Game Changer Season 8 Trailer

Another season, another attempt at Sam trying his best for his audition as next Saw mastermind

Gamechanger is legitimately an all time great, a very tenuous concept which requires constantly that both the people in the game and its producers are on their A-game. Think about it, the fabric of gameshow design has evolved from simple concepts that build more tension in later iterations through gimmicks like Password -> The Chaser or rely on their interminable existence in the zeitgeist like Family Feud/Jeopardy. GC requires interesting gimmicks PER EPISODE + buy-in from the players cause there isn't the tension of *this randos monetary fortune hinges on his esoteric knowledge* so if the game falls flat, it's hard for the contestants to save it. Whereas Make Some Noise is a good ape on Whose Line, but that format is tried and tested. Any college bar has that exact setup for improv night in every town basically.

This guy needs a motherfucking party

You're really missing out. There have been some bangers in there. Jacob, Kimia, and Jeremy is a great team, so are the musical improv people like Ross and Jess.

Pretty much agreed, but I’ll always tune in for some Ross Bryant as well

Genuinely insane take. Brave of you to post it though. Respect

While I disagree with you about MSN, to the point I've never seen an episode from start to finish as it's not for me, I do agree with you on GameChanger, especially in recent seasons. It's moved away from "fun and creative idea for an episode" and firmly into "how can this play into person X's specific trait", and has ramped up the parasocial nature of it entirely, the who wants to be a millionaire episode was the most egregious example, it's nice that they helped a friend, but as an outsider it was mind numbingly boring and offered close to nil in terms of entertainment value. Similar with the "social media challenge" episode, and several others, with the only ep that I can genuinely remember enjoying from the latest season being spin the wheel.

Season 1: we have a lightbulb “lie detector” to try and make the contestants admit some embarrassing truth. Season 7: we stole some of Jacob Wysocki’s blood.

This is certainly my big fear which is why Im trying to stop watching them

Sam coproduces the McAffrey show you saw! So its already part of the Dropout metropolitan area, even if it's not in Dropout proper

Shark Tank was so close to being a good episode but I think only releasing the videos after the episode and learning who actually won a month later kind of made me feel stupid for watching the episode close to when they come out. Also think Sam should've put his foot down at the end when Vic chaos gremlin'ed the 20k budget that none of the sharks could pay and kind of screwed over Trapp who saved his money up. Not even getting into the overly parasocial nature of the episode but that's just the direction Dropout seemingly embraced.

I think the show has transitioned from being usually pretty good to being super hit or miss as they increasingly up the ante each season. They've also become far more reliant on their cast's reputations, which makes for some genuinely bad episodes. Like imagine watching the millionaire episode and having no idea who he is. It's even worse.

I love the idea of someone struggling to follow the plot of VIP. 

Counter point: Vic IS very funny and the premise is GOOD.