There is always something entertaining about seeing “The Amazing Race” take off to the Middle East for an episode or two. Part of it may be that it combines the extreme heat of India with some of the bizarre new-money opulence that you don’t get much of anywhere else in the world. Since most of […]
Before Sunday’s new episode of “The Amazing Race 23” even aired, the previews teased that there was going to be some sort of showdown involving Tim & Marie and Jason & Amy over something that is a major race issue: Stealing a taxi. In actuality, Tim & Marie didn’t break any rules. The cab driver […]
For those of you who love your reality TV with a side of public humiliation, we imagine that you are going to absolutely love the episode of “The Amazing Race 23” airing on CBS Sunday night. There is a reason why “American Idol” continues to air all of their bad auditions, and it’s pretty simple: […]
Let’s start off this “Amazing Race” article with an angry rant over the way in which this leg started. We have no problem when there is an equalizer. It’s a necessary part of production, and they have to do little things here and there to make sure that everyone stays together, but starting an episode […]
Do we need to put on our dancing shoes before going on “The Amazing Race”? We would say that it should be within that instruction manual of things to at least learn about before going on the show. It’s not as important as being able to know how to swim, learning how to navigate airports, […]
Sunday night’s episode of “The Amazing Race” wasted almost no time at all when it comes to showing something cool: Norway, and a part of it so far north that the sun is still out despite it being one in the morning. It’s been very rare that the show heads to this part of the […]
While you do see teams on “The Amazing Race” frequently travel to a variety of exotic locales over the course of the season, it is not particularly often that they choose to venture somewhere as cold as the northern part of Norway. This is the second season that we can think of off the top […]
“The Amazing Race” is not a show that frequently decides to go with all-star casts; as a matter of fact, there have only been two seasons in the past 23 to feature a group of racers that we’ve seen before. This is good news, as is the fact that the show has not chosen to […]
Tonight on “The Amazing Race 23,” literally the entire first 20 minutes were spent dealing with something that most people hate: Airplane drama. But, we have to admit that it’s one of our favorite parts if there is strategy involved in what is typically a game of skill. The first rule of airplane travel is […]
When you watched the preview for “The Amazing Race 23” at the end of this past new episode, you are probably wondering what in the world caused Marie to proclaim that baseball “bunnies” Nicky & Kim were “dead to me.” It was a tense moment, and a pretty shocking one given that we just learned […]
