thegoatandhammer

"It took the three of them (Clarkson, Hammond, May) years to find their feet as a trio. Another reason I think the show works, the BBC left us alone to let them find their own rhythm, their own groove, their own characters. They don't throw strangers together and go ' Right, you're funny friends now', they let that develop" -Andy Wilman

This is an improvement on the 23rd season, getting rid of Evans was the right choice... But this is still not something I would watch.

Matt LeBlanc is a good presenter, so is Chris Harris, and so is Rory Reid... But they don't have the chemistry that the original trio, the holy trinity had.

We all know that it takes years for people to develop this kind of chemistry between them, so we can't blame the new hosts for that, but having them try to act like they do doesn't look good, in fact it's quite transparent that they treat this as just another job and nothing more, the jokes are undeserved, the humor falls flat and then the fact that they just go and use the challenge format that was invented by the original cast like it's their own with no original though put into it is sad.

It's not as bad as the last season, but watching pain dry is better than the last season, so the bar isn't really that high. Being better than one of the worst seasons of television ever, is not that hard.

Just watch the grand tour, even though heavily scripted, the chemistry is the same good old bunch of Brits doing stupid stuff in cars to make you laugh while teaching you some things about cars in motoring in the process.

I think we've really taken this show for granted all up to the moment they fired Clarkson, which made made Hammond, May, and Andy Wilman leave the show and basically kill it.

For years I avoided watching the show past the 22nd season, and a few days ago I decided to finally try and give it a go, telling myself "how bad could it be?", nothing could have prepared me for the atrocity I was about to watch.

Matt LeBlanc does his absolute best, but he has to play off of Chris Evans, who is one of the worst on screen personalities ever, running around and shouting like a child everywhere. This season was dead on arrival.

The best way to describe this failure is what Andy Wilman said about why the show worked in the first place: "It took the three of them (Clarkson, Hammond, May) years to find their feet as a trio. Another reason I think the show works, the BBC left us alone to let them find their own rhythm, their own groove, their own characters. They don't throw strangers together and go ' Right, you're funny friends now', they let that develop".

The BBC fired Clarkson, lost everyone else that made the show what it was, and just carried on like nothing happened, but top gear will never be what it was before season 23.

This movie is a big nothing burger.

After watching five seasons of Better Call Saul and then re watching Breaking Bad for the second time, I then watched this movie for the first time, and if you remove all the member berries, you might get maybe 20-25 minutes worth of story.

Most of the movie is flashbacks and flashback filler, things that don't add anything to the plot or to the Breaking Bad story.

The whole thing could have been a 20 minute post show episode and it would have been better.

Throughout the movie I found myself asking the question "why?!" pretty much every time there was a flashback, and very quickly it became apparent that it was all to pad out the running time, though I don't know what for. This movie was made by Netflix for Netflix, so it's not like they were trying to pad it out to feature length to get it into theaters, and yet somehow the whole thing is almost 2 hours.

If this was never made, no one would have ever asked for it.

Give this 5 for effort.