Top Gear America
Top Gear America
TV-14 | 30 July 2017 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    BallWubba

    Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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    Chirphymium

    It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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    Donald Seymour

    This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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    Mathilde the Guild

    Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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    timelms

    Top gear USA was great. EHH EHH. WTF is this crap, individually these guys are great but mashed together is a poorly pre scripted boy band. I keep trying, I do but keep turning over after 10 min. TG UK died now TG USA bugger me. its like the death of a favorited pet Thanks for killing another great show. SEE YA..

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    Mike Berger

    The only hope of saving this version of the show is to scrap everything and retool the entire thing. Naturally, I'd much rather see Top Gear USA return, but without Adam Ferrara. With that being said, there is nothing redeeming about this version except maybe Antron. Bill Fichtner has no business being on a motoring show, as he offers no insights or intelligence at all, and usually seems more concerned with his vanity. The guest star segments are just painful, but perhaps worse of all is the really out of place canned laughter from the audience who are obviously even less amused and more uncomfortable at having to witness this atrocity firsthand. BBC America, if this is all you got, please don't bother. First Top Gear I actually didn't enjoy. Even the Chris Evans Top Gear was better than this.

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    nitestar95

    Destroying the continuity by cutting 20 minutes out of the formula and sticking in commercials, is the first problem. The first decision of course, was what to cut out, and they seem to have simply removed the interesting part of everything. Then they chose hosts, seemingly at random, with no on screen draw at all. None of these guys is interesting in the least. I'm not saying they aren't good at what they do; they just don't work well as a team in this together, there's absolutely no chemistry at all. It was a chore to watch each episode all the way through. I could suggest ways to improve this show, but I know managers, and they NEVER take advice. They just want to insist that they made the right choices, and will continue to try to fix it fix it fix it fix it until it eventually is labeled as a failure, then they will blame someone else. End this horrible show now, and start again. Find an anchor person who is fun and has a personality, and then see who they can recommend. Because clearly, top gear u.s.a. sucked, and so does this. Add last years top gear which also sucked, and you've got a trifecta. Maybe it's time to try another formula. Oh, and if you're going to do a show in America with commercials? Make it an hour and a half. Otherwise, you'll always be squeezing the material and you'll never get it right.

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    alanegglestongr

    OK, I get it, the presenters for Top Gear America don't gel. But you know what? Clarkson, May, and Hammond of Top Gear (UK) didn't gel their first year or two, either. The producers had to retool the program and give "the lads" time to work together before they became friends and the three amigos arose to stardom. Right now, Top Gear America is struggling for lack of cohesiveness. But here's what I DO like.Anton Brown is a highly successful drag car racer. Tom Ford is an automotive journalist. They know cars. They know driving. And the two actually get along great. William Fichtner is ... an actor playing a host. He talks cars and often plays at knowing a thing or two, but is he the real thing? He seems like the squeaky gear that keeps the clutch from engaging in the team. Maybe that will work out. Maybe it won't.Top Gear USA never had the cinematography that Top Gear (UK) had, but Top Gear America's producers have brought over the visual techniques and tone from the motherland and it's brought a new depth and feel to the show that makes the cars and the adventures seem more exciting and more art. It's the iconic BBC style that makes everything you see feel more appealing. Add to that other Top Gear shtick, like incorporating "The Stig" and the celebrities driving the everyday car, and you have the potential for a more promising hit for an American analog to the Top Gear franchise. What might enhance it further is getting beyond the old American classic cars and showing off new car development and style, and maybe even trying out European breeds on our great American roads and speedways. If Top Gear can't explore these avenues rightly, who can?So, back to the presenters. They're really the flies in the ointment. I think Anton Brown and Tom Ford could work. I'd get rid of William Fichtner and bring in someone more fun. Why not Matt LeBlanc? He has experience from Top Gear (UK)! And he has proved to be an able main host and less caustic on screen. Give anyone a year to develop friendships with Ford and Brown and you would have a fun team to actually present car programming the American consumer would enjoy. Right now, it's stiff and uncomfortable to watch, even with BBC's elegant presentation.

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