Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for the series premiere of The Road Country superstar Blake Shelton and Western TV king Taylor Sheridan ’s foray into reality television is different from anything we’ve seen before. The Road is billed as a competition series in which 12 aspiring musicians compete as opening acts for Keith Urban . The way the series is formatted is like a typical competition talent show, but instead, it focuses on the documentary aspect of the journey of performing rather than celebrating the music.
The audience is there, technically, to see Urban as the headliner, but he’s just the draw in order to film a reality show. He sits in the back with Shelton, secretly judging the acts before deciding which of the bottom three voted artists will b