Review of Deal or No Deal

How this show got to be considered a hit is beyond me. How can anyone in the world with an IQ of higher than three watch this show and actually consider it to be entertainment? That question will haunt me as long as I live. Howie Mandel is an okay host with a few funny lines every now and then when he talks to the contestants but that is about the only somewhat bright point in this show. All that happens in this show is they choose a contestant who randomly selects numbered briefcases, then they open them, and whatever dollar value is inside gets eliminated from the board, the goal being to NOT eliminate the high values (the highest is one million dollars). That's it. No skill involved at all. After each round of random guessing, the banker calls down and offers them an amount of money to quit. That amount of money is always somewhat less than the average amount of money left between the briefcases. So there's not even any variation there. Just people picking random briefcases. Something is wrong with our society when that becomes a hit.