I'm gonna start posting my taskmaster scoring on here why not! taskmaster UK series 15 episode 1 and 2 spoilers since I didn't post it last week. I don't bother recording scores for each task, just for the episode, but I'll include some thoughts/explanations
episode 1
- frankie: 8 (-4)
- ivo: 11 (+2)
- jenny: 17 (-1)
- kiell: 16 (-1)
- mae: 17 (-2)
not too much of a difference here. taskmaster statsman jack bernhardt made a pretty compelling argument (which I did not see when I scored this, for the record) that frankie could justifiably have been given one point for the entire episode and I think greg was very generous giving him 12. I disqualified him from the barge task for touching one of the rings and gave him 1 point for his way more than 1kg prize task
episode 2
- frankie: 11 (-5)
- ivo: 19 (+2)
- jenny: 15
- kiell: 11 (-3)
- mae: 22 (+6)
biggest difference here was prize tasks. greg's argument that "a mirror doesn't make you feel weird, it's the reflection, and the back of the mirror wouldn't do anything" is absolute madness to me. how do you offer a reflection as a prize? a fucking mirror, greg!! 4 points for mae! foot in a glove still wins lmao. sorry to frankie but I don't feel weird seeing the famous funny meme of medieval cat illustrations. magic eyes genuinely do make me feel weird because they compel me to stare at them until I get dizzy. #JusticeForJenny
I think greg was way too generous with the musical task and frankie took a hit there but I still gave him 2 points because drums are way harder to mime convincingly. I gave mae 5 because (without knowing the task yet) they made the double bass sound so bad that I could actually have believed those sounds were coming from a pile of trash
on the other hand, I thought greg was really harsh on the breath task! mae's marble run was legitimately impressive, and in a turn of events that actually shocked me I found myself backwards-impressed by how humiliating ivo's attempt was. he set himself two goals, brought in an outside observer, and then completely blew it. (ha ha) 4 points!
current totals:
- frankie: 19 (-9)
- ivo: 30 (+4)
- jenny: 32 (+1)
- kiell: 27 (-2)
- mae: 39 (+4)
overall I tend to be a lot stricter on the rules and the wording of the tasks than greg is and I think frankie has really suffered there. his prize tasks haven't really fit the brief, he's already gotten a DQ, and beyond that I think he's had some pretty weak tasks generally. kiell has had a rough start, but I think he's a strong competitor who's had some bad luck in the studio tasks so far. he and mae are the ones to watch, imo
great series so far! I only really knew kiell from ghosts and ivo from a couple clips I've seen of british as folk. didn't know what to expect from any of them, as I rarely do, but the chemistry is great and the tasks have been a lot of fun
i assume you DQ'd him from the breath task like i did? may have just been how the clips were edited but his definitely did not appear to have the breath be functional at all, in contrast to Mae's which seemed pretty clearly breath-started (though i agree with greg that, for a breath task, it just didn't seem worthy of 5 points). also man Jenny really deserved more for the curtain blowout lmao