Your Face or Mine?

Hey, let's watch couples and random pokerfaced people get humiliated in tasteless and humorless ways, or watch them humiliate themselves for a few thousand pounds! That's the entertainment! Superficiality, non-stop cringe and second-hand shame, spiced up with a bit of proudly committed undermining of relationship! Demeaning yourself while laughing is not demeaning, because everyone is having so much fun, right? I think I saw the Antichrist clapping in the back row...

The show is so nauseatingly grotesque and infernal that if you added an android it could easily be an episode of Black Mirror. The saddest thing is, when it comes to the quality of television, this is the rule rather than the exception.