The Amazing Race

By Myles This is a sentiment that goes for the teams themselves, certainly, but also for the race producers. This is a stage in the competition where there are no more non-elimination legs, and where a single mistake will cost you the race, so the teams certainly need to be willing to play this game to...

By Myles In doing this “Switchback,” you could tell the producers knew how to improve upon the task. By making the pit stop at the task itself, you avoid an awkward car ride, and the gratification of completing the task and staying alive is instant and thus more emotionally powerful. And, as I had kind...

By Myles Every now and then, The Amazing Race turns mean. In most episodes, there is a moment when everything bunches together so that previous mistakes are erased, but in the sixth episode of the show’s fifteenth season throws the teams to the wolves of Dubai in an effort to test both luck and skill i...

By Myles I like to think that this, the fifth episode of The Amazing Race’s fifteenth season, is the reality television equivalent of speed dating. You see, last week, we saw the unfortunate departure of Zev and Justin in the worst of circumstances, the kind of circumstances (a lost passport keepi...

By Myles The job of being an editor on The Amazing Race is really a tough one. In each episode, you need to turn the unsuspenseful into the suspenseful, and emphasize the zany in the mundane. Of course, it helps that often The Amazing Race is suspenseful, and that it is often extremely zany, and that the...

By Myles I’ve always referred to Leno as a stopgap solution, which is precisely NBC’s problem. As is reality in a Winter Olympics year, the network is somewhat biding its time until February hits: that’s why Chuck’s debut was originally scheduled for March and not the more traditional midseason J...

By Myles There’s a point in the 15th Season Premiere of the 7-time Emmy winning The Amazing Race where Sam and Dan (the gay brothers) note that they have a problem: at various point in the race, both of them step up to be the leader and the result is a heated argument in Vietnam and a delayed arrival at th...

By Myles The story that unfolds after the fact is an epic tale of Amazing Race karma, and results in an ending that needs to be seen to be believed. The rest of the episode, meanwhile, is more fuel on the fire for those who feel the race is unfair based on its current location and the language skills of one...

By Myles I thought that the Michael Phelps thing was going to be cheesy at first, but then I realized that it was all a way to make fun of the teams for being so slow (or Margie and Luke being less slow and therefore more impressive), and I was okay with that. Humility is an important part of the race, and th...

By Myles I wasn’t going to blog about tonight’s episode of The Amazing Race. I’m taking a week off from blogging, so I was going to put up a post about how I’d LOVE to talk about what happened on tonight’s journey from India To Phuket, Thailand but I just am too busy getting academic things under control...

By Myles The worst kind of Amazing Race leg are the ones where nothing happens: the good teams are good, the annoying teams are annoying, and everything goes according to plan with the weak teams lagging behind and the strong teams rocketing forward. On the surface, this could seem like one of those...

By Myles Even Jodi and Christie, who were kind of awful early in the race but surged to a first place finish based on a smart Detour performance last week, deserve some credit: while they’re not actually good at this race as a whole (once they leave airports they seem to do nothing but struggle, espec...

By Myles The major change that we’re getting during this season of The Amazing Race is that there is no rest for the wicked - while before there were often legs which were constructed so as to require no planes at all, staying within one city or one country for a second leg, this year they’re mixing thi...

By Myles Who Won The Amazing Race 13? Nick and Starr have won The Amazing Race. For more thoughts on The Amazing Race’s Season 13 finale, check out Cultural Learnings’ full recap/analysis! Who Won The Amazing Race 13? Eleven Legs, eleven teams, and eleven hilarious mistakes by Dan &

By Myles It’s pure excitement, pure adrenaline. There doesn’t seem to be any issues with directions, so it’s whoever gets there first. And the winner of The Amazing Race is…Nick and Starr! All of the racers are welcoming them with cheers, and there it is: one million dollars for 23 days work. Starr say...

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By Myles In the meantime, their mistakes are nothing compared to Dan and Andrew, who start off by leaving their shoes at the costume shop. They get through the rest fine, but then they ignore the “On Foot” part of the Pit Stop clue, and arrive in a taxi for Phil to give them the “You’re the fourth team to a...

By Myles I’ve heard a few people noting that there has been a disconnect this year between viewers and the racers who are running around the world this season on The Amazing Race. And I think it’s not wrong: I’m enjoying it, and the challenges have been good, but there’s been a few barriers to entry so t...

By Myles Ken and Sarah have very different trajectories, though, despite being the last two to arrive: Sarah gets bogged down by Terence’s comments, while Ken powers through Tina’s forceful direction to pass two teams and burst into fourth place. Either way, the roadblock was a demonstration of...

By Myles Of course, they had no chance of going home in this episode: Ty and Aja were getting eliminated as soon as it was clear that they had no chance whatsoever of making the flight. Whether Andrew and Dan would have been bunched up with them, and made this a real race, without the ticket counter’s he...

By Myles The second episode of The Amazing Race is always one of the most awkward: there isn't yet any really compelling stories yet between teams, within teams, or within the race itself. And yet, unlike the first episode, there isn't the need for a lot of exposition, so the producers have to hope th...

By Myles It has gotten to the point where entertainment writers are turning on The Amazing Race as shows like American Idol or Top Chef continue to get overlooked by Emmy voters while Jerry Bruckheimer's reality series marches to yet another win. I don't get this: in terms of consistency and develo...