Rapidly closing on us as a major time-suck because of its heavily-involving narratives, HBOMax has a suite of new shows that you have to invest some of yourself in. Check this one out for surprising weirdness. Just remember if you want to see this, it’s on their hidden menu. You have to contact HBOMax and tell them to unlock it, by using support@hbomax.com or calling 1-855-942-6669 or 1-855-442-6629.

BET YOU COULD SEE THIS COMING.
REALITY TV MAY HAVE FINALLY
DONE IT: A SHOW WITH NO
SCRUPLES AT ALL, intended to
undo its participants and its
audience.

BETS is the latest in reality show insanity, and clearly, the rock-bottom
weirdest.

The show follows what happens when you place stressful, often
unethical and highly unusual bets about human nature, and then film
what happens with the takers.

In the first few episodes, we have seen a silver-haired millionaire bet
another man that he could find the price the man’s daughter would
take to accept the millionaire sleeping with her. Under hidden camera,
the millionaire approaches the 22-yr old daughter, and after an evening
of negotiation, succeeds. The followup within the family is striking
and emotional, and because the daughter is so remorseful, utterly
surprising in the way she spends her newfound money.

In another show, we watch as a group of Navy SEALs are challenged to win a million dollars to see who can get as close to killing the other as
possible. Since they are close friends, this results in a strange collision
of values… and then an accidental death… and what sure seems to be a
revenge plot hatched by the victim’s four-star general father.

At that point, the “game show” becomes a “true crime” type of show.
The insurance for this production must be ridiculous.

I remember people worried about these reality shows when they
started decades ago, with critics pointing out they could lead to dangerous new directions. After all, the Ancient Roman events where they killed people started out as actual circuses… but with BETS, I think we’ve already passed the danger zone.

Upcoming episodes include:
-Two men who vehemently hate each other agree to live in confinement in a house together to see if they can make it for a year for a million dollars…

-A woman agrees to be made horrifying to look at through plastic surgery and live with it for a year because she thinks she can reverse the surgery to her liking…on a bet that her husband surgeon cannot repair her to her satisfaction.

-Soldiers agree to go back and serve the families of the enemies they killed in battle to see if forgiveness would ever be offered.

-An insult comedian is challenged to create a roast that is so rough it will trigger the celebrity target into genuine rage… but when nothing is working, he suspects the celebrity accepted a wager to never grow angry… and the comedian’s frustration becomes the real threat to the evening.

-Two edgy radio hosts take a bet to see if it’s possible to spark a gang war in the city using nothing more than offensive fake graffiti. And they get what they expected.

Use caution when watching this show. You may begin to wonder if capitalism’s end-stage triumph is humanity’s final undoing.

UPDATING:
I have been pranked! The series is not a reality show. It just looks like one. It is scripted and impeccably well-acted!

As it turns out, BETS was the result of a real bet between a film producer and a TV documentary creator that no such show could ever pull off such extremist plotlines and get people to believe it was real. In the end, the filmmakers succeeded, but in the ultimate form of irony, the producer has become a compulsive gambler so obsessed he is living in his car and barely eating, having lost all of his money, but because his Hollywood friends believe he is faking it to win a bet, no one will help him get out of
his desperate situation. Truly one of the saddest of Tinseltown stories.