Load of rubbish!!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I had watched every episode of this show. It combined two of my favorite parts of life: travel and drink. My brother was in a recent episode. He told me that Jack has a guy on his crew whose job it is to make fake drinks to look like whatever he's supposed to be drinking in that segment. What a poser. This is worse than when I found out that Santa Claus was fake and that Richard Nixon wasn't.

The Booze Traveler is Jack Maxwell's particular slant on a travelogue show. Jack often takes roads less traveled too ending up in remote and exotic locales. The common denominator is what the locals imbibe alcoholically. It's a unique mixture. It leans heavy to local culture as filtered through the indigenous drinks. Hopscotching through whatever country it blends education and entertainment with the element of a travelogue show. Jack Maxwell is a personable host. Jack's on-screen persona is what you might call "uber chipper". If he's faking he's giving it everything. Maxwell seems to love his work even when he's in, for lack of better terms, quite depressing and backward cultures. For pure fun the similar show "Chug" is more pure entertainment, but Maxwell's take on world drinking is actually more educational while still retaining his ever present optimism. I've watched more than half of the available episodes and I'm hooked. I feel I'm seeing things I'd never be able to experience in one lifetime as well as gaining a bit of insight of how besides math alcohol is universal. If I had to recommend one episode it would have to be the season two number 3 one where Jack goes to Finland. Not only is Finland wholly a unique and mystical place but it has the greatest cocktail mixing scene of all time at the end of the episode. The drink called "sudden death" is a spectacle. It makes the bottle juggling scene in the movie "Cocktail" look as stupid and baseless as it really is. This is one you've got to see!Booze Traveler might be primarily for the drink enthusiast, but it has a richness of culture that separates it from the small genre it lives in. Jack is the prefect host as he is almost too genial and upbeat, but certainly a man on a mission who loves his work. IN some ways this is actually both art and educational while being quite fun to watch, a rare combination indeed and not unlike a magic elixir bringing disparate people together in a unique way. I think this show rocks!

The show seems to fall short. The viewer is never shown the darker side of going on a bender in a foreign country. Sure we're introduced to all kinds of exotic drinks and interesting places, but something is missing. You never see Jack Maxwell stiff as a board drunk.Maybe what the show needs is a nice trip to a Mexican border town. He should visit the soft underbelly of the seedy side of some cuidad where he gets so sloppy that he can't tell whether or not the fat hookers he's buying rounds for are men or women. Maybe follow that up with a fight with the locals, a tune up by a pair of local Policia, and a weekend in a Mexican jail. Now that would have the makings for an entertaining travel TV show.

I'm giving this show a solid 8 out of 10. Overall, it's a nice travel show and you actually get to learn a lot about different places and cultures - and especially how booze is intertwined in those cultures! Just from a travel standpoint - even if you're not an alcoholic, it's a good show.I like the host but he's probably the reason I didn't give the show a full 10 out of 10. He's a bit too over-the-top "American! Ya!". Like when he's at a table with people in Peru who barely speak English and he's throwing around all this American slang like they're supposed to understand it. Don't know why but that just frustrated me. He could also be a bit more expressive of his gratitude when some of these people go through all their efforts to make him a intricate cocktail or whatever.. (thinking of the Japan episode where this guy makes him this extravagant cocktail in a diamond-shaped glass that he carved first out of purified ice and all he says is "now that's a cocktail"). He's also just looking to get wasted all the time. Again a bit unappreciative to the people he's visiting when he just wants to 'down' their labored or aged alcohol they've opened specially for him.My complaints a bit petty, but overall I really like the show and will continue to watch!