As I said in The Talk Is Right, I'm really, really impressed that the staff managed to get this show back up off the ground and make it feel, for the most part, like nothing had changed even though so much obviously has. They were able to make it sound like there was still an audience somewhere, even though we couldn't see them. They were able to rework the opening into something that
doesn't make it painfully obvious that there's no audience. There were a few awkward things, yeah, mostly relating to where various people were standing, but they were things that there's really no way they could have worked around. They did a better job with this than I think anyone could have anticipated.
This is updating the show without making it feel like things are being changed just to change them. This is Season 37 done the right way.
Now then...this show seemed...well...more like a primetime special than the last several primetime specials. Whereas the specials in Seasons 44 and 48 felt like glorified daytime shows, this felt more like a $1,000,000 Spectacular. Grand Game's prize was back up at $20,000, Cover Up was played for a freaking
Audi, and Balance Game and the Showcase were both pretty insane.
Did anyone notice that the light strip around the Giant Price Tag wasn't on during Grand Game? I'm chalking it up to it being at the first set of tapings and everything probably being a little nuts, but it was still a strange thing to see.
On the Franches Mountains restarted for every item in Cliff Hangers. I really hope that was a mistake and not something permanent.
This is a little thing, but I like that they added a little container for the Drew Dollar to Balance Game.
Time to speculate on what pricing game broke to force an awkward Pick-a-Number for a car sixth in primetime!
I don't see why anyone would think something broke -- Pick-a-Number was blatantly set up for a win.