Elaine May's satirical "Adaptation" reimagines the course of a man's entire life as a cutthroat television game show, complete with a sardonic host who awards or withholds points for the player's choices, relationships, and failures along the way. May's sharp, absurdist wit skewers the arbitrary rules and hollow rewards of the American pursuit of success, turning the game-show format into a biting metaphor for how life's chances are doled out.

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