Not being British, I didn't realise until I came here that the 7 peragrinos are some sort of celebrities back in the U.K. I guess that explains the constant chatter and referrals back to talking heads sitting in chairs ruminating over their shared experiences.
It's a pity because the series is spoiled by just too much inane, repetitive babble. In the first episode in particular we were treated to some superb photography of the actual walk and a couple of the locations. But as Episode 1 of Season 1 continued this facet of the show was reduced, whilst the mindless group babble factor increased.
What makes things even worse, is that despite both the raves and whinges of individual celebs, they're not actually walking anywhere near the full Camino. They're just doing little bits and pieces and then getting zoomed off by taxi/bus to some place else, whilst waffling on about how enlightening or tough things have been or not been. By the end of Episode 2 they only had 93 km to go to Santiago and now they can't take short cuts, because any more and they won't be credited with an official finish.
I see the producers plan to have 3 seasons of this series. Could I respectfully suggest, they focus less on having some UK version of Camino celebrity survivor and more on showing the route, specific locations and interviews with "interesting" genuine peragrinos and locals along the Way of St James. It was an absolute travesty that celebs were taking up onscreen time for periods of five minutes or more talking constantly about nothing, whilst Camino legends like John Brierley for instance, was spoken to, for all of a minute.
