more garbage shows - kind of like forged in fire. At the end of season 1, forged in fire had two serious professional knife makers on their show (Murray Carter and another guy who actually beat him). The work they did was stunning, efficient, completely without drama and...
...boring to the average person who knows nothing about the topic and wants to see the regular format "fun contestants, contest starts, oohh...disaster!...zany humor, and then ...oh, it all works out!".
But not before something is broken at the end, we need something broken and perceived as dangerous.
Not that I'll see the BBC show, but our two streaming services show the first and then the last two years of forged in fire. I saw the last ones first, and then the first season. It actually started out as interesting with competent makers, but these shows aren't set up to show competent workers - they need to find something that actual knifemakers can hate so they'll tune in to get angry, and something that looks accessible, but risky to the average person ("I could do that, imagine if I heated a big piece of metal to yellow and hit it and it split in two!!!).
