We mentioned this a little while ago before the series started, but I think it’s worthwhile pointing out that the last few episodes of Gambit Game, a kind of amateur Youtube version of The Genius played over Zoom, have been very good and certainly worth a look.
It’s certainly not been a show without issues, contestants pulling out rather than fighting, multiple times where the editing hasn’t *quite* pulled the threads together correctly, not in terms of telling the timeline of the story but with the captions and graphics for example. Despite this, it hits a lot of The Genius‘ beats, and even if the first few games were highly derivative of its source, the more recent episodes have had some pretty top notch ideas. The cast has also been well chosen – not much deadwood really.
Episodes go up on Youtube on Sunday evening. We’re discussing episodes on the Discord in #geniuschat.
It’s very good, not least because it’s ambitious and imaginative. I love it.