The same was true of the ABC show Whodunnit, though its test was off-camera. On The Mole, host Anderson Cooper would talk about the mole claiming a victim, but in reality the players were eliminated based on their performance on a test. should they ever decide to make another Sherlock Holmes movie. Ferguson both assists in finger-pointing but also helps deflect attention by asking questions or pointing out errors in their logic, and he’s fun here, moving around the set, as if he was auditioning to replace Robert Downey Jr. There’s so much finger-pointing, which at first doesn’t work because it’s based upon nothing.
That’s fun, but not enough to detract from the show’s refusal to give us information or make sense of the strategic game that’s afoot. We never ever learn why players are eliminated, though we do get Craig Ferguson walking them to a bookcase that opens up, and then they cartoonishly pretend to fall into the secret room behind the books.
Of course, if a contestant makes a pointed accusation and then is eliminated, that just points right back at accused-bad strategy for the actual hustler, unless the hustler uses that to their advantage or something, maybe, I have no actual idea. The hustler has an incentive to vote out someone who might have accused them of being the hustler. But the hustler could still vote them off. The best thing a player can do is help the team answer correctly, thus deflecting attention from the hustler and earning money for the pot. There may be strategy, but it’s convoluted at best. How do you protect yourself if you’re a non-hustler player? There is no mechanism for that. Like an ill-conceived, deformed twist emerging from the bowels of the Big Brother production offices, the format gives all the power to the hustler, and literally makes it impossible for the other four players to do anything. A contestant literally points fingers at another contestant on the premiere of ABC’s The Hustler, while host Craig Ferguson looks on. But they are not voted out by the group they’re voted out by the hustler. Craig Furgeson walks around the set, acting bored, while they deliberate, until he suddenly demands an answer or reveals that they have 10 seconds left.īut then the format, credited to former Blue Peter host Richard Bacon, introduces a Weakest Link-style twist: two of the five players are voted out. Also, the contestants appear to have a time limit in which to answer, but there’s no clock, and not even an indication of how much time they’ve been given. I thought the episode-one questions were a little too easy-especially since they all had multiple choice answers. There are some minor things to quibble with. So far, so good, especially when you add in the production design and the feel of the show, which the opposite of a shiny-floor game show it’s more like watching a scene from Knives Out. The question is then connected to that subject, like, What city is Say Yes to the Dress’s bridal shop in?
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