hear it is indeed hideous. :)