Ok, occasionally I find stuff, occasionally I get sent stuff. This weekend I got sent some stuff – this will explain why you’re likely to get some posts getting excited about new shows this week. One of the things I love doing at the Bar is introducing shows you might not have been aware of, and I’m going to do that again now.<\/p>\n
Basically it’s a show called One Man Army<\/strong> and it’s on the Discovery channel in America. In it, four people from the armed forces, law enforcement, that sort of thing compete against each other in challenges designed to discover which of them is a “one man army”, and they get to take home $10,000. They do this by taking part in three challenges – a speed challenge, a strength challenge and an intelligence challenge, the worst person in each challenge falling by the wayside.<\/p>\n It is quite<\/em> the most properly\u00a0macho thing I’ve seen in television for quite a while no doubt helped by the host, former Green Beret and survivalist Mykel Hawke, who absolutely has the authority and crucially the voice to do the thing justice.\u00a0The challenges aren’t really anything you haven’t seen before on other adventure-based shows, but there’s some thought put into them here and Mykel is good at explaining the correct tactics\u00a0for smashing through walls, for example.<\/p>\n It’s highly enjoyable, but it’s also the sort of thing that feels right on US television that sadly I don’t think would work in quite the same way over here.<\/p>\n