007: Road to a Million

Revision as of 07:08, 10 November 2023

Host

The Controller (Brian Cox)

Broadcast

72 Films and MGM Alternative in collaboration with EON Productions for Amazon Prime Video, 10 November 2023 (8 episodes in 1 series)

Synopsis

Nine couples are tasked to grab cases that are secured in a series of James Bond themed stunts, each case contains a question with multiple choice answers, if they get it right, they bank a stack of cash, if they get it wrong, they take home the winnings they've won up to that point. If they get all ten correct, they win a life changing sum of £1,000,000.

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Sam Thompson

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 == Synopsis ==
-Nine couples are tasked to grab cases that are secured in a series of James Bond themed stunts, each case contains a question with multiple choice answers and if they get it right, they bank a stack of cash. If they get all ten correct, they win a life changing sum of £1,000,000.
+Nine couples are tasked to grab cases that are secured in a series of James Bond themed stunts, each case contains a question with multiple choice answers, if they get it right, they bank a stack of cash, if they get it wrong, they take home the winnings they've won up to that point. If they get all ten correct, they win a life changing sum of £1,000,000.
-There are five levels, each of them with two cases and the higher the level they reach, the bigger the stunt gets.
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+=== Level 1 ===
+The first level is set in the Scottish Highlands where each couple is dropped off to a nearby old fashioned red phone box and they will be instructed to find their first question in a case containing three answer that are smoke bombs that correspond to the question, if they choose the correct answer, the smoke goes green and they bank £5,000
+The second question, if they get the first correct, is held in a less cold part of Scotland and that is either in a house or a garage where an old fashioned audio or VHS cassette tape contains a question. Three other audio or VHS cassette tapes have answers and they will be told if the answer they have chosen is right for £10,000.
+=== Level 2 ===
+The second level is set in either Italy or Turkey, the third question worth £25,000 is up against a time limit to get to a specific location and the case is held in either a stunt or they have to do a dare, which corresponds to the question.
+The fourth question is worth £50,000. Up against a time limit again, but the location is longer to get to and there is less time to do it in.
+=== Level 3 ===
+The third level goes to either Brazil or Chile where they are told to find a case where they thought would contain a question, but instead it contains items to get to their next area. Along the way, they are given a phone, which contains a code to a combination and a destination on where to get their next case containing question five that is worth £100,000.
+=== Level 4 ===
+The fourth level takes them to Jamaica where they will be told to go to a location that will lead them to their next area where the case is at and contains the sixth question worth £200,000.
+It's tuxedos, casinos and a couple of vodka martinis for the remaining surviving couples who got this far and to answer question seven, which is worth £300,000.
+=== Level 5 ===
+The fifth level takes them to the cold alps of Switzerland where they are given coordinates to their location and rescue a case that's filled with explosives and they are timed as well. Avoid exploding it will give them an item and coordinates to another location that holds a case, which contains the eighth question worth £500,000.
+=== Worth Bonding? ===
+It's quite a ballsy move to have contestants take part in various stunts from the James Bond movies. Mind you, ''[[Squid Game: The Challenge]]'' came out the same month and year as this show with a lot more contestants and a bigger prize pot. Don't worry, they are connected to harnesses, so health and safety won't shut it down.
+While the show is a good mix of ''[[The Mole]]'' with its action/adventure reality format, ''[[Eggheads]]'' with contestants talking through the multiple choice answers and ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' with its long amount of wait time to find out if the contestants got the question right, the structure on how they show the couples adventure is all over the place and at a couple of points, a waste of time.
+First of all, we don't get introduced to all nine couples at the start of the series, we get two with one being eliminated very early on. The second episode starts us off by introducing us to our third couple, who are searching for their third question. Huh? And then we get a flashback of them in Scotland on how they got there. What was the point of that? We already know they're gonna get the questions right so the tension is lost there.
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