Drive Hard: The Maloof Way

Remember when Megan Fox leaned over Bumblebee in Transformers and spewed some nonsense car jargon? That's this entire show. I have no doubt the father is legit but unfortunately it's so over scripted it's incredibly painful to watch for any person that has any mechanic knowledge whatsoever. Watching the one kid eyeball that air filter like he was shopping for lumber at Lowes bout made me spit out my coffee. I usually give these shows a couple episodes but I couldn't even finish the first episode. Watching a bunch of kids pretend to work on cars reminded me of my 3 year old nephew using his play tools on his toy car. It was borderline adorable.

It would be great to see a show filmed and edited for real gear heads, even a scripted one, but this ain't it. All kinds of nonsensical commentary from the daughter just for sound bytes. Things like tuning the distributor in a late model production car instantly turns off anyone who knows anything about them.

The stunt stuff is overly dramatized and looks like a weak attempt to launch careers of the daughters. Two episodes was enough to see its just generic product placement fodder and vroom vroom porn for people who pretend to know the difference between blinker fluid and wiper blades. CG is essentially rendering stunt driving obsolete, might as well aim for modeling careers right?

We all know you didn't have 5 days to get a car ready for a race, nobody does that. Production, fpv drone pilots, track time, and a long list of other factors are scheduled well in advance. Why do they even pretend? If you didn't get it done in time, you wouldn't air it.

When are producers going to realize they are being outdone by amateur youtubers? Much better off watching the Hoonigan stuff on youtube, way cooler, better production values and real.

I really wanted to like this but I just couldn't. Honestly it's just boring. The family seems nice and after seeing Maloof and the daughter on Fastest Car I was really interested to see this. I was hoping it would show them building some cool cars and more importantly seeing how the stunts are planned, practiced and carried out. Car build shows are a dime a dozen so that aspect interested me less than the stunts. The problem is it's all so scripted and with no meat to any of the segments that it's completely unwatchable. They only show you some graphics about how they fixed up these cars, with no real context. Most people don't realize that a $5000 build on a race car won't get you far, but they never explain that so it just looks like they added an air filter and some tires...boring. The stunts are 15 seconds of this is what we are going to do, then 30 seconds for the shot you saw in the movie, then the daughters patting themselves on the back. The format is crap, the script is boring, and there are about 200 better car shows out there. Skip it.

Car Masters, now this..

Over-edited, over-scripted, and cheesy all around. What's the point of including several drone shots of a 50 km/h race? Everything is so slow and predictable...

The show follows Sammy Maloof (father and "leader" of the family) the most. You can take what he says in the trailer and that's pretty much what he will have to say for the entire season. Then Netflix decides to edit every sentence to have control on meaning and rythme. It makes it so unnatural, you wonder what's true and what isn't.

It feels like those cheap movies with trending actors. Why is Netflix producing all these "fast-food" shows?

My eyes get sore with the constant scene changes, I don't get a chance to focus on anything! Jumps around too quick!

As for some of the mechanical talk, come on! Do these guys really know anything about engines?

Measuring a crankshaft, she says "It's 165 grams out!" What? Which part? How do you weigh one part of a crankshaft by measuring it with a caliper? Then runs some sanding strip on the journal!

Checks gunk attached to sump plug, obviously a magnet at the end nd states "The bearings have been damaged" or something like that... The bearing shells on a crank's big end or under the main caps is not ferrous, so will not cling to magnet for a start.

A whole of jargon is not right. Yeah maybe someone who deals with food mixer or hair curler might be fooled, but... I can't see a season 2 happening!