![]() ![]() ![]() It is devoid of style, tension or anything else we might associate positively with his majesty’s longest secretly serving agent – including chivalry. Get Me Out of Here! to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It is boring, soulless and derivative, too, of everything from Race Across the World to I’m a Celebrity. Sometimes the answers can be deduced or narrowed down, sometimes it is pot luck. None of that, however, is the worst thing. There are a few effortful attempts at building backstory and empathy for the competitors (the father apologies to his son for working away on the oil rigs for so much of the boy’s childhood), but no one’s heart is really in it. To be fair, sometimes it is – usually when the challenge involves a boxful of snakes, a poorly caged tarantula or a yardful of crocodiles standing between the couple and their latest heavily secured silver suitcase full of promise. The answer is then drawn out for about half an episode, in case the momentum was in any danger of building. The challenges have about 17 stages each before you get to the (multiple choice) question. After that, they travel to more far-flung locales such as Jamaica and Brazil to do the same – but in lagoons instead of lochs. Then they head into continental Europe to run around Italy and Spain in bad shorts while pestering locals for directions to places they cannot remember or pronounce (alas for Bond’s cosmopolitan suavity). ![]() They all start in Scotland, yomping up hills and into lochs in unsuitable clothing – I imagine the Hebridean mountain rescue team sitting at home watching with their heads in their hands – because no one has realised that there is a difference between formulaic (a satisfying base upon which to build intrigue in a genre film) and repetitive. ![]()
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