Read This: Get an insider's look at why Legends Of The Hidden Temple was practically unwinnable

The Internet is full of interesting things to read outside of The A.V. Club—no, really! In our periodic Read This posts, we point you toward interesting or noteworthy pieces that caught our eye.
Late last week, sports blog SB Nation took a hard-hitting look at one of Nickelodeon’s most-beloved mid-‘90s game shows: Legends Of The Hidden Temple. While a lot of people loved the show, writer Jon Bois argues that it was absolutely torture to watch, with kids trying to reach things that were too high for their short little arms to grasp, being scared to death by temple guards, and just generally trying to conquer a challenge that was practically unconquerable. Bois says the Temple Run featured “emotionally fragile children [who] were prodded through a disorienting maze in which they were expected to fulfill not-specific-enough instructions and complete a ridiculous array of trial-and-error puzzles within three minutes, a time constraint so overbearing that roughly 75 percent of the contestants failed.” Fair enough.