The Sisu

Put 3 natural gearheads – who happened to be friends

 

set them up with funny challenges, let the camera roll, record their endless banter on everything. 

But make sure the narratives lead the audience entertained and know about something about cars.

People want to see exotic cars – check

People want to see different locations – check

People want to see ridiculous things – check 

All these is in Top Gear

Top Gear producers seriously did tons of homework and strived to present us ( me ) wonderful episodes of these trio, especially their specials where they head to Southeast Asia region, to Russia, to the ice. Last but not least they turned themselves as not so successful sailors.

Each episodes designed and set up with polished editing skills and of coz beautiful complementing soundtrack – god knows how long their planning, their shooting duration and those unused footages.

Clarkson’s banter with May and Hammond – clearly showed their solid friendship and comradery. What I love is the naturalistic lines spewed between the trio. BBC fired Clarkson ( due to his altercation - resulting Clarkson punched his co-producers ) – May and Hammond soon resigned from the show. 

Trio moved on to Amazon Prime.

Goodness I miss the guys.

Here is a snippet where May went to Finland, get himself involved with a folk racing competition. But before that he got some coaching from 2 time F1 Champion – the ice cool Mika Hakkinen.

 

Summon the sisu. 

Now - the visuals and editing is damn tight, loved May's banter with Mika, the visuals supported with one super cool fucking track.


There is no fucking way - our local television broadcast station can do this except producing more discarded worthless mind numbing consumerist contents. 

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