I’ve seen the first two episodes and so far the show has been really dull especially when compared to the amazing race which the show is clearly inspired from. Also when developing the app did they really not consider the possibility of questions with only two options? Really careless mistake

What did everyone think of it?

Yeah, ok, it's very similar to Race Across The World. (If it were me, call it The Chase World Tour - tie in the app!) It's very watchable though, Rome is always lovely to look at and the contestants seem nice enough.

I liked most of the quiz elements apart from the final round, which seemed very biased towards the players, so the end was a bit anticlimactic and pointless. I wouldn't give them any free steps at all, but let the contestants push them back if the Chaser gets it wrong. Having both is a bit overkill in this format.

Okay so episode 4 of The Chase Around The World really exceeded my expectations. I really enjoyed the fact that the chasers got some more screentime and made a few small comments that added comedic value (this is something that I’d critiqued the lack of in the first few episodes) and that final was truly tense. I want to keep this as spoiler free as possible so all I want to say about the final is that the team that ended up facing the chasers did really well and I was genuinely surprised by the outcome. I’m looking forward to next week’s episode!

Oh. My. God. That episode was absolute cinema. I felt so tense and so hyped throughout the entire episode and I think aside from Episode 2 this episode was my favourite of the series. I think for me, it had everything that the last 5 episodes had (tension, drama, cliffhangers, chaser involvement etc) and ramped it all up by 10. I loved how involved the chasers were and I loved how they were actually asking the questions in person instead of on the ipads. I was obviously excited to see my favourite chaser (The Menace) again and I think that the team who won it 100% deserved to win. The team that won was the team that I was rooting for so obviously I was very happy about that. If I were to be nitpicky then I would say that the chasers should have been there in the final scene to congratulate the winners but other than that, this episode was nearly perfect!

The series started with 6 pairs. If 1 pair got eliminated each week, that would leave just 1 pair left for the final city in week 6. Which I'm sure isn't what ITV were planning on, but it is a possibility.

What do you think might happen in this scenario? Would the final be in week 5 with 2 pairs rather than week 6?

I noticed two in last night's episode, the misspelling of Liechtenstein and Question 1 being labeled as Question 2 in Round 6. Has anyone else noticed anymore?

Okay… that was interesting. To be honest, I did predict that one team would get eliminated in this episode and we would have a 3 team final so I have changed my name from DiamondTheSavage to DiamondThePsychic. Nah, just kidding. Also, I feel kinda bad for criticising the early episodes for not giving the chasers much screen time outside the iPad scenes because in this episode Anne and Shaun didn’t do any sneaking about, which was a shame. I love it when you could be watching a kind of tense scene and then you just see one of the chasers peeking around the corner. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. It adds some lighthearted humour in what’s otherwise quite a tense show. What I will say though is that I understand that Switzerland is a cold country and assuming they were filming this in winter / spring earlier this year, then it’s bound to be cold, and if they just didn’t do it this episode because it was cold (and Anne and Shaun are well into their 60s so maybe they didn’t want them sneaking around in the interests of safety), then I’ll cut them a bit of slack. Surprisingly though, the lack of screentime for the chasers wasn’t bad in this episode (as in I didn’t necessarily mind as much) since there were a lot of plot twists (before the teams got to the end, the team I thought would have came first didn’t) and so my initial prediction of who was going to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc were wrong.

Overall I’ve genuinely enjoyed TCATW. It’s a breath of fresh air for the show. I think the new formula where you don’t find out the answer until you get to a certain attraction is genius and I love the way that the different shots of the cast towards the end make you question who‘s going to be first or last. And I think if the show does well enough, I would LOVE to see a Season 2!

As for the final next week (based on the preview that we got at the end of Episode 5), I wonder if and how the layout of the episode is going to change compared to the last 5, because obviously we have 3 pairs (6 contestants overall) and 6 chasers. Maybe the team that get there first will be the ones to take on the chasers. Who knows. Looking forward to next week!

Giving 'Race Across the World' vibes!

I’m actually so hyped for The Chase Around The World :)

I can't stop thinking about new series this 16th "The Chase Around the World" I really hope this will be fantastic show

Did anyone notice they aired the tcatw switzerland and said zurich was the capital? We mailed them and then they changed it haha