Hunted - Series Premiere - 1/22/2017 *spoilers*

I padded the football enough so I could check it out quickly. I didn't have much hope for it going in and knew I didn't want to add a Onepass for it to my already exhaustive TV schedule. It was pretty boring. One way to think of it is like Cops with amateur pretend criminals. Not structured enough - it doesn't seem like a fair fight. Looks like they're trying to preach to the public never put yourself in a position where you have to hide from the authorities. The hide and seek concept might work better incorporated into a season of The Amazing Race or something similar, but instead of being eliminated for getting caught just incur time penalties.

 

I would have liked to see them have time to pack and plan (I guess that one girl did plan, and then they found the notepad)and it would have made more sense to just give them the money in cash. They all went to family and friends, which probably should have been against the rules. And I guess they weren't allowed to use their own cars, so they were pretty limited on transportation. The tent in the woods seemed like a good idea, but then they only stayed one night. I may give it one more episode.

 

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I watched some of it, then had the rest on in the background without any sound. Even without the sound, the sheer stupidity of the contestants was overwhelming.

The artificial constraints on the money really annoyed me. $500 total, and you can only pull $100 a day off? So basically, you're setting it up so that they're going to *have* to keep popping up on the radar if they want any access to money. Most atm cards are set up to allow a larger daily limit than that. Of course, if you're stupid enough to pull money from the atm while wearing your disguise from the atm in the bus terminal where you're buying your tickets, well, it's not going to matter how much you pull out if you're that dumb.

 

Yep- agree with all of the other comments above. And notice in the end credits they have the dreaded "parts of this were re-created" disclaimer.

 

I wonder if the camera crews being with the contestants helps them get around the lack of ability to search private property. Otherwise you could just stay at a friend's house and if the hunters came to the door the friend could lie and deny them entry. Seems like it would be pretty easy, as long as you have a friend who doesn't mind you crashing at their place for a month.

 

I didn't watch the show because the previews made it look dumb

I live in NYC
give me 30 minutes notice and you won't find me for a month

reading this thread I see you're allowed to take out $100 a day ??
LOL
if it was the beginning of summer and you gave me 30 minutes notice and $100 a day I could disappear for the ENTIRE summer
EASILY

I guess I just don't get the premise or don't know enough about the show to understand the rules
maybe I shouldn't judge the show from just the previews
or maybe the previews should have done a better job of explaining it and making it sound challenging

 

They were primarily contained to Georgia and surrounding area. They could withdraw a total of $500 but only in $100 increments per day. Whenever they used the ATM, their location would be immediately known by the hunters. The people who got caught in the first episode put on bad disguises, used an ATM at a bus station and then got on a bus. The bus station ticket seller was able to recognize them, probably because of the bad disguises, and told the hunters which bus they got on. All the hunters then had to do was wait for the bus to arrive.
Depending on the rules, it should still be pretty easy for a reasonably intelligent person to evade capture, but it's highly doubtful this show is going to be full of reasonably intelligent people.

 

A lot has to be staged, no way they get access to ATM, Traffic Cam, or even private cameras for a TV show. It would really be a abuse of public trust to allow just anyone to access ATM and traffic cams. And I would not let anyone view my shops camera footage with out a warrant and a badge under most circumstances.

 

...and were 6'8" and 5'11" respectively! There's not a lot of disguising when you're that height!!!

There were many dumb moves by that couple including buying tickets to Atlanta in the first place and then thinking they could run when they got off the bus! They would probably have had more luck just walking into the terminal, but by that point, they were well and truly caught anyway.

The couple hiding out in the friends' house would have had way more luck if they had traveled in the trunk at a regular commuting time rather than late at night. At least it wouldn't have looked as out of place as it did. I don't see the two women getting too far either.

It piqued my interest to keep watching for another show or two, if only to see if the other contestants are as dumb as these!

 

I guess I was thinking that it would be stupid to go to anyone they can connect to you and are watching. So that should just be eliminated from the start. Several of them borrowed cars or got rides from someone else (friends or family) so I thought that was in the rules. Again, dangerous.

I thought the disguises were a good idea at first, until I saw them.
And the guy with the beard etc--was it red?--shave it off, for Pete's sake.

 

I want to like this series but the disclaimer at the end that aspects may have been “replicated for broadcast” really takes a lot of the fun out of the show. Yet, I can’t help but examine some of the claims a bit.

According to the southeasternstages.com website, a 2:05 p.m. bus from Augusta to Atlanta will take exactly three hours. I agree that that may be enough time to meet Matt and Christina’s bus once the ATM transmits the transaction. However, I doubt that a freestanding (and possibly independently owned) ATM will stream HD quality video to the undisclosed command center.

For the couple hiding out with friends in the Rivermoore Park housing development on Dovecote Trail in Suwanee, GA, there is only one street exit from that entire development, which leads onto Moore Road.

Moore Rd, Suwanee, Georgia, United States | Instant Street View

If the hunters had parked near that intersection, then I agree they would be able to keep track of all cars going in and out. However, judging by the fences of the nearby shopping center, they appear to have parked 0.8 miles south from that exit.

4273 Moore Rd, Suwanee, Georgia, United States | Instant Street View

Google Maps

Parking in this shopping center (which has a Starbucks, Burger King, and Chick-fil-A) only makes sense if they assume their fugitives will take the most direct road to the Georgia State Route 23. However, David and Emiley could have easily decided to go north instead where there are multiple (but longer) ways to get to the highway.

Also, judging from all of the lights on in the shopping center, it wasn’t that late so seeing a car on Moore Road should not be that odd. The Burger King there is open until midnight so it is not a commercially deserted area where a solo car should stand out.

Burger King® at 1045 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suwanee, Georgia 30024

I’m finding that much of the entertainment I’m getting out of the show is from trying to figure out which scenes are real and which are fake.

 

I'm sure the contestants are not using their own ATM cards: they're using cards supplied by the show and so the show gets notified whenever the cards are used. I'm confident they could work that out with the bank, if they even needed to.

As for ATM / traffic footage, probably the footage isn't from official cameras but rather are re-enactments using the show's cameras.

For re-enactments, that is a drag but the problem is it's hard to hide out if you have a whole camera crew following you around.

 

couldn't agree more...
but there are bad days for everyone... like for example today is mine since my doc. told me that I need something I don't really wanna take: Humatrope.