The girl with the purple hair

Finally got around to watching Syfy's Exit. My main thought as I followed the quizzer plus stunt show: this is not targeted at my demo. Only one of the eight contestants cracked the forty-year barrier, barely. Otherwise it was young'uns with purple hair and stranger hairdos.

The four pairs of contestants had to solve puzzles and answer (mostly pop culture) questions as jerry-rigged rooms shrank, froze or otherwise disintegrated around them. Each room eliminated a team until the remaining pair faced one last room. If they exited successfully from that final chamber of doom, they won a cable-cheap ten grand.

I shouldn't make fun of the girl with the purple hair, because she was one-half of the winning team on the debut episode. Hope she enjoys her cut of the $10,000. Curt Doussett hosted the show with intentional obnoxiousness, ridiculing the weaker efforts from the put-upon contestants. The show was edited with a meat cleaver to give the viewer the yips (or to make things seem more "real").

For what it was, the show wasn't terrible. But I got tired of the jumpy editing and the screams from the purple-haired one. The interspersed bits of contestant interviews also got annoying. But then, who cares about my opinion? I'm past sixty, so Syfy doesn't think I exist.

In the review that truly counts, Syfy didn't get much Nielsen mileage from the debut of Exit on June 4: 662K viewers with a 0.3 18-49 rating. The return of the network's Total Blackout performed even worse: 434K viewers and a 0.2 rating in the demo.