I Survived a Japanese Game Show
ABC | Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: There's plenty of humiliation in I Survived a Japanese Game Show as well, but there it's so varied and strange--and very much in keeping with what I understand of those shows--that it doesn't get repetitive or annoying. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: It’s rather like a “Saturday Night Live” skit that should have stayed a skit and not wound up on the big screen. Read full review
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TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: I Survived a Japanese Game Show took a simple enough concept—importing Americans to compete on a bizarre game show in Tokyo—and turned it into a boring, American-style reality show, complete with confessional segments and backstage scenes.
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SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: In the light of summer television, civilization does not seem to have a pulse. It looks quite dead indeed. Read full review
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VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The Japanese fascination with absurd stunts (dressing two players as huge bugs and having them splat against a wall, for example) and public humiliation as good TV fun has a rather acrid taste stripped of cultural context. Read full review
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