Once again we find the American content creators, this time those cheerful folks at Peacock, taking an idea that others have already done very well and turning it into some sort of over acted, over produced and over faux celebrity filled trash tv show.
I've only just finished watching the first season, which had none of the personality, charisma, intrigue or suspense of other countries efforts, instead as I say this American rendition was filled with people I barely had ever heard of, 'celebrities' from reality shows, a former Olympian whose bad reputation preceeds him and a whole cast of other people who claim to be famous or who simply were not famous at all, at least not as far as we could tell. Oh and rounding out the selection was the catty woman off the show about rich folks on boats, and the woman who was I think originally on the Amazing Race and spent that entire thing whining and crying who has I believe subsequently been on every other reality show and has performed poorly, much like she did on this one.
So yes, dear reader, you'll get the sense that I have no much to say about the show other than it is exactly what you might expect it to be, there are pretty much no personalities you'd want to see win which is established quickly, it also seems to clarify that most of the 'celebrities' barely share a brain cell between them, and that the real work horses of the show are the suppoesed normal folks with normal day jobs.
The presenter is fine, but I find it odd that he refers to it as 'his castle' when we all know its the same one they use for the UK edition of the show, and for a man who is so proudly Scots in his ancestry, he does a terribly job of playing the Lord of the Manor here, rather, he just seems to rather enjoy rehashing the role Claudia does in the Uk edition and roaming about in a ever more unusual set of Tartan suits.
All in all I feel like they would have been better off just having normal folks on it, or is american society now so devolved that people will only watch a show if it is choc full of these faux celebrities? Maybe that is it, but they could have saved all those air fares and the castle hire fee and just shown the UK edition, or the original Dutch one, or the Kiwi one or better still the Aussie versions (of which there are now two seasons). It just seems sad that entertainment in the US now seems to be as much about auto celebs as the american music industry is about auto tune.
My firm recommendation is give this a hard pass, every other country does this better.
I've only just finished watching the first season, which had none of the personality, charisma, intrigue or suspense of other countries efforts, instead as I say this American rendition was filled with people I barely had ever heard of, 'celebrities' from reality shows, a former Olympian whose bad reputation preceeds him and a whole cast of other people who claim to be famous or who simply were not famous at all, at least not as far as we could tell. Oh and rounding out the selection was the catty woman off the show about rich folks on boats, and the woman who was I think originally on the Amazing Race and spent that entire thing whining and crying who has I believe subsequently been on every other reality show and has performed poorly, much like she did on this one.
So yes, dear reader, you'll get the sense that I have no much to say about the show other than it is exactly what you might expect it to be, there are pretty much no personalities you'd want to see win which is established quickly, it also seems to clarify that most of the 'celebrities' barely share a brain cell between them, and that the real work horses of the show are the suppoesed normal folks with normal day jobs.
The presenter is fine, but I find it odd that he refers to it as 'his castle' when we all know its the same one they use for the UK edition of the show, and for a man who is so proudly Scots in his ancestry, he does a terribly job of playing the Lord of the Manor here, rather, he just seems to rather enjoy rehashing the role Claudia does in the Uk edition and roaming about in a ever more unusual set of Tartan suits.
All in all I feel like they would have been better off just having normal folks on it, or is american society now so devolved that people will only watch a show if it is choc full of these faux celebrities? Maybe that is it, but they could have saved all those air fares and the castle hire fee and just shown the UK edition, or the original Dutch one, or the Kiwi one or better still the Aussie versions (of which there are now two seasons). It just seems sad that entertainment in the US now seems to be as much about auto celebs as the american music industry is about auto tune.
My firm recommendation is give this a hard pass, every other country does this better.
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