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The Grand Tour: The Grand Tour: Eurocrash (2022) Season 5, Episode 2

Not themed. Driving without a purpose.

[1/10 · 17 June 2023]

Searching for the source of the Nile, fine. Rescuing themselves in Mongolia, fine. Taking pictures of animals in Columbia, fine. Building the bridge over the river Kwai, fine. Looking for pirate treasure, fine. Delivering food in Mozambique, fine. All those episodes were themed. They had purpose. They had goal.

This episode does not have that. They are just driving, that's it. Without goal or purpose. And in the middle of the episode they insert car reviews. Boring. In the last episode of Season 3, Jeremy announced specials, road trips. Not this.

At Amazon's website of the episode, photo behind the informations of the episode is guys in a field pushing Jeremy's car. Forget it, you're not getting that in the episode. And the picture of the episode below Scandi Flick, boys are standing in some sort of field arguing, you are also not getting that in the episode.

Also, when intro starts, there is a shot of Clarkson and Hammond sitting on sofas on a race track. You're also not going to see that in the episode.

Not to mention timing. The other day I watched Patagonia special. Fantastic episode, 2 hours in 2 parts. And I find out they filmed that in September 2014 and it was released in December 2014. After just 3 months. What has changed? Why is the gap between filming and release date 1 year now?

The Grand Tour: The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick (2022) Season 5, Episode 1

Wow!

[10/10 · 16 September 2022]

This is just brilliant. Clarkson, Hammond and May are back with what they're best at - driving three cars from point A to point B, going into the unknown. That's it. No additional reviews, no additional cars, and no additional races.

And then unexpecteded stuff happens, because they're in unfamiliar ground.

Brilliant start of the new season, indescribably funny, and a great new soundtrack!

Great pranks between Hammond and Clarkson. This is the best one yet since they started doing specials. We might have a rival to Mongolia here.

Good job Andy and the rest of the team. Looking foward to Eastern Europe one.

Cars on the Road (2022)

Too short. Odd stories.

[9/10 · 8 September 2022]

After 5 years of waiting from the last Cars film, and 2 years since this TV show was announced, we get just 5 minute episodes. After that are the credits, so it's not 10 minutes.

The story of each episode is odd. Scary-packed characters that has NO connection to the world that was introduced in the first Cars movie. What we saw before was beautiful area of Radiator Springs country - now it's all ruined. Like every new character's behavior was crazy. Odd.

If you're doing something like this, make a proper, long-term TV show, not shorts again. Stay true to the world that you introduced in the first movie. We fell in love with Radiator Springs and the world around it. Now, it's all almost ruined.

At least, episode 9 was decent. Characters and story.