Joe was great. Perpetually bewildered.
One of my favourite series is still S7 with Rhod Gilbert and James Acaster. The whole cast seemed to have a lot of fun.
I fell in love with Joe Thomas on Taskmaster.
The hide from Alex thing at the train station is still one of my favourite ever TM tasks, and Joe was amazing at that.
And a of his proper real effort in tasks and the subsequent meltdown at others bullshitting
![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f606.png)
![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f606.png)
and the cute apology after.
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Getting away from potential spoilers and back on last week's episode, the fish task was possibly one of the most boring tasks they have ever done.
The only remotely funny bit about it was Nick smashing it, and that was less about the task and more about the surprise of lovely Nick not being rubbish.
Still got a few to go, but this is definitely down there as one of the worst series. Even worse than the Lou Sanders/Iain Sterling year and I really hated that one. At least that one had bonkers Joe Thomas.
Just no chemistry between anyone in this cast, no banter, no memorable tasks or stand out moments.
If John wasn’t on it and it was some other bonkers person and they’d put Sophie and Nick together in a team I think it would have been a bit more funny. John just sucks the fun out of it. Joanne and Steve do make me laugh but not as regularly as Sophie and Nick. The tasks have just missed the spark at points like the fish task, what was the point? Surely there needed to be some wanky work round of a second part to it?
I did enjoy the baskets and portrait task this week though
I don't dislike John Robbins, but this whole series for me is feeling like hard work.
I shouldn't be doom scrolling on my phone as much as I am when watching.
I think it’s getting to the stage that the show needs a bit of a rest and I say that as someone who adores it. It all feels a bit tired and churned out. The tasks aren’t as engaging in general and some of the contestants really haven’t been a good bit. If the last name on that spoiler is right I really don’t think I can watch. John and Joanne have been bad enough.
I've been feeling this for a while that it's too many series too quick, the tasks have gotten ridiculous on either too complicated to follow, rubbish, boring, or just utterly shite.