I watch Family Feud frequently. How can you not when between local affiliates and The Game Show Network it airs something 14 times a day. I appreciate the show but only as my pre bedtime entertainment ( not that it puts me to sleep). The show as it's been since it's inception in 1977 with then and now late host, Richard Dawson remains fun and even intriguing to play along with at home. With all due to respect to current host Steve Harvey's predecessors ( the late Richard Dawson, Ray Coombs and Louie Anderson) and the still with us Richard Karns and John O' Hurley, I like Harvey the best. Steve is lively, always on and bursting with personality. True, Steve sometimes goes over the top with obnoxious too long charades ( that should be edited out before broadcast) but nonetheless his ability to guide the show professionally is without question. However, that said, in general the show is not without flaws, some serious. There are two main troubling miscues about the show and worse bith are constant, perennial and go seemingly unresolved or uncared about even. One flaw is that when the contestants have to guess the survey answers they often get points and credit for matching less than obvious and in some cases even asinine answers that shouldn't be up on the survey result board to begin with. I actually think in this case the producers themselves should rewrite some of the public's survey answers even if that sounds like cheating. Plus when they have a question like fill in the blank - Table blank and not one surveyed respondent said cloth it makes me question the mean age and intellect of the respondent. Sorry, I apologize for sounding cruel. However, even by far the worst flaw is the opposite- the amount of times players say answers that should be there but aren't. Sometimes family players yell out obvious answers that turn out not even on the board and end up deprived of points that should rightfully be there. The show actually has two more missteps I feel compelled to point out. In the 3X point bonus that is the round that should feature a survey with the top 8 answers, not just the top 4. This round and round one with 8 answers needed to switched with each other. With the final 3X point round needing only 4 answers to fill in and match the entire survey, the family who buzzes in to guess first had a decided and profoundly unfair advantage. Finally, the bonus round is for 20,000 and according to the show's website that is split 5 ways among the 5 family members playing , automatically by the producers. 3000 a person after taxes is not much these days. Before beloved late host Louie Anderson convinced producers to boost to 20,000 it was 10,000. Now it's 2024, time for producers and their insurers to bump the prize to 100,000! One final nitpick- I wish the show like The Price Is Right followed a casual dress code instead of the formal one even spelled out I believe on the website. As a viewer, I would feel warmer and more invited to see players in jeans and tshirts than in suits, ties, dresses and taking the unfortunate Jeopardy approach to game show style. Now, even with all I said, the show is still quite credibily entertaining. Hey , I just put some knocks on it ( out of love) and I still watch it myself 6 times a day! My score- 7 out of 10.
Review of Family Feud
