TV Trash: Candy Crush (w/TestZero)

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http://rowdyc.com/tv-trash-candy-crush-wtestzero/

TestZero, COME ON DOWN!!! YOU are the next guest host on TV Trash!!!

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http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/ind238_candycrush.html

Candy Crush (2017). Yes. This is in fact, a game show based on Candy Crush Saga, hosted by Mario Lopez. While it can be complimented for its technical achievements (like having one of the largest touchscreens ever employed on a television program), the game falls flat quickly. The contestants are basically just playing the same game they could play on their phones, but never quite like this. Actually, scratch that; it is quite like playing it on your phone, except with stunts designed to make it more difficult (such as having your team attached to wires lowering and raising you like a pendulum, or having one player blindfolded). As usual for a modern-day game show, the contestants were already high on sugar by the time they got on stage. Due to the game's format and how the show is directed, there is little play-along value either; much like The Magnificent Marble Machine before it, the appeal is actually playing it, not watching what is essentially a show in which other people play it. Not only that, but Mario Lopez, despite having been a host of various TV shows over the past decade, still wasn't a good game show host; his only other was the second season of Masters Of The Maze, way back in 1995 on what was then The Family Channelnote . Despite the Big Brother lead-in and the Celebrity Edition premiere (with teams representing Big Brother and Survivor) getting decent ratings, Candy Crush got, well, crushed on subsequent episodes. The final episodes were burned off against opening weekend Saturday night college football games.

[Hawkee]

I have never figured out why on earth CBS got inspired to do a Candy Crush game show in the first place? Because when I first heard about it the idea sounded cool but when the actual show debuted it's first episode I knew this show wouldn't last long. For one thing it actually reminded me of an 80's kids exercise video because the gameplay was more like a exercise class than a game show and one of the challenges involved having the players jump up and down to collect candy like in the Candy Crush game and I could see contestants getting injured from jumping so much and just didn't feel right to me. The other thing was having Mario Lopez be the host for Candy Crush and why I think CBS made him the star of Candy Crush is they probably gave Mario a lot of money and King "the company who makes the Candy Crush app" probably was gonna have Mario Lopez appear in the app itself to help promote the show. But as a fan of Candy Crush myself this show was one of CBS's weakest links