Sunday, 21 June 2009

[Drama Review] The Quiz Show

Right, same thing with Smile, very casual review... not as much flail. Huh. Strange. o_o I honestly thought I would be DYING over The Quiz Show. DAMN IT MATSUJUN!!! >_<!!

Episode 1

Kamiyama is the host for a TV show called The Quiz Show and the first guest is a singer/musician called Andou Kosuke who killed his partner. The Quiz Show (in the drama) is structured in a way where the questions, as they get "harder" begin to reveal the "hidden" parts of the guest and by the end they have to confess whatever wrong they did or walk out. Kamiyama is actually a guy who suffers amnesia and Honma (the director) is somehow connected. What Kamiyama does remember is a girl who is drowning. The is unknown for now.
Not a bad start. It was pretty interesting but I can easily see how repetitive it can get. For now nothing.. really seems to be pulling me a long. I mean.. the "amnesia" thing doesn't really interest me much but we'll see.

Episode 2
The show starts off with yet another flashback. A bit more is revealed. The guest this time is a cell-phone novelist named Mika. The problem with her is that she did not actually write any of her stories and she is wracked with guilt and what not. Apparently Kamiyama met her as a kid when he was on a camping trip with some nameless girl. In fact it seems everyone who will be guesting was someone Kamiyama had met at some point.
It's getting there. The amnesia storyline still isn't pulling me along that well. Sho's acting is awesome though and I seriously love Kamiyama. He's such a jackass *laughs* I'm sort of wondering how many people Kamiyama actually met on his little trip and how Honma ties in (by the way, Yoko - Honma - so fricken hot). Little thing about the guest - ... she just pisses me off.

Episode 3
The guest this time is a "free school representitive" Miyamoto Keniji (played by Narimiya Hiroki!). Basically his character is a guy who helps run a free school that apparently lives on donations. Obviously the entire thing is a huge smuggling scam in reality and the guy is found out. The snippets of memory continue coming and the girl's name is Misaki. Don't know what happened but Honma knows Misaki. A love triangle? A sister? Who knows? It was raining. Ayaka's character saw Kamiyama (very lifelessly) being shoved into a car. She's obviously wondering what is going on. We also learn that apparently Honma is in the show thanks to Saejima. How exactly are those two linked? o_o. As well, an incident "2 years ago" was mentioned. What incident was that? Gah.. so many mysteries.
Alright. So. I think this drama is just getting better and better as the story continues. Also the director. Saejima, love her so much for some reason. Don't ask why, I just do. Also, I'm loving Ayaka right now for her Shukudai-guesting. Anyone else think that Saejima appearing with her kid might be significant to the story in the future?

Episode 4
Flashback in the beginning. Honma, Kamiyama and Misaki were classmates? Or schoolmates? The guest this time is a fortune-teller of some sorts named Yuutenji Nokko. She is a fake and apparently was a very nice lady until she realized her life sucked and she was too lonely. That was harsh wasn't it? I don't really care about the guest, what I'm more interested in is the whole HonmaxMixakixKamiyama thing going on. Did Kamiyama really kill the girl (as the end seems to show)? Also, Ayaka's character is started to become really suspicious and seems to start snooping around a bit. Wonder how that's going to turn out.
Alright, now the amnesia storyline is actually turning interesting. All these character ties and relationships that appear. Crazy plot twists. This is getting really interesting. Seriously. Loving this. KamiyamaxMisakixHonma - WHAT HAPPENED? So many speculations I could make up. How does Saejima pull into the mix. How is it that Kamiyama managed to meet every single one of the guests during his little camp trip? So many questions, not enough answers... can't wait for the next episodes!! Little thing about the guest - The "Jyunishi power" thing pissed me off to no end.

