The Grand Tour



West_Winger said:
Couldn’t get past the opening segment of the first episode. Top Gear was always scripted but it came across as relatively natural. This time it’s so badly done, I found it unwatchable.
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First episode of the first series? I thought that was class, brilliantly done. For me top gear/grande tour has never made any apologies for what it is, three blokes doing something they love having a laugh doing it...fair play to them.
 
I think it's improved. It seems like the BBC can't make the format work without them so they're allowing them to pinch bits from it.
 
I almost gave up on this after the first few episodes of this series, but it's picked up in the most recent four.

Ep 7 had an execrable feature in which Hammond & May tried to develop a mobile refueling system, but ended with a brilliant piece on the Audi-Lancia rivalry in rallying. It was up there with Top Gear at its best.

Ep 8 centred on a decent roadtrip in France.

Ep 9 was patchily good, focusing on an attempt to break the amphibious speed record on Coniston Water.

Ep 10 ended with a genuinely funny SUV race in the wilds of Canada (though having Paris Hilton on as a guest suggests some scraping of the barrel this series).

The Mozambique roadtrip is coming up. Hope it's better than the Namibian roadtrip last year.
 
It’s been alright - better than the unwatchable first series anyway. The main segments are decent and I can forward through the rest of it (which remains awful). Not a patch on the last Top Gear though. Monkey Harris is comfortably better than any of those daft old farts (and an infinitely better driver too).
 

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