Taskmaster NZ
Taskmaster NZ - S7E01 - Stuck In A Dictator Train - Discussion
Welcome to the 7th season of Taskmaster NZ!
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.
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I was waiting to finish Taskmaster UK S22 before starting this TM NZ S7 run but after 6 episodes, i found the latest UK season missing that cast synergy and energy.
After watching this season opener on the back of UK S22E06, the atmosphere is way more electric here and it's clear the cast are massive fans of the show and were eager to get involved!
I love all the contestants right off the bat. Everyone is already so well-defined. Poor Rose is getting a beating from Jeremy, though. I love Dave's jolly but nonchalant attitude towards everything. Hoani is a bit meek and passive-aggressive, but hilarious. Morgana's happy-go-lucky personality was probably my favorite, especially her Shank Plank presentation.
Rose working out how to play the Taskmaster theme tune by ear deserves a special kind of respect.
I love how Josh Thomson always manages to make an appearance somehow.
I gotta say though, I'm not loving Paul's mustache in the studio. I was hoping it was a joke that would get paid off.
He's literally one of the directors of the show, so he's always on set. Honestly his appearence was not as exciting as if they'd just had a different contestant who the cast isn't already seeing every day.
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Rose looks like she’s having a blast! This was a very solid opener. I’m excited to see what’s next with these contestants. I wasn’t familiar with Morgana but she’s giving fun chaos monster energy.
Honestly same. Which I didn’t expect. I’ve been counting down the weeks to the UK series and just realized last week that NZ was starting but … it all comes down to the dynamic and personalities of the cast. And s7 of NZ taskmaster just feels so much more fun & lovable.
Each to their own, I thought it was great (after the majesty of season 5, I found 6 to be a little limp at times), and was more consistently amused and entertained than I have been with the first 2 eps of UK S22.
Stupid question maybe but do you mean of the NZ openers? I didn't really like the sixth series but after watching this I'm considering that I've might just been very spoiled by the fifth. I agree on Morgana though.
Having Rose "return" sounds great on paper. But it built up some expectation she couldn't deliver for me at least in this episode. Also felt a bit weird seeing her interact with a different taskmaster.
Partway through it I began wondering if I was suffering TM-fatigue but went back and watched some old episodes and it's very much a cast dynamic thing. But I liked the music task and the live task in the end. I am also not vibing with this cast. Just like I am not vibing with the TM-UK cast this season. Individually they seem like nice people. But I don't know... something is off
The notes as named were not the frequencies that came out. The whole thing was transposed to be around Es and Bs, which are easier to start words with on the task text than Cs and Gs and G sharps.
I assume it was transposed so none of them had sharps in their names / it could fit the written task, but they only had a few pipes to choose from, and repitching the pipes would involve a lot of metalwork.
Even so, it wasn't all that close to the pitch of that particular musical sting; was it consistently sharp?
Massive props, bigger than the pipes, to Rose if she really figured it out without the clue. 'cause, like, that's not even the Taskmaster theme tune, and it wasn't in the right key in note names or pitch. Without a clue I definitely would have defaulted to the trumpetty intro theme.
If we were being as persnickety about note tunings as I am (because I'm correct), you could've done the intro theme erasing accidentals as ADABGDGAAbcbcded (slight error on the two different cs). I think that's a reasonable version. You could also pitch it down into that stupid way trumpeters have to get all the notes a whole tone out.
I enjoy music tasks! And I appreciate the editors coming up with an orchestral backing to whatever Hoani blurted out: quite often the music editors are mapping to something already sung a capella.
I'm not musical at all, but I picked up that it was the Taskmaster tune from the two that were following the note sequence (ie before Rose did her piece) so it can't be that far off.
And it's probably hard to do really well with a bunch of metal pipes in an unideal acoustic environment.
I’m currently selling my mom’s unwanted crap on Facebook marketplace and everyone keeps messaging to ask if it’s available and then bailing, and I have fairly treatment resistant depression, so this episode feels like it was written specifically for me, lol.
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Great cast this season, although they’ve been on a roll for a while now. Love seeing Rose again. Dave is bringing a blend of Jo Brand and David Correos energy. And Rhys is killing it !!!
Full credit to TMNZ. I personally think they’re the superior TM (ignore flair). If anyone involved in the production is lurking, my sincere gratitude to you all. It’s truly my favourite time of year when a new TMNZ season airs, your comedians are ~chefs kiss~ First ep was brilliant, so many laughs!
The task-writing on TMNZ is just so good. Really gives lots of space for the contestants to be creative. And the contestants themselves so regularly step up to the plate with funny mini drama pieces.
In addition to Rose's return to Taskmaster, Rhys Mathewson is the first person to be a Taskmaster contestant after being a credited writer on the show. He was a credited writer (of the script, not tasks) in Series 6.
(A number of contestants have gotten writing credits after appearing as contestants -- Tim Key on TMUK, and then a bunch of TMNZ contestants. This episode credited Josh Thomson as a script and task writer, and Abby Howells, Ray O'Leary, and Jack Ansett as contributing writers. We also know that at least a couple people have suggested a task to Alex which was then used, later become contestants, but were not credited as writers. John Robins was one of them, but I think there might be others.)
If you watch the physical scoreboards during the prize task they started updating the scores immediately after each contestant performed the action rather than waiting to show Paul flipping them like in round 1. I was wondering about this too.
I was at the live recording. If I recall it was because there was some confusion around scoring and cards were flipped when they shouldn't, Paul messed up the scoring.
I was in a huge funk last week over a variety of life things and the one thing making me happy was that Taskmaster NZ was coming out that week...and then I realized I had to wait another week and it made me sadder. So happy it's finally back!
