TV’s Moments of Joy: The Dream Warriors

Downfall – Did you see this show?A couple of weeks ago, we added this to our Summer Preview, mostly out of sheer befuddlement that this was going to be a real thing.(Professional wrestler Chris Jericho hosts a game show where a conveyor belt drops prizes off of a skyscraper.)And now that we’ve seen the first episode, well, we’re not sure that it actually is real.There’s something endearingly incompetent about this production.First off, they have no sponsors – every prize is completely generic.You can’t just tell us that somebody’s winning “a new car” or “a computerized telescope” with no specifics or manufacturer information.It makes the whole thing seem so low-budget.And even though they emphasize that the prizes are actually just props rather than the actual items, if you build a dining room set out of the things a dining room set should be made from, then you’ve built a dining room set and not a replica of a dining room set.Right?The questions are ridiculously easy – $50,000 should not ride on somebody naming who played Wolverine.(However, the first batch of contestants still struggled, including the guy who took far too long to name the current President.)And then there’s Chris Jericho.He’s personable, and he may well be a very nice man.But a host, he ain’t.He doesn’t quite read the clues fast enough, so often the contestant answers before he’s said anything at all.At one point, he made fun of a participant’s name – Alistair McAlistair.Only the guy’s name was Alistair McGreggor.Chris said the name like 15 seconds earlier.And it was so weird and awkward that nobody corrected him, and Alistair McGreggor laughed about his name that wasn’t really his.And along those lines, one contestant called Chris “Kurt”, possibly mistaking him for Kurt Angle, a totally different pro wrestler.Again, too awkward to correct.