I think it’s difficult to accept as a viewer that it’s all role play. It feels like the show expects the audience to take the show seriously. But it’s kind of ridiculous once you think about the reality of what’s going on.
It’s a very one sided role play, the hunters get all they need to know to control the situation. But the runners need to follow rules. Like surely if you were actually on the run you would just fare evade instead of tapping on& off. And withdraw all your cash asap instead of multiple small amounts.
They are an elite team of investigators with state-of-the-art tracking technology. They’ve got drones, helicopters and dogs, but what they don’t have is $100,000 on the line. Sadly for Angie, the last remaining fugitive from team Swifty Fifty, her chance at bagging the loot is over after her emotional capture on tonight’s real life thriller, Hunted.
Following her teammate Michelle’s capture in Geelong, Angie was en-route back to Melbourne with her friend Jacque. While Angie felt stressed about the prospect of continuing without Michelle, her personal motivation kept her moving forward. Angie longed to walk in the footsteps of her late father to better understand his time as a member of the infamous Richardson crime gang of London.
Jacque dropped Angie off at Flinders Street Railway Station, but with the ability to track Jacque’s phone, Hunter HQ deployed Team Charlie to canvass the busy train station. Angie narrowly made it onto a train to Box Hill and headed to the home of her friend, Stella.
Having captured Fugitive Michelle earlier, Team Delta searched through her bags, finding a notebook with a Box Hill address in it. Using CCTV at Flinders Street, the Hunters traced Angie’s Myki travel card to Box Hill and predicting Angie may be headed to the address in Michelle’s notebook, deployed Team Charlie to the home.
After canvassing the perimeter, Team Charlie discovered movement inside the house which led to the capture of an emotional Angie who had nowhere to run.
With one team now captured, 16 Fugitives remain on the run as Hunted continues Tuesday night at 7.30pm on 10 and 10 Play.
She was a insurance liability with that one leg. They would have found her even if she was hiding in the Amazon. Network bosses would be sweating having someone in that state out and about.
I don’t take most of the criticism of the show too seriously and accept that it’s television and needs to be produced to accommodate the medium. I rarely see people commenting on other similar shows in the same way. For example when someone is sent to Exile Island on Survivor to survive on their own they are obviously accompanied by a producer with a camera and one past contestant has admitted that that their fire was lit with a lighter. And we know they have used stunt doubles for aerial shots.
Surely you shouldn’t be breaking the law on the show - perhaps you could steal a car to evade capture ! Lots of shows have rules - e.g. no breaking the laws of the country being visited on The Amazing Race even including speeding.
Angie was a lame duck (no pun intended) with her leg wounded and her friend captured.
As for tonight’s episode, I am not sure if they showed the correct aerial shoot of Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges. I reckon the production team only did a drone shoot of a Melbourne suburb and took it for Emerald. There was even an aerial shot of Mordialloc (bayside suburb in Melbourne’s south east) pretended to be streets of Emerald!
I felt sorry for Angie. Her backstory with her father emotionally hooked me in - she had purpose in what she was trying to do. But it was a big mistake for Angie and Michelle to stay at Jacque’s on the first night.
Will be interesting to see how much longer Erina and Jessica can evade capture. Jessica’s paranoia may hurt the team.
Survivor is different, it does not expect the audience to take the survival part of the show seriously, we all know it’s filmed on a set, it’s not the point of the show. When the producers manipulate and contrive the gameplay, it does cop a lot of criticism.
At the very least to could get off at a stop without gates, or jump the unstaffed ones. I wouldn’t think that is breaking the law, you’re overpaying by a few dollars if you don’t tap off.
I take that sort of suggestion as a commentary on the contestants rather than a problem with the show. There are some inept players in this first season; but I think that contestants on any potential future seasons will learn valuable lessons from watching this one. I’d say that the better strategies will start to be seen later in the season.
The ratings tomorrow should be interesting as tonight the show will be head to head with the competition starting at the same time. Sunday it was 30 minutes behind which was a disadvantage but finishing later might have drawn in some viewers towards the end of the show.
All reality shows are ultimately role play - the irony of the term is you’re usually in a constructed situation. Indeed Hunted playing out in the real world arguably makes it more real than most.
Yes, there are rules to follow that viewers may not explicitly be aware of, but that’s the same for all shows. The ATM one for example is quite realistic in terms that most people have a limit on what they can withdraw in one hit.
Another rule is contestants having to move on every 24 hours - partly to ensure the participants feel like they’re on the run, partly because a show with 9 pairs hiding in the same place for three weeks is rather dull television. Other rules benefit the participants too - such as a period of downtime each night when no captures can take place.
That wasn’t the case when it started out though and they still cover up the fact the contestants are trucked around the location to challenges and tribal council.
Enjoy Hunted for what it is and you’ll be rewarded. FWIW the only bit that annoys me a bit is the “we’re fugitives on the run, can you help us?” intro contestants use when they want a lift, because I doubt real fugitives would open with that line. Heck, if you’re on the run for real have someone with you carry a camera around and just tell them you’re filming for Hunted.
It was 30 minutes shorter yet still people complain. You will never have a reality shorter than that. Standard start time for HYBPA is 8.40-8.45pm. It would be more confusing to viewers if that started early. At least it’s shorter than most other 7.30 tent pole shows on most networks.
Exactly this. I see people nitpicking such small things. Obviously there are certain rules they need to follow and editing/extra footage they are going to show to make it more exciting because it’s a TV show.
Maybe it would be better if some of these rules were explained though. e.g. I assume that if they are inside somewhere and the door is knocked, they can’t just refuse to open. They have to open or try to escape. Even notice so far everything happens during the day and not at night? I assume they have to settle somewhere by nightfall.
One thing a friend keeps complaining about is how they often make it look like contestants are within seconds of being caught when they have probably already left the location that the Hunters are at. I don’t see how that’s much different from The Amazing Race showing 2 teams running to the finish line when they are actually a fair distance apart. It’s called building suspense for the viewer.
I am enjoying this show for what it is. It’s fun. It’s different and I hope it continues to do well.
Yes, that’s a common tactic. Annoying on some shows but here I think justified as it brings the thrill of the hunt to the viewers - even if they’re miles apart at that time the fugitives may think they’re being tracked and the Hunters certainly think they’re closing in so editing them together brings those emotions to the viewer.
The show is actually probably more honest than most in being honest about how it works.
It definitely has the water cooler factor. I have a range of friends watching and wanting to discuss, which has been rare in recent times to have so many people that I know talking about one particular show.
