Identity Returns!
Identity Returns! and so Does Quality Game Show TV by Roxanne McDonald
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The warp-speed “What’s My Line?” is back and some of us can hardly contain ourselves. |
Myself included, but the latest contestant for sure hardly contained herself during the running of the returned “Identity” episode: Christina Howard, an actress doing Shakespeare for kids somewhere in California, goes completely loose and loud on the return episode. She is grabbing and hugging Penn, flailing about, and feigning punches…every time they are about to crack the identity of another stranger and Penn instead announces they will do so…right after this commercial break.
But I’ll tell you, I was on edge, too. No, it wasn’t the simulated heartbeat. It wasn’t the contestant, per se. I don’t know what it was, really, that made this passive viewer so actively engaged. Maybe it was how Christina had no clue about number 5, who is a now well-known celebrity hairdresser, well-enough known because of the reality TV show that showcases his skills and angry
tantrums, well-enough known that luckily for Christina, her friends giving assist overheard the audience members saying number 5* was on TV!
Maybe it was how with every identity answer she locked in, I was wanting to see game-show history of sorts, wanting to witness an actual win before the walk-out or the lose-out…. And low and behold, Christina won, naming every single one of the twelve strangers (well, eleven of them, of course) by careful or haphazard and lucky locking in—and thereby making herself only the second to ever win all 500 grand.
Maybe it was just the interesting character choices, the freshened format as a take-off from “What’s My Line?” and the sexy boisterousness and booming Penn Jillette as host.
Regardless of the reasons, the show is back and I am thrilled!
*By the way, celebrity hairstylist was number 5, Jonathan Antin…who came very close to being tagged by Christina as the prison guard or the phonebook-tearing guy, were it not for the faithful TV-viewing folks!
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