Mrbeast的野兽游戏真人秀节目展示了一个单独的钱不能购买真正有趣的电视

在最后几分钟，杰弗里·兰德尔·艾伦（Jeffrey Randall Allen） - 在超大型游戏节目中以831的身份闻名，即使是真正闻名

YouTuber MrBeast’s reality competition Beast Games, which concluded Thursday with a record US$10-million prize, was a demonstration of how money alone can’t buy truly entertaining television.

YouTuber Mrbeast的现实比赛野兽游戏（Beast Games）周四以创纪录的1000万美元的奖金结束，展示了一个单独的钱不能购买真正有趣的电视。

In its final minutes, Jeffrey Randall Allen – better known, if really known at all, as Player 831 in the super-sized game show that started with 1,000 contestants – picked the right briefcase out of 10 on the first try to take all that money home to wherever he lives. (Who knows!)

在最后几分钟，杰弗里·兰德尔·艾伦（Jeffrey Randall Allen） - 在超大型游戏节目中以1,000名参赛者的身份众所周知，即使是真正闻名的是831岁的玩家 - 在第一个尝试拿走了所有这些钱的比赛中，拿出了10个合适的公文包他住在哪里的家。 （谁知道！）

Ten episodes of recycled games of skill and random games of chance had all led up to this: a very expensive and extremely short round of Deal or No Deal.

十集的可回收游戏和随机的机会游戏都导致了这一点：非常昂贵且极其短的交易或没有交易。

The US$10-million prize given out by MrBeast and his producers at Amazon MGM Studios – an amount that doubled in the finale in one of many mind-numbing moments that hinged on a slow-motion coin flip – is going to a good cause at least. Allen’s son has a rare disease called creatine transporter deficiency; he’s pledged to help fund research into treatments and possible cures.

Mrbeast及其制片人在亚马逊米高梅工作室（Amazon Mgm Studios）颁发的1000万美元奖金 - 这一数额在大结局中翻了一番，这是一个令人麻木的时刻之一，这是一个慢动作的硬币翻转 - 将是一个很好的理由至少。艾伦（Allen）的儿子患有一种罕见的疾病，称为肌酸转运蛋白缺乏症。他承诺帮助资助研究治疗和可能的治疗方法。

But the lead-up to Allen’s lucky guess was an only intermittently involving ride because the team behind it didn’t show viewers enough on screen to make them care about the human motivations and circumstances of, roughly, 998 of the other contestants.

但是，艾伦（Allen）幸运的猜测的领导是唯一间歇性地涉及骑行，因为它背后的团队并没有在屏幕上向观众展示足够的观众，以使他们关心其他参赛者的人类动机和环境。

Indeed, in its focus on numbers over names, and a ghastly production design that spoke to our fascist-adjacent times, Beast Games was perhaps the most anti-human reality competition of all time.

的确，野兽游戏的重点是关于名称的数字，以及与法西斯仇恨时代交谈的可怕生产设计，也许是有史以来最反人类的现实竞赛。

The aptly nicknamed host MrBeast, a 26-year-old social-media star whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, tried to convince viewers otherwise in the final episode.

恰当地昵称的主持人Mrbeast是一位26岁的社交媒体明星，他的名字是吉米·唐纳森（Jimmy Donaldson），他试图在最后一集中说服观众。

“Over one year ago, Beast Games was created with a purpose,” he said in one of his typically detached voice-overs. “In its pure form, its existence is a sandbox of the 1,000 different stories of the 1,000 different players.”

“一年前，野兽游戏是有目的的，”他在一个通常独立的配音中说道。 “以其纯粹的形式，其存在是1,000个不同玩家的1,000个不同故事的沙盒。”

This was belied by the fact that only two of six finalists in the last episode had anything in the way of backstory communicated to viewers.

这一事实掩盖了这一事实，即上一集中六个决赛中只有两名在与观众传达的背景故事方面有任何东西。

Only Allen and runner-up Twana Barnett, a wrestler who had experienced homelessness as a youth, got the honour of being interesting; the edit was, indeed, tipping the show’s hand all along.

