Specialized racers from around the world, using their own cars, compete on one of the largest automotive obstacle courses ever created.
Stacey-Lee May, Michael Bisping, Mike Hill, Lindsay Czarniak, Rutledge Wood, Tyrei Tokyo Woodbury.
Hyperdrive pits elite racers from around the world against one another on one of the largest, most convoluted, racing tracks ever built. From balancing scales to lakes, these drives must do it all. Adding more interest to the competition is the variety of drivers in the competition with drifters competing against rally drivers and that they are all using their own cars. The result feels less like competition against other drivers and more like strategy against the track itself.
Billed as Reality TV, there should be minimal acting. Instead it was obvious the drivers were being coached and encouraged to ham it up and be larger than life. Thankfully those moments were brief and quickly obscured by tire smoke.
Camera work, sets, and backgrounds were all nicely done. There were plenty of cameras both on the track, and in the cars. Perspective switching fit well with the racing. Use of split screens was nice as well, allowing us to see both the driver actions alongside car movement. Narration was fairly ridiculous and could almost have been left on the cutting room floor. Driver comments and interviews however were decent.
Overall Hyperdrive is less about the cars and drivers than it is excessive, brightly overloaded excitement. Lots of bright lights, ridiculous tracks, and lame attempts at drama leave this in the TV series junk-food pile.
Nothing much here to limit audience age.
Released: 2019
Reviewed: 10.19.19
Star rating: 3 out of 5
Genre: Reality TV, Competition Reality TV, Auto Racing
copyright ©2019 Dave Riedel
Stacey-Lee May, Michael Bisping, Mike Hill, Lindsay Czarniak, Rutledge Wood, Tyrei Tokyo Woodbury.
Hyperdrive pits elite racers from around the world against one another on one of the largest, most convoluted, racing tracks ever built. From balancing scales to lakes, these drives must do it all. Adding more interest to the competition is the variety of drivers in the competition with drifters competing against rally drivers and that they are all using their own cars. The result feels less like competition against other drivers and more like strategy against the track itself.
Billed as Reality TV, there should be minimal acting. Instead it was obvious the drivers were being coached and encouraged to ham it up and be larger than life. Thankfully those moments were brief and quickly obscured by tire smoke.
Camera work, sets, and backgrounds were all nicely done. There were plenty of cameras both on the track, and in the cars. Perspective switching fit well with the racing. Use of split screens was nice as well, allowing us to see both the driver actions alongside car movement. Narration was fairly ridiculous and could almost have been left on the cutting room floor. Driver comments and interviews however were decent.
Overall Hyperdrive is less about the cars and drivers than it is excessive, brightly overloaded excitement. Lots of bright lights, ridiculous tracks, and lame attempts at drama leave this in the TV series junk-food pile.
Nothing much here to limit audience age.
Released: 2019
Reviewed: 10.19.19
Star rating: 3 out of 5
Genre: Reality TV, Competition Reality TV, Auto Racing
copyright ©2019 Dave Riedel
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