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I'll cut right to the chase. I didn't like this show. At all. And, I'm kind of disappointed because I actually thought that I might. I had previously enjoyed at least one episode of the short-lived SyFy series Chase (where people were on the run from hunters, and the longer they lasted, the more cash they racked up) and The Phone (where two teams got cell phone calls and had to race for a prize), but I barely made it through the premiere of Take the Money and Run, despite having seen a hunk of it during The Bachelorette. Even in installments, it's pretty terrible.
The concept is simple: two people are given a briefcase worth $100K, a car with GPS and a phone, and then they are given an hour to bury it before "police" come and take them into custody. Then two detectives are given their GPS route and a phone log and set out to find the hidden money. If the detectives don't find it in 48 hours, the two locked-up contestants get the cash, but if the cops do find it, they keep it.
Sounds fine so far, but then there are two other people who are interrogators (who seem to just be a part of the show) trying to break the contestants and then feed the intel to the detectives. That seems less than fair. And in the first episode, one of the players basically gave up the location because he couldn't handle a few more hours of being in solitary confinement or being asked annoying questions, so that kind of sucked. Players trying to keep secrets on that horrible Unan1mous show were able to hold out longer in more off-putting circumstances. Hell, people on Big Brother can keep secrets for longer.
And if the detectives aren't actually doing the interrogations (like TV has led me to believe is their job), they why are they getting all the money? Plus, watching real people drive around and talk to accomplices is about as boring as watching paint dry. I've been spoiled by scripted procedurals in which a whole lot more gets accomplished in two days in a hell of a more compelling manner.
Normally, since it is summer, I'd give this show another week and hope it was just a case of bad casting or something, but there's a lot of surprisingly good television on right now, so I don't think I'll waste any more time with a supposedly exciting chase/heist show that makes me fall asleep.
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I was so disappointed in the show last night. He just gave up the location? How dumb is that? Seems like there were some rules they didn't tell us. Why didn't they just hold out, not saying anything at all to the interrogators, for 48 hours?
The fact that a group of executives cleared this junk to air even once scares me. Is this how stupid they think we are? Hmmm maybe its how stupid they are. This is more of a documentary on how lifes not fair, rich people living in big houses put this rubbish on tv.
I consider it an insult that someone thought I would like this. I wish I had an address so I could invoice somebody for the hour they stole from my life, not to mention the waste of electricity across North America.
This is the lamest excuse to fill a summer time slot and as exciting a watching molasses move on a level surface.
If there are rules that the participants have to follow whynot reveal it to the viewers. And it is unbelievable that one can breakdown because the interrogator said "Tell us where the money is and you can go home". For heaven's sake the contestant have only to hold for 48 hrs it's not like he will be in jail for a year or two.
And what's that all happy handshaking at the end. If that were my partner, I'd kick his butt for vaving in at the lamest threat of being kept for the rest of the 48 hours.
Somebody hide all the tapes of this show.
This is the lamest excuse to fill a summer time slot and as exciting a watching molasses move on a level surface.
If there are rules that the participants have to follow whynot reveal it to the viewers. And it is unbelievable that one can breakdown because the interrogator said "Tell us where the money is and you can go home". For heaven's sake the contestant have only to hold for 48 hrs it's not like he will be in jail for a year or two.
And what's that all happy handshaking at the end. If that were my partner, I'd kick his butt for vaving in at the lamest threat of being kept for the rest of the 48 hours.
Somebody hide all the tapes of this show.
Lighten up, Francis, er jbjb, it's just a TV show. Watch it, don't watch it, nobody cares.
Is there some rule that requires a minimum number of calls or staying with the car or something. Why on earth make ANY calls? Leave the phone in the car and take off on foot. And what's wrong with Chumley? Did he not notice that he's surrounded by a film crew of a half dozen or so? That it's a TV show and he's not really in trouble? That he knows how long he'll be in there? I've never seen a "reality show" that looked so ridiculously scripted.
I didn't watch this whole show, just the long preview during the Bachelorette but even then I thought the same thing as Hess. Why call anyone? Why get in the car and/or park near where you're going? Why stay together? Have the briefcased person run somewhere and have the other person drive around and pick him up.
Either these people are stupid or this show is scripted. Both are bad options.
I'm guessing the execs who greenlit this did so because they trusted the creators of The Amazing Race. I know that's why I watched. I assumed the contestants had to answer questions but were allowed to lie. I doubt they'd be allowed to split up or go on foot--most of the show is the "investigation" so the cops have to have something to go on. It might have been less boring if the audience didn't know where the briefcase was hidden--if we were figuring it out along with the cops.
What tripe. The "lie to me" experts and detectives make the characters on CSI look stupid. Grampa gets in Chumley's grill and he starts twitching and is almost broken. The detectives then run into a random guy in a huge city who just happens to know where one accomplice can be found. The interrogators use their psychic powers to determine that the only place can be a park from the timing of the phone calls and ask chubby one question to get him to spill his guts. Then you need to believe that the detectives search a huge park in the dark and find the case in a few minutes. Reality = fixed.
This was a show that could have been good but wasn't. Online I read a few more rules that make a lot more sense:
1) They have to use the car, and can't stray too far from it (i.e. they can park it to go into the park on foot, but can't keep on walking 2 miles,
2) They have to answer the questions, they just don't have to tell the truth.
All in all this devolves into your ability to withstand an interrogation for 48 hours. Its a pretty boring execution of an interesting concept.
Huh? What were you watching. The interrogates were able to figure out which of the two was the "weak one" based on body language, interaction and other factors based on generalizations overweight guy who lives with mom) and worked him. At the same time the detectives did the boring eliminate the accomplices work. That left them with the conclusion that the "theives" hid the money themselves. They looked at the GPS and phone records to figure out where and then had 24 hours to search a park, knowing it couldn't be that hidden since they didn't have tools to use. They made it look like the park search took 5 minutes, but it could have taken 5 hours for all we know.
Sorry I didnt sugar coat my comments for your little bubble but I am the one paying for my cable, are you the one paying for yours? I like to see an honest days work going into things that I purchase, I dont expect everything to be to my approval but I do expect obvious trash like this to be weeded out. It displays either very poor work ethic or stupidity, you pick. Try getting off that fence your living on.
I have had a lot of success with common sense, I dont have to hire a bunch of people that pretend to be working while burning hard earned money.
I agree it was a truly awful show. The detectives would have never found it. And solitary confinement? That wss cruel, expecially for the one brother that wasn't so swift. Please cancel this fiasco, I'll never watch it again. A loser.
The brother Raul is an actor, he has his own web page, been on many other shows. This was all scripted, no one is there right mind would cave after 30 hours. This whole show has actors on it....COME ON IS THE PUBLIC THAT STUPID??
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The second show was much improved, congrats
The second show was much improved, congrats
i like to be a conest on the show.i know some can hide the money,but i live n,j.i love to do this were we live ,nobody would every find it ,please give me a chance
stupid stupid trying to watch another episode why can't they run and not be in jail real detectives never catch them that fast I don't think anyone will ever win if they do I can't make in thru the first 30 minutes... Blah boring when are the real shows coming on.
I like to see an honest days work going into things that I purchase, I dont expect everything to be to my approval but I do expect obvious trash like this to be weeded out
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