Tempting Fortune

I have little care for Paddy McGuinness as a television presenter. That dating show he did was terrible (ok, I only tried one episode). He would barely exist on tv without Peter Kay giving him a hand with Phoenix Nights.

So back to the program....

It makes absolutely no sense!

It rewards failure. There's only a few of the contestants that are barely likeable (I don't know their names - one of the black guys, black girl, and the young white woman with the pigtails).

They seem like a bunch who didn't make it through 'Big Brother' or 'Jungle' auditions!

Finally, why did they have to all the way to Malaysia?! The UK has plenty places this could have been made in ('Jungle' proved that in Wales).

A load of rubbish.

The progress of this is pretty predictable. Pit one person's values and ambitions against another or at least 12 of them.and the inevitable clashes emerge. Watching the consequences start emerging the entertainment starts big time. That's underpinned and driven by the personalities. We have. James practising being miserable and single minded , Carolyne making up meaningless philosophical sayings to support the moment as she wishes and somewhere in betwen Lani behaving like a spoilt child "I want a pastry" . It's also quite amusing how they see minor climbs and relatively short treks as exhausting and overwhelming but again the consequences of them realising they haven't just signed up for a walk around the block kicks of the entertainment.

The entire problem with this show is that the reward differential for those that had resisted temptation and those that didn't was not great enough. That ruined the whole show.

I actually enjoyed this show at first but the ending was absolutely terrible and the message of the show by the end was absolutely terrible because of how the show was made and the rules it has.

It DEFINITELY needed a final twist and didn't have one, making it one of the most morally bankrupt shows I've ever seen. It should have had a twist where at the end the ones that gave in to temptation were told that actually that money came out of their own funds.

The vilest and most disgusting aspects of human behaviour like theft, no impulse control, lies, rationalisations carried out by the lowest and most reprehensible types of people are actually justified by the show which rewards sociopathic, anti-social and dysfunctional behaviour.

This is odd, 'tempting' fortune but it has them spending on whatever they want, they act like they need it, I don't like how everyone is ok with it, "let her have a $500 milkshake" like if I were old enough I would try to get in to prove their w-e-a-k selves wrong, its absolutely horrendous how they also get the same amount of money a person who spent not a dime would get, like this pos spent 200k and this dude bought nothing and he gets the same amount of money and the praise and acts like he deserves it and telling others to let loose and give in to temptation. They do not need the money, they are not struggling. Rich get richer and get the praise for it. Yes I am frustrated because these people are asses, they give into EVERY TEMPATION!

I thoroughly enjoyed this programme, and got the reasoning behind it, but if I had produced this, I would have stated the winning prize was to be shared by all, but there would be a twist at the end, which would have been , all who spent and were tempted with other's money, would have the amount deducted from their share, and the ones not tempted, would have walked with the full £25,000, plus the amount spent, divided by them.

It was heart reneging to see the ones not tempted, to walk away with just slightly more than the ones tempted, and that for me was disappointing, bad viewing and I was left pulling my hair out at the end. X.