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Saturday, December 05, 2020

I'm annoyed...

I'm annoyed by contestants on the Australian edition of "Mastermind" [SBS] being allowed to choose individual movies as their special subjects. Anyone can watch a 90-minute flick, read the corresponding Wikipedia entry for background information and get 6-8 questions correct. If you then do well in the general knowledge portion, that might be enough to win on a slow night. To me, the entire body of work of a certain director or actor is an acceptable specialty. A single film isn't. Spending years studying everything there is to know about Napoleon's battles, birdlife in South-East Asia or the novels of Toni Morrison makes you a mastermind. Doing a cram on "Repo Man" the week prior to the show doesn't.

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