The Amazing Race Season That Almost Cancelled The Show - The Amazing Race 8
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2022
- The Amazing Race: Family Edition is almost universally considered the worst Amazing Race season of all time. There are many villainous players, an uninteresting race route, lame challenges, and a very unfortunate boot order. Oh and the whole thing is rigged for adults, CBS outdid themselves on season 8 of The Amazing Race.
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The only black family literall last name being Black and referred to as "The Black family" seems like a bit on the Dave Chapel show
I'll admit. I laughed when I saw that
Yeah, except even the Dave chapelle show is worse
I thought they were called the Black family because of that fact, not because that's actually their last name.
I laughed because that’s a curb episode, well season.
That was a curb your enthusiasm moment. 😂
@@user-bv7mk8id5t there’s also a funny Seinfeld where Jerry is set up to go out with a woman named Donna Chang and he is upset when he finds out she’s not in fact Chinese, but white
There should've been an age limit. A couple of those kids were just way too young
I feel like that might've been the reason they didn't really go overseas. They might've thought it might be too stressful for the little ones to ride ~8 hours on a plane and then navigate an entirely new language, geography, and culture.
@@oll-_-llo
I don't have kids, but from what I can tell, international travel with young children is a nightmare enough without also having to race against other teams.
And forget completing tasks for a reality TV show. I mean the Black family literally got washed downstream on a relatively calm river in the first episode, it can only get worse from there.
Think it was the difficult getting plane tickets and traveling overseas with that many people
@@oll-_-lloI think there should have been an age limit because The Amazing Race Family Edition had 2 tests with young kids which was no worries, however The Family Edition of the Amazing Race should’ve gone outside the us a little more though.
When I saw the racetrack I SCREAMED. Why would they do that? And TWICE? They traumatized this family, and while I know we were supposed to hate them, it's really sad.
And they did it twice!
At least it wasn’t the track their dad died on
Well the show it's The Amazing Race so yeah. I guess at some point it was bound there would be a car racing or speed sport event.
@@xellotathschosen910 have u ever seen the show ? ☠️
@@Justchillinman17 well yeah, like 4 seasons, this one included.
Who would’ve know the winner team would be the family made entirely of only fully grown adults?
Crazy enough they were almost eliminated the first leg
Young adults. They’re like 20s. And competing with 9 year old blonde girl.
The only thing I remember about this season is how hilarious the Paolo family was and how my family did a double take not knowing the black family was actually named the black family
Same me and my brother were being super immature with that
Phil was talking about introducing them at a promo, it was hilarious.
The Paolo is basically my family and I hate it
At first I thought it was a typo and then I realized it's actually their last name.
Idk how to feel about the Weavers because clearly everyone hates them for being rude and annoying but the show is also constantly forcing them to go through traumatic events 😶
Makes me wonder if the Weavers pissed off production that badly.
A lot of reality shows are fake. They probably cast them to be assholes and told them how
to act plus editing. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the families weren’t real.
The weavers are bad and the production team are bad. Both of these things can coexist but yeah production is awful for their antics on season 8
They probably were very annoying in real life but as someone else wrote these shows are edited to cause tension and drama.
@@cruzloera4931it's actually against the law for a broadcast competition show to lie about something like that
I think if they were going to do a family version with kids, all the teams should have to had kids involved.
Yeah or grandma and grandpa for variety.
I would love to see them do it again with kids, but fairly this time
I didn’t hate the concept, but I do feel that the family ratios across teams was definitely not equal. & I wouldn’t mind if they tried again but I would prefer they all be adults LOL
Yeah no, they probably care about the budget, too many people means less countries to be visited.
Yeah balance. Like have kids but their parents are athletic. Teams in their 20s should have 2 couch potatoes who cant run fast. I love the Linzes though.
or 2 adults and 2 kids up to 14 years old
Yeah doing it again but with a rule where 3 members of the team must be over the age of 13 or over a certain height, keeping the challenges in the States (and maybe also Canada). Like I could see this concept working great if Nickelodeon did their own version of it that's a bit easier for 8 year olds.
Or they have 2 adults and two kids around the same age for each team. But I guess he doesn't want to break children's hearts again so probs not.
The racetrack gag was both horribly offensive and absolutely hysterical. I screamed each time they went to the racetrack
My main issue with the Weavers is that any moment i get sympathetic for them they always go out of their way to just be plain rude (AKA, throwing trash), like i don't want them to lose, i don't want them to win, it's the most mixed i've felt for a team
I guarantee every team on every season of TAR throws trash.
Why can’t Phil just do family edition and help the young children grow from the stress. I wish the Family Edition Can’t he just let the young children go far enough. I feel bad for the Weaver Family. They’re so kind.
Nothing wrong with watching Family Edition again. I actually like this season.
Pros:
Good attempt to put children against adults.
One team with a child under 10 got far enough.
Kind personality.
Children do well at building a house.
All teams took the race seriously.
Cons:
Route was terrible.
Okay but I had to do a double take when the black family was titled as the Black family. If that's their actual last name, and that's who they chose to cast, that's so funny in a ironic way.
Well they signed up for the race. And how do you turn a team down because of there last name ?
