Weakest Link

This show only gets one star from me because of her Jane!! I found find her to be obnoxious for no reason. I find her to be mean for no reason. I find her to be egotistical for definitely no reason she has nothing over any of these people. She is very off-putting and there is no reason for anyone has the host of this really fun game show intelligent show to be the way she is. She basically ruins the whole show with her abrasive constantly abrasive personality. Get rid of her and the show will be worth watching. But until then she is not the type of host that this show needs. It needs an affable somewhat Maybe sarcastic but not too much and interesting host. But definitely not her.

I have to say that The NBC 1 hr. version of Weakest Link is so BORING! I liked the 1/2 hr version better simple, because the show and the game itself doesn't strain out like Anne Robinson's edition. The whole gang seats there for the whole 30 min. and they don't get kicked off the show. However, this show which only lasted for I think only 18 months (Jan. 2002-Sept. 2003) But I think this show really had the potential to be out only after this long period of time. But the good thing about this show was the fact that the host George Gray and the second season change of the $25,000 chain instead of the $12,500 chain in the first season made the gameplay look a lot faster. But I thin that the show will be back again in the near future, but being this the end of the game show era, it's likely to stay that way forever. :( However the Weakest Link with George Gray gets a total of:

8/10 Not a bad game although with the whole changes at least it is much more comforting.

For those who absolutely HATED the NBC version of "The Weakest Link", you'll probably enjoy the syndicated, 30 minute version of the imported game show, and there's reasons why you probably will.

First off, Ann Robinson doesn't host this version. Instead, we have George Gray as our host, and let me tell you, George is a WAY BETTER host than Ann Robinson is, and he's extremely funny (something Ann Robinson is not), and is quite enjoyable to watch. Heck I think he should host the other version too (If they still make episodes of that version)! The ratings would probably be better if he hosted that version as well.

This version of "The Weakest Link" gets a 10/10 for George Gray.

I've found myself both repulsed and fascinated with this show(both versions). Repusled in that it professes to be a game show of knowledge and skill,yet seems to be as much or more about nominally average(sometimes below average)contestants' guile,duplicity and arrogance. Added to that is the fact that though either Anne Robinson(the original host)or George Gray(the American host,who would be applied to this particular version)are very keen on reminding how dim and inept the assorted group of contestii(a Ken Ober term. Anyone remember "Remote Control"!?)are at banking the maximum amount of money that each round of answers collects,whereas one could argue that between the complicitly choice assortment of individuals that are assembled on the show and the fact that is actually QUITE difficult to reach maximum banking on a given round,so as the show is mostly more about setting up each individual to FAIL rather than succeed. Perhaps I'm just not a great fan of irony in unscripted television(in this case,game shows)but I feel like shows that profess or portend an element of "honest" competition,while fostering the what is essentially the opposite,AREN'T great examples of good television.

Having said all of that,and having watched a fair number of shows now in re-runs on GSN,I can honestly say that it IS,flaws and all,an intriguing show,albeit for probably many of the wrong reasons just stated. I suppose that if one can be better resigned to this as sort of a distaff Q-and-A show,or an "Anti-Quiz Show" as per my SL,then one can sit back and watch,play along and even feel a sense of superiority(or,contrarily,embarrassment)to those hearty but often dense souls who stand behind that luminescent lit semi-circle of podiums. A better show than equally suited for dim,attention-ed-deficit-ed participants such as "Dog eat Dog","Greed" or "Fear Factor",it is something that I cannot claim a great affinity for--call me old-fashioned,but to me quiz/game shows SHOULDN'T have a side-agenda of humiliating those who so bravely partake in them--but I probably wouldn't turn away from. Since,in this area,it runs against,among other shows,"Dr.Phil" and "Oprah",shows that have almost NO business being run in daytime,this show will suffice.

I had the misfortune of watching this bastardized version of "The Weakest Link" when I was recently in America. The reason the British version of "The Weakest Link" works so well, is because Anne Robinson is W-I-T-T-Y and she uses that wit to actually make funny, albeit caustic comments. That's something, perhaps, the Americans do not understand, seeing as they've replaced her acerbic comments with such amusing and intelligent remarks as:

"Who is the mould in your Chinese take-out?"

Yes. How hilarious...

Someone stab me.