glynne41
Having read most of the already posted reviews, I agree overall. Here are my suggestions for improvements:Have fewer fugitive teams so it is less frenetic and so viewers can get more involved with the participants. I really had no personal involvement with any of them.Tell the viewers more about the rules! I didn't understand why family members and close friends "gave up" information so easily. Do they have to tell the truth? Are they paid? If so, why were just a few paid? Do the fugitives understand the rules? How about volunteer helpers? Do they know that it is a reality game show? If so, can fugitives offer to reimburse them later if they win? It's hard for viewers to buy in, when the rules are so fuzzy.What about the cameramen? What are there rules? Is there a way for the investigators to track them? That would be a huge cheat.Give the fugitives a more realistic chance. Letting the pursuers know exactly how they are going to escape was a huge cheat, in my opinion.Treat it more like the game it is, rather than acting as if these contestants are serial killers or something. Lighten up! Show respect where it is deserved.I hope this show continues with substantial improvements. I love the premise.
jcmj996
The show starts out stating a set of rules. However, in the final episode they add new rules never stated before on air. CBS does say you could look this up on a website or such. Basically at the end, the runners are required to let the hunter pretty much know where they are, not to mention many other earlier set up rules that really limit the runners chances. Very disappointed.
SnoopyStyle
This is a reality TV competition. Nine teams of two regular people are tasked to avoid the group of highly trained investigators hunting for them. They are given an hour head start as they set off to escape detection for 28 days before retrieving the $250,000 prize. The investigators use modern computer and tracking technologies as they dig through the competitors' real and internet life.It's an interesting show. There are interesting detection techniques. There are interesting contestants. The potential is there for good reality TV. The show does need to explain the rules of the game much better. There are definitely rules but the viewer is forced to piece it all together. How much money can they withdraw from the banks? What kind of preparations can they do? The contestants obviously have camera crews following them. So this is an edited competition with murky rules. I hope that this is not fake. It does need to clarify its scenario. For example, the finale has the contestants picking up the money from a bank and running on foot to a plane. It's an interesting visual but I kept wondering what happened to their rides. It could have been an easy fix if the money comes with instructions to run to the plane. It would have been more dramatic and more logical. This show needs to clean up some of these loose threads.
ikrhumba
Spoiler alert! This is a joke! Let's see....give some idiotic people 1 hour to prepare (if it were me, I'd have a bag at the ready), only allow them to withdraw limited money with the show's plastic from ATMs, and then break every law to track them down. I understand signing away your right to privacy for the show, but what about other individuals (edited out, of course) caught in the information dragnet of street cams, etc.? Looking at the first episode, regarding the tall couple, I would have asked the bus driver to let me off a few blocks before the terminal. There's not a shred of reality in this. In reality, the agencies would have to (I hope) get court orders for most of their tracking activities.Pure crap!