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(2022)

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2/10
Peyton Manning should stick to football
RandomFan202211 July 2022
Take Giant Jenga. Switch out blocks for random items. Add in a host who is trying too hard, lame banter that falls flat. Then introduce over-caffeinated contestants coached to trash talk other teams. And you have a slow moving game which is 60% talk and 40% game play.

Oh, and there's a guy running around in a panda outfit, just to amp up the randomness.

This first episode should be the final straw.
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2/10
Horrid
Esperite8 August 2022
I feel bad for Peyton Manning. Someone convinced him to put his money up for this. No structure. No intrigue. No nothing.

Without Peyton's name attached, I doubt there would be any Network to green-light this going forward.

Embarrassing.
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1/10
Summer tv sucks!
westbunch-4429913 July 2022
You're effing kidding me right?! This is the most infantile show I've seen so far! TV peeps absolutely have no qualms with putting stupid reality and game shows that are very sub par.
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1/10
Poor
jesshaff19 July 2022
The host is horrible, the announcer is not funny at all and it's not entertaining. We tried giving the second episode another chance and it was worse.

Sorry Peyton this is your worst performance....
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1/10
Dangerous
jessicaburns_0527 July 2022
Ridiculous and the host seems sad that her life has lead to this job. Also seems incredibly dangerous? What if they can't run away from all that heavy stuff falling?
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1/10
Boring mega-sized Jenga
laurynl26 July 2022
This is one of the worst shows I've ever seen. I put it on for background noise, but it's not even good for that! Why would anyone pay for this to go on air? (Also, did anyone else notice this set is the same as Is It Cake?)
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1/10
Bad game design horrible bonus round
rmmil8 August 2022
So many things not to like about this game show:

-The host is trying her best but is just not funny in any way. Obviously went to the Amber Ruffin "do one tone" school of comedy.

-The game play itself is a very uninspired game of Jenga without any of the fun and random cringey trash talking.

-The bonus round, however, is the worst part of this game. Apparently in episode 1+2 the players were too easily winning money, so the producers changed the location of the bonus time capsules.

The end result is that after the change, episode 3+, it's now nearly impossible for the players to win any money at all.

Somehow, they've actually made this awful game worse in the middle of its debut season. Very much doubt this will get a season 2.
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7/10
Great Family Show!
cotton_blossom-219-3955421 August 2022
I can't believe all the bad reviews! I love the show! And I love pandas! You have different themed items stacked to the top and contestants are supposed to pull them out one by one until the stack falls over. Whoever wins goes on to the next round. It's a great family show, clean and fun! You might need an anxiety pill to get thru it, but it's A LOT of fun! The jokes might be a little cheesy but maybe this is aimed at family/kids. It's not THAT bad as people are saying. Love Tipsy the Panda and her hijinks!
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1/10
Beyond Painful.
ttenchantr27 July 2022
Tried my damnedest to like this show because of the involvement of the normally hilarious Josh Robert Thompson but sadly, the simplistic game play, gimmicky editing, and Janelle James' complete and totally unfunniness (here and everywhere else) will no doubt doom this show to a short run. Hard to imagine that ABC has a worse current show than "Claim To Fame" but this is it.
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Bruh....
sdeveno19 August 2022
This show is absolute trash. Not one joke landed and it just dragged on. Panda suit person with fake fire lighting a cannon that was just a glowing light which "shot" fake confetti. Even the laugh track was terrible... There is nothing redeeming about this show. 10/10 would not watch again.
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10/10
This show is amazing
sebastianmalinski17 July 2022
Its so bad its good. Talk a host so is so unfunny you don't laugh at her jokes you laugh at her. And a premise that is honestly terrible so you end up laughing at the contestants trying to ack like its intense.
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6/10
Good concept, bad execution
cookiepaige-023229 August 2022
I love the concept of this game show. It's Jenga on steroids! But the show falls flat. The slow pacing, the fake crowd, and the lazy attempts to make jokes. While the hostess tries her hardest to make her pre written jokes seem funny, they're still extremely stale. The narrator "Fred" is just white noise that adds nothing to the show other then mild irritation. Now... the freaking panda. Who thought adding a panda into an already some what chaotic show was a bright idea.

Once again, I love the concept of the show and it has great potential. With all the fun props and contests the idea is in good taste. Just the side elements and poor pacing make the show hard to watch.
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