There will be spoilers...
This episode takes place in Romania and they decided to present it with both the good and bad things this country has. Probably you already guessed, I'm from Romania.
This is one of those TV shows where Romania was presented in a balanced and mostly correct way, however there were some thing that made me smile and I would like to mention them for others, who are not Romanians.
Let's take them one-by-one:
1) When they were at a restaurant and they said there was "The local version of Top Gear" on the TV. I have absolutely no idea where they were or what TV channel that was, but it was not Romanian. You could clearly see that there were Cyrillic characters and they spoke Russian. That was not on Romanian television ... but it was funny.
2) When they got lost in the "Gypsy town" ... that was a fake too. I mean the village was real, but you don't get lost and end up in such villages. The cheapest and dumbest GPS system which has a Romanian map will not guide you over unpaved roads in middle of nowhere.
3) They got lost again, even on main road, and they could not find a gas station. Just for those who wish to come to Romania by car, all European Roads (marked with capital E) and all National Roads (marked with capital N) have a lot of gas stations and they are non-stop (opened 24/7).
4) They got lost and ended up at the base of a dam. This is also not happening, so don't be afraid of ending up in the middle of nowhere.
The rest were pretty true. We have bad roads, only a couple of hundreds of KMs highway, some high-tech cities and some gypsy villages. And by the way, not all gypsies are poor, probably most of those fancy cars in Mamaia belonged to some gypsies ... you can just speculate about the sources of their finances.
All-in-all I liked this episode. It was funny, entertaining and mostly realistic. Good job.
This episode takes place in Romania and they decided to present it with both the good and bad things this country has. Probably you already guessed, I'm from Romania.
This is one of those TV shows where Romania was presented in a balanced and mostly correct way, however there were some thing that made me smile and I would like to mention them for others, who are not Romanians.
Let's take them one-by-one:
1) When they were at a restaurant and they said there was "The local version of Top Gear" on the TV. I have absolutely no idea where they were or what TV channel that was, but it was not Romanian. You could clearly see that there were Cyrillic characters and they spoke Russian. That was not on Romanian television ... but it was funny.
2) When they got lost in the "Gypsy town" ... that was a fake too. I mean the village was real, but you don't get lost and end up in such villages. The cheapest and dumbest GPS system which has a Romanian map will not guide you over unpaved roads in middle of nowhere.
3) They got lost again, even on main road, and they could not find a gas station. Just for those who wish to come to Romania by car, all European Roads (marked with capital E) and all National Roads (marked with capital N) have a lot of gas stations and they are non-stop (opened 24/7).
4) They got lost and ended up at the base of a dam. This is also not happening, so don't be afraid of ending up in the middle of nowhere.
The rest were pretty true. We have bad roads, only a couple of hundreds of KMs highway, some high-tech cities and some gypsy villages. And by the way, not all gypsies are poor, probably most of those fancy cars in Mamaia belonged to some gypsies ... you can just speculate about the sources of their finances.
All-in-all I liked this episode. It was funny, entertaining and mostly realistic. Good job.
