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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 415080" data-attributes="member: 8">I&#039;ve seen it described as &quot;Jack Nicholson performing surprisingly good and Karen Black performing surprisingly bad&quot; - and I kinda agree with that.QUIZ SHOW (1994)[ATTACH=full]55059[/ATTACH]It&#039;s about an American TV scandal I had never heard of before, and I&#039;m afraid it&#039;s the kind of scandal that hasn&#039;t aged very well from a 2024 point of view (and I&#039;m not sure it looked more impactful thirty years ago).The main problem is, it just isn&#039;t &quot;sexy&quot; enough. This isn&#039;t O.J. or Zodiac or any of the other bloody events that keep lingering on.As for the loss of American innocence, the people who can relate to those innocent times are probably already dead.Nevertheless, the actors have been given some character drama to sink their teeth into and that&#039;s the only thing that creates a sense of conflict in this story.In short, Quiz Show offers nothing more than an elegant and well-made &quot;TV movie&quot; that says more about the innocence of the pre-internet and pre-MeToo era.On a sidenote, I sensed a little bit of bromance between Charles Van Doren and Dick Goodwin but unfortunately there&#039;s no payoff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 415080, member: 8"] I've seen it described as "Jack Nicholson performing surprisingly good and Karen Black performing surprisingly bad" - and I kinda agree with that. QUIZ SHOW (1994) [ATTACH type="full"]55059[/ATTACH] It's about an American TV scandal I had never heard of before, and I'm afraid it's the kind of scandal that hasn't aged very well from a 2024 point of view (and I'm not sure it looked more impactful thirty years ago). The main problem is, it just isn't "sexy" enough. This isn't O.J. or Zodiac or any of the other bloody events that keep lingering on. As for the loss of American innocence, the people who can relate to those innocent times are probably already dead. Nevertheless, the actors have been given some character drama to sink their teeth into and that's the only thing that creates a sense of conflict in this story. In short, [I]Quiz Show [/I] offers nothing more than an elegant and well-made "TV movie" that says more about the innocence of the pre-internet and pre-MeToo era. On a sidenote, I sensed a little bit of bromance between Charles Van Doren and Dick Goodwin but unfortunately there's no payoff. [/QUOTE]

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