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Roll up for the mystery tour as host Jeffrey Dean Morgan leads a group of contestants on a wildly competitive big-money global location challenge

- KATE HAHN

In the premiere of this globe-trotting reality competition, grizzled, grinning host Jeffrey Dean Morgan, most famous for playing villain turned antihero Negan in the Walking Dead franchise, growls to the 10 players assembled on an airport runway, "All you have to do to win is answer one simple question: Where the hell am I?"

In the age of GPS, it seems as though the answer should take a split second—even faster when posed by the guy known for obliterating zombies and humans with a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat. But it won't be easy for this eclectic group, ranging from a cheery sales consultant named Rachel, whose beribboned pageant-girl beehive belies her history-major smarts, to professional bird watcher Rick, who's fine with being considered the group “dad” but calls himself “cunning.” Stripped of personal digital devices, they crisscross Europe in a bus with blacked-out windows where they sleep, eat and (shudder) share a single bathroom.