chadz75

I've struggled with this season of Taskmaster, it has been great at times, terrible at others. I've endured as the comedian roll call is just brilliant. As always, just like Season 2 they absolutely carry the show with Tom Gleeson just calling in the Toyota ads and trying to be witty, falling very short. I know he doesn't do the writing but, even the delivery struggles.

This episode just... failed miserably. I made it to the Roast section, and that's me done with Australian Taskmasters forever and probably Tom Gleeson too.

A good roast is funny. Hilarious! You can empty your lungs with deep laughter. Think Roast Battle UK - that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen! To watch Joe Lycett in Roast Battle season 4, just hilarious, fast paced and grueling comedy.

This episode of Taskmaster was just grubby TV. Shouldn't expect too much from an Aussie commercial network but Seasons 1 and 2 were quite good. But after this particular unfunny task when the Taskmaster has to ask a brilliantly witty and sharp comedian "Are you... OK?" that's not funny. And none of the roasts were funny, or entertaining in the slightest. It was a car crash... like watching a drunk, One Nation voting Auntie give the speech at a wedding for your sister and her new wife.

I love a good cringe watch - think Office UK... Office US. This was beyond the cringe, just left me feeling....dirty, washed out and empty.

I turned off Gleeson's Hard Quiz a few seasons ago after tiring of his borderline personal, nasty jibes at guests (members of the public, not paid comedians) and I'm now absolutely done with Taskmasters Australia.

What a shame, it could have been so good!!

After 4 years of following this incredible ragtag bunch of misfits, and after a very, very long wait between seasons 3 and 4.... WHY BOTHER?!? Why torment people like that?? All that incredible writing and clever, so so very clever character development over 3 seasons, all the one liners and jokes and innuendo, all the very clear timelines... just GONE in Season 4.

What a huge, huge disappointment this final episode and the final season was.

After 3 and a half seasons of knowing exactly what was when and who was where in the timelines... in the final episode I had no idea who I was actually rooting for. Wes Ben-nifer good, or bad? Did I want them to survive, or be destroyed? I STILL DON'T KNOW!!

When something is clearly rushed for contractual obligations it is obvious to everyone. And I just feel that this level of disappointment is becoming more and more commonplace with the advent of Netflix etc. Ozark, GoT, now this.

And don't even GET ME STARTED on how the timelines can be changed so people can be wiped from history but their offspring can somehow exist and be born and survive and play in a grassy green park GOOD LORD HELP ME.

Ah, thank God there is finally a show worth watching lately. It's smart, clever and witty - those who came before and gave this 1 out of 10 stars (Well, just one of you) probably logged off Hulu to go and watch the next SpongeBob SquarePants release.

This is dark, not too dark, but it just works. Ireland, misty clouds, grey skies but in this series it's always blue skies and sunshine- especially when our protagonist is out and about. That smile, that wry grin when Elvira realizes she has to continue... it gives me goosebumps. I love it. I want more.

This series re-designs whatever genre you found it in, and I love that. The comedy is dark, the drama is light, the stories are believable. These are the crazy stories that could befall any one of us. Misfortune bound out of human weakness, the failed attempts to fix them. Every one of the main characters has stuffed up and for that we can relate to each of them. They are human and make human mistakes with incredible consequences. Just like in real life.