Ultimate Tag

I mean let's be real: it's just an overhyped version of tag. The Watt brothers must have come up with this show idea, because otherwise I can't figure out why they were chosen as hosts. And the competitors take this thing to a new extreme. I guess this is a good show for hardcore sports fans and competition show fans, but otherwise I don't get the appeal.

I watched a whole episode, and could not stop smiling throughout. I also found myself laughing quite a bit. My amusement was not quite what the creators of the show may have wanted, as it was a classic case of laughing at them, not with them. When one of the Watt brothers (and it is very difficult to tell them apart) enthusiastically uttered the catch phrase "Let's play some tag!" in full earnestness, or when a character is introduced with full WWF wrestler montage, costume, and makeup this is where the show is truly at its worst/best. It was awful, but I couldn't look away. But I will not watch this show again, I've seen all it has to offer, which is not much, it's really quite bad.

*Edit: I think they wanted to copy Titan Games success and they came up quite short.

The camera is all over the place, you can't keep track of what's going on. The announcers contribute nothing. The participants are all hyped up, they should be screened for performance enhancing drugs.

I watched the videos of the original British version (World Chase Tag). THOSE are so much more exciting and interesting. This lost me in the first few minutes and, although I watched the whole thing ... hoping for improvement) it left be feeling like I had wasted an hour of my life.

Good lord,... who looked at the "sport" of tag and thought,.... Let's make THIS a television show! I'm sure nothing can go wrong....

I'm going to preface this with something simple. I lasted TEN minutes into this show,... and during that ten minutes there were two complete rounds. Now,... let's look a bit deeper. The rounds were maybe one or two minutes long. The rest of that time was showcasing individuals who,.... wanted to play tag.

I swear that this was attempting to be something akin to American Gladiators, but they lost budget before they started and someone just went "Hey,.... I know we're busy, but do you guys want to play tag?".

The announcers are absolutely cringeworthy in their talks, saying things such as "This might be the fastest tag in the history of the show!!!" IN THE FIRST EPISODE. Of freaking course it might be,.... since there was MAYBE one other tag before it.

I'm not saying that any reviewer that gives over 4 stars is being paid to,.... but that's quite the score to give something so little effort was put into.