Review

by Huw Fullerton

After the successful reboot of classic 90s series The Crystal Maze last year, host Richard Ayoade now seems even more confident in making the format his own.To that end, he opens the new series with a brilliant monologue likening his own dome to London’s Crystal Palace, suggesting it could have saved itself from burning down in 1936 by embracing a “lucrative stream of puzzle-based gameplay”, before tearing into the slightly ridiculous, contradictory rules of the Maze itself.Joining the fun this week are a team of siblings called the Hauxwells, who get off to a (moon) rocky start after some futuristic challenges go very wrong. But can they make up the difference in the later stages?