{"id":25921,"date":"2025-10-30T22:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:15","slug":"the-big-door-prize-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-big-door-prize-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Door Prize (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This machine, whether it&#8217;s magic or not, is reminding people that our lives have more than one possible path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Door Prize<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Dusty is a teacher whose wife gives him a bunch of presents when he turns 40, including a scooter which he rides to school. At the store where he buys his coffee there&#8217;s a new machine &#8212; it supposedly tells you your life potential. Soon everyone has gotten a little blue card from the machine. Except Dusty &#8212; but he keeps thinking about it. Some people make big changes based on their card &#8212; the principal buys a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>This show has a unique premise. In addition to continuing the story about Dusty and his family and students, each episode has a bit of a focus on one person who&#8217;s gotten a card from the machine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Chris O&#8217;Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Sammy Fourlas, and Djouliet Amara.<\/p>\n<p>Created by David West Read (writer on <strong>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This machine, whether it&#8217;s magic or not, is reminding people that our lives have more than one possible path.&#8221; The Big Door Prize season 1, aired in 2023 Dusty is a teacher whose wife gives him a bunch of presents when he turns 40, including a scooter which he rides to school. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-25921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25937,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions\/25937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}