We've just watched an old House of Games with Maisie Adams and she did her shocked face when she won on that too. I reckon we'll be seeing more of it, she could be winning the series.

what it lacks in polish it more than makes up for in charm and hilarity!

I enjoyed the first episode, and I'll catch the others later when I have some time. There's some awkwardness, but they definitely do better than I expected. It's very much a low budget passion project, but everyone's having fun & I found that infectious.

I'll give it a go. the American taskmaster was hot garbage, like most American media so my initial thoughts are this will also be more hot garbage. 1st yt comment says otherwise..so maybe, still have my doubts.

Maisie was basically the only cast member I was familiar with before, but I'm already excited about this group. I think she's going to be the one to watch, but I wouldn't rule out Reece.

I assume they're just calling them that on YouTube for Americans, but I don't remember if they said it in the actual episode.

Awesome! People should check out his other works, especially Goodness Gracious Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-uEx_hEXAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw-tQTS3-Iw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h-t8vVi0zc

They're really calling them seasons because of a single contestant, huh?

Yay!

It's a good sign when someone says their favourite comedian is Julian Clary given how funny he and the whole series 16 cast were. Really looking forward to it coming back this week but series 19 will be a tough act to follow

Ah shit thanks, that should be it fixed now

Might want to edit your link and remove the &t=878 so it starts from the beginning.

Fun new series they're doing on the YouTube channel. Those questions were hard, I rewatched series 9 only a couple of weeks ago and still struggled

when a contestant gets tricked in a task. thats an alex scorn

Paul Williams is a delight, too.

Just like everybody else 💁‍♀️

hated the aussie one, so now i’m def gonna look up the nz one!

He's a bit more relaxed as the seasons go on but I'm mostly with you on Tom G. They have the weakest chemistry of any pair, too, which doesn't help. They definitely do not spend any time together outside of work

It’s an absolute casserole. I started binging Taskmaster last week on the YouTubes, much recommend. https://youtu.be/xFIRODMFYAo

Nina was the one I felt was trying a bit too hard to be funny at times. If she had chilled just a bit she would have been a lot funnier (personal opinion of course).

Tom C was good, but I really didn't like Tom G. His "banter" felt more like bullying.

I've only seen the first season for Aus, maybe they fell into a better rhythm later?

The original is undoubtedly the best and Australia's is worse than NZ's but I still enjoy it. Tom Cashman's inability to keep a straight face sometimes is a funny "twist" on the assistant and theyvet had some really great contestants (Nina Oyama is an all-timer for me across any country).

There's also never been a contestant I've outright disliked watching which I can't say about the other countries lol

The NZ one really "gets it", it's my favorite alt version

That's true, I don't enjoy the Australian one nearly as much as the New Zealand one.

The Australian version felt focus grouped to death. It felt very scripted, and the contestants seemed to be trying super hard to be quirky/funny.

Its made by smallish groups of people and isn't focus-grouped to death.

As such its not always perfect and its full of little details to enjoy, like Joe Lycett deciding to 'steal' something in each task, Rhod Gilbert's solution to tying himself up, or Jason Mantzoukas... being Jason Mantzoukas.

It isn't that these things can't be pre-planned or written, it's that they're more enjoyable because the audience knows these came from the pressure of being given an unknown task.

It's genuine.

It's an absolute casserole.