The teams of the next Amazing Race season have been revealed on the CBS website. The twist this season is that each team is made up of four family members. That’s a lot of people! The premiere airs on Sept. 27 at 9 p.m. (Link via Whine & Cheese.)
Meanwhile, I’m getting my Race fix watching previous seasons on GSN. I got through the first two seasons, which I hadn’t seen before, and we’re now in the third, which is totally bringing back memories. Teri and Ian! Flo and Zach! The nightly episodes are coming so quickly though that now I just watch the beginning and end of each episode for the previous-episode re-cap and the pit-stop finish.
» Previously: “‘Race’ from the start.”
4 replies on “Let’s play… the Family Feud, er, Amazing Race!”
I could NOT watch Flo again, once was enough!
I’m a bit uneasy about this family edition, but you know I’ll watch anyway!
How are they going to fit 6 people in those tiny cars!?
I don’t watch reality shows.
But in March, I was in NYC at a conference and watched a couple hours of “The Amazing Race” while working out in the hotel gym.
It really upset me. One of the racing couples was an elderly man and his wife. They were nice and smart and all that, but very behind. The ep. I saw had the teams drive to some isolated location and then either backpack or kayak to the next spot. The elderly coupled were way, way behind. (Two young women got completely lost and overshot the turn-off, so that was the elderly couple’s only hope.)
Throughout the show, the older man kept showing signs of terrible stress. He’d grip the wheel of the car with both hands on top of the wheel, and lean forward with this look of fear, despair and depression on his face. The kind Henry Fonda had in “On Golden Pond” when he’d have an Alzheimer’s moment.
It was painful to watch.
Now, I know they could have quit at any time. I know this couple was loving and supportive of one another, and that came through during the very stressful race.
But I kept thinking, “Quit. Please quit. Stop torturing yourselves. Quit. You’re breaking down. Stop it.”
Later in the show, a teenage boy and his mom came to one of the tests. He had to eat a huge amount of something terrible-tasting (pig’s ears or tripe or something). These two were way ahead. But the mother forced her hunky teenage son to wolf this garbage down. I felt so bad for that kid. He was throwing up at the end (you either ate it all or vomited to get past the test). His mother didn’t do a fucking thing to support him, she just nagged him until he puked.
It got to me. Maybe TAR is not like that most of the time (I bet it is not) but I couldn’t watch any more.
Tim, believe me, I don’t like those moments either. And there have been some painful ones as you’ve noted. You’re right in that TAR is not like that all the time. Some of the teams are actually inspiring to watch.
And while I do watch TAR, I will say that I don’t aspire to be on the show. I love to travel and the last thing I want while traveling is stress.