u_urcle Reviews

SAS Australia (2020– )

Season 4 started off odd - special treatment for some

[8/10 · 24 February 2022]

Finally some new tests and tasks were added!

We have new Staff-members, including an American Seal.

We seem to be in Tasmania, although not entirely sure of that yet.

However, the obviously special treatment granted to 2 female competitors by all of Staff but Ant especially, was annoying.

Episode one Ant berrates all competitors who fails tasks, just like normal considering it trying to replicate army-like conditions.

Except two of the females who seem to struggle a bit more than the rest, they get a cushioned treatment with lift-you-ups and pep-talks.

They get soft starts, less risk (fire and other things) in the challenges and afterwards when they failed they get praise and a complete lack of pressure on what went wrong.

This continues to extreme levels in episode three.

Several competitors fail to report intel during a test, they get scolded for it all of them apart from the 2 with special-status for unknown reasons.

There isn't anything wrong with the treatment per say, if you would allow all competitors the same.

The show hopefully isn't about everyone taking part be granted a participation-medal?

True Story with Ed & Randall (2022)

Claims inspiration from Aussie show

[5/10 · 10 February 2022]

Which is more than likely inspired by Drunk History (4years earlier)

That show has far better writing, acting and producing.

(not to mention the adult premise is far more entertaining)

Let's hope that this show studies this prime example, to make a far more entertaining season 2.

Red Notice (2021)

The last 3rd was clearly phoned in

[6/10 · 20 November 2021]

You get exactly what you expect given the movies premise and cast, it delivers really well on this for the first 2 thirds of the movie, then for some reason the director got changed and I assume some producer started taking over and we are left with a strange looking turd.

Al in all its still a worthwhile entertaining experience.

Renegade (II) (2019)

Distinct lack of evidence, mixed with some political views

[3/10 · 16 June 2021]

However, I do think David needs to learn the definition of Confirmation Bias.

To start of your entire premise with "Once you know their outcomes" and adding "then it is easy to step backwards", that is precisely what confirmation-bias is.

It blinds you from the evidence of the contrary, as well as blinds you from all the possible alternatives you stand in front of.

Car Vs Wild (2013– )

Showcasing how to quickly kill yourself in episode 1

[2/10 · 29 March 2020]

During episode one, we get to see the 2 hosts use a winch and climbing-rope, to lower a Jeep. Hosts climb next to the steel-winch-cable, so on the way up they show the viewer how they expose themselves to getting legs cut off if the winch fails.

And at the top, one host stands in the line of fire while manually lowering the car. An excellent position to risk decapitation!

If this was an American show, I'm sure any competent person would have stopped this from airing due to liability.

Besides some other factual errors, which I don't believe an experienced off-roader would have missed, the show could have been better if it wasn't trying too hard to be "cool" and exaggerating so much.

Lost in the Wild (2019– )

Incompetent and childish approach to serious subjects

[2/10 · 7 February 2020]

What the hell is that lady doing on this show? She sees animal-bones in the jungle and say it is so scary she doesn't want to stay there. Should have stayed at home, not being a part of this project at all.

It is very evident that it is her incompetence weighing the entire show down, with uneducated guesses and comments all the time, non-stop.

The childish horror-music is playing non-stop, in the most awkward of places and situations. They evidently don't have a clue what they are doing or about the locations they are in, if someone in the crew had a clue, the producer/director shut them up and replaced it with Kingas buffoonery.

This show will remind you what they just talked about, and will then recap it all just before an ad-break and after that is over, you will hear their nonsense once again. The amount of "fillers" to make the shows-length is far exceeding 40%

These episodes have at maximum 12 minutes of "content", below 5min if you cut her crap out.

Two Guys Garage (2001– )

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[1/10 · 3 July 2018]

From the first minute of watching, it becomes evident these two are obnoxious and don't possess the skills to convey messages to the viewer, without sounding like immature teenagers. Everything has to sound like it was taken from a fake wrestling-match.

Anything and everything shown, is adverts in this manner. Nothing about it educating the viewer from an objective and professional standpoint, nothing at all.

Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood (2015 TV Special)

If you feel like watching 15-20 minutes of actual content

[2/10 · 21 September 2015]

This "special" is by far the strangest (not in a good way) I have seen as far as "Stand-Up Comedy" goes. And I watch a lot of that. (It will also take you longer, to read this, than it took Jeff to deliver his comedy whilst I was watching him on stage.)

Disclaimer: I don't feel like I have spoiled anything for anyone wanting to see this / "witness" this for themselves. I will describe the format and content of this show. All the funny parts are still intact and anyone having seen anything Jeff has delivered before, you should know what to expect and realize I couldn't possibly have spoiled anything by sticking to that. However, saving someone from wasting time and money... I do hope I do!

Executive Summary: Jeff seems to have felt it is a good idea, to let us get his comedy in YouTube-sized portions, plastered together with nonsense we don't want to watch and actual ad's within his programming, and plugging of completely useless music-bits that are nowhere near being funny. He has also further advanced his "problems", from being doll-related to happening more than 4 times during a show, fixing them and restoring order (making up over half of his actual stand-up time on stage) every time. The simple fact people are paying to see him, Live or from the couch, is to get the "full uninterrupted version" of him. Otherwise we could just turn on AdBlock and watch him on You-Tube! This boggles my mind but I felt like giving a short version of this. . .

Longer version: The show has a running time of 41 minutes, of which the first section of stand-up is 5 minutes long.

"Act 1" is apparently what we are to consider this. After intermissions with useless sketches containing characters and actors customers of this product, have not signed up for or requested. We are at last, greeted by Jeff and he gives a very brief sketch.

"Act 2" thankfully is a few seconds longer than "Act 1", just over 5 minutes. But troubled with him pretending to make mistakes, or is it real because I have never seen him do THIS mistake before (so I guess it has to be real...) ?

Followed by an extremely awkward infomercial of Jeff Dunham's new income-source. He is seriously spending an awful long time, on demonstrating and promoting his $95 doll. Trying to cover over the fact, by using comedy that the whole thing IS very disturbing and by trying to reach out to his customers hearts by saying there are too few doing his profession.

What a load of crap to get showed down our eyeballing-throats. He ends the whole thing by being the only person I have ever seen, running across the stage on all 4, holding a doll that he is chasing.

More interruptions of comedy follows this plug. Now finally...

"Act 3" is given to us and contains some actual content we "came to see". But Jeff fumbles and we only get seconds of actual comedy, instead we are fed like so many times during this show, witnessing Jeff pretending to encounter troubles and correcting them. He cannot consider, people being so ignorant, that they would agree and say "OK, I'll continue to pay for you to do this on a stage"?

So following this trickery is nothing anyone expects, a country- singer I never want to hear about enters and takes over. He gets the most screen-time of any segment! Over 5 minutes! After this they have a segment that ACTUALLY contains dialog saying "and we are in commercial, back in 3"... except this was meant to be a "funny" intermission. But it has nothing to do with Jeff and why people show up to see his show. So we have now been waiting, for over 8 minutes, or 11 if you felt ripped off in "Act 3".

A very expensive looking car rolls in (second in this show), with the face of a known character. It is a cool set-piece but looks more like a giant sign: "Thank You guys for loving and paying so much for my funny acts that I'm currently ripping you off on!"

"Act 4" brings in the biggest star of the show, the one we have been waiting for! We are greeted with TWO minutes of actual comedy, yes 2. Before the star is interrupted by Jeff's brilliant idea to continue enraging the audience with having "problems with the dolls" like hundreds of times before. Completely ignoring that we have all seen this a hundred times. Fine if he wants to always bring with him the "good old stuff" but the entire SHOW is made up of his problems! (It doesn't happen once this time, but after 3 I stopped counting during this act.) This occupies the rest of the show, which is about 3 minutes more, yes THREE minutes left. Before Jeff waves his customers goodbye and runs off-stage to meet his new customers wanting to follow orders (probably "Premium Editions" would be signed during the show?) and buy his dolls.

My mouth was actually open when this was over, I couldn't believe I had just wasted such a large portion of an hour and gotten less comedy than the average news-show (and they are SHORTER in total length!).

And PS: I really like most of his prior work, this one however saddened me.