MythBusters: The Search

The only reason why I tried to watch this TV show to begin with is because I thought that it might be cool like the original Myth Busters was or at least come close. I was sadly mistaken! This TV Series is so bad that I couldn't even get through the first episode. The host is an idiot and the show is poorly directed and written. How in the hell did they get the rights to use the "Myth Buster" name? What a major and disappointment and failure! I can't see this lasting too long, but that's what I said about Honey Boo Boo too! If you want my advice, don't bother wasting your time. Or you can, just to see if you agree with me or not. It's like they intentionally tried to make it a flop so that they'd have a good tax write off!

I can summarize this series with one word: NO!

Its simple: This will not even come close to the original series. Let Mythbusters rest in peace without trying to milk a lot of money out of the brand and destroy it in the process. Start a NEW series instead, with a new name and logo.

Look, I understand that this isn't the next Mythbusters season and is just the search for the next group. However, this is just pitiful to watch and just can't cope with the reputation of the original Mythbusters in the current form it is in.

I'm all for giving people a chance, as people can surprise you, but the people they got for this series just does not seem to fit the part. In the original Mythbusters, the groups all seemed balanced out with each other, they fit and appeared to work well even if that were TV magic or not. In this search for the next Mythbusters, nobody seems to have a connection towards each other. Every excessive laugh or even a single laugh, every joke, every plan seems forced and pre-determined. It's as if they're trying so hard to be appealing to the viewer and to each other, and from my point of view, it is definitely not working. Even with the thought that maybe they just need to grow on each other it just does not seem like it was meant to be or even decent. They're just trying so hard to fit in and be funny that it's just weird and actually annoying.

The host as well does not seem like he knows much of what he's doing, even if he does, he does not portray that.

Using the idea of an elimination reality show also seems like a completely odd idea for finding the next Mythbusters. This doesn't make much sense and also drastically increases the factor of chance or luck as being one of the main components to being the next Mythbusters. The original Mythbusters, which pertained to the idea of elimination of mistakes or possible problems with experiments, seems completely opposite of an elimination by challenge type of search.

Honestly, they still are striving to bust myths so I suppose I can't say that they shouldn't call the show Mythbusters and just switch it to something else. However, if the groups are to continue as they are, I believe the real purpose of Mythbusters, which wasn't just to test myths, but was also to entertain the audience in being able to show the world things that you probably wouldn't have ever tested or even thought of before and give these people a passion for science, then one of the main components of this purpose would be lost. The entertainment. The joy in watching Mythbusters not only came from the results of the myths, but seeing them put it together with their ideas, thinking processes, and bad puns or jokes. As with most cases, with the lost of fun and entertainment, the loss of interest is quick to follow. This involves the show and science in itself. In watching the groups in this series work, the only part of the show I wanted to watch was the results. The groups themselves seem like a slightly-boring filler trying too hard to pass off as amazing content.

Hopefully they develop into something that will prove this entire review wrong once the next official Mythbusters have been chosen.

Kyle Hill doesn't even know elementary physics. There are so many misconceptions of physics equations and concepts on his nerdist youtube channel. Also, this guy's acting is freaking cringey as hell. This show is going to get canceled. It sucks so bad. The original myth busters had REAL scientists and engineers. This show is just a bunch of communication majors wanna be scientists. Horrible show.

Anybody familiar with the original MythBusters is likely familiar with its gradual decline. The first 5 or 6 season were the "golden age" and then they started tweaking the formula for ratings / to reach a wider audience (i.e. less and less substance, and more and more "wow factor"). The last few seasons had devolved into a sort of "witches brew" of scripted reality TV, and a race to blow something up / create a spectacle, magnificently void of logic / reasoning.

"MythBusters: The Search" has once again lowered the bar. The show is now formatted as a competition, yet they attempt to shoehorn the elements of the original into the new format as if nothing has changed (e.g. classifying a myth as confirmed, plausible, or busted, when the new format provides virtually no rigorous, empirical justification for doing so).

To present this uncontrolled, "fly by the seat of your pants" science (if you can even call it that) which takes place under the new competition format, as any sort of definitive, reproducible result is downright idiotic.

Their mistake was using the "MythBusters" name for the show, as it creates a certain expectation, which goes magnificently unfulfilled.