The Great Escape

The show's episodic nature, however, limits the attachment viewers can form for the teams (and also, mercifully, the level of celebrity these folks can later attain). But there is something to be said for brevity.

I'm not going to be the only viewer who thinks that the teams' trials could feel a bit more like prison and a bit less like a hipster treasure hunt.

Nothing really jells here.

Unfortunately, The Great Escape comes off more like an elaborately silly game of hide and seek.

The challenges prove as murky as the cinematography.