Well That Was Fast
I ended my previous Top Gear post by saying “Now if we can just get a classic ‘car versus something-that-isn’t-a-car’ race before the end of the season I’ll be happy that Top Gear has righted itself.” Well, the very next episode opened with Hammond racing the Dakar Touareg down a snowy mountain and [...]
Top Gear Back on the Right Track
I’ve stated before that the last couple seasons of Top Gear have been moving more towards semi-scripted bits than I’m happy with (not to say the show hasn’t always been a bit scripted, but recently it’s been more so), but it looks like this series they’ve managed to pull themselves back from that line. Last [...]
The Bolivia Special
This whole season I’ve been pretty disappointed in Top Gear. It’s felt different, with the boys off doing things that are only indirectly connected to cars for the majority of every episode (and is it just me or have the interviews with the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car seemed longer this season as well?), [...]
Scripting Top Gear
We’re two weeks into the fourteenth series of Top Gear, and I felt I should say something. Despite the fact that the show’s won awards for unscripted television, they’ve never hidden the fact that some of the gags are staged (the first Stig driving off an aircraft carrier and dying, for example). But this season [...]
And They`re Back
Last night saw the premiere of the thirteenth season (or series, to be overly British about it) of Top Gear. Since the death of the new American Gladiators it`s become the only unscripted (well…. not-fully-scripted) show I watch. Serialized drama is kinda my thing, so anything else TV-wise will have to be really amazing to [...]
