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Just started this. Probably helps I don’t have high expectations. It showed up in a Netflix category under my profile called Psychos (don’t judge)
started getting excited reading the first part... sad, but glad about the second (to avoid a time-killer).
Different strokes for different folks, but to me it was awful and for some reason I stuck through til the end.
Even later than you. My wife started watching this recently and I watch on and off.
was just thinking about this one and how much it went south for me the last couple season. laughably pompous and grandious acting and directing.
Through episode 1. Crazy thing is that so many of the contestants just don’t look like athletes. Endurance is a different animal though, and these guys are insane.
Even in Tris...you can never tell based on appearances. But yeah ... This is a whole other ballgame.
<_<Watched the Seth Rogan pickle movie despite not liking Seth Rogan or pickles. Hooooo boy was that bad.
Which season? Im new to it too and totally hooked.
Oh I didn’t know. We are almost done with season one on amazon.
No worries...the recent season just ended this week (S7?) , so you're probably better off avoiding it.
It’s heartbreaking when that one team has to eat one of the two sisters to keep going. Frankly if they hadn't been so sleep deprived they would have known it would have been better to eat the dad!
Watched episodes 2, 3, and part of 4 while running 16 miles on the treadmill this afternoon. I’m enjoying it (the show, not running 16 miles on a treadmill).
Thermometer cracked 60 again, did it?
80.
went to the driving range today. it was 85 on the thermometer, but 137 in the sun.
Trying to get into this but it seems like it’s 90% just showing these people and their families. Interesting concept but I just don’t care about the family background stuff. Does it get off that?
Agreed. We've watched 4 episodes and that is the thing holding it back, imo. Although I do realize there must be people that like that part of shows like this. I thought it would be only the first couple of episodes as they introduce teams but it continues as they introduce new ones and others don't make the cut. I expect it to continue throughout.
It was a decent watch and it does get a bit scary at some points. That said trying not to ruin things but the top teams are boring. They really don’t have much of an issue with things. Occasionally, but most of the show is on the feel good stuff and the screw ups/near death experiences. It was worth a watch especially with so little new stuff right now but I’d rather watch The Amazing Race and Survivor in terms of competition reality. I think this show compares more to those that the survival shows.
Pretty much continues throughout still pretty entertaining. What surprised me is some of those folks look like me ( not in the least athletic). I expected more iron man types. Pretty interesting the time difference between the front and the back.
Kind of has to be since the actual race for the top spot is over before most teams make to or just past the half way point.
100% agree. The race itself is boring. Not to give it away but the top few teams finish a ridiculous amount ahead of even the rest of the top 10. Also, it was almost boring traveling along with them as they didn’t really seem to have much trouble with the course. It’s just odd sometimes to see teams not really have issues while others you feel like they might die.
I thought I was mostly done with TV because I eventually concluded that, hour for hour, movies are the better time investment. (I loved The Wire, but Casablanca was pretty good too, and it's hard to overlook the 50+ hours versus <2 hours of required investment.)
My wife and her family used to do these adventure races on an amateur basis, from the very start she started naming some of the older elite racers. Her family has never done Eco-challenge but did help as staff at a Primal Quest before.
When they were crossing that heavily flowing river, holding each other, slowly moving a step at a time, I couldn't help thinking about what the cameraman was doing. Crazy.
The Elite teams are ridiculous in how good they are. They train non-stop but it takes a certain kind of athlete to do well in these kinds of races. Often the best teams are simply the ones that are great at navigation and dead reckoning and such. The workout warriors that do well in other types of sports and races get chewed up and eliminated due to time when there aren’t clearly marked race paths or courses. It’s a very unique skill you need on top of the endurance as well as adaptability to different race types (canoeing to biking, to hiking, to climbing, paddle boarding, etc, etc.) Often races have mental challenges as well (think of the puzzles from Survivor.)
Really enjoyed the Last Kingdom and it is great news they have signed for at least one more season.
