Hyperdrive

Binged this show! Love it, need more, Netflix needs to stop spending budget on Adam Sandler movies and make more like this!

From a game show perspective, this show gets about a 6 or 7 out of 10. It's got that got talent cheese and guilt ridden build ups. But I must admit, it makes up for it in raw filmography and intense "in the lap" perspective. The future is here and it's in the form of compact 4k cameras, super smooth drones and high powered LEDs on a dmx system from hell! This WILL be a spectators sport. It will gather more experienced and higher skilled drivers. And I can definitely see the show taking the challenges to all sorts of heights. Especially if it gathers popularity and cash! The extra points are for the geeks. The techy dudes who know all the latest kit the get their productions looking sweet and the perspective first class. The best thing is, it's all affordable making production value even greater! Great job.

Loved the concept, but the packaging could use work. It definitely takes drifting to a place where it is a sport in that it is a pointed system of challenges that make for a somewhat uniform playing field while also removing the "style points" that drift events are often centered around. However, it'd be better if it was more like watching the x-games. I even get the lighting on the cars as it is filmed at night. However, the commentary from the hosts was awful and made it difficult to watch. Fire them all and hire some of the drivers to replace them. Hearing a former UFC champion say over and over "I've never scene this before" just makes the whole thing kind of a joke. Yeah, I get it, you've never scene this before. That is literally every minute of existence. Hire the drivers from the season to announce. They have done it and I'd rather hear their input.

I've always loved muscle cars & driving fast. This shows has both plus more!! There are drivers that are financially secure and do this as a hobby and there are drivers that have sold everything and work four jobs just to be there. There are young and old, guys & gals - competing to show their talent.

As others have pointed out this show has a lot going for it - lighting, original obstacle courses, great cars and genuine semi-professional drivers who give their best and push their cars to the limit.

There are also unexpected twists and mishaps that keep the show interesting to the very end. It didn't feel biased to me - simply the mix of drivers was all over the place with some bordering Ken Block-ish levels of control while others driving like my uncle after 5 rakias (or whiskies).

However - the commentary and dramatization a-la "Deadliest catch" or "Orange county customs" detract a lot of value from this show. This typical American dumbing-down of the content is not really doing them any service.

They could have excelled by showing us more of the technical stuff about the cars, how they were built or some performance analysis instead. And yes they could have definitely chosen their slow-mo shots better as someone else commented before me.

Well worth the watch though and I do hope they read the comments here for Season 2 :)