The Hundred

Game Two hit 100 episodes. The show’s been going since MTV killed Game One a couple years back, which means Budi, Simon, Etienne, Nils, and whoever else shows up has somehow managed to keep talking about video games on German public television without anyone pulling the plug. They’re good at it—they know how to actually engage with games instead of just reporting on them.

For the 100th, they didn’t do a clip show or a retrospective. They made a dystopian action film. Plot about saving the world from a YouTube monopoly, which is funny because it means they were thinking about the actual stakes of internet culture and not just the mechanics of the show itself. Nearly 90 minutes, actual production, insider jokes throughout. The kind of thing you come up with after you’ve been working together long enough to trust each other with something that stupid and ambitious.

I like that instinct—the moment when a crew decides it’s earned the right to try something outside the format. Most shows never get there. Most shows either run out of ideas before they find the confidence, or they hit an audience size and a network just grinds the format into dust until nobody cares anymore. Game Two made 100 episodes and then made a film. That’s the thing worth noting.