The Amazing Race – Lance continues to give lawyers a bad rep
It’s bad enough Lance comes across as more of a meathead than a lawyer on this show. Knowing that he’s a lawyer, though, means he’s just perpetuating negative stereotypes of the profession.
Yes, he’s strong-willed and competitive, which are good traits in the legal profession, but he’s also treating his fiance like complete and total crap and refusing to own up to his role in any of their mishaps, of which there were many this week. Plus he has the patience of a six-year-old at Disney World. Read the rest of this entry »
Oh no! Some of my favorite shows are just about done for the season and some are already history. The Celebrity Apprentice and The Amazing Race both wrapped up last night, and it’s not long to go for other shows on my “must see TV” list. American Idol is down to the final three. Yikes! How fast time flies!
Of course, the end of these shows only means that other shows I enjoy aren’t too far in the future — So You Think You Can Dance and Big Brother (my summer guilty pleasure) will be coming along soon. Usually I run a week behind reporting on the shows which air on Sunday nights. However, due to the season finales, please be warned that there will be finale show spoilers for both The Amazing Race and The Celebrity Apprentice after the jump.
Reality Clack – Survivor, American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, The Amazing Race
What a time it is for reality television fans! I think this week’s Tribal Council on Survivor had to be one of the best and most entertaining ever on the show. Sure, I enjoy blindsides on the show. But this one was a humdinger and a true blindside of someone I so wanted gone.
Two of the contestants went home on American Idol; another star got the boot on Dancing With the Stars. Some years back, folks getting eliminated wouldn’t bring about much press unless JR got shot or something. But times have changed. Some years ago, we would shy away from someone angrily talking to himself on the street. Now we know they’re using a Bluetooth and they’re not really loony. Well, not about talking to themselves anyway.
Reality Clack – Survivor, American Idol, The Amazing Race, Hell’s Kitchen
I think this is my favorite time of the year for television. I have new scripted shows I enjoy like Lost and Heroes, but I have my reality television fix in, too. I need my reality fix. While I enjoy fiction, I’m also a people-watcher. And, what better medium is there to observe people than reality TV shows? Sure, I could just go sit in Washington Square Park and people watch. But it’s winter. My living room is much warmer.
Before you tell me that reality television isn’t really real, need I remind you that the way different people react in different scenarios is quite real indeed. With scripted shows, I can’t really find people I love to hate as I know it’s all the writers’ doing anyhow. Ah, it’s much different with reality shows! We see warts and all. I love it.
The Amazing Race – It was a two-team race for the finish
(Season 13, Episode 11 – “You Look Like Peter Pan” – Season Finale)
Most of this race, it’s been a contest between three teams. Dominating have been Nick & Starr, with Ken & Tina performing better early on and having to settle for nipping at Nick & Starr’s heels the rest of the way. The third team that performed consistently well was Toni & Dallas, but this pair was nowhere to be seen this episode. And I do mean nowhere.
Eliminated last week due to Dallas leaving their money and passports in a cab in Russia, they weren’t on the final mat for the end of the race either. Considering that Dallas and Starr were forming that special little bond throughout the race, I’m sure she was saddened not to see him. Phil didn’t say anything about it, but the Wiki says they weren’t able to get out of Russia in time due to waiting for their passports to be turned into the US Embassy. It also states that Dallas & Starr have been long-distance dating for six months now.
The Amazing Race – The unexpected final three revealed
(Season 13, Episode 10 – “You’re Gonna Get Me Killed”)
I’ll give credit to those dumb frat boys because they didn’t have the week’s dumbest move. That would be reserved for Dallas. We’ve known pretty much all season that Dallas is a bit of a dim bulb at times. Sure, Starr thinks he’s cute and he’s nice and all and loves his mother, but he never came across as NASA material. Now, tonight’s bonehead move could have just been an honest mistake, but man what a costly one … literally.
With Nick & Starr, Toni & Dallas, Ken & Tina and Dan & Andrew as the final four, it really came down to whether or not someone would screw up in the Top Three and allow Dan & Andrew to sneak in. Or, to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they’d do something amazing on their own. Tonight, the action stayed in Moscow leading to all kinds of communication problems, but let’s get after the jump so we can talk properly.
The Amazing Race – In which Dan marches to no drummer at all
Of all the challenges The Amazing Race has thrown at teams over the years, who would have thought that marching would prove to be one of the toughest … for one person at least. My God, I honestly did not think anyone could prove so completely incapable of doing something as simple as marching, but Dan did it. If you hadn’t known that he was seriously having this big of a problem you would have insisted he was “having a laugh.”
It was bad enough that Andrew couldn’t handle putting the wraps on his feet to get their military boots on, but then couple that with Dan’s performance marching and think back to their skills at other challenges and it’s a wonder they’re still in this thing at all. This is final four material? At least Starr manages to be really hot in every episode. It helps that she’s wearing those skin tight black leggings; I’m sure that’s not a distraction to every male around her. It’s certainly been catching Dallas’ eye.
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