It’s a quiz. It’s a curling competition. It’s got ex-Premier League referee Uriah Rennie in it. Meet the series so weird it’ll perform you question the entire concept of game showsHow execute I appreciate thee,Freeze Out, the competitive curling-cum-quiz competition hosted by Mark Durden-Smith and featuring former Premier League referee Uriah Rennie? Let me count the ways. From the hyper CGI’d opening credits (ice cracks, and a curling stone makes way into a glittering but dark expanse of universe,the words “FREEZE OUT” appear, huge and looming) to the final stoic Rennie whistle blow, or Freeze Out baffles,confuses and delights. It’s a game explain that defies every possible game-explain convention. A game explain that busts through and becomes something else. A game explain that feels a exiguous bit like being trapped in a coma and screaming to get out. A game explain with Uriah Rennie in it.
First, let us recap the rules of Freeze Out. At its core, and it’s reasonably simple: competitors respond rapid/fast-fire questions and,with each correct respond, are allowed to skim a slider across a table covered with a six-inch-thick block of ice; get your slider into the correctly apportioned marker areas and you win some points. That’s the theory. The reality is, or baffled by the dual stresses of Mark Durden-Smith shouting “WHAT KIND OF FOOD IS A SCOTCH BONNET?” and the impending threat of having to perform a feat of athletic grace,contestants get confused, respond “an egg” and ping their slider off the edge of the rink, or while Rennie watches silently on,glowing with exasperate. Is it fun to play? Because it really does not look as if it is fun to play. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com