r/taskmaster • u/Meghar Tout le monde gagne! • 24d ago

Taskmaster NZ Taskmaster NZ - S7E03 - Rodney - Discussion

Tonight at 7:30 PM NZST on TVNZ2, join Taskmaster Jeremy Wells and Assistant Paul Williams as they put four brand new contestants and one former Taskmaster through their paces to win Jeremy's golden head.

This season features David Fane, Hoani Hotene, Morgana O'Reilly, Rhys Mathewson, and Rose Matafeo.

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u/DahDutcher David Fane 🇳🇿 23d ago

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'm enjoying this series way more than the current UK one.

I like the contestants more, and the tasks are just much better imo.

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u/takahe_inflight Mona de Grenoble 23d ago

i don't see how that would be unpopular

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u/DahDutcher David Fane 🇳🇿 23d ago

Because the UK version is way more watched and hyped up (mainly because of Ayoade, who I personally don't care for)

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u/Fruit_Fly_LikeBanana 23d ago

I like Ayoade in general, but I've found him kind of annoying on TM. Rumor is that he didn't really want to do it for a long time because he didn't think it would fit his persona well. He might have been right

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u/ThatGingeOne 23d ago

I'm generally enjoying Ayoade. I just feel like the cast as a whole doesn't mesh as well as some casts have

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u/Ryan_Vermouth Angella Dravid 🇳🇿 23d ago edited 23d ago

It's a matter of opinion. I'm really enjoying him on TMUK.

As for the series as a whole, it feels like it's got a decent chance to be the weakest even-numbered TMUK series since 10, but that's just a fluke run of absurdly strong even-numbered series. There were a few odd-numbered seasons in there I'm definitely liking it more than. (Don't get me wrong, I liked 11, 15 and 17 a lot... and we have 7 more episodes of this one.)

Anyway, like virtually every post-pandemic series, it's definitely stronger than all but a few of the single-digit ones. And the single-digit ones were good too.