mtjohnson-61001
****Warning contains spoilers!!!!I was enjoying this show up until the final episode. I watch Investigation Discovery every chance I get so I loved the concept of this show. There were a couple of things that seemed fake throughout the season like how willing family members were to talk to the hunters, or how the Hunters would sometimes guess the next move of the fugitives and be on target, but this last episode took the cake of phoniness. The fugitives had to log in to a computer to get instructions, withdraw money and take a plane all of which the hunters knew about it. THAT WAS RIDICULOUS! So after all the running and hiding, coming up with diversions only in the end to give the hunters a big heads up that would never happen in real life took away from the show. It didn't matter the last two couples won the money, that plot twist just screamed fake.
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.
hernandezsandra-72049
My comment is, if all investigators are that good, why don't they catch all the real fugitives? why the friends and relatives let in the investigators, if they do not have a court order? Do the Camera men carry track-able devices? because they can track relatives and friends, how they can not track the show members.
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!