Top Gear new series: Chris Evans faces backlash from viewers for 'shouting' through entire first episode

The most surprisingly common complaint amongst viewers? Things got just a little too loud to be bearable

Clarisse Loughrey
Monday 30 May 2016 21:57 BST
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Change is hard.

It was inevitable that the new, revamped series of Top Gear would land on suspicious minds; though the outlandish stunts and unaffordable cars remained, viewers had been robbed of the comforts of familiar faces.

Gone were Clarkson, Hammond, and May; in were Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, aided by a bunch of people no one really recognised. Perhaps it was always doomed to fail, but critics seemed expectedly unimpressed with efforts to inject life back into the programme.

Yet, no one could really have been prepared for what landed on their television sets: a full hour of a man shouting in everyone's faces. Between criticisms that the new show was a 'borefest' lacking any chemistry between its hosts, was the rather common complaint that Chris Evans was speaking several decibels too high to be enjoyed or tolerated.

Basically, if viewers are asking anything of the remaining episodes of Top Gear; it's to please, please, stop the shouting.

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You can read our blog of the first episode of Top Gear, as it happened, here.

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