#Legends of the hidden temple you tube tv#

'Our time here on Legends of the Hidden Temple has definitely been relatable to a journey in life,' solemnly declares one of the players. (Don't take this too hard, but I'm not allowed to tell you which one, even if I say 'spoiler alert' first.) It is a moment of extraordinary gravitas. In the 1950s.Įventually, one of the teams wins. In the pilot episode, one pair hails from a punk rock band, one is composed of ex-cheerleaders, and one is a couple of party girls 'playing to make our rent.' The grand prize is a penurious $25,000 split between the two teammates, 'a king's ransom,' according to one of the hosts. The contestants seem 20ish until they speak, when the show's Nickelodeon DNA is fully exposed. This requires a lot of throwing stuff, collecting things, falling down and imparting such wisdom to their partners as 'Girrrrrrrl power!' It consists of teams of two contestants each taking turns racing around a tacky mockup of a Mayan temple for an hour, trying to recover a lost ball from the ancient Mayan game pok-ta-pok. Legends aspires to be a sort of game version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, except without Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford or any of those playful Nazis. The CW apparently thinks millennials, dizzy with childhood nostalgia, will flock to Legends I think they'll react more like baby boomers taking a long swallow of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill: You mean we actually drank this swill? It even has the same stone-face talking head Olmec (you doubtless remember him from the Patty Hearst trial), delivering the same stentorian warnings that contestants are about to be slaughtered by hordes of vampire bats, which, sadly, turn out to be as false as ever. No, this version of Legends has the same silly stunts as all the others-the same soporifically juvenile dialogue. (Jejune wordplay fully intended.) Nobody's competing to be the first to complete an act of fornication in a den of snakes or anything like that. I hope my use of the word 'adult' a few sentences back didn't improperly arouse your hopes.

If we ever have a Scopes trial on the existence of devolution, Legends of the Hidden Temple is going to be Exhibit A. And now, to my horror, it's a being presented as a competition game for adults on The CW.

#Legends of the hidden temple you tube tv#

Then it morphed into a TV movie, also on Nickelodeon. Legends of the Hidden Temple began life nearly 30 years as a kiddie game show on the Nickelodeon Network.