Who’s your favourite?
…SAS: Who Dares Wins.
This programme is not what you think it is. Okay it’s sort of what you think it is – it’s about putting the selection process for the SAS on the telly.
I don’t need to describe it to you, do I? There’s hill marches and shouting and mock-interrogations. Sweating. Not much sleeping. A lot of casual swearing. (“I had a soft spot for him, but it turns out he’s a bag of shit.” “It was pretty poor. No wait, not pretty poor – fucking pathetic.”)
But what it is, under all that, what it really is, is X Factor for people who don’t like singing or dancing. All the candidates all have weird back stories, they all have to do things they thought they were good at, but now they’re not so sure. They are pushed to their absolute limits and put under terrible pressure. There are tears! There are eliminations!
And I am totally hooked in the same way that people are hooked on X Factor and Strictly. It is brilliant. It is tense. It is surprisingly emotional and touching.
I am watching Series 1 on catch-up and a new series, set in the jungle, is on C4 9pm on Tuesday nights.
I love this too and its a rare thing that both my husband and I watch this together. Also worth reading was the article in The Times magazine this weekend about one of them who was caught moonlighting being a bodyguard for Tom Cruise when he was in the SAS and he had to go into WHSmiths and buy every copy of ‘Hello’ to stop him being found out!
I saw that! priceless.
And also, let us not forget the genius that is Foxy. He alone is reason to watch!
love Foxy too much. is he gay though?
Oh. I don’t wish to know. I don’t want the illusion ruined 🙁
NOT GAY. official. I looked into it. NOT GAY EVERYONE NOT GAY KLAXON
Great recommendation. Watched it last night. Already developing a bit of a thing for Colin.
Oh gosh! I loved the first series – really hope my Virgin TV box has recorded it.
I felt really sorry for the guy who was doing really well but had some sort of hideous swelling on his leg. They wouldn’t let him carry on as without some sort of hospital treatment, he was going to get blood poisoning. He was SO CROSS about it.
Freddie! Freddie the landscape gardener, 24
Watched last night brilliant!!! What about the poor “old” Dad (who I worrying thought looked quite young) whose son died (crying face emoji)
Efrem! So moving
I too love it. Men with necks the width of railway sleepers and hair-trigger tempers being pushed to the brink. This is so far removed from my normal life with a charming, solicitous husband that I found myself berating my inner me for not pursuing a career that led me to be a jungle medic. It could be me dispensing anti-fungal powders and encouraging words to these tortured, muscly recruits, but instead I am left to waste my talents in Somerset sorting out my five year old son’s verruca.
Tess it is key to have an inner life away from one’s reality. Imagine how much you would hanker after a charming solicitous husband and son’s verrucas if you were stuck in the jungle with a load of farting duhr-brains
True. On with the spectacular day-dreaming.
Oh I know Colin! Sort of. His wife is absolutely lovely and they have two beautiful kids.
You’be forgotten to mention that the SAS men are insanely hot!!