Grumpy Old Man
When young people come to me and ask me what I think is going wrong with the world, I dismissively gesture in the general direction of The Floor on ITV and mutter This…
Nothing to do with Rob Brydon, we like him, don't we? Nothing to do with the game show format, we think it's quite clever. It is everything to do with the direction of the contestants; the contestants are everything that's wrong with the show.
The researchers have done their work and secured a fair cross section of the great British public but the contestants have been on the blue Smarties, haven't they?
The contestants are products of the social media age; contestants, many of whom appear to have spent a bit too much time in-front of the mirror, practicing their shapes, practicing their face-framing actions, practicing their smiles to camera, practicing their cliché battle phrases, acting like complete dicks interacting with digital floor graphics - wallowing in their 15 minutes of fame.
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