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Warren (2019)
Better than expected
Looked forward to watching this, and the new Alan Partridge show. Decided to read reviews first, then watch both.
Warren was pretty unanimously slammed online. But I thought it was good. Perhaps its my odd sense of humour - Rik Mayall was one of my all-time favs, and I like Martin Clunes too.
I don't agree with the previous reviewer's line 'he plays such an unlikeable character' - Warren is just Doc Martin moved up north.
First episodes of all the great sitcoms were weaker than the later ones, perhaps Fawlty Towers being a rare exception (because there were so few episodes after the first one). I'm hoping this'll be another of those greats.
Devil's Canyon (2017)
It's not a gold prospecting / mining series
As a fan of Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, Aussie Gold Hunters, Gold Fever, Yukon Gold etc I was hoping for a decent gold prospecting & mining series. This unfortunately is absolute garbage, on a par with Fools Gold (anyone unfortunate enough to see that knows what I mean).
These don't appear to be gold prospectors. It feels like they're actors, and the only reason they do this is to make a trashy TV series. Try watching the first 2 or 3 episodes and see what you think.
The 2 original guys appear to find very rich ground, then inexplicably don't bother to mine it. They move on trying to shoot animals, build fires, build shelter etc. One of the original guys put his base camp on a river bank, a few inches above the water level. Obviously in real life no-one would do this, even an idiot.
The same guy later has to wade across a river for 2 or 3 minutes. He decides to spend hours building a floating bonfire to keep him warm during the crossing, and does the crossing stark naked. Again, obviously in real life you'd keep your flippin' underwear on, carry the fire materials across and light it on the other side! Mind you, in real life you'd be mining the gold-rich ground you'd already supposedly found.
I say 'supposedly' as it all looks made up. The gold appears extremely clean, like it's already been through a clean-up process before reappearing in these guys' pans.
After episode 3 I gave up. This is nothing to do with gold exploration at all. It's just extremely trashy, extremely rubbish TV. Shocked it was made for Discovery - I thought they were half decent. It smacks of free-to-air filler crap.
Hopefully one day one of the actors will tell the true story behind this series, once non-disclosure agreements have lapsed.