Top Gear Eps on Netflix

Top Gear has put its final season onto Netflix in case you didn't know. The Patagonia Special has beautiful scenery in the first half. Its the second half that gets all political because the communist president of Argentina was about to announce the country was defaulting on its loan payments to the IMF and USA, and the USA and UK are the same to ignorant communists in South America. All the mess over the car was merely distraction. Oh, and they DID default, btw. If you loan money to Argentina, you deserve what you get. A pity because its beautiful in the Andes, very like the Alps or the meadows of the high Sierras or PNW. They filmed in the early summer and its constantly raining and terribly wet. I suspect there's a lot of snow there much of the time.

In the meantime, I've been following Clarkson and Hammond on Twitter, as they film their new materials for Amazon.com, their new boss. Their runabouts at their new studio, after spending a month filming across the USA, back in the UK are Reliant Robins, the car that flips over on every corner. The Robin was a clown car, but they're road legal and were popular in the mining country where Clarkson grew up. Hammond posted that his wife bought a full sized John Deer tractor with the front shovel attachment, to use on their farm. Hammond seemed a little perturbed, but he does live on a farm in Wales so why not?

In any case, the episodes are there and they're beautifully put together and you can see them now in proper format rather than pirated on YouTube. I am looking forward to seeing the Outback Special, which is next. Its great that the guys can continue to work together despite being older men with cranky personalities, bad backs, and aches and pains from those long days that makes them cantankerous.