![]() And if the Rabbit isn’t Joey Fatone from *NSYNC I just might riot. But there are worse ways to spend an hour. Wilson wrote a book called 'Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Cant Look Away.' In his book, he interviewed such subjects as a man who sold the art of serial killers and an obituary. Will “The Masked Singer” ever be a critical darling? No. It’s nice to watch celebrities make fools of themselves for the sake of entertainment, and it’s nice to see judges be complimentary when they don’t necessarily have to be because there is nothing at stake. It’s nice to know that Tommy Chong can be eliminated and it won’t send his world crashing down, since singing is not the only thing he’s cared about his whole life and he has not just had his dreams crushed, as eliminations tend to do on shows like “Idol.” The same goes for when she guesses 81-year-old Jane Fonda is belting “Heartbreaker” by Pat Benatar, or when McCarthy suggests it’s Richard Simmons, the man who has not made a public appearance in years, but, yeah sure, would come on this silly Fox show.ĭespite the apparent aimlessness of “The Masked Singer,” there’s something enthrallingly watchable about a singing competition that doesn’t actually care about the quality of the singing. Scherzinger’s final guess is Kid Rock, which is so off-base it elicits actual laughter from this viewer. Another judge suggests Jimmy Buffet … would Actual Professional Singer Jimmy Buffet be this off-key? No, he would not! Huh? The man has less stage presence than an actual pineapple - definitely not qualities to be found in someone who does this for a living. When Chong is performing as a pineapple, Scherzinger is dead-set on believing that the man beneath the mask is “definitely a professional singer.” Prior to each performance, the anonymous celebrity offers clues as to who they really are, anything from a reference to a city to a mention of what skill made them famous.Īs annoying as the panel is (save for Jeong, who is genuinely funny), watching them make guesses is hilarious. ![]() Sharing in the desire to solve the puzzle is the panel of judges, referred to on the show as pop culture detectives: Robin Thicke, Nicole Scherzinger, Jenny McCarthy and Ken Jeong.įor reasons unknown (except perhaps because it is their job), the four are shockingly, and almost off-puttingly, desperate to solve the mysteries of just who is performing in front of them. We’re used to famous people looking beautiful and Instagram-ready at all times, not flitting around in a futuristic poodle outfit shamelessly singing Pat Benatar.īut for the hour spent watching the show, I, the former child who would occasionally read the last page of a book first, need to know and care about nothing else on this earth other than who is in the poodle costume. 2 premiere brought in 9.4 million viewers, TV’s highest-rated unscripted premiere in seven years, according to TVLine. ![]()
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