Aka Coogan and Brydon. I watched a couple of the previous series off and on, when I felt like something amusing/undemanding involving food and travel. That was fine. This time, with an interest in Greek history and culture, I was looking forward to the new locations. However my optimism was misplaced. The tired old formula of two 'funny' men engaging in un-funny (and increasingly edgy) banter and impersonations simply doesn't work any more. And what a waste of scenery and history - Epidaurus is one of the wonders of the ancient world, a beautiful open-air theatre designed four centuries before Christ (and still used to this day), with wonderful views over the surrounding countryside. What did we see? Two men bickering witlessly on a stone step. If the cameraman had simply turned through 90 degrees the quality of the programme would have been significantly improved. Then the trip to the island of Hydra - 90% of that trip was devoted to a single (!) shot of a restaurant terrace. T&T droned on, boring other diners, and us the viewers, whilst their two female guests looked utterly disinterested. A more modern story of Hydra (a tiny island) that Leonard Cohen lived there for a number of years, and where he created many of his most famous songs, and that it was home to artists, poets, musicians (some of whom still live there), was given only a cursory/jokey mention - the producer (correctly) deciding that that story was more interesting than T&T's increasingly desperate impersonations. And what did they eat? Who cares, they didn't. Time's up chaps. Move on.
Review of The Trip to Greece
