Initial Thoughts
And there goes my pick to win it all, bummer.  This was an interesting episode for several reasons but it was mostly interesting in a depressing way.  First Boston Rob almost has leave the game and then the behavior of some of the so-called “Heroes” was not what you would think it should be.
Villians [...]

Initial Thoughts:
It will be interesting to see how the heroes bounce back this episode. In theory they’re a stronger team then they were at the onset of last week’s episode with slicing off Sugar. They’re a leaner team in terms of challenge performance though I have to say that all of the people who are [...]

Departure
As this is the first episode, it’s our first intro to the teams and they are (the term in parentheses is what I will call each team to save my typing fingers):
Brent & Caite (models) – Dating models from South Carolina with Caite being the imfamous Miss South Carolina in the 2007 Miss Teen USA [...]

The Pit Stop
All of the teams are standing on the starting line, so there’s nothing really of note about the departure of these teams. Though, I think that the contestants in this season got a little short-changed by not having any kind of cool vehicle on their arrival.
Team Notes:
Brent and Caite – She has a [...]

First a bit of backstory, the Amazing Race and Survivor were two of the early reality television shows and while I love Survivor (and it’s kissing cousin Big Brother) I would marry the Amazing Race. In Survivor, strategy almost always trumps athleticism save for when you find one person who is strong in both, but [...]

Overview
So here we are at the beginning of another season of the Amazing Race, the Emmy award winning show that’s one part travel adventure, one part task completion and one part interpersonal drama.  The proportion of the parts varies depending on the team of course.  Phil is back to host with 11 new teams competing [...]

Initial Thoughts:
I liked having a two hour premiere with just one tribal council as the audience familiarity with the players makes the initial interactions more interesting so having extra time was helpful.  The entrance was cool with the helicoptors instead of boats and everyone seemed psyched to be playing again.  Some interesting first quotes:
Rupert – “Good [...]

So it’s the first episode of the new season and overall a pretty good one, it shows that some of what we ‘knew’ to be true was true, and some of what we knew to be true was pretty off base.
39 Days. 20 People. 1 Survivor!
(Hit the Music)
Initial Thoughts:
The one realization that didn’t pop in [...]