@@paulbegley1464 Not that they should have been turned down because of their name, but do you think that every family that signs up gets cast on the show? That's not how it works.
I know the casting director had a chuckle over that one
We don’t talk about the Amazing Race Family Edition.
We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no.
I can see why
I watched the season once, and I’m never watching it again. It was a disaster
*There is no AR:FE in Ba Sing Se*
The family edition was kind of a drag, I’ll admit. But honestly, I’d like to see some of the team members come back as duos. Who thinks it might be cool to see Billy and Carissa Gaghan as adults running the race now?
I would too. I’d like the Gaghan Family to be back again. I really enjoyed watching them throughout their time.
I was FB friends with Carissa Gaghan for a long time and kind of watched her grow up. The last time she posted, she was on her way to New Zealand to attend school, but that was several years ago.
I heard they considered bringing 2 of the Linz siblings to compete in Season 31
I was 14 when my dad died. I'm the youngest of 5 siblings, all being 5+ years older than me, and we all were a mess for a good 2 years before we even started to become normal again. I could never have gone on a show like this that first year. No way.
For some people, though, doing something this insanely different is actually helpful - it lets them get their mind off of things for a while. Or it WOULD if the show wasn't constantly "okay so your challenge for today is occurring at a racetrack and then we're going to try to kill your mother with a car".
I always felt a bit sorry for the son on the Weavers when originally watching this season. He seemed like a decent enough guy... but kept getting dragged down by the rest of the family and always seemed a bit uncomfortable about how they were acting.
🙈🙈
I once had a friend who had a massive unexpected loss hit him devestatingly. From that point he changed, noticeably, withdrawing from company, becoming suspicious and hostile to strangers, developing some seriously extreme political views (super hard-right), and generally alienating everyone who cared about him. With their hard-line religious views, general hostility to anybody outside of their group, and general attitude, it just felt like the Weavers - especially the mother and daughters - went through that same transformation.
Totally agree about the son (Rollo?) though. It seemed like he got sidelined with the rest, and he couldn't be "disloyal" by mixing with others. What a horrible position to be in.
@@H0lyMoley Tbh I didn't like when they were calling that one family "housewives" or whatever, but your comment definitely is a great way at explaining that they definitely experienced trauma that caused them to act like how they did
@@masterfy24 Totally agree. I think you get this anyway, but to be specific here - I'm not trying to excuse their behavior at all (some of it was pretty disgusting), just put it into the context of what I've personally seen someone go through. The situation and reaction to it seems really similar.
@@H0lyMoley Its also the context of being on national TV here. The rest of your family is in a bad place and is saying everyone else is being mean to them (true to an extent) but they arent doing themselves any favors. On a competitive reality TV show where they are on your team, that is a very hard time to try and tell your family they are wrong because that only ends very well for you, or absolutely catastrophic. Pretty sure I would have just done the same "suck it up and ride it out" while at least trying to signal a bit of "yeah they are insane, but they are still my family so I have to back them because we are all we have, sorry they are so over the top"
Having a trip around America wouldn't even be a bad trip if you know that's what is happening.
It was definetly due to the kids. The amount of overseas travel would kill them and they would all want to just go home lol.
I think it was more because of the scale of the show. Only so many last minute plane tickets and you have to buy for your team + camera man so that's 5 tickets per team. @@Hephaestus_God
Yeah there should've been an age or height minimum so it wasn't SUPER unfair that one team had a bunch of teenagers while a different team had a bunch of 8 year olds.
Also what was with the spooky haunted house music while that family is talking about their father's tragic death??
TAR needs to bring Billy and Carissa back as a team.
They really had that family keep doing things with random vehicles!
The premise of kids on TV rarely works, even in actual movies, as they are still often cringey and annoying.
Kids competing against adults rarely works.
Kids trapped in cars with their families for extended periods of time, being filmed all the while, you guessed it, rarely works.
Wow! What a brilliant idea! Let's combine all of these factors, remove the "around the world" part of this game for the first 4 episodes, and add the ever-so-subtle reality TV lens, and what do we have?
A hot pile of steaming garbage.
This season is so funny, like when the paolo family thoguht they were about to lose so they started putting every piece of clothing on
In earlier season, if it was a non elimination they would take something like all your clothes or all the money you have
@@ThoosieJP I wish they would do that again tbh
@@GLBizziethey cant.. it made bad waves. That you had them begging fr money from extremely poor people
They definitely should’ve made an age limit. Because some teams have kids who are like 5 and others have the teens
Amazing Race Canada (and other international versions, I'm sure) has shown that you can do a Race mostly within your country and still make it compelling.
But a road trip structure wasn't the way to do that (Treasure Hunters also showed this). And certainly not with kids and tasks that had to either a) be simple or b) involve 4 people. It was a valiant attempt, but it didn't work and this season was a giant book of "lessons learned" for the producers.
100% agree with everything
@@TurquoiseStar17 CTV who produces the amazing race Canada doesn't have the same budget as the US one so unless they have a airline sponsor them they can't afford to travel outside of Canada due to the expense.
but what I hate about amazaing race Canada is there is always a team who will take time penalty in every season wothout even trