01-29-2021, 11:55 AM
Lindsay Vonn hosts a game show where people travel the world solving puzzles with their dogs.
Last night, I thought I'd sleep in the North Chamber with Yuki like we did when he was a pup. We had given him a bath yesterday after he got ridiculously muddy digging a hole in the backyard, consequently tracking mud in all over the bungalow. He stays clean for a day or two, and I figured I'd indulge him by sleeping there to see if he might be snuggly. He wasn't. That's a shame because he's getting super furry...the Chow in him.
I thought we might watch this show together. It opened with a cool long take one-er, shot on some LA Hwy with Linday and her dog navigating a traffic jam full of people with their dogs. Cool scene, especially considering all the dogs had to be on point for the shot.
Then the game show started. Tug-of-war toys were dropped from a copter for the dogs to find and inside they had blue or green bandanas to separate them into 'packs' which conveniently split the teams equally by gender. One team had to find puzzle pieces on a battleship (the Iowa I think but I can't remember now). The other team had to serve dinner to guests on the Queen Mary. Then they had to race to a lighthouse where Lindsay was waiting.
And it was dumb. Painfully dumb. So stilted and unengaging, where the dogs upstage everyone, but not enough. It'd be better if they didn't let their humans talk and just showed the dogs, maybe even superimposing comic voices for the dogs, like Gilbert Gottfried squawking 'WTF?!' constantly. Ziplining with your dog? Does the dog really appreciate that?
Yuki was unimpressed as well. There were a few full face shots of dogs that he looked at, along with the occasional bark or woof that caught his attention, but he didn't like it either.
We didn't make it through the first episode.
Last night, I thought I'd sleep in the North Chamber with Yuki like we did when he was a pup. We had given him a bath yesterday after he got ridiculously muddy digging a hole in the backyard, consequently tracking mud in all over the bungalow. He stays clean for a day or two, and I figured I'd indulge him by sleeping there to see if he might be snuggly. He wasn't. That's a shame because he's getting super furry...the Chow in him.
I thought we might watch this show together. It opened with a cool long take one-er, shot on some LA Hwy with Linday and her dog navigating a traffic jam full of people with their dogs. Cool scene, especially considering all the dogs had to be on point for the shot.
Then the game show started. Tug-of-war toys were dropped from a copter for the dogs to find and inside they had blue or green bandanas to separate them into 'packs' which conveniently split the teams equally by gender. One team had to find puzzle pieces on a battleship (the Iowa I think but I can't remember now). The other team had to serve dinner to guests on the Queen Mary. Then they had to race to a lighthouse where Lindsay was waiting.
And it was dumb. Painfully dumb. So stilted and unengaging, where the dogs upstage everyone, but not enough. It'd be better if they didn't let their humans talk and just showed the dogs, maybe even superimposing comic voices for the dogs, like Gilbert Gottfried squawking 'WTF?!' constantly. Ziplining with your dog? Does the dog really appreciate that?
Yuki was unimpressed as well. There were a few full face shots of dogs that he looked at, along with the occasional bark or woof that caught his attention, but he didn't like it either.
We didn't make it through the first episode.
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