Since the beginning of the Car Shows, studios have always been looking for a sure-fire-formula to make to keep the ratings up and the show going. If you want to have a car show these days you need to do the following:
1. Use the words "baddass, interwebs, and Pop (for paint design)" every 10th sentence.
2. Have impossible deadlines to get a car prepped, painted/built for a car event.
3. Magically have the car go from junk to a jewel in a week.
4. Have amazing "barn find" cars suddenly become discovered.
5. Sell a car that you wouldn't think get over $50K suddenly get $90.
6. Constantly talk about how whatever car you are building is the biggest, baddest, most expensive, risky, innovative, potentially bankrupting car ever.
7. A TON of IMDB reviews with incredibly high scores that just have a couple of sentences like..."its great" or "good show".
So Car Masters has all of these items....so what makes it different?
1. Interesting cast of characters:
A: "Surfer dude" deal maker guy. He doesn't really work on cars..he just magically finds people who want to trade something for a Gotham Garage car...plus cash. Oh, and if you haven't figured out why he talks that way, He's an actor (duh..obviously....check his IMDB). B: Outrageous mechanic named "caveman" who hasn't cut his hair and beard since the stone age. C: Lone background Mechanic who looks like he puts in a hard days work named Tony. D: An incredibly hot chick model who works on cars. Is she an engine specialist? I guess so. Seems like she knows a few things about cars. And finally D: the head-bandana wearing boss (thats been done before) who I can never tell if he is happy, sad, angry, or whatever because he never changes expression or tone of voice throughout the entire show.
2. The "trade up" system. In the show, the Gotham Garage gang build a car and then trade it to a customer who has something more valuable that they can use to increase their cash to get something bigger/better. Some how all the customers seem to weirdly accept these vehicles despite the tacky design or paint jobs.
Look, I like car shows, but this one is sooooo heavily scripted and fake that it really makes the show look bad. Check for the supposed "all-nighter" scene where they are fake yawning and drinking coffee. Oh please....
Netflix...you missed the point of the car show. Its the BUILDING process we want to see. Not the drama. The fact that some of the work they do is questionable (big gap in the Futura sliding plexiglass cover that would fly off down the highway) and nobody wears safety gear kinda makes you wonder if this is a legit garage. Netflix...try again...but do it right ok?
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