I love that you said this and then launched into a comment longer than the original post. Glad I'm not the only one with too much to say about Taskmaster!
I really like your thoughts on why the panels start feeling more like a coherent group after the first few series. I'd be really interested to know how much thought goes into picking contestants that will play well off each other.
Every time anyone mentions Doc Brown, it immediately slams his incredible 'once I caught a fish alive' video into my head.
Katherine was definitely the one whose task performance was consistently the most fun to watch
Her most memorable moment for me actually doesn't come from her series; it's her attempt at 'create the biggest mess and completely clean it up' from Champion of Champions. Absolutely horrifying to watch.
(Somewhere around my DW is a cozy mystery AU a couple of friends and I brainstormed where Hugh is the serial killer, Joe and Lolly are junior detectives, Noel is the quirky medical examiner/pathologist sort of thing, and Mel is the amateur sleuth...)
I think I saw your post about that! It would make an incredible television series.
He really has the vibe of a kidnapping victim/hostage throughout, poor guy XD
This is so true. I think magistrate captured Joe Thomas on Taskmaster best: In every single studio reaction shot he gets, he looks like he's belatedly realized something about the task he's just watched, and if only he'd realized it sooner, he could have saved lives.
I think either Paul Sinha or Iain's character arc was my favorite on it
I loved Paul bumbling around in a dressing gown. Iain's genuine remorse when he realised how awful he'd been in the team tasks was really interesting, too!
Katherine did make me laugh the most, probably
I love that Alex is absolutely losing it during her 'catapult the shoe into the bath' attempt.
I wonder how much Covid is to blame for that; it definitely seems like it's harder to gel as a group when sitting 6 feet apart and presumably not really getting to hang out as much.
That makes a lot of sense! (And I agree that Mike and Lee were a great team. I loved their enemies-to-lovers attempt at the 'have an argument' task.)
For me, TM was the introduction to Lee and then I saw him on WILTY and was quite surprised by his persona, because he just seemed so genuine on TM!
He really surprised me on Taskmaster after seeing Would I Lie to You; it's interesting to think about how surprising it is to come at it from the other direction! I feel Taskmaster often shows you a new side of people; I definitely felt I learnt new things about Victoria Coren Mitchell.
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I love that you said this and then launched into a comment longer than the original post. Glad I'm not the only one with too much to say about Taskmaster!
I really like your thoughts on why the panels start feeling more like a coherent group after the first few series. I'd be really interested to know how much thought goes into picking contestants that will play well off each other.
Every time anyone mentions Doc Brown, it immediately slams his incredible 'once I caught a fish alive' video into my head.
Katherine was definitely the one whose task performance was consistently the most fun to watch
Her most memorable moment for me actually doesn't come from her series; it's her attempt at 'create the biggest mess and completely clean it up' from Champion of Champions. Absolutely horrifying to watch.
(Somewhere around my DW is a cozy mystery AU a couple of friends and I brainstormed where Hugh is the serial killer, Joe and Lolly are junior detectives, Noel is the quirky medical examiner/pathologist sort of thing, and Mel is the amateur sleuth...)
I think I saw your post about that! It would make an incredible television series.
He really has the vibe of a kidnapping victim/hostage throughout, poor guy XD
This is so true. I think
I think either Paul Sinha or Iain's character arc was my favorite on it
I loved Paul bumbling around in a dressing gown. Iain's genuine remorse when he realised how awful he'd been in the team tasks was really interesting, too!
Katherine did make me laugh the most, probably
I love that Alex is absolutely losing it during her 'catapult the shoe into the bath' attempt.
I wonder how much Covid is to blame for that; it definitely seems like it's harder to gel as a group when sitting 6 feet apart and presumably not really getting to hang out as much.
That makes a lot of sense! (And I agree that Mike and Lee were a great team. I loved their enemies-to-lovers attempt at the 'have an argument' task.)
For me, TM was the introduction to Lee and then I saw him on WILTY and was quite surprised by his persona, because he just seemed so genuine on TM!
He really surprised me on Taskmaster after seeing Would I Lie to You; it's interesting to think about how surprising it is to come at it from the other direction! I feel Taskmaster often shows you a new side of people; I definitely felt I learnt new things about Victoria Coren Mitchell.