I didn't really expect to appreciate the Snoop Dogg version of "Joker's Wild," and Snoop Dogg did not disappoint.
If you haven't seen the show, all you need to know is that it's the basic idea of "Joker's Wild," built around Dogg's persona. There are occasionally questions about general knowledge, although they're presented in reference to Snoop's life. Many questions are about pop culture topics, some of which nobody of reasonable intelligence could be expected to know. Category names, if not categories themselves, reference drugs. Talking about marijuana use makes the show appealing to today's modern game show viewer, evidently.
Plenty of questions use video segments featuring "celebrities," or other interactive elements. Some of these are just plain stupid.
The show is produced for TBS, so I didn't expect a traditional presentation of the classic game. Snoop is quite adept at hosting the game, and the set is well done. It is colorful and modern. It doesn't appear they went cheap on the set design. The audience is seated in a "lounge," which fits the vibe the show is trying to create with Snoop as the host.
I've come to accept that I'm in the minority. I enjoy a simple quiz show with an element of luck added to the game. The old "Joker's Wild" posed general knowledge and pop culture questions, but the pop culture questions weren't as ridiculous as Snoop trots out. "Sale of the Century" was not the most fascinating game, but it had a lot of elements throughout the game play. "High Rollers" was simple, but it was fun to watch each game unfold. "Joker's Wild" and "Tic Tac Dough" had interesting elements that made them enjoyable to watch, too. But I guess that's not enough for today's Twitter attention spans.
I guess if it's not "Jeopardy!" then we aren't interested.
