What have you been watching on TV?

[ian]

I've checked out James May and the Dull Men.

This show is dull, and not dull in the way that everything James May does is dull. I think the absolute tedium comes from all the other men. The show is like manlab but less ambitious.

Outside of cars, I've watched James May play with dolls, put together Model trains, cook random shit, go to boring places and talk endlessly about dull and mundane things for most of my life at this point...
This is the first time I've lost interest in what he's doing and I struggled to finish 2 episodes.

The problem is James May is not a dull man, he's a very interesting man who enjoys dull things. Everything else on the show is boring and drawn out. They could make the episodes 5 minute YouTube clips and it would achieve the same results. And on the subject of YouTube clips, I watch pretty much anything he puts on YouTube...

Over thinking and over engineering solutions to problems that don't exist should be a perfect James May show, and maybe it's just because I'd rather do my own boring things, but this is a terrible show.

Bring back the Grand Tour!