The Most Evil TV Show in History

Speaking of ill will, much like I believe Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a TV show with good intentions and often good results, I believe that the new Fox show Moment of Truth is a show aimed for nothing but bad.

The basis of the whole show is for a contestant to answer 21 questions truthfully to win $500,000. Not trivia questions to prove intellect, but personal embarassing questions that can potentially break a family or a marriage apart. As the contestant prepares for this show, family and friends of that person are interviewed to scratch up dirty little secrets that the family has and a list of questions are compiled and the contestant will be asked of these questions while attached to a lie detector. And then 21 questions from this list will be chosen for the actual on-air taping.

The game is divided into 6 different levels, each levels with one less question but more and more personal. The first level consists of six questions that is usually work related like "Have you ever stole money from your job?" and these are as impersonal as it gets. As the levels progress "Things like have you ever slept with you wife's sister?" or "Do you think your in-laws are better parents than your own mom?" are asked, and rest assure that your wife or your mom will be seating right in the audience awaiting your response.

The show runs on the premise of being truthful as common people like myself mistakenly values truth above all. But you can see as the contestant struggling to answer each and every single question in front of vultures of an audience that want to hear more and more dirt from someone they hardly know. And then when you look at the contestants family, you can see their heart breaking apart more and more. You are practically selling your family and loved ones out for how much? $25K? $100K? Don't they know why money can be spent, they will stuck with their family members their whole lives?

Don't get me wrong it is extremely entertaining, it triggers the schadenfreude in me and I will be watching this filth as long as they are on the air. But you can almost feel the evil sip through the tv screen and enters your living room. Nobody really gains froma a show like this and the dirt while very juicy, is about a person that nobody knows, so what's the point?

Here's the now-famous dumb bitch, um I mean Lauren, destroying her marriage right in front of a TV audience:



Maybe politicians should enter this test before they can become elected officials.