SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 8 finale of “Game Changer,” now streaming on Dropout.
\n\n“Game Changer” capped off its eighth season Monday with a finale episode that was not at all sponsored by Chili’s but ended with its winner taking home between $3,000 and $5,000 (host and Dropout CEO Sam Reich isn’t sure) in Chili’s gift cards. Combine that with the fact the Season 8 finale (a talent show competition) is the longest episode of the Dropout series to date (coming in at just under 90 minutes) and boasts the largest number of contestants (23) and you’ve got a wildly unprecedented undertaking for Reich and the “Game Changer” team.
\n\nThe episode, titled “Last Talent Standing,” features nearly two dozen contestants performing in a talent show with a “Squid Game”-esque twist that “killed off” eliminated competitors who then joined a panel of judges led by guest stars Kumail Nanjiani, Maria Bamford and Gianmarco Soresi.
\n\n“What you see in this 90-minute episode is extraordinarily faithful to everything that actually occurred,” Reich tells Variety. “There is not a single go that we lifted out of the show completely.”
\n\n(It should be noted the episode does cut Katie Marovitch’s answer…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/