The Exit List - Episode 4

The Exit List - Episode 4

After enjoying the last couple of episodes of The Exit List, ITV's new big budget game show, I am developing something of a mixed bag of opinions on this. I still think it makes for enjoyable prime time viewing and has a great play a long at home element, but I found myself rather bored during the first half of last nights episode and entertained during the latter!

Last nights show featured two female friends who, despite answering two chestnuts wrong, had a cracking performance in the panic rooms (the make or break element of the show) and certainly raised more money than anyone else on the Exit List. After finding the £100,000 room they went for £115,000 in the Exit List but both seemed disappointed at the player who was selected to recall the list. I suppose if you are going on this show you really need to have both players focused and confident in the recall rather than "hoping" it is going to be either or. 

The key to this game surely is remembering the Exit List in some kind of order, whichever way you do it in your mind. Last night this did not seem to happen and when you start scrambling for answers with 5-6 recalls left then you really are in trouble. The team fell five short but as usual the twist was offered....£17,000 was offered in the final twist. And she took it! Obviously a massive risk this week as had she performed the Exit List £115,000 was theirs but the contestants clearly knew each other well and left with £17,000.

As I said, the final run was entertaining last night but the build up to this is getting very dull. The questions were very poor last night, the panic rooms were not much fun and the whole episode and indeed the series so far is starting to go into the realms of dramatic overload. Still, I imagine there are only a couple of these episodes left so I should be able to stick with it that little bit longer.