The Moment of Truth

I got sick of all the people complaining about how "boring" this show is, so I decided to comment myself. The Moment of Truth is a funny and exciting new reality series. Especially compared to all the other crap that's on *cough* American Idol, Survivor *cough* I love watching the contestants sweat when they get to a tough question, and their faces when they get caught in a lie. It also shows how much people are willing to do for money. Yeah, they might make it to $500,000 (which is going to get taxed down to crap) but at what cost? It's also a great opportunity for the nosy people of American to stick their nose in other peoples lives and business, and find out all their dirty little secrets. And if we didn't like stuff like that, Desperate Housewives never would have made it. The only bad parts of the show are the frequent commercial breaks and silly dramatic pauses. However, the hilarity of it all more than makes up for it.

The Moment of Truth is a great guilty pleasure.

I have to give it to the makers of this show: they had a pretty good idea. However, once I watched the first episode, they really lost me. They lost me so much, as a matter of fact, that I wished even further that the currently striking writers (as of the date this article is written) would make a deal already. As great as the premise is, and as intriguing as it is in a Phil Donahue sort of way, it's not really a great show.

For one, you don't really feel an emotional connection to the contestant. Because of this, at least I didn't feel any sort of remorse when either the contestant revealed the awful truth, or when he lost the money he would have made.

The show would be a bit more exciting furthermore if the contestant was hooked up to a polygraph test as he or she was being questioned. Of course, polygraphs measure stress, so the results may not be accurate, but it would make for some far more interesting TV. It just seems as though the HAL-like female voice saying, "That answer is (extra long pause) true" is not only not thrilling, but it also feels like a huge waste of time. During this long pause where nothing was said and faces were examined, I felt like turning my TV off and reading a book.

This reality/game show is not as intriguing as "Deal or No Deal" or even "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". It's also about as disposable as the paltry "Hit Me Baby 1 More Time", with a host that's equally as dull. Unless this show gets a serious makeover, not even its placement after "American Idol" can save its fate.

Never have I seen a r.v.show with such suspense,it was beyond riveting and some episodes may be harmful to peoples psyche. The host and producers at moments are vile ,and exceed decency it seems EXCEPT THESE CONTESTANTS CHOSE THEIR PATH FOR MONEY , AND MERELY HAD TO TELL THE TRUTH...BEST SHOW OF ITS KIND EVER,BY FAR. Only an imbicile would not consider this show to be uniquely entertaining you want to learn how people have their innermost secrets uncovered. Brilliant show !

I was interested in seeing this show just to see what kind of questions and answers they'd have. I'm so incredibly annoyed with it I will definitely not watch it again.

The annoying host, Mark Walberg (not Marky Mark but the guy who hosted Temptation Island) asks a question. The person in the chair literally sits there and contemplates their answer for 30 seconds. This is a long time when you're sitting there in silence. Plus - these people have already been asked the questions so they know what their answer is. They are obviously told to wait for a suspense effect.

Then, they say Yes or No...and we wait again for the computerized voice to say True or False. In one hour there were only two contestants. The first got through I think 13 questions? The second got through 6 so far (there are 4 minutes left so I assume only one more will be asked).

The audience is annoying too, I think they have little signs above them telling them to "oooohhh" or whistle or clap.

OK, the question that was just asked was if the guy padded his underwear to look bigger. This is ridiculous.

Don't get me wrong, this show is objectively trash. Jerry Springer-tier trashy TV you throw on to run in the background at your uncle's house to try and forget the smell of Marlboro Reds caked into everything.

The part that hooked me was watching someone ruin their relationships with friends, family, spouses, loved ones to the sociopathic hooting mob applauding every terrible answer the contestant gives. It's utterly dystopian. It's so weird. The worse the contestant was, the more they cheered, and the more I laughed.

Every single godawful confession, answer, look of abject disgust or shock by the contestant's loved ones while this audience is baying for their blood like a gaggle of emotion-devouring vampires hit me like a bump of coke.

That one infamous episode where a lady completely ruins her marriage and probably the opinion of every single person she's ever known, only to fail at getting any money at all was like watching the Icarus of being a terrible person plummet to the sea.

Do we need more TV like this? No thanks. But this little nugget of a show I came across filled a weird niche in my brain that watched this whole farce chuckling like a lunatic.