Don't get me wrong, this show is objectively trash. Jerry Springer-tier trashy TV you throw on to run in the background at your uncle's house to try and forget the smell of Marlboro Reds caked into everything.
The part that hooked me was watching someone ruin their relationships with friends, family, spouses, loved ones to the sociopathic hooting mob applauding every terrible answer the contestant gives. It's utterly dystopian. It's so weird. The worse the contestant was, the more they cheered, and the more I laughed.
Every single godawful confession, answer, look of abject disgust or shock by the contestant's loved ones while this audience is baying for their blood like a gaggle of emotion-devouring vampires hit me like a bump of coke.
That one infamous episode where a lady completely ruins her marriage and probably the opinion of every single person she's ever known, only to fail at getting any money at all was like watching the Icarus of being a terrible person plummet to the sea.
Do we need more TV like this? No thanks. But this little nugget of a show I came across filled a weird niche in my brain that watched this whole farce chuckling like a lunatic.