I need to share some loose thoughts on Fishtank, in light of S4's cancellation.

1) The potential of any cast of contestants is more the responsibility of the production than it is on any individual participant. And to this point, I think it's obvious that they struck gold way more times than they deserved. Jon, Letty, Burt, Alex B, Freddie, etc. If you want to draw out the entertainment, you need to tard wrangle and make things interesting.

2) S1 was iconic because everyone were like shy and giddy teenagers experiencing love for the first time. It was a diamond in the rough, but it was expected of this kind of experimental entertainment format.

2) S2 was vile, aggressive shitshow that was completely cynical in all the worst ways. It was an unstructured mess and it felt tired and also a bit evil (more on this later). The best moment was Summer, but that was mostly a show meta.

3) Famous House was the complete package. It was also very high effort. It also had the most amount of potential squandered, which is insane to think of because it delivered so much. Highest highs and lowest lows is used to characterise this season, but it's true. Again, this wasn't just bad luck striking against the show, it was also production's incompetence thinking that they can merely wing it instead of planning out scenarios and routes and having a team of non-sleep deprived creatives working through the organic happenings during the show.

4) Since the beginning, Fishtank was evil. But it became more and more so as seasons went by, the sole exception to this being Bloodgames which was festive and light hearted, despite some drama. I don't know if it's Hyde's roid abuse or whatever the fuck, but there were so many moments of evil that it became a genuinely hard watch. Not paying Burt was a big moment, also Sam literally poaching Luke to do whatever meaningless shit, and now the S4 rugpull, which 100% was.

I will be adding fishtank to my board filters. Fishtank can never be cool again