But really beyond all that, it's a bingo game completely made up of chance (computerized virtual balls and not the real thing, so not even real-life random chance from a bingo cage), and aside from the one round, it's kinda boring.

Low-budget GSN show based on a bingo app. Valerie Bertinelli does OK hosting. There's a giant virtual bingo machine/dispenser. I do like one round's format of "Here's a list of questions, and a set of 4 of the same possible answers throughout, give us the answer that matches."

4. Every show has to have something positive or something I liked about it.

3. Foreign versions of shows from elsewhere, if they're new to that country, are OK, but they really have to stand out.

2. This time around I have to have watched either at least one episode (a downgrade from my minimum 2 episode rule from last year) or in one case, enough video clips from multiple episodes.

As usual, the criteria:
1. The show has to be originally released in 2025. Not rereleased in a different country in 2025--the original source material must debut in 2025.

In fact, it's a whittled-down list. I did 100 last year and only 55 this year. (I've been busy with other stuff!) Some shows I wouldn't go back to, but I did appreciate elements--trying to stay positive here. I'm hoping this is at least inspiration for suggesting shows you may not have heard of.

You can do it! 😀

It did get me thinking--if you were to wear those decorative military shoulder thingies, for you would they be epauleffes?