The moss thing was shocking.

Tom's final words, about how far future archaeologists might interpret today's treatment of Stonehenge, gave me literal chills. Really wonderful to think of.

But yeah, I definitely don't think it's a show that could have an enormous amount of staying power.

But then, I wouldn't have thought WILTY would have anywhere near the staying power it's had...and maybe it shouldn't have had.

Still, the problem with Abolish wasn't that it got stale. It hasn't even had the chance to get stale yet. It was the inclusion of some clear attempts at comedy that just fell completely flat, from a couple of the contestants but especially from the panel. The extent to which bad attempts at comedy took away from the show's conceit really ruined it for me. Add in the double-whammy that several contestants I thought were a clear last place ended up winning their episode and it just left a sour taste in my mouth. If that happens once or twice you can put it down to bad luck or mild differences in taste. When it's as frequent as it is, it's just a sign that you and the show's live audience are on such a completely different wavelength that you are clearly not the intended digital audience.

Jet Lag (including "season 0", Crime Spree). The Getaway, their traitor-style show where it's revealed to the audience but not the contestants that everyone is a traitor. Abolish Everything. The Scav.

Abolish seemed like a US school debate version of BBC's Room 101 to me, and we tired of Room 101 after a season or two.

What's the other series you tried?

A reminder that freedom fighters have always been labelled terrorists by their oppressors, regardless of the cause for which they fight.

Maybe, though ironically one thing AI is likely to result in according to this video is over-medicalisation, a serious problem that is today more likely to afflict wealthy people who can afford doctors that are more likely to practise "defensive medicine" and get extraneous tests run to cover their arse and to put the patient at ease.

AI will replace [good thing] for poor people. The rich will still have [it/them].

AI will replace doctors for poor people. The rich will still have them.

I would say the competitors are less annoying than you'd get in standard US reality TV, but to be honest I just didn't find the show all that engaging. Which is a shame, because that makes 0 from 2 for successful non–Jet Lag game/reality shows from the Wendover team. And considering how damn good Jet Lag is, I'm a little surprised.

quick edit: actually, that's 0 from 3...I forgot about Abolish Everything, which I also didn't enjoy in practice nearly as much as I thought I would in theory...especially with how often what to me seemed a clearly worse presentation ended up winning.

I can say they're very USAian students! And yeah, they can be a little annoying, but it's a fascinating look into a very unique game. YMMV of course.

Is it any good? The idea sounds ok but so far hasn't been enough to overcome my fear of ending up watching a load of very USAian students if they're anything like as annoying as shown in other TV shows.

Saw it at the cinema screening last weekend. Man, what an excellent end to an excellent season!

I had a dream last night I was in Jet Lag in Japanorama, and I kept falling behind and couldn't keep up on the trains with them until Ichinoseki when I caught up and told them about the 6.8 earthquake we experienced at the tallest hotel in Ichinoseki, and then another much bigger earthquake happened and I woke up.

Crazy how team ATom started, delayed in the rain, to end up neck and neck at such a beautiful sunset.

https://nebula.tv/videos/jetlag-ben-and-sams-relaxing-train-footage/
i forgot if they mention in the main episode, but in the full footage, they talk about "going crazy", feeling like moving backwards whrn they stop, but it's a wcll known phenomenon, the motion detection bit in your brain gets "tired" of one direction aftet a while and sends the signal for the opposite one

It's really amazing that Adam and Tom had this very long plan for an entire day up to exactly the sunset, requiring so many train connections, and it all worked out. Every single train was incredibly reliable.

Also, Sam feeding Ben a toxic Gingko nut is an absolutely iconic moment.

Amy's riddle: go, man, go

Sam: I think it's a watermelon

Any of you going to the two episode showings at theaters? I'm thinking about going.

The last 15 minutes were absolutely perfect. So funny seeing everything the rollercoaster of emotions from hope back to despair :D

I was feeling it only two episodes in, but I say with confidence now that this season is an all-timer. The narratives are really good, we get to see cool places, and the game design is appealing to virtually play along with.

Shout out to the Nebula subtitles team. I was watching on the train into work this morning and even with noise cancelling headphones it's a bit too much background noise to clearly understand what's being said. Turned on the subtitles worried it wouldn't work at all or wouldn't be good quality. But nope. Absolutely top-notch. When it was split-screen showing two competitors over the left and B-roll on the right, the subtitles shift over to the left. Two people speaking in the same scene show up in different colours. Just great attention to detail.

I like that every time someone asks what they're doing, Sam and Adam say "scavenger hunt" and Ben gives them the marketing pitch for the show

I think I'd recommend Tag Eur It 2 as better, but it's probably funnier if you watched the first one first. There's not been a really bad season yet, but the tags, races, claiming games & hide&seek all have different feels and it took a few goes to get most of them balanced.