{"id":26741,"date":"2013-09-16T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coaster.de\/wp\/?p=26741"},"modified":"2013-09-16T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:45:34","slug":"that-puppet-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gruen-wald.de\/wordpress\/medien\/that-puppet-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"That Puppet Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Jim Henson fan, I finally watched „That Puppet Game Show<\/strong>“ – a television series where celebrities go head to head with games they play with puppets from the Henson company. I really like the idea and I also like the format as it reminds me a little bit of these senseless „birthday party“-like game shows I used to watch in the 80ies. It’s quite as anarchistic as Muppets used to be – at least more than compared to the rather lame family-oriented Muppets Disney produced during the last years.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, critics don’t seem to like the format as much. On imdb.com, it has a rating of just 4,7 out of 10. Personally, I don’t understand the criticism as the show is really pretty much delivering what it promises. It’s definitively not „The Muppet Show“ for Christ sakes – which would probably be the holy grail of pupeteering. But it’s typical Henson nonsense with a little bit of social criticism in it and celebrities making a fool out of themselves (which is probably pretty much the only thing you can do, when you act with puppets anyway, isn’t it?). Well, anyway, you can watch Episode 1 here for yourself:<\/p>\n