Flarpington

I very much enjoyed Kitchen Nightmares back when it launched in the UK, the US version wasn't quite as good but still an enjoyable albeit heavily Americanized watch. I also enjoyed Hotel Hell, it took the format that step further by adding more depth thanks to its larger focus, stepping outside of the kitchen.

24 Hours to Hell and Back is a step back from the earlier shows, the focus is more on a gimmick rather than actually taking the time to explore a business and its owners and help resolve the issues they're having. By comparison it feels very scripted, and frankly a little soulless.

I watched through the first 5 episodes in hope things would get better, or to see if I was perhaps biased against the new show format. Unfortunately my opinion didn't change, if anything it became more steadfast.

I never felt that the Scream TV series was award worthy, but at the least it was entertaining enough to sit through on a weekly basis if you had nothing else to fill your time. I'd probably have given the show 6/10 up until the 2019 return, which has plummeted to a 2/10.

Gone is the sleepy little town we'd grown used too, replaced by a bunch of kids in the big city. The only straight white men in the series so far have been portrayed as awful 'bigots' and the rest of the cast is built around politically correct cherry-picking. You have your dashing black male lead, the female black love interest, the hyper woke black female activist screaming about the evils of Donald Trump, and her BFF the overly sensitive gay guy. There is a white goth chick with all the angst involved in such a character. Hilariously, early in the show one of the evil white males compares them to the Breakfast Club, to which there's immediate disquiet from the cast that they've just been compared to a "bunch of straight white people" to paraphrase. I often wonder if the people behind shows like this realize that their portrayal of these left leaning stereotypes is exactly the sort of thing they claim to fight against, although pointing out hypocrisy to people who have a total lack of self awareness is a fruitless endeavour.

As for the plot? The lead character is all of a sudden being stalked by someone who seems to know about his past, I wont go into it much but lets just say it involves a horribly uninspired killer who hunts children with a hook. You'll see him very early into the show and it's just so ridiculous, bordering on fantastical, that even if you can stomach the political correctness you'll probably be put off by the plot.

I got through one episode of season 3 and I wont be watching anymore. This show shouldn't have been revived, the first two seasons set certain expectations and while it wasn't the best show it was at least decent. Season 3 has turned into yet another overly woke spectacle of far left ideology driven political correctness, and I for one am sick and tired of it infecting the media I consume.