“The Moment of Truth”

Have you heard of this show? I saw a commercial for it a few weeks ago, and I thought the gimmick was pretty ridiculous. It’s a game show where they supposedly hook you up to a lie-detector and ask you a bunch of personal questions. Answer them truthfully, they give you cash. Answer one wrong, they take away the cash — all while your friends and family sit on the sidelines.

The commercial I saw had a guy hooked up to the machine, and the host asked, “Would you have sex with another woman if you were absolutely sure your wife would never find out?”

He hesitated… they cut to the wife (who looked sick to her stomach) and then… “Coming soon!”

I have not watched it, and will not watch it, because it’s stuff like that that gives television a bad name. I’d talk about it more, but Dr. Laura already said it better than I can. She compares it to the recent movie “Untraceable,” where a killer posts live videos of his victims as they’re being killed, torturing and killing them faster when more people log on. The symbolism is kind of obvious: ratings for these types of shows = death. Death of a person, death of a soul, death of a society… take your pick.

We really need our writers back.