The production value blows the amazing race and the like out of the water, but it comes at the cost of realism and any sense of competition.
Everything is painfully staged to the point of absurdity, and frankly kills any sense of achievment, especially when the show admits no one is racing other teams it is 9 teams of two on their own adventure where the only challenge is their trivia and physical fitness or their deep seated issues.
The problem lies with the editing of the teams experiences, team geezer for example have one of them jump in to the water and after a quick cut away to the utterly useless team sisters, that guy is out of the water, bone dry and lacking any signs of being in very cold water or the associated physical exursion, and his mate, is just lying there chilled out enjoying the view. These two muppets then panic and fuss over the smoke grenade to choose an answer..
The sisters - one girl gets stuck in the mud TWICE and after a quick edit is bone dry, clean and in fresh clothes and shoes before they even REACH the clue box.
Going back to the geezers, they are given a place and street name, and the goal is to get to the second floor, sounds simple right ? Well the door is locked and they have to find another way in, but the producers already set up a scaffold and wooden pallets with some rope ! Two blokes dressed like tourists are throwing a rope over a wall to a villa in venice HOW SUS DOES THAT LOOK ??
Bond fans would be best to use this as back ground noise for the music and skip the rest.
Reality fans enjoy i guess ? ;)
Everything is painfully staged to the point of absurdity, and frankly kills any sense of achievment, especially when the show admits no one is racing other teams it is 9 teams of two on their own adventure where the only challenge is their trivia and physical fitness or their deep seated issues.
The problem lies with the editing of the teams experiences, team geezer for example have one of them jump in to the water and after a quick cut away to the utterly useless team sisters, that guy is out of the water, bone dry and lacking any signs of being in very cold water or the associated physical exursion, and his mate, is just lying there chilled out enjoying the view. These two muppets then panic and fuss over the smoke grenade to choose an answer..
The sisters - one girl gets stuck in the mud TWICE and after a quick edit is bone dry, clean and in fresh clothes and shoes before they even REACH the clue box.
Going back to the geezers, they are given a place and street name, and the goal is to get to the second floor, sounds simple right ? Well the door is locked and they have to find another way in, but the producers already set up a scaffold and wooden pallets with some rope ! Two blokes dressed like tourists are throwing a rope over a wall to a villa in venice HOW SUS DOES THAT LOOK ??
Bond fans would be best to use this as back ground noise for the music and skip the rest.
Reality fans enjoy i guess ? ;)
