TV review: Taskmaster
A look back in advance of Series 11
Have you ever tried to paint a picture of a horse while riding a horse? Identify the contents of a pie without breaking the pastry? Fill an egg cup with tears? Make a Swedish person blush? Impress a mayor? Conceal a pineapple on your person? Paint an upside-down self-portrait using only condiments?
These ridiculous tasks – and many, many more – are what contestants have to face when they compete on Taskmaster, a British panel game show that will start its 11th season next week.
Every season of Taskmaster features five comedians who compete with one another to score points on a variety of nonsensical tasks set by the Taskmaster – actor and comedian Greg Davies – and his assistant Alex Horne. The person with the most points at the end of the episode will win the prize pool made up of items that the contestants themselves have been tasked with bringing in, such as their “most unusual item,” “best piece of memora
From Maggie Lindemann comes âPARANOIA,â her first EP, released on Friday. Lindemann, an internet personality from the mid-2010s, has been involved in music since 2015 but has focused mainly on singles rather than full-length projects.
âPARANOIAâ comes four years after her 2016 single âPretty Girl,â which launched Lindemann into success in both American and European charts, such as in Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands. Multiple remixes of the song were also successful, further solidifying Lindemannâs place in music at the time.
Recently, Lindemann has made her acting debut in Machine Gun Kellyâs recent film âDownfalls High,â which accompanies his most recent album. Kelly is another prominent artist and pioneer of the resurgence of alternative hard rock with electronica.