By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 5, 2021 1:00 pm EST
The Great Escapists Trailer
Is this…a reality show? The answer appears to be “yes,” but boy oh boy does a lot of the stuff on display in this trailer look staged. In The Great Escapists, “two of pop-science TV’s greatest minds” – Richard Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Tory Belleci (Mythbusters) – are shipwrecked together on a desert island “with nothing but their smarts and their scrap shipwreck for survival. Can they invent themselves off the island? Or will they be castaway forever? This is the engineering challenge of their lives, will they succeed and become The Great Escapists?”
Really, though, this show looks like an excuse to see these two guys build all sorts of wacky stuff and blow things up. When the show was announced last year, Variety reported: “Each episode will see them take on huge feats of engineering to achieve epic builds, ranging from island hopping vehicles to a supersized hydro-power waterwheel.”
