Clarkson proves that if you spend a lot of money on a very expensive car, it’s not that difficult after all. Madagascar is easy to traverse at first to allow for jokes, then roads run out and the going gets difficult. The work done on the cars is clearly very professionally completed, and fairly extensive. Three hosts approach cars they have no attachment to, didn’t have to search out on a low budget, and didn’t modify themselves. We’re not in that Top Gear universe anymore.
There’s no shots of the guys working on the cars, no mention of the cost of each car initially, and no mention of how much the work cost.
Turns out the treasure is on Madagascar instead, a place for which the cars must be modified in ridiculous ways.Īfter finding a workshop to modify the cars, the camera cuts to (presumably a week) later, and all three cars have completed modifications. The show diverts for the next 10 minutes or so in its poorly written script as viewers watch James pretend to decode the pirate letter. A letter from the pirate in question also appears which, encoded, requires James May and his decoder pen. Viewers are presented with a story about a pirate in the late 18th century, La Buse, and his buried treasure. They know there’s a challenge incoming, but what could it be? First, time for a pointless and beautifully filmed drag race. The guys head to the French island of Réunion in three very lightly used cars: a Bentley Continental GT (Clarkson), a Caterham 7 (May), and a Ford Focus RS (Hammond). Unfortunately, “A Massive Hunt” isn’t even half as good. While the boat episode was watchable, it was instantly a sort of write-off, not reflective of the show’s true subject. The second episode of The Grand Tour’s new format sees the trio of elderly millionaires return to car-related tomfoolery after the boaty “Seamen” of December 2019. Its intended release date was the 18th, but someone at Amazon decided to foist the episode on an unsuspecting public a day early.īefore you read any further, be advised this article contains spoilers of the episode. After a COVID-induced delay of several months, Amazon finally released The Grand Tour’s new episode “A Massive Hunt” on December 17th.
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