The Moment of Truth

Yet another show using a lie detector. They were extremely popular in USA and were used to convict people. Still used as a tool to solve whole crime cases and to this day if someone accused of a crime is offered a lie detector and refuses to take it or fails it the police, media, and public in USA will fully believe the person is guilty. There is no upside to taking them and there are plenty of cases where double-agents fooled such tests anyhow as you can't know why people are lying or why they are not believing their own stories or are maybe just too nervous.

This show is real enough. They need to take a lie detector first then answer questions in the studio to win money and if they fail a single question they lose all their money. It's simple and real. If you are about to get a divorce you can try to win $500K while you are revealing all the dirty secrets to the world causing a divorce. Which happens in the most notorious episode where a wife fails at the end by answering wrong on "do you believe you are a good person?" And hence the show reveals what it is. There are so many vague questions based on emotions that many people who fail don't know why they failed and truly believe they answered correctly. I just think the show fakes the answers to these questions to not give away $500K more than a single time during all the seasons. It shows how they manipulate the answers to never lose. Many people are ready to reveal all their dirty secrets, but you can't guess random emotional lie detector stats. Hence showing why the lie detector is bunk as you can't prove or disprove such statements.

Gameshows that spawned before 1990 seem to be better than the modern day gameshow. they seem to be family friendly and not so scary, with limited sex-related things.

The moment of truth is like a supermodel. Dramatic, predictable, plus they take too many breaks from their work.

OK, so the whole idea in The moment of truth is that the contestant must answer 21 questions. the further the player gets into the game, the more personal the questions get (this is where sexuality comes into play) The oohing and laughing are all staged, evidently. because some of the less personal questions still get a heavy ooh from the audience.

It's best you stay clear of this one and watch Deal or no deal, or Are you smarter than a 5th grader?, because those 2 are a true success.

This is the worst game show ever created. The contestants are asked questions that they had been previously asked under a polygraph machine - which aren't that reliable as you know. Then the game show host, who acts judgmental and arrogant, asks the questions and sets the contestant and family/friends up by asking a simple question relating to the game show question first and then leads into the game show question.

Then, they have dramatic lights and music and a LOT, I mean a LOT of pauses and dead silence. They go to commercial break and then they repeat the last three minutes of the show from before the break and then there's another fake dramatic pause of the contestant THINKING about their answer.

WHAT IS THERE TO THINK ABOUT??? YOU KNOW WHAT QUESTIONS ARE COMING UP. THEY'VE BEEN ASKED OF YOU BEFORE!!!!!! They reveal things about the contestant that can break families and relationships apart and the game show host is such a dork and is so judgmental during the entire game show. He even says "some things are better left unsaid" - um, if you think that way, then WHY are you hosting and supporting a show where things ARE said? This show will be canceled and lives will be ruined in the process. And the sad thing is that after they've revealed HORRIBLE things about these people (affairs, stealing, cheating, lying, drug use, etc.) some don't even win any money so they did it all for nothing.

The same idiots that go on the Jerry Springer show go on this show. It's the same exact thing. People reveal things to their loved ones that they didn't know and that ruin their relationship and trust. It's not an uplifting game show. It's not a game show that I would EVER be on.

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.

I have to give it to the makers of this show: they had a pretty good idea. However, once I watched the first episode, they really lost me. They lost me so much, as a matter of fact, that I wished even further that the currently striking writers (as of the date this article is written) would make a deal already. As great as the premise is, and as intriguing as it is in a Phil Donahue sort of way, it's not really a great show.

For one, you don't really feel an emotional connection to the contestant. Because of this, at least I didn't feel any sort of remorse when either the contestant revealed the awful truth, or when he lost the money he would have made.

The show would be a bit more exciting furthermore if the contestant was hooked up to a polygraph test as he or she was being questioned. Of course, polygraphs measure stress, so the results may not be accurate, but it would make for some far more interesting TV. It just seems as though the HAL-like female voice saying, "That answer is (extra long pause) true" is not only not thrilling, but it also feels like a huge waste of time. During this long pause where nothing was said and faces were examined, I felt like turning my TV off and reading a book.

This reality/game show is not as intriguing as "Deal or No Deal" or even "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". It's also about as disposable as the paltry "Hit Me Baby 1 More Time", with a host that's equally as dull. Unless this show gets a serious makeover, not even its placement after "American Idol" can save its fate.