Sometimes the game play in modern gameshows could be deemed slow or boring, but rarely is the gameplay itself fundamentally flawed and unfair to its contestants at a basic level.
"The Wheel" is a rare game show that is flawed at its very basic level of gameplay. No matter what, as a contestant on a game show you should be given the opportunity to play, at least once participate in some way. However, in "The Wheel" there's the opportunity to never play at all. The 3 contestants under the stage are selected randomly each time they lose, meaning someone could get a question wrong and be knocked out of play, yet then gets to come right back again. That sounds potentially interesting, yet causes what must be incredibly frustrating situations for the players who, by random chance, never get to play a single time.
Also, every game is edited to take up the entire runtime of a single hour, so it becomes really anticlimactic when a player gets to the last question but there's still 20 minutes left in the game. Obviously they must get it wrong.
Once again on game shows of this type, the "celebrity" panel consists of a selection of washed up yesteryear people. I swear the same ones must be on some sort of celebrity game show circuit, they are always the same people as those who appear on shows like "The Masked Singer."
This game needs to tighten up its editing considerably, add double or triple the number of questions, and add a game mechanic that stops people from endlessly getting another turn before others get to play a single time.
Ultimately though, as it stands this was very boring, and probably will get cancelled.
...I just wish one time he said something, anything different. "Poo, Coke, Pee, what's it gonna beeee?"
