#taskmaster series 12

Thoughts on past series can be found: here

The new thing this series is the Dome! Funny how it feels like it's been there longer.

When talking about the memorability of this season I should mention this is one of the series I have seen multiple times. I think everyone remembers things like the Wow monster and the team of 3 taking well over an hour for a task that took the team of 2 half an hour. I personally think the prize tasks where they have to buy each other gifts alphabetically is truly one of the best prize categories throughout the whole show. We also get the proposal task which starts the trend for several series including relationships milestones done with Alex.

So 12 post into this rewatch Series is should probably talk about my relationship to British Television. I am American and I would say I started watching lots of British tv in highschool. My mom is a huge Agatha Christie fan which led to watching lots of adaptations and that has led to getting brit box and eventually watching various other things. The most consistently probably being Death in Paradise, Shetland, QI, and Johnathan Creek. Which yeah you can see why I'm bringing this up now. Besides QI & Taskmaster I do watch several other panels shows, just a little less religiously, so I do oftentimes know a few people on the series beforehand and I always am super excited to watch a brand new comedian that I haven't seen yet. Even with that mindset I undoubtedly have a bias for Alan Davies, and to a lesser extent Victoria Coren Mitchell who is pretty regularly a QI guest. So yeah this season is one of my favorites.

Regardless of my love for Alan Davies I do think this is a stacked cast. Victoria is endless logical except when she's not. Desiree Burch is constantly hilarious and I love how much she just is like "this is just what it's gotta be". Gus Kahn is so confident at everything even when he does poorly. Morgona Robinson is this sort of wood nymph type that, while not always my cup of tea, is always captivating. For obvious reasons and for the sort of "just plooding along" friendship vibes Alan and Victoria are one of my favorite teams of all Time.

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