The thing of it is, however, they're clearly all smart men. They seemingly know all there is to know about cars and related items, and decide, repeatedly, in their tasks, to go way over the top. I've been trying to come up with a reference point on American television for these guys, and I think I've finally done it. They're smarter versions of Tim Allen's character from Home Improvement. They approach all their tasks with the same enthusiasm and desire to go all out. The difference is (outside of the brains), these guys are doing the stuff for real and he was just a character.

It's bloody brilliant and I love it. Of course, I've only seen two episodes and it may turn out that's just the same thing over and over again, but I doubt that.

The thing that did disappoint me last night, at least partially by being the same thing over and over again, was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. They aired two episodes back-to-back and used the exact same trick in both episodes. Both times out the characters proceeded as though they knew who an unidentified individual was, only to be wrong. The first time around they thought they were watching a specific woman be murdered (turned out it was a different person) and the second time they thought they were dealing with a specific gangster (who turned out just to be a henchman). Why they didn't learn from their mistakes I can't fathom. Perchance it's because the series was rushed into production due to the writers' strike and the season had to be shot with what they had in terms of scripts and those weren't quite as polished as one would have hoped for.

That's also why the "cliffhanger ending" wasn't so much of a cliffhanger. Everything just sort of had a "to be continued" feel, without generating any real excitement about what had taken place in the final scene (which I won't ruin in case you haven't yet watched it).

I still hope that the series gets ruined for season two, and hopefully they'll have more time next season to polish the bits and pieces that go into constructing a Terminator.