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You may have seen the few shorter videos of thison CollegeHumor. The TV show is basically the same thing, except longer and with a somewhat broader scope. With an episode focused on one theme. Bit higher production values as well.
In the original shorts Adam Conover takes a single thing and ruins it for people. Engagement Rings for example. A lot of it is obvious(blood diamonds and price fixing and artificial scarcity!) but it's presented in an entertaining manner.
The show takes the same format but expands the targets. Adam Ruins Security for example starts with him tearing down the TSA but through the episode he goes in to credit card security, identity theft, and tamper resistant pill bottles. And each episode is basically presented as Adam interrupting someone doing something they enjoy and then basically kidnapping them for the rest of the episode and force feeding them facts that they absolutely do not want to hear. With lots of short inserted comical bits to drive home points.
It's kind of like a weird mash-up of Mythbusters and some kind of Mr. Show sketch. Many of you will be immediately turned off by the host and his hipster looks and know-it-all delivery. Which is missing the point. He's the butt of every joke. Every person he teaches hates him. And he basically ends every episode alone after alienating everyone.
You learn and you laugh. So give it a try.
In the original shorts Adam Conover takes a single thing and ruins it for people. Engagement Rings for example. A lot of it is obvious(blood diamonds and price fixing and artificial scarcity!) but it's presented in an entertaining manner.
The show takes the same format but expands the targets. Adam Ruins Security for example starts with him tearing down the TSA but through the episode he goes in to credit card security, identity theft, and tamper resistant pill bottles. And each episode is basically presented as Adam interrupting someone doing something they enjoy and then basically kidnapping them for the rest of the episode and force feeding them facts that they absolutely do not want to hear. With lots of short inserted comical bits to drive home points.
It's kind of like a weird mash-up of Mythbusters and some kind of Mr. Show sketch. Many of you will be immediately turned off by the host and his hipster looks and know-it-all delivery. Which is missing the point. He's the butt of every joke. Every person he teaches hates him. And he basically ends every episode alone after alienating everyone.
You learn and you laugh. So give it a try.
