The Hunted

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shambolic

Original Poster:

2,146 posts

167 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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Bit strange the cars, neighbours etc helping them out the blue have plastic sheeting between the driver and the back seat.
It’s all a bit contrived pish tbh.

Mr-B

3,780 posts

194 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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Yeah I noticed the plastic dividing screens in the cars (like taxis during covid) At least in previous series they at least made it look like they were trying to piece together a faint trail, now it seems like all the clues are too obvious and they go all in sending 3 teams to one address like it's a dead cert, which it is.

Mikebentley

6,114 posts

140 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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They are clearly followed by a cameraman film crew. You sometimes catch a glimpse of the crew vehicle in the background. It’s possible the screen is put in by them. I get annoyed by the lack of continuity.

thegreenhell

15,361 posts

219 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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Yes it's pish. Each successive series gets more contrived.

Some proper thicko contestants this time as well, as demonstrated when they were trying to get off the IoW...

Driver: "You can take the Cowes ferry"
Contestant: "They transport livestock?"

and another

Local person: "The weather's too bad for boats but you can still take the hovercraft"
Contestant: "What's a hovercraft?"

shambolic

Original Poster:

2,146 posts

167 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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Exactly. They put out a cry for help on social media asking if you’ve seen this person. “I’ve not but I’ve seen the camera crew and sound man running through a field, does that count”
Surely the crew will have air tags or other forms of tracker. This series has been too full of crap.
Hunters 0.6 mile away from a suspected house. But the hunted could be anywhere.
Same Hunters are at other address 200 mile away on same day. (I know there is heavy editing but ffs at least try a bit)

lornemalvo

2,172 posts

68 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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It's utter rubbish, so obviously staged I can only assume that people who watch this area bit on the thick side.

Freakuk

3,149 posts

151 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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As with all of these things the 1st series stands above any subsequent series. I recall in the 1st series a retired doctor I think just buggered off to the highlands of Scotland and they couldn't track him down, but he ended up going home as he missed his wife and they nabbed him there. Maybe he was forced to move I dunno.

But since that series it became obvious that a lot of this was staged/contrived, and you have to remember there's cameramen/sound guys with them everywhere so they're not exactly inconspicuous are they?

Mikebentley

6,114 posts

140 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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I think there’s an arrangement that after 7/8pm they are left alone. The film crew must bugger off otherwise they would have to work shifts. No luvvie is going to work more than 8 hours with breaks.

My wife likes it so it’s on at home. Some of the ex Police are complete cock sockets. The bloke in charge said the other day “If we don’t catch them I’m leaving the show”. They didn’t catch them but the tool is still there.

Madness60

571 posts

184 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Its amusing to watch but so full of rules to make sure its good TV and completely unrealistic. Someone on an early season published a list of rules and I think it included stuff like not just vanishing into the depths of the country for weeks at a time, making it compulsory to contact/meet up with close family members on certain days (allows the know it all shrink/old policeman leading the hunters to say things like "I think they're about to crack and will need to meet up with family and then it happens).

The other thing that's meant to replicate gov powers is that as soon as one of the hunters goes past a CCTV camera, the crew with them text in their position to HQ so not actively tracked the whole time but tipped off at ever CCTV location.

The Road Crew

4,240 posts

160 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Utter tripe. More reality in a WWE wrestlling bout!

Otispunkmeyer

12,596 posts

155 months

Sunday 29th May 2022
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This is pure bobbins, but it is fun to watch.

It's far too convenient for the hunters. I quite want the chap and his mum to be the last people standing. Because they looked so hopeless at the start.

Pedro25

242 posts

30 months

Monday 30th May 2022
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The new female police person in charge does my head in, she's supposed to hold a senior position in my local force (Cleveland) think it's ranked as the worst performing PF in the UK, currently looking for it's 5th Chief Constable in 6 or 7 years I believe. Watching the way she interacts with the rest of the Hunters in HQ and uses loads of swear words when describing the Hunted or their helpers makes me think that someone high up in the Cleveland Force should have her pulled from the show. As for the rest of the show it's just more reality rubbish IMO.

I Know Nothing

2,547 posts

74 months

Thursday 2nd June 2022
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There must be 100s of derelict places in Shefdfield yet they managed to guess they would be at the ski place, how.

Same as this week, how would they guess the two sister would contact a friends father?

Do they not need warrents to track phone conversations?

I liked the first two series, this one is unbelivable.

lornemalvo

2,172 posts

68 months

Thursday 2nd June 2022
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I watched some of this in a clip on Gogglebox (one of my favourite programmes). It is utter garbage. Can they legally tap phone conversations? The efforts to raise tension are spectacularly bad. We had two people sneaking into a car, while an apparently invisible chap with a camera recording them. The hunters should probably have gone to Specsavers.

The normally astute viewers on Gogglebox seemed to take it all at face value. Could it be because both programmes are on Channel 4 and they are under orders not to be critical? I know they work under strict rules. They are not allowed to communicate with other people who appear on the programme, for example

Driver101

14,376 posts

121 months

Thursday 2nd June 2022
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There is a note at the start of the programme something long the lines of simulation or replication.

How can they get access to ANPR, mobile phones and see WhatsApp messages live? I thought WhatsApp was secure?

Mikebentley

6,114 posts

140 months

Sunday 5th June 2022
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Why oh why does the wife make me sit through this ste?

shambolic

Original Poster:

2,146 posts

167 months

Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Just watched last weeks where ex forces current plod baits them and dresses up at a zombie night out to hide in plain site. She still has a fecking camera crew following her.
Not seen the end but cmon…….ffs.

Defcon5

6,184 posts

191 months

Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Driver101 said:
How can they get access to ANPR, mobile phones and see WhatsApp messages live? I thought WhatsApp was secure?
They don’t, it’s complete fabrication

lornemalvo

2,172 posts

68 months

Tuesday 7th June 2022
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The most depressing thing for me is that many people seem to swallow it.

Jonnny

29,397 posts

189 months

Tuesday 2nd April
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Anyone still watch this?

Missus loves it, I can't deal with how made up it all is.