TCATW Episode 5 Impressions (as spoiler free as possible)
Okay… that was interesting. To be honest, I did predict that one team would get eliminated in this episode and we would have a 3 team final so I have changed my name from DiamondTheSavage to DiamondThePsychic. Nah, just kidding. Also, I feel kinda bad for criticising the early episodes for not giving the chasers much screen time outside the iPad scenes because in this episode Anne and Shaun didn’t do any sneaking about, which was a shame. I love it when you could be watching a kind of tense scene and then you just see one of the chasers peeking around the corner. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. It adds some lighthearted humour in what’s otherwise quite a tense show. What I will say though is that I understand that Switzerland is a cold country and assuming they were filming this in winter / spring earlier this year, then it’s bound to be cold, and if they just didn’t do it this episode because it was cold (and Anne and Shaun are well into their 60s so maybe they didn’t want them sneaking around in the interests of safety), then I’ll cut them a bit of slack. Surprisingly though, the lack of screentime for the chasers wasn’t bad in this episode (as in I didn’t necessarily mind as much) since there were a lot of plot twists (before the teams got to the end, the team I thought would have came first didn’t) and so my initial prediction of who was going to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc were wrong.
Overall I’ve genuinely enjoyed TCATW. It’s a breath of fresh air for the show. I think the new formula where you don’t find out the answer until you get to a certain attraction is genius and I love the way that the different shots of the cast towards the end make you question who‘s going to be first or last. And I think if the show does well enough, I would LOVE to see a Season 2!
As for the final next week (based on the preview that we got at the end of Episode 5), I wonder if and how the layout of the episode is going to change compared to the last 5, because obviously we have 3 pairs (6 contestants overall) and 6 chasers. Maybe the team that get there first will be the ones to take on the chasers. Who knows. Looking forward to next week!