5/10
Does TV Really Need Another Travel Show?
26 July 2022
The answer to that question is maybe, but it needs to be something at least a little different. This isn't.

What, exactly, does this actor add to the program? He briefly talks about Charles Dickens's book about Italy in which he excoriates the Catholic church, then he turns around and gives a voice to some local historian who talks about the miracle of San Genaro who somehow protects the city from the volcano. The historian segues into talking about how people use the numbers from the miracle to "get rich in the lotto."

The actor doesn't see the horrible irony of relating religion with the lotto which are one in the same. Asking someone to pray is the same as asking them to blow on your dice so you can roll a seven. Then Grant goes on to speak of the lottery as a positive force when it's nothing more than a tax on the poor.

Then he lost me completely as he reads aloud from Eat, Pray, Love while in a restaurant mentioned in that hack memoir.

There is little insight of the places visited.
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