The Benefactor - 9/13
 

who's watching??.. worst opening intro ever.. pretty good though.. kind of teaches you some business lessons

The intro was horrible, but I didn't mind the show. I think that it should get pretty interesting. I'm not all that interested in learning business tips from Cuban, but I think that if you look past that it's still a fun show.

Man, I kept expecting mechanical arms to come out of that guy's back and him to battle Spiderman or something.

That, or he'd move to Florida, only to come back to LA later...

I thought the show was horrible. Cuban is so unbelieveably annoying.

Jenga? you have to be kidding me.

Yeah.. first show in a while where i gave up half way through it. I ended up quick-skipping through the 2nd half just to see who got kicked off. It's off my ReplayTV now. What an annoying guy.

Definitely annoying. Cuban just seems so evil: that fiendish grin and those eyes! The show's almost too cheesy to watch but I thought I'd give him a chance and stick it out. Besides, some of the girls were hot.

The Donald has more charm, charisma, and personality than the Cube. Why didn't they just give David Geffen, Steve Jobs or Eli Broad the show?

They must have mentioned $1 million dollars at least every 4th word. We get the point...someone will win $1 million dollars..if you are going to repeat it so often, just put it as a flashing marquee on the bottom of the screen for the entire show.

kathy and tiffany are hot;

I think Cuban is a great guy, but part of that is bumping into him in Dallas is not uncommon. He's always been reallly friendly and down to earth.

And come on...Jenga is great! Who hasn't broken out Jenga at the end of a drunken party?

I thaught the show was good. I liked the fact they were being watched as soon as they entered the house and didn't know it

I think cutting three people in one show creates more tension

He seemed to like that stalky football chick from New York and she's got the perfect "Why I need the million bucks" story. Her mom being hit by a car and losing both her legs was pretty sad

Cuban seems very savy he's very good at reading people

I'm gonna keep watching. How long is this show on for??

It started off well with the hidden camera and the interviews, but the Jenga thing was just stupid. So you want to test their competitive nature, fine. How about doing it with a contest that actually brings out their competitive nature, not a game that is mostly luck. It looks like this show will not have any real point, just random, silly things that get people booted.

I liked that they got rid of people right away, but as a whole, the show seems to suck, and the rich guy is an ass.

Don't get me wrong, I think Mark Cuban has a good down to earth perstonality but toward the end of the show -- he started to annoyed too. Maybe, it just for the first show but he's got too much airtime. I hope that will lessen as the shows progresses. We really don't need to see him onscreen overacting over 'jenga'.

After watching the preview for the upcoming shows - I like some of the sport activities challenges, however, there seems to be alot of crying.

~bruce

it is a decent challenge to test your nerves.. steady hand and all that

I kinda liked the show as well, but only a moron would have thought they're not being watched. It's a reality TV show! They had cameras at their homes to record the Cuban invitations!

Yeah, the whole videotaped phone call reception from the players houses was a bit too much. I mean, c'mon people, they sent a camera crew to your house to catch your reaction when you received the call, and we are supposed to believe that you let them in without asking why they were there, and what they caught was the first time you heard about it?

I have no problem with trying to show the excitement of receiving the invitations to the game, but to try to stage it like it was capturing the first time they found out was pretty dumb.

Overall, I skipped in and out of the show, and it reminded me of Andy Dick's show where he tossed someone right away because of some flippant comment he made to him on the way in the house. And that is a comedy. For Cuban to do it was kinda corny in my opinion. Although I am glad that this reality show seems to be on the fast track to eliminate people.

I liked it a lot actually, then again I like Cuban.

I like Cuban too, but I didn't really like the show. Jenga once is funny, but after seeing the preview for next week it looks like this kind of elimination could continue througout the rest of the show. I'm going to lose interest quickly if this is how people get kicked off.



Plus, I thought Grayson was hot and I wanted to learn how much money she was making playing poker.

What is the deal with the bitter, hateful, angry bitch? I think her name is Shawn.

Wasn't the whole premise of this show: "Cuban kicks people out for no discernible reason other than personal preference?"

I guess it would've been funnier if Andy Dick's show didn't beat him to the punch...

I enjoyed the show, but then again I am a huge Mark Cuban fan.

I am really pissed to see Grayson go and that annoying bastard stay.. Grayson is a beautiful woman and she was one of the more interesting people on the show.

The bitch shawn has got to go.

I finally watched the show, and I think it's too haphazard and places too much credence on Cuban's egomanical whims. This is what happens when a big ego and big money get mixed up to produce yet another "reality TV" show.

The should be called "Finding The Biggest Butt-Kisser in America"

I thought it was mildly entertaining. I'll catch it a few more times just to see what kind of tests these people will have to endure. Cuban's ego is a bit off-putting, but he does seem to be having fun with it.

I kept thinking:

http://www.celebritywonder.com/mp/20...rman_2_009.jpg + http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123..._joe_schmo.jpg = http://www.pbs.org/wttw/ceoexchange/...how8/cuban.jpg