The Trust: A Game of Greed is a Frankenstein’s monster of new reality TV. It borrows parts from its contemporaries and glues them together in the latest iteration of the “social experiment”.
In this case, 10 strangers from a wide range of age groups and professions are given a prize pot of $250,000 (£196,000). “They all start as winners and they can all leave as winners … if they share,” says the presenter, Brooke Baldwin, a former CNN host. All they have to do is trust each other to split the cash, even when that trust is put to the test with a series of provocations, such as ranking each other on who is the smartest, or voting on who has been the most promiscuous.
