Boom!

2015

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1
5.2| NA| en| More Info
Released: 25 June 2015 Returning Series
Producted By: Dick Clark Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.fox.com/boom/
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Get ready for BOOM!, the new game show that fuses family entertainment with the thrill and intensity of a blockbuster action movie. Full of comedy, color, tension and excitement, BOOM! is a general knowledge quiz show that challenges teams of three players to defuse the game show’s ticking slime-bombs, by cutting the wires relating to the correct answers and leaving the wrong answers untouched. Get it right – and the players win big money. Get it wrong – and, after a tense countdown, the slime-bombs detonate, showering the players – and portions of the audience – with mystery goop that could be anything from guacamole to mashed potatoes, forcing the players out of the game.

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Cast

Tom Papa

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Dick Clark Productions

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Boom! Audience Reviews

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
atlasmb Noting that the (2) reviews of this show and the comments are worthless--diatribes about racism and homophobia--I decided to provide a serious review of this new game show.Teams of three compete, one player at a time, to "defuse" bombs by snipping the correct wires. The wires correspond with possible answers to a question, for example "Name the top three automobiles models sold in 2014." As the game progresses, the bombs get bigger, the number of options increases (making it more difficult), and the dollar value of the bombs increases.If a player fails to defuse a bomb in the allotted time, it explodes, spewing gooey concoctions like grape jelly, turkey gravy or rice pudding. I think the creators of the game thought the timer/bomb aspect would add tension, like bomb defusing sequences in films, where they are trying to beat a clock. It doesn't work here, where the focus is on the messiness, not so much on the countdown.The questions are worthy of game play. But the food bomb penalties serve to delegitimize this quiz show. Also, unlike the genre-defining "Jeopardy!", they encourage contestants to verbalize their reasons for making their choices, resulting in inane statements like "My wife's hairdresser once lived in Vermont, so I know the answer is 'The Green Mountains'." Other show also do this.The end result is a quiz show that does not take itself very seriously, dumbing down--like "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader"--for the less than collegiate crowd. In contrast, an example of a game show that effectively uses a timer, see "The Chase".
white-15953 Anyone else see the second episode where they asked the African American Contestants a bunch of random hard to answer questions and then right after when the Caucasian Contestants came on they asked them a ton of questions my 7 year old LITERALLY knew the answer to. I lolled at every questioned they asked because it was so pathetic.Last time watching that garbage, there are too many other good shows out there to waste time on that. I hope they take this show off the air as soon as possible to free up a slot for something actually worth watching to be aired.P.S I am not sure why this post requires for me to write 10 lines of text but here you go.