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- FOX
- Jan 1, 2019
- FOX
- Jan 1, 2019
Summary Nick Cannon hosts the celebrity singing competition based on the South Korean show where a judging panel that includes Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke must guess the identities of the 12 masked singers.
- FOX
- Jan 1, 2019
- FOX
- Jan 1, 2019
Summary Nick Cannon hosts the celebrity singing competition based on the South Korean show where a judging panel that includes Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke must guess the identities of the 12 masked singers.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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50% Mixed
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40% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
36
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The joy of this series lies entirely in the singers, and it really doesn't much matter who they are. ... It's a tightly paced hour in which the main joys are the good and bad voices, the costumes and the reactions of the judges and the in-studio audience.
The body horror is agreeable. The singing is real. Some of it is excellent (an unspecified number of competitors are professionally trained); mostly, it is fine. The creatures compete against each other in pairs. ... Cultivating the cutesy creepiness dulls any sense of unease.
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Based on 28 User Ratings
4.4
39% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
7% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
54% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 User Ratings
4.4
39% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
7% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
54% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
The show isn't made to win a lot of awards but you can be guaranteed to be entertained. This show is a transplant/adaptation of the South Korean musical competition from MBC, The King of Mask Singer and it's a breath of fresh air. Given the short development time and secrecy hindering word put out for a more robust panel of contestants we can already see the beginnings **** show in the making. Here is to hoping for the second season's success.
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SEASON 1
What is a given is the surprise element. The costumes are quite elaborate and they, alone, would be worth an episode. ... Ken Jeong seems like the wild card, since no one has associated him with music. (At least Jenny McCarthy’s husband is one of the New Kids on the Block.) He tries to be funny but, often, it’s Scherzinger’s surprised looks that get the laughs.
It all started as an admirably bizarre reality series that revelled in its unabashed spectacle and lunacy. But it became, somehow, a bit of a bore.
Whether it’s a reaction to the curated snobbery of prestige television or simply a new low in reality programming and its worship of B-list talent, The Masked Singer kicks off 2019 with such low expectations that everything else--“CSI” reruns, pharmaceutical ads---looks like sophisticated high art in its wake. ... The show’s panelists are the most entertaining aspect of the bizarre spectacle when they shoot high in gradings on the celebrity scale when estimating who’s under the rack of antlers or giant insect head.
The Masked Singer is a deeply stupid enterprise. [18 Jan 2019, p.46]
A prohibitive favorite for worst new TV show of the year didn’t take long to assume that position.
It's kind of nice to have a show that isn't jaded or filled with malice. You have fun costumes and people who get to perform and live out new dreams. I think all of these people are people who finally get to do something that was never really available to them (like that football player) or people who have been relegated to the Hollywood heap of former greats and want one more shot at being in the spotlight, It's all in good fun.
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SEASON 1
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 1
What's that line in Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? "This is what the world would be doing on a Saturday night if the **** had won the war." Yeah, that's it. Listening to hackey covers by d-list celebrities. WTF is that thing on Nick Cannon's head? It's actually disturbing to see so many extras faking enthusiasm. Who do you have to piss off to get put in that audience? This just made me feel dirty. I mean, you could say, "at least it's not porn," but I still feel like I need a bath after watching this.
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SEASON 1
How did they vote off the lion over the bee. The bee is trash. Great show, dumb voting system.
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SEASON 1
This Is A New Low For The Public What A Dumb Boring Show I Thought All The Dating And Dancing Shows Were Bad Till This Came On Whoever Put This On Tv Should Be Fired To Many Dancing And Dating And Singing Shows On Now A Days
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