The Grand Tour exploring local automotive customs and fashions – in its own weird and confused way – is a keeper.
While spinning seems terribly unsafe, the idea of The move to South Africa also brought a new segment that Jeremy and Richard are calling – semi-seriously, we're guessing – "Making James May Do Something He Doesn't Want To Do." In the inaugural segment, James sets out to explore the South African art of spinning, or doing donuts in oldīMWs until the tires burst. The entire segment got strong, authentic-sounding laughs from the studio audience. The opening studio segment, meanwhile, is itself an evolution on last week's opener, giving the hosts the opportunity to tease South African President Jacob Zuma's difficulty with numbers. It's a solid, short, sweet opening, and we're eager to see how the title evolves as the hosts relocate the big tent around the globe. We got our first look this week at the show's new intro, which features scenes around Johannesburg and a trio of off-roaders. This should bring a lot to the show, especially if this week's trip to South Africa is anything to go by. The Grand Tour's appeal, because it blesses the hosts with new choices in beautiful scenery and a new host country to not-so-gently mock. Moving around the globe for each episode is a big part of Episode two isn't as bad as the ambulance show, but it's close. The Grand Tour attempted the same thing, but with fewer cars and riffs on Tom Cruise's 2014 filmĮdge of Tomorrow. TG history, we complained that the show "tried to do an hour of sketch comedy that just happened to involve some cars." The second installment of We were particularly hard on the third episode, which saw the hosts modify a trio of vehicles to serve as ambulances.Ĭalling it the worst episode of the season and possibly one of the worst in Among its bright spots sat a few steaming piles of junk. Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. We recapped the final season of Top Gear featuring