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The 1998 Game Show to Blame for Everything Wrong With Reality TV

THE BIG BANG

“The Contestant” revisits the Japanese game show that locked a naked man in a barren room and trained cameras on him as 30 million viewers, unbeknownst to him, watched him live.

Nick Schager
Nick Schager 

Entertainment Critic

A film still from the The Contestant
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Nick Schager

Nick Schager

Entertainment Critic

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