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6 Reviews
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vflohrpc28 April 2019
An infotaining if lite and touristy, family-friendly, travelogue adventure paid for by the cruse line companies
Alfabeta29 October 2019
Professional travel enthusiast Josh Garcia goes around the world on various cruisers visiting popular tourist-friendly coastal towns and cities (one per episode) for a day, meeting local guides and learning about the places' culture, interesting locations, adventurous activities and, of course, cuisine.
Before each visit, he finds someone on his ship (often an employee of the cruise line) who can tell him something about the place he is about to spend a day in and recommend some activities for him. At the end of the day, Josh returns to the ship and tells this person about his day of adventure, and then writes about it in his journal as end credits roll to use it later for the show's clip show episodes in which he picks three of his favorite adventures with a common theme.
The show is somewhat formulaic because of this, Josh's unusual combination of zen calmness and child-like enthusiasm comes off as benign pandering, the lite tone of the show makes it feel touristy, and his meetings with the people on board who give him ideas on what to do onshore are obviously staged. However, the show's target audience are families with children so it makes sense that everything looks fun, simple and a bit stagy in this long creative ad for the ocean cruise liners which sponsor the show.
If you can look pass these issues, Josh does make for a decent kid-friendly host, the show presents cultural information about the places he's visiting in a fun way (dictionary-esque journal entries which occasionally pop up at the bottom of the screen), and the show does offer some nice vistas to look at.
Basically, if you want to visit some nice locations around the world for 20 minutes, possibly learn something new if basic about them, and watch a guy taking his inner child on a simple if touristy adventure, you can do much worse than this.
Before each visit, he finds someone on his ship (often an employee of the cruise line) who can tell him something about the place he is about to spend a day in and recommend some activities for him. At the end of the day, Josh returns to the ship and tells this person about his day of adventure, and then writes about it in his journal as end credits roll to use it later for the show's clip show episodes in which he picks three of his favorite adventures with a common theme.
The show is somewhat formulaic because of this, Josh's unusual combination of zen calmness and child-like enthusiasm comes off as benign pandering, the lite tone of the show makes it feel touristy, and his meetings with the people on board who give him ideas on what to do onshore are obviously staged. However, the show's target audience are families with children so it makes sense that everything looks fun, simple and a bit stagy in this long creative ad for the ocean cruise liners which sponsor the show.
If you can look pass these issues, Josh does make for a decent kid-friendly host, the show presents cultural information about the places he's visiting in a fun way (dictionary-esque journal entries which occasionally pop up at the bottom of the screen), and the show does offer some nice vistas to look at.
Basically, if you want to visit some nice locations around the world for 20 minutes, possibly learn something new if basic about them, and watch a guy taking his inner child on a simple if touristy adventure, you can do much worse than this.
What age group is your audience?
carsal720 January 2019
I tried this show thinking it was going to be insightful; however, I merely saw a man speaking to the guides as though they were inferior and uneducated. Very disappointed. I prefer a host who speaks like a mature adult and treats his hosts in a more respectful manner.
What did I watch?
ethan-1291018 June 2021
Josh Garcia's personality is that of a cali-bro and hot yoga soy-boy. Everything about this show is overly staged and overly acted. I couldn't get through 5 mins without wanting to smash my tv. Way too cringe for my taste.
This host is such a pompous dweeb...
vanstonejason2 June 2022
I can't watch him for over a few minutes. The type that walks with his nose in the air in his $150 cargo shorts and acts like he's King know-it-all.
The shots of him going through his "journal" that we can't see, grinning like an idiot, acting like he's reading it, over his narration, is embarrassing to watch. He asks the dumbest questions that we already know the obvious answers to...
I also want to add his little intro "since i was a kid, I've always wanted to travel" and they show ONE picture of him (probably 5 years old), sitting on a rock 🤣 He boasts to the people he's visiting, and tries to up-stage them in their own cultures, whether it's dancing or banging Japanese drums....avoid this hack. It's insulting and his persona is garbage.
The shots of him going through his "journal" that we can't see, grinning like an idiot, acting like he's reading it, over his narration, is embarrassing to watch. He asks the dumbest questions that we already know the obvious answers to...
I also want to add his little intro "since i was a kid, I've always wanted to travel" and they show ONE picture of him (probably 5 years old), sitting on a rock 🤣 He boasts to the people he's visiting, and tries to up-stage them in their own cultures, whether it's dancing or banging Japanese drums....avoid this hack. It's insulting and his persona is garbage.
Ugly American viewpoint
LtdTimeAuthor14 November 2021
The episode promoting a cruise line visit to Helsinki was released in 2018 & still shown on NBC, but uses the term Lapps more than Sami, for that indigenous ethnic minority.
This isn't recent PC/cancel culture. The most well-known Sami singer, the internationally-acclaimed, dynamic Marie Boin, refused to be in the 1994 Helsinki Olympics opening ceremony, because the references to Sami as child-like primitives with cute reindeer, & their exploitation similar to that of Native Americans, was offensive even then !
This isn't recent PC/cancel culture. The most well-known Sami singer, the internationally-acclaimed, dynamic Marie Boin, refused to be in the 1994 Helsinki Olympics opening ceremony, because the references to Sami as child-like primitives with cute reindeer, & their exploitation similar to that of Native Americans, was offensive even then !
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