The thing that 'Top Gear' did so amazingly is making an ENTIRELY scripted show, look like it wasn't scripted at all... and yes, Top Gear did it very well before the Clarkson era ended and the show became HOT GARBAGE...
Well with this show unfortunately it's very very easy to notice that everything is scripted and ontop of that there's a few too many 'segments'. The problem with segments is that it completely breaks your immersion and concentration on what's happening, when the show flips over to the next segment... so instead of having Richard Hammond just walking through the entire VW Mega Factory, they instead chose to cut the entire show into easily 10 or more segments... this show would honestly have been much much better if they didn't do that, and instead just let Hammond loose in the factory with a camera crew and it would all be much more organic...
Instead the show ends up being extremely noticeably scripted and it only gets a 6/10 as far as documentary programming goes... that's what this show is afterall: a mini documentary.
Well with this show unfortunately it's very very easy to notice that everything is scripted and ontop of that there's a few too many 'segments'. The problem with segments is that it completely breaks your immersion and concentration on what's happening, when the show flips over to the next segment... so instead of having Richard Hammond just walking through the entire VW Mega Factory, they instead chose to cut the entire show into easily 10 or more segments... this show would honestly have been much much better if they didn't do that, and instead just let Hammond loose in the factory with a camera crew and it would all be much more organic...
Instead the show ends up being extremely noticeably scripted and it only gets a 6/10 as far as documentary programming goes... that's what this show is afterall: a mini documentary.
