Here we go @theorist, @eems, @thewza a thread dedicated to this guy’s attempt to cross Wales in a straight line.
This guy’s lack of preparedness is quite amazing. Apparently he decided to do it in winter to cut down on the brambles. Clearly freezing water and weather were a secondary concern.
He’s currently planning his next trip too. Not a straight line crossing of a country but something in central Europe using second hand modes of transport…
Yeah I have considered this. I am enjoying it on the Alan Partridge level because the amount of effort involved in the prearranged stuff to do this as a fake is decent and I’ll salute that.
I think he struggles a little under the pressure of the circumstances tbh. Like getting worked up about the risks posed by farmers or people seeing him carrying a kayak bag is heightened by the lack of sleep/food/loneliness. I also think that’s led to moments of complete panic/idiocy like (ep 4 spoiler) burning his blanket and cous-cous .
Also, I can strongly relate to him spending ages looking for his phone only to realise it was in his pocket all along.
Not convinced at all it’s fake (not sure if this was a real suggestion though). There is maybe a discussion about whether he slept in the car that night or went to a B&B but the sheer wealth of footage he’s showing, in different weather conditions and locations makes it seem pretty authentic.
For anyone holding off, thinking it’s just the usual YouTube clickbait crap of 5% content and 95% filler - treat or more as a hyperniche Netflix comedy.
The guy’s narration is gold: the way he describes total mundanity and life-threatening peril with the same dry but florid delivery is beautiful.
Haven’t seen Chernobyl yet, but I imagine it’ll be between that and this in the award for best TV of 2019.