The third season offers a variety of exciting events and powerful surprises from new trips as Carl and Warwick prepare to reach China. There seemed to be more surprises during that trip that changed everything. On the other hand, Carl joins Warwick Davis in order to make new trips and follow the footsteps of Marco Polo on that trip. The team begins their new adventure in Venice where there is more fun and events they see for the first time.
Despite my initial fears that this looked like the sort of unwelcome meddling that could kill off a brilliant TV show for good, I have to accept that Gervais may have known what he was doing all along.
Warwick Davis is an excellent addition to this series...Karl is true to form in his uncertain approach to whatever adventure awaits, while Davis compliments that with his own perspective and encouragement.
By putting so much interesting subtext onscreen, then refusing to actually engage with it on anything besides a surface level, An Idiot Abroad is a missed opportunity.
As long as Pilkington remains - or remains able to portray - the titular idiot, he'll be a worthy guide and companion for couch-bound dreamers looking for a decidedly uncomfortable kind of travel adventure.
