Monday, November 14, 2011

Previewing Knights of Mayhem


Knights of Mayhem on the National Geographic Channel

Tomorrow marks the start of the third week of the NBA season. Or at least it would have if millionaires and billionaires were not still unable to find a way to split their very large pie. For basketball fans in need of a new sport to watch while the NBA heads to canceling their season, how about Full Metal Jousting? Yes, exactly what you are thinking, dudes on horses with poles trying to knock each other off.

Knights of Mayhem follows a group of jousters as they trying to go from Renaissance Fairs to the next extreme sport in America (it is hard whenever one of the Knights talks about how big the sport will be without thinking about the time on Mad Men when Don Draper was tasked to making Jai Alai the next major sport). Every week these modern day knights strap on 130 pounds of armors and arm themselves with nothing but an eleven foot lance going up to thirty miles per hour in the hopes they stay on their horse while knocking their opponents off theirs.

The Knights of Mayhem themselves range between the best in the world to two rookies, one of which has not even spent much time on a horse up until now. And animosity fuels the group also as bad blood from competition has seeped its way into the group. And what would a reality show be without a villain, and the Knights even boasts a member who wears a quite literal black hat right down to his armored which he has spray painted black.

Most the most interesting parts of the show are when the Knights suit up for battle and mount their horses to go one on one. Even with all the armor, there is a very good chance for injury and even death (most deaths are the result of a lance going through the eye). The second of back to back episodes tonight is especially violent with multiple medics making appearances throughout the matches.

Knights of Mayhem airs Tuesdays at 9:00 on the National Geographic Channel. Check out a preview below:

Jousting Battlefield


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