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  1. I liked this one a lot because the owners seemed like decent people & there wasn't a ton of interpersonal drama. I agree that "up to 10" seems too old but I'm sure a baby clothes store can do very well. Just fixing their inventory MGMT & online shit ought to make a huge difference. I was a little surprised the guy didn't get an online management course or am I mixing this up with other similar shows?
  2. Most of the good Pizza places I go to have pre-cooked cheese pizzas that they throw toppings onto when you order a slice and then put back in the oven for a few minutes, so I can see how drive through might work but I have no desire to eat it in the car. But I do get a few slacks takeout fairly regularly and I've never wished there was a drive through. also, the owner guy sucks and I was glad he ended up rejected by Marcus.
  3. I am about halfway through and there is very little plot stuff from the prior seasons beyond some relationship stuff. The cases are completely new. im als enjoying it very much. It's so beautifully shot and by focusing on multiple cases the pacing doesn't drag like so many other shows.
  4. So far we haven't actually seen many people say "No" - although Blaze didn't let the Hunters into the cabin, and good on him. I don't have proof, but I'm guessing the game terms say the helpers must Talk to the Hunters, but they are still free to lie or misdirect. The crazy thing is even knowing that a lot of people still give up imformation. I imagine if they were real police they'd be even more effective. Police can lie, they can threaten, they can at times hold you against your will just because they Think you may be involved. And most people will cooperate because they are scared or do not know their (increasingly more limited) rights. Sadly I don't find that aspect of the show very suspect at all. The British Hunter skyping with the wife was par for the course.
  5. That is a very good point. If we believe the calendar, they had an address and a date - they could have just dispatched a team to sit on that place around the date on the calendar. It did sound like there were two properties in the same parcel, which is how they got away, but some Hunter could have been there in advance. Unless we both missed something I think you are right - I don't know the probable cause to track her phone. Supposedly (in the game) the Hunters must fill out the kind of paperwork that would go to judges and then the producers decide if there is PC to give them what they want. That includes things like CCTV, License Plate captures and Phone Tracking. I don't recall seeing anything that was significant enough to track Hollys phone. If they don't have that, they don't have Blaze (who lawyer/preacher had NO direct social media connection to) and all they have is maybe that Vidalia address. Conceivably the Hunters could work backwards from that address, but we didn't see it. i think the thing that bothers me most is the "CCTV" cameras. Obviously those are staged but even in a best case scenario, it would take hours or days to obtain that. Most cameras are Not online, and certainly not quickly searchable. To get gas station or mosque or any private business footage you need to go to the business and actually look at the footage. Even if there is wifi/cloud storage you need to get that info - Law Enforcement can't just tie immediately into that like they show. I don't know enough about the traffic cam license scanners, but I'm guessing there is a pretty significant delay on those as well. There are too many different tech companies and jurisdictions involved for there to be some central repository that immediately responds to alerts. The technology required to implement that seems beyond most jurisdictions. if I'm wrong about that, then America is scarier than I thought, although I am sure they are working to get there. the stuff that rings most true is the phone / online information gathering. A number of agencies are constantly gathering and analyzing that info, and it you have the right access and search terms they would be very useful.
  6. I am Done with Hillmar & friend. It's a month, not six years. Talk to your family when you get back. Idiots. I have no idea what English & Stephen are planning and maybe that's a good thing. But it does seem like they under planned. Aasif & friend are doing well. I thought it was smart of the hunters to check nearby mosques and was Very glad the "CCTV" did not reveal their ride away (at least so far). They need to find a good spot in Atlanta go get more money safely and then disappear into another part of the city. They could easily get a crappy motel for $50 a night to get totally off the grid and figure out a next move. I can think of a couple likely options within a few miles of me where it's relatively safe but ain't nobody gonna be talking to the po-lice. I'm sure some of the friendly hookers would even let them borrow their burner phone.
  7. That is how they portrayed it if we believe the thing about the calendar. It is a shame they don't know in what ways they are compromised, because they could probably head to their next spot. but they should be planning to ditch the car. They know Blaze is on the radar and he got them the car.
  8. I think the Hunter getting access to the house is instructive. We never saw him say, "NO." LE doesn't need a warrant if you say yes, and they will do everything they can to convince you, and it usually works. So remember, You Don't Have To Say Yes no matter what game they run on you. I think the book part is believable if they are trying to nail down a circle of aquaintences but it would have been far more beleivable if we had seen them running down a bunch of those names that Didn't pan out. All we saw was the one that worked, so it seems fake. Maybe it was fake. I don't know. But I can see them over a week tracking down those names and ending up with the woman who drove way out of her normal area (assuming you can get warrants on all those phones somehow). That's why you have her turn off her phone so they never know she WENT to Vidalia.