Episode 5
Flashback, apparently Kamiyama really did kill Miyaki (says Honma). Those two seemed to be going out. Onto the guest for today's episode is a "genius" surgeon "Godhand" Tomobe Koichiro. This guy left his professor to die. Anyways, aside from the guest so much unravels in only the first 9 minutes. Apparently nothing is known about Kamiyama but Honma was an AD for the old Quiz Show (season1) and somehow Saejima is linked to that too. Also there seems to be some relation between Saejima and the Galaxy TV president.
Throughout the episode we learn that Kamiyama's first name is Satoru. Apparently Honma saw Kamiyama over Misaki's dead body. Saejima, Ayaka's character and Kamiyama are starting to find things out.
Oh god this is just getting better and better. So many twists and turns and I can't predict anything at all. One that bugs me is all the guests.. take so long moping and trying to defend themselves and it's sort of annoying. Little thing about the guest - He's got problems. Lots of problems. Guys like him should not be doctors. -_-''

Episode 6
The guest this time is a NEET who lives off his mom, Katsuragi Makoto who kidnaps Saejima's little girl Minori. The format for this episode was just a teensy bit different. Instead of just interrogating the guest it seemed in the beginning that the guest had dominance over the TV staff but than it changed in the end thanks to Kamiyama. Pretty interesting, the episode went by pretty fast. Again still wondering why all the guests were gathered in the same place as Misaki and Kamiyama. Another person seems to have appeared in the memories but they are still blurry. Also, Yamanobe has appeared in front of Homa o_O

This episode was pretty interesting due to the fact that it was just.. different from all the other episodes which made it more entertaining. Nothing much was revealed although Yamanobe from season 1 did appear. Little thing about the guest - He's retarded. I agree with Ayaka, can I punch him? Ungrateful !@#$ >_> Can't wait for episode 7 =D

Episode 7
The episode starts out with Honma telling Yamanobe that he won't screw up and with Kamiyama starting to become a bit rebellious. He's very close to regaining most of his memories. The guest this time is a pilot named Shibata Yuuki. We learn in this episode (after a majority of headaches that were honestly quite annoying) that Kamiyama, Honma and Mizuki were on a plane (with all the other guests of the Quiz Show) and the pilot of said plane is Shibata. Due to the epic FAIL of the plane company the aircraft crashes onto the lake where all of them are stranded. The guest this time honeslty didn't do anything wrong it was his shitty companies fault. Really, this episode just exists to quickly patch up all the places that need patching. We also learn in this episode that Saejima was there was well, she was a reporter at the time. It also seems that Honma is a lot more powerful in the TV station than he seems and Saejima is apparently the next guest =O

Oh.. things are just heating up. Honestly this episode was a bit hard to get through due to the constant headaches that were just pissing me off so much. A lot of things were cleared up though and I wonder what's going to happen to Saejima next episode. What dirty secret does she have to expose? o_o? EPISODE 8 NOW!!

Episode 8
Saejima is fired and she returns today as the next quiz for this episode of todays "The Quiz Show". In this episode we learn that Saejima is the wife of the "chief" and that she is not the actual mother of her daughter. Honma wanted to punish Saejima for using Misaki's death as a way of upping her fame. At the end when Saejima is forced to "reveal her secret" Kamiyama saves her and keeps her secret closed, pissing Honma off a huge amount. Kamiyama is started to get most of his memories back and he is starting to become rebellious.

OMG - ShoxYoko moment are like.. damn. But Kamiyama is becoming rebellious and I felt bad for Saejima. Next episode seems even better - the guest? Kamiyama =D Ah.. only two more episodes left until the shocking conclusion. Also, some hints of Ayaka's character (whom I still cannot for the life of me remember the name of) becoming director soon?

Episode 9
Takatsugi? Whatever, Aya's character is made director of the Quiz Show for this episode. Saejima comes back as producer and... Kamiyama is the guest! Seven questions that tell us so many answers... sort of. We learn so much more about the whole KamiyamaxHonmaxMisaki incident and at the end, we are left with: Kamiyama, Honma and Misaki go on a grad trip to Shinai lake. Kamiyama asks Misaki to be his GF but she says no (cause she likes Honma). Kamiyama says something that pisses Honma off and the next day (Misaki's b-day) the three were supposed to go on a plane trip but Honma (cause he's pissed) doesn't go. The resulting crash happens. Misaki becomes a vegetable and supposedly, Kamiyama is pissed at her so he takes of her oxygen mask and kills her and than tries to commit suicide by jumping off a building and fails. SUPPOSEDLY - but... does that really happen?
..Is it just me or do the episodes of the Quiz Show seem harder and harder to get through? I thought I liked the series but... I don't know. The episodes seem to crawl by so slowly now.. (-_-;;) The ending is just too predictable in my opinion.. I haven't even watched the first series but things like this can be predicted easy (for me at least). Bah, I'll still finish the last episode though ^^



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