Highlights for the season are laid out via montage early on, and the first episode features three million-dollar cars, a crazy amount of travel, and plenty of footage showing your three hosts goofing around without a care in the world.

“The Grand Tour” barely bothers to hide that it’s recreating “Top Gear” with the same hosts and a great deal more money. traffic) to a cover of “I Can See Clearly Now” by “The Hot House Flowers,” who are playing a “Burning Van” festival in the desert where fans and friends - specifically, co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May - are waiting for their unjustly persecuted hero to reclaim his throne.Īnd that’s exactly what he does. He flees the city limits (rather too quickly to be believed given L.A.

Opening with the host walking out of his London residence as reports of his dismissal from “Top Gear” play in the background, “The Grand Tour” quickly escorts Clarkson to Los Angeles, hopping off the plane and into a shiny blue muscle car (parked, unprotected, at LAX).

READ MORE: Woody Allen, Mel Gibson & More Maligned Auteurs: How to Justify Watching Their Films (Or Not) Despite protests from fans (including a petition garnering over 1 million signatures), the BBC stood by their decision not to re-up Clarkson’s contract - perhaps because this wasn’t the first time he’d been accused of assault (he left Piers Morgan with a scar) - and here we are, watching a new version of “Top Gear” titled “ The Grand Tour,” but otherwise identical to Clarkson’s incredibly successful car show. You see, the former “Top Gear” host’s contract wasn’t renewed by the BBC because of not one, but many controversial incidents involving the volatile “car journalist” (self-described), including accusations ranging from jokes about murdering prostitutes and imitating a Nazi salute to tossing around so many ethnic slurs it seems as though he’s offended every race and gender imaginable.īut what put him over the line across the pond was a March 2015 altercation with Oisin Tymon in which he allegedly punched the “Top Gear” producer for serving him soup and a meat platter instead of steak.

In an age where Donald Trump can become President of the United States, it’s sadly fitting that English reality host Jeremy Clarkson had to flee to America to keep doing whatever the hell he wants.

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