As someone that over the last five years or so have really become engaged in reality competition shows: Deal or No Deal Island, The Traitors, Love Island USA - I was delighted when there was a new show arriving that at first glance appears to be trying to capture the essence of The Amazing Race. But once the premise of the show soaks in, you realize this is a clever, new vision for a world travel competition - merging a few familiar faces with everyday civilians. 

 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan hosts Destination X and he brings along with him his usual charm fans of The Walking Dead, Supernatural or Grey’s Anatomy will understand. He appears suave in his on-screen presence as he instructs the contestants on their daily tasks to make it to the next secret destination. 

 

Loaded onto a blacked out bus and supplied with goggles that will suspend their vision for a period of time, Destination X is a brilliant idea for those with a dream of traveling. The world is a gigantic place, full of endless destinations the group could land in and the hits along the way can range from ridiculously easy to blindsiding difficult.

 

Essentially each episode the contestants have a challenge that takes place off the bus that provides hints at where they're heading — at this challenge the winners can alter who is ultimately having to share the coordinates of where they actually are and who doesn’t. If you have to go into the coordinates room, then fate is completely up to you and the knowledge you’ve gathered during your short trip. The person that places their marker the farthest from the actual destination X is quite literally kicked off the bus. 

 

Three episodes in and the show has drastically grown on me, I urge viewers to watch the first and second episode before gaining an opinion on the show. The range of characters aboard the bus may be everyday people and not reality personalities, but hours upon hours trapped on a bus blinded from the light can change any perspective. 

 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, along with the show’s editing allows the audience to play along and you’ll be a little disappointed with yourself if you guess incorrectly based on one wrong intuition. There may not be money on the line for us at home, but it’s a worthy show to travel the world with these strangers that will ideally gain such a following over their time on screen — each member of the audience at home will gain a favorite traveler. For now, three episodes in — I’m still waiting on a spark to appear to indicate who should root for to last to the end. Twists and turns lie ahead and I honestly can’t wait for more of this adventure.