I watched A Scandi Flick yesterday.
Don't read this if you haven't watched it yet but do plan to!
The boys were on top form.
I suspect that Jeremy was very much involved in the writing. It had a lot of the humour of Top Gear when that was at its best - like the camping trip adventure and the making-an-advert-for-the-VW-Corrado piece.
The bit on the ski slope was just hilarious.
I refuse to believe, though, that the two most shocking events in the show were scripted.
If they were, then somebody deserves an Oscar.
Firstly James smashes his Mitsubishi Evo at high speed sideways into a cave wall and breaks a rib and the car.
Then, once it has been made roadworthy again, he crashes it through a frozen lake surface and he has to escape a semi-submerged car.
It is after this second accident that Hammond (why does he get known by his surname?) comes to the fore and "remembers" seeing a way of using some trees to make a winch to retrieve the stricken car.
Now surely it was the production team who cut down the trees and set everything up to perform this rescue - Jeremy and Clarkson got the credit but whoever did it - it was very effective.
And excellent television.
You would have to be a very harsh critic to think otherwise.
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