只有艾伦（Allen）和亚军塔娜·巴内特（Twana Barnett）是一名年轻时无家可归的摔跤手，才荣幸地变得有趣。的确，编辑一直在倾斜表演的手。

Survivor, one of the first and still the best of the reality TV competition, gets much more drama out of the diminishing returns of its US$1-million prize each season because the show is mainly, as its still avid host Jeff Probst puts it, a “social experiment.”

幸存者是真人秀电视比赛中的第一个也是最好的节目之一，每个赛季都从100万美元的奖金回报中获得了更多的戏剧性，因为该节目主要是，因为它仍然是狂热的主持人Jeff Pribst所说的那样，一个“社会实验”。

Beast Games, on the other hand, was too much about the limited imagination of a social experimenter.

另一方面，野兽游戏对社交实验者的想象力有限。

MrBeast, whose account has the most followers of any on YouTube, first went viral with a video he posted about eight years ago in which he counted to 100,000. He apparently learned from that that his young, mostly male, viewers are much more interested in big numbers than anything as complex as human relationships.

Mrbeast的帐户在YouTube上拥有最多的追随者，他首先以他在八年前发布的视频播放了一张视频，他的数量达到了100,000。他显然从他的年轻人（大多数是男性）中学到的观众对大数量的兴趣比像人际关系一样复杂的事物更感兴趣。

Beast Games, almost embarrassingly influenced by Netflix’s Squid Game with its masked crew members in hoodies, had a thousand contestants to start.

野兽游戏几乎受到Netflix的鱿鱼游戏的尴尬影响，其蒙面的船员在连帽衫中有一千名参赛者。

In order to get that many humans on screen, the opening episode took place on a set that had the aesthetic of a temporary detention centre like the ones past and present American President Donald Trump is fond of setting up for migrants.

为了使许多人在屏幕上，开幕剧集是在一个临时拘留中心的审美上进行的，例如过去和现在的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）喜欢为移民建立。

Contestants lined up in rows on tall pillars – and when they were eliminated from competition, they fell through a trapdoor in what was, literally, gallows humour.

参赛者在高大的柱子上排成一排 - 当他们被淘汰时，他们在绞刑架上陷入了陷阱。

Like America’s head of the new Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk, MrBeast seems to get a kick out of capriciously cutting people out of the picture.

就像美国新的政府效率部门负责人埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）一样，Mrbeast似乎也从自发地削减了人们的局面。

A barely disguised fantasy representation of mass executions extended to episodes that took place in a walled city MrBeast built in Toronto on the grounds of the former Downsview airport that is hard to describe without using the words internment camp.

几乎没有伪装的幻想代表大规模处决的代表扩展到在多伦多围墙的Mrbeast上发生的情节，这是在以前的唐斯景机场的地面上建造的，而没有使用涉及涉及单词的文字。

Having not met many human-numbers lodging there in any detail, the mass eliminations of the first episodes led to images less familiar from reality TV than from the aftermaths of natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

没有遇到许多详细地居住在那里的人类数量，对第一集的弥撒消除导致了真人秀电视的图像比自然灾害或恐怖袭击的后果不太熟悉。

Nameless people crying and screaming, mainly about their kids; survivors crying out thanks to God and Jesus.

无名的人哭泣和尖叫，主要是关于孩子的；幸存者感谢上帝和耶稣。

As an experiment in mass psychology, Beast Games did have moments when this cruel choreography was engrossing.

作为大规模心理学的实验，野兽游戏确实有这种残酷的编舞令人着迷的时刻。

An episode in which hundreds of contestants were split into four groups and then had to elect leaders who would have to resist an offer of US$1-million in order for them all to stay in the game was genuinely inventive and riveting.

一集，数百名参赛者被分为四组，然后不得不选举他们必须抵制100万美元的提议，以使他们所有人都留在比赛中是真正的创造力和吸引人的。

But the form of the competition kept changing. There were games of skill, strength, social manipulation, the occasional round of trivia, and one full episode that was a mini-season of Survivor – with the island itself being the prize. (An American won a bit of Panama; hurray.)

但是竞争的形式不断变化。有技巧，力量，社会操纵，偶尔的琐事的游戏，还有一个完整的情节，这是幸存者的迷你季节 - 岛上本身就是奖项。 （一个美国人赢得了巴拿马赢得了一些；欢呼。）

Will Beast

会野兽