{"id":8139,"date":"2014-09-21T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2014-09-22T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:08:02","slug":"show-discussion-release-the-hounds-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8139","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Release the Hounds (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7770\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=7770\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"345,146\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"releasethehounds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7770\" alt=\"releasethehounds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/releasethehounds-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a>Mondays, 9pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITV2 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well here we are then, perhaps unexpectedly, perhaps not, <strong>Release the Hounds<\/strong> has made it to a full series after a pilot last Halloween. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7769\">Which I thought was disappointing.<\/a> And then international one-offs for it haven&#8217;t done very well either. Still someone thinks it&#8217;s worth bothering with and we really hope the series lives up to the promise we think the show can have.<\/p>\n<p>Three friends enter an estate and partake in horror-based challenges to earn keys which unlock chests full of money. However to keep the money they must outrun a pack of hounds over a straight line course. Meanwhile Reggie Yates laughs at them from the safety of his commentary box.<\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms we had of the original were that the tasks were basically unfailable which didn&#8217;t help tension, and that it all didn&#8217;t feel quite scary and creepy enough, although the final challenge which was in effect loads of jump scares in a forest at night showed off some of the potential of the format. It looks very much like they&#8217;re going for more traditional fear based tropes in their challenges this time round &#8211; a locked phone box that fills with water, tarantulas, the dark, locked phone boxes that fill with water and tarantulas in the dark, that sort of thing. I really hope it works out, because it&#8217;s Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Ought To Like.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondays, 9pm ITV2 Well here we are then, perhaps unexpectedly, perhaps not, Release the Hounds has made it to a full series after a pilot last Halloween. Which I thought was disappointing. And then international one-offs for it haven&#8217;t done very well either. Still someone thinks it&#8217;s worth bothering with and we really hope the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8139\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-27h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}