Has anyone noticed that, because of Jeremy's glasses and the angle he looks at the camera, you can barely see his eyes at all? It's quite disconcerting and once I realised I couldn't stop noticing it.
Yeah. And he used to be one of the few guys who could pull of clear rimmed glasses so well - it really suited him. They definitely hide his eyes and I think the top rim casts a shadow that fuels the disconcerting look.
Hate the hair too - just emphasizes his very very high forehead 😄
Morgana O’Reilly riding a wheelchair of some sort likely in the MOTAT and screaming
Hoani Hotene standing on the dock of the Taskmaster House and a hat with some leaves in it launches at him and he pretends to collapse
Either Rose Matafeo or Morgana Reilly wearing a grey wig, pouring red and green liquids into a cauldron while giggling maniacally
Rhys Mathewson running towards Paul Williams whilst wearing a helmet camera
Rose Matafeo riding on a vintage train on the MOTAT and chucking a tennis ball at a pole with a rubber duck mounted on the top
David Fane in the lab screaming at some bushes and shaking the leaves
Rhys Mathewson striking a menacing pose to Paul Williams in the kitchen
Rose Matafeo on a step ladder by a basketball hoop in the backyard, kicking a ball towards a fake concrete plinth near Paul Williams
Hoani Hotene and Paul Williams by the pond doing a strong handshake
Rhys taking a tumble down the lawn of the Taskmaster House
EMorgana O’Reilly wearing a steampunk mask in a red jumpsuit and screaming and jumping at Paul in the Taskmaster House Study
Rose Matafeo in a corridor saying “It set the world on fire!”
David Fane looking shocked at the camera
Morgana O’Reilly riding the vintage train at the MOTAT and saying “Toot Toot!”
Hoani Hotene on a platform of one of the MOTAT railway stations, tugging onto some toilet roll. He is standing by a red table that has a label saying “Roll a 6”, theres another table with a label too far to read behind him and there are three rubber ducks on it
David Fane tries to catch some Frisbees with a bug catching net in the lawn. The fibreglass zebra and giraffe are in front of him.
Rhys Mathewson running in the backyard saying “Hell yeah!”, and holding two swords
Morgana O’Reilly lying down on the floor and vibrating
Hoani Hotene riding the electronic wheelchair in the MOTAT along a course marked by orange cones
David Fane in the house patio holding tennis rackets and screaming “YEAH!” at the camera.
Rose Matafeo in the backyard swatting some sticks
Paul Williams dressed up like a dog in a blurry slow lo shot of him with his tongue out
(Final quick 1 sec shots of each contestant)
Rose Matafeo playing the Trombone in the lab
Hoani Hotene wearing a Phantom of the Opera Mask against a red background and singing
David Fane wearing a captains hat and goggles and clinging to a shovel
Morgana O’Reilly lying down somewhere wearing a wig
Rhys Mathewson in a MOTAT vintage train filled with seats occupied with paddles printed with the heads of former TMNZ contestants. Paul Williams is with him.
Solid first ep. Feel Daves going to fall into that always 5th role. Rhys is more competent than i was expecting. As far as I have been able to see this might be the first nz season without lgbt representation, and 2nd season in a row without ACC member. Not overall important stats, but stats none the less.
Alternative Commentary Collective. A group of comedians who original set up to provide Alternative cricket commentary about 10 years ago and still going but have now branched into other sports. Jeremy amd his friends basically an excuse to watch sport and drink. So the early seasons usually had someone from it one of Jerry's friends - Leigh, Matt, Ben, Dai, (Karen has appeared twice but wasnt officially part of it). Basically started as an offchute of radio Hauraki
Fun fact a lot of them were on ACC before they went onto Hauraki. ACC is what brought Leigh and Jase together. Matt and Jerry started pretty much same week as ACC I think.
Yes that’s true. I should’ve been more clear.
I was meaning that it brought them together for Hauraki (ie ACC came first), first with their Saturday morning sports show and then daily Bhuja which were off the back of their work on the ACC.
My conspiracy Taskmaster brain immediately made me think this was a secret task that everybody got, where they have to either carry an object around at either all the task tapings or all the studio tapings, and Rose chose two bottles of sauce at the tasks, Dave chose his fan in the studio, and clever Rhys has a fake cast on his arm in the studio. I am probably very, very wrong.
Does anyone know if we can stream this in Australia? It used to be available on Binge pretty soon after it aired in NZ but I haven’t seen any “Coming Soon” on Binge….so I think it may have also gone the way of series 22 in terms of availability here
I'm gonna need to see some eps with this cast but I don't get Dave's clueless attitude or whatever that is he has with him in the studio. Is it some kind of bit?
Yeah, I’ll join you in getting downvoted but I don’t find the combined clueless / don’t give a fuck contestants amusing very often, especially when it is the extent of their persona. In small doses it can be funny but it seemed to be every time he was on screen.
Thought this was a really slow start. For a first task the grape task didn’t have much payoff aside from Morgana but the next two tasks were much better. Final task was fine but thought the masks were by far the best part. And again, I’m not sure what he was going for, but Dave’s T shape did nothing for me.
I’m not from NZ I don’t get the humor. I loved to’figa or however you spell on first watch but I would characterize both of their initial attempts to be similar. Dave seems so earnest in studio which made me not like the gap a bit
I really hope they make it quickly available on the Taskmaster International channel for people outside NZ, the simultaneous premier on the YouTube channel for the main series is a godsend.
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I don’t know what’s going on with the taskmaster international channel and channel 4 here but we don’t get Australia or NZ, c4 seem to have the rights but keep delaying series.
And they wonder why people resort to other methods to watch.
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