Tonight’s premier of Discovery’s “One Way Out” made me nervous. It has been pegged as a “preview” episode which makes me think they’re “testing us” to see if it’s something we’d like.

I liked it.

Jonathan Goodwin, the escape artist, is a pretty-good host and tonight’s escape is in-fact spectacular. Of course a “put-together” show has more holes in it than a “live” version. I do like the “everyday objects” idea of putting an escape together gives the show “originality”, which I liked.

::SPOILER WARNING::

The fact that on this first episode Goodwin did NOT escape is kind of interesting for the “preview episode” – someone’s taking a pretty big gamble on using this as the preview-episode, I’d say. It does show the reality of the show being “legit” and incorporating life-threatening situations – which may cause viewers to flock to it?

Time will tell if this show has a future. I’ll be DVRing it for sure.