  9. There are a bunch of different previous posts that I should probably be quoting to respond to comments and put in my thoughts but it would be hard to catch everything. Regarding the Law Enforcement going to hard - being jerks - To me this is the most interesting and perhaps most important part of the show. That's what they do - they lie, and intimidate, and pressure. Make the interviewee feel guilty even if they aren't. Keep asking to look around the house until the person relents because the average person wants to be helpful even though they have No Obligation to. If even a few people watching this show realize that I think it's beneficial. In general I think that all these teams would probably have decent luck just asking strangers for help since they are obviously tracked with camera crew I'd imagine your average person might be willing to help just to be on TV or for the fun of it. You get automatic safety and credibility with that crew one would otherwise not have. I know some reality shows restrict what they can say to people, and we don't have that info, but there must be ways to work around that and get random people on your side to help out. I'm not so bothered by the Hunters (re-enacting?) figuring something out and then jumping to that part of the chase because this all has to be edited down for broadcast. I'd like to think they are chasing down a ton of other leads that don't pan out and we just don't see them. But it sure would help our suspension of disbelief to at least occasionally see some wrong turns. We did see that with the rental car and them showing up to a house that was already vacated, but there should be more. David and Emily - Totally second guessing things - but I would like to think I would be smart enough to tell anyone I was with to power off their phone since I know those can be tracked. Trans - that is a shame - they were doing very well. They stuck with the same car too long. They should have probably known that licenses can be tracked. (I know in game world we've decided there are shenanigans regarding that but realistically they could easily find license plates with a warrant) Although, it's hard to get another ride without reaching out to people that LE might be tracking in some way. I don't know why their friend seemed to give up as much info as he did, but it seems like he wasn't actually that helpful overall. Aarif & Immad - I liked them paddling to the ATM (did they buy any supplies there before or after getting the money?) but why did they not wait until their helpful driver was actually ready to go? It didn't turn out to matter, but it seems sloppy. Lake Hartwell is actually quite large, and borders GA & SC, so I wonder if realistically that might cause jurisdictional troubles the show doesn't have. Forgot to add this - As for the lack of planning - leaving computers and phones and such. I don't actually have a big problem with this. If the premise is that you have to Suddenly go on the run, then it's likely you might not be able to get or destroy all of that stuff. Say you shot a guy in front of a bunch of people. "Shit, I gotta get out of here right now." That's what their hour head start is. Grab what you can and get moving. Now, if it's a different situation where you know you might be arrested and can plan, then there is opportunity to set up all sorts of options - and some teams have taken advantage of that. So it's kind of a cross between needing to immediately go away and being able to set up some help and for a game like this I am OK with that. I still think that a lot of the LE tools they are using would take way longer to get than we seem to be seeing and that hurts the overall believability of the show.
  10. I posted this in one of the episode threads, but I recall a similar reality show where people were on the run where the contestants and their "friends" (people who signed a waiver and agreed to participate) HAD TO talk with the investigators. They did not have to tell the truth or reveal anything, but they could not simply say. "Get a warrant or go the hell away." If that is the same situation here, it seems like a lot of people simply don't know how to keep their mouth shut when being questioned by "authorities." As far as RULES - I believe people have already discovered that they Contestants MUST travel X amount of distance every X days. That was in an interview I saw in another post. It's also been determined that much of the investigative work - keys to houses, CCTV footage, access to social media - is somewhat faked for the show. But supposedly the investigators must follow the legal steps to get that information before it is provided to the Hunters.
  11. This show is a horror story about OUR surveillance state. I didn't have a problem with this because these are real tactics used by Law Enforcement. Just like how they lots of people and resources. The "game" itself isn't fair, and I'm glad they're showing that. I just wonder what the average viewer will take away from seeing this. I don't want to come off like an anti-police crazy person, but to me this is scary because these resources can be turned against Anyone. As for the comments about the lawyer, I'm not at all surprised the Hunters seem extra aggravated about him. Not only does he have a criminal past, but he's a defense attorney, and I've seen tons of documentary procedural type shows where law enforcement seems to liken those folks to terrorist sympathizers. I hope this show can keep up with interesting cat and mouse scenarios for the rest of the run. I also don't expect many (if any) teams to make it the 28 days.
  12. That neighbor spy cam is where I Really want to know what the Hunters are telling civilians. I they said it was a game I would have had fun moving around the camera & calling them to tell them BS. actually, if it was real LE I would simply "accidentally" obscure the camera and never call unless they could prove to me it was for some serious fugitive.
  13. If it's like the Take The Money and Run show, the participants had to agree to Talk, but we're free to lie. They couldn't just sit there silently. This may be the same. I had NO idea every piece of mail is photographed and can be searched by LE. Gonna remember that. Even with that though, it's a very good idea to use secret accounts and drafts - if they knew the contents of the letter was secret they still could. the mistake with the burners people are making is that both sides need to be using them if it is someone they want to talk to multiple times.
  14. I agree w/ everyone here they need to tell us the "hidden" rules in order for me to really be interested. Depending on how long it takes to get the money, one could basically hole up in a by-the-week motel for a month & buy cheap food with $500 in some place like Macon. It wouldn't be much fun, but if you get your money and get a ride there undetected, they would never find you. That said, I am enjoying the show - I live in Atlanta, so I'm spending most of my time figuring out exactly where everyone is. i Don't like that they seem to be pushing a "respect the authorities & don't bother running" narrative despite the runners supposedly being the stars.
  15. I had no idea he did Vines, but I used to watch his Editing FX tutorials years ago & recognized the user name. He is very good at CGI fx and seems to have fun stories involved in his videos, which is very cool. I'm glad he found a way to take skills he was giving away for free and make some money. That said, I don't understand why he's The Magician. Everything is a visual trick, and many of the videos don't seem to even play out like a magic trick. He's an excellent editor and writer and producer, but he's not a magician.
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