Adam Ruins Everything at Criticker.com (2024)

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Not funny enough to be truly entertaining, and not objective or thorough enough to be truly enlightening. At best it will inspire you to do your own research, because the conclusions he presents are frequently full of holes.

Adam Ruins Everything falls between entertaining skepticism and genuine scientific skepticism. Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, an obvious inspiration, goes far in the entertainment direction while this tries to do both and ends up accomplishing neither. While I do appreciate using actual sources, they are too often misused or based on very old studies which are no longer relevant. Another negative is that Adam has already set up and knocked down more strawmen than Bullshit! did in its entire run.

very informative and humorous. Become an instant know it all at smart dinner parties. Great for the pragmatist and skeptic

Smugly inaccurate. Didactic yet poorly-researched pseudointellectual status quo propaganda that fallaciously just ridicules points it can’t factually dispute. Who gave Michael Moore’s f*boy robot a show? Found out about this babysitting an impressionable little girl who took his word on everything to correct people at school and feel superior about it, despite never doing her own research. She was vulnerable to that, being insecure socially & academically. Also true of most adult viewers, sadly.

Having watched this show entirely through its YouTube channel, I found it interesting if lacking in depth compared to other shows of its type.

Adam Conover is very annoying and this show is terrible, though it is hilarious how upset people on the right have gotten at him.

Not only is Adam incredibly unfunny, but a lot of the claims he makes are objectively untrue and his use of sources are garbage. People seem to think that just flashing your source on screen is proof you've utilized them properly, but Adam has a tendency to take a lot of these sources out of context or misquote them, while also making many moronic arguments elsewhere (such as his claim that Roosevelt did nothing to deserve being on Mount Rushmore). Agonizingly pretentious garbage.

Lots of information presented with comedy that's right up my alley. I'd rate it higher, but that nagging voice in the back of my head keeps reminding me that there's some controversy over the facts...

Really great info with cited sources? Yes please. However, lots of the data is presented in a misleading way and the comedy is pretty subpar. Still, this is definitely my favorite "educational" show and a good place to get started if you want to learn about a topic.

But Adam, what if we already knew? Still gr8, even l8.

Directed by:

Vincent Peone, Paul Briganti, Josh Ruben, Tim Wilkerson

Starring:

Adam Conover, Eliza Skinner, Emily Axford, Hayley Marie Norman

Genres:

Comedy, Animation, History, News, Talk-Show

Country:

USA