They regularly attack the government officials, protest groups, auto execs, and other countries. It all comes off as fun and off the cuff.

This is all mostly scripted, but they do it in a natural way. Jeremy Clarkson (the older know it all), Richard Hammond (the young wild one), and James May (the conservative middle age guy) combine to bounce intelligent and very opinionated commentary off each other. With all of this fine camera work and music as a backdrop comes some great commentary from the 3 presenters. Producers of TV and even movies should get some guts and learn that we know this music and it has a huge impact on the depth of a show. I could go forever but just know that they play punk, classic rock, new wave, classical, hip-hop and obscure UK electronic.and it all fits beautifully. I can't stress enough how NO show on TV would even think of using songs from little known artists like Massive Attack. It fits perfectly and really conveys the emotion of the moment. If you know this song it is a slow, warm, almost sad mixture of simple piano key notes and deep string instruments. To top it all off they play Massive Attack's 'Heat Miser'. As he is talking, the sun is setting and they use a soft filter on the camera with an amber tint. For instance, the main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson is driving his beautiful Aston Martin DB9 through the French countryside and he begins to speak about the beauty of the car and how it is like no other driving experience. Every song is picked to illustrate some sort of emotion. This camera work would be beautiful alone, but it has been paired with a fantastic soundtrack. They take shots from helicopters high above through patchy cloud cover as a car cruises down a winding race track.

They use high speed cameras to show a tire spinning in slow motion with the smoke wafting off the pavement. Instead, they use all types of lens filters to color shots, cloud part of the shot, etc. Top Gear could have easily just shot a car sitting on some asphalt and talked about it. The cinematography, music, commentary and choice of subject matter is second to none. More importantly, each episode is so finely crafted. It's not just because I am a huge 'petrol head' automobile fan either.

Let me say that this is easily my favorite show on TV.ever.

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