Top Gear kicking in. I’m being unkind. The latest BBC One series, at least on the evidence of this first episode and the teases about subsequent attractions, is actually cleverer and more entertaining than any series I care to remember, and that includes the not-so-golden Clarkson era.
Usually, the sequences are just some variation on how many caravans or old British Leyland cars you can blow up in one go, interspersed with some gosh-it-goes-fast supercar porn and a race to Helsinki.
It wasn’t that such exercises were repetitive and futile, but that they weren’t actually that much fun, especially, it has to be said, when the new trio of Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness took over.
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