I hoped this would be a better, more interesting version of Damon and Affleck's "The Runner" that aired on Verizon's Go90, but after watching all the episodes I have been totally let down. The majority of the fugitives seem to have no idea what they are doing and somehow get by with either luck or script, you decide. Some of the Hunters decisions are so ludicrous it's at times hard to watch the show (i.e. patrolling a gated community for multiple days in a black SUV). Though the majority of the stupidity lies on the runners, one team using an ATM at a bus stop, getting on a bus and riding it for hours and hoping to not get caught (which with the lack of effort by the hunters they would have done had they just asked to get off the bus early).
I could have forgiven all of this, none of it would have mattered to me if it weren't for the last episode. In the last episode, the Hunters cheat, using information that they only got because it was a television show. They were told that the fugitives were going to escape by plane, something in a real life situation they would NOT have known. With this knowledge, they start searching for planes to foil the fugitives before the fugitives even know where they are going. Here's the spoiler, law enforcement cheats or at least breaks the rules, this must be why even if it is scripted, they're able to call it a reality show.
I could have forgiven all of this, none of it would have mattered to me if it weren't for the last episode. In the last episode, the Hunters cheat, using information that they only got because it was a television show. They were told that the fugitives were going to escape by plane, something in a real life situation they would NOT have known. With this knowledge, they start searching for planes to foil the fugitives before the fugitives even know where they are going. Here's the spoiler, law enforcement cheats or at least breaks the rules, this must be why even if it is scripted, they're able to call it a reality show.