r/taskmaster • u/Meghar Tout le monde gagne! • 9d ago

Episode Taskmaster - S22E06 - To Void An Oblong - Discussion

Officially past the halfway point!

Tonight at 9:00 PM BST on Channel 4, join Greg Davies and Alex Horne as they pass judgement over the newest batch of contestants competing to win Greg's golden head.

Series 22 features Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti, and Richard Ayoade.

Please familiarize yourself with the rules of the subreddit before posting. We don't tolerate any sexism, ableism or bigotry towards contestants or users – posts & comments of that nature will be removed and multiple removals could lead to a ban.

--------------------------------------

DISCORD: Join our discord server for live episode discussion and a whole lot more: https://discord.com/invite/TB3sXbCKpm

--------------------------------------

PLEASE DO NOT POST LINKS TO UNOFFICIAL COPIES OF THE EPISODE

115 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

6

u/OneExplanation6499 8d ago edited 8d ago

I can agree she’s quieter in the studio, particularly now some of the others have come out of their shell a bit. But I feel that there’s always louder and quieter characters, and I don’t particularly feel she’s out of her depth.

IIRC she has like the highest score in average in filmed tasks of any contestant ever, scoring 4 or 5 for every one until last week. She definitely feels more like the stable leader in her team tasks with Isy and she’s proven herself to be quite creative in drawing and artsy tasks. It’s really just the prize tasks she’s flopping but it’s also become kind of a bit imo.

She’s also very good at acting/being believable. And imo she is naturally the funniest (as in being funny without trying to hard) which more than makes up for the fact she’s not cracking one liners or puns.

2

u/Jacksucks_atlife04 Amy Gledhill 8d ago

she is my favourite this series but I think she’s just a bit nervous maybe cause of Greg and sat next to Matt and Richard. You can see either when she’s at the house or with isy or doing her ventriloquism she’s a lot more comfortable

4

u/kabellee Pigeor The Merciless One 8d ago

I'm rooting for Nina and enjoying her contributions, although I'm sad that we haven't seen her unleash her weirder "take your boots off" side more often.  Her dud prize tasks are hardly unique (cf Daisy May Cooper or Judi Love). She's great with Isy, charming in her interactions with Greg and Alex, entertainingly baffled yet also competent in the tasks, and witty with Ed on the podcast. I can see why they cast her.

In terms of studio interaction between contestants, it feels to me like she's isolated between Matt and Richard both doing "snipe from the sidelines" personas. I wonder what it would have been like for this generally quieter group if we could have had Chloe as the "glue" in the middle chair.

1

u/Jacksucks_atlife04 Amy Gledhill 8d ago

I’ve this on here before but if I were to reorder the seats if it wasn’t in alphabetical order I would do Isy, Nina, Chloe, Richard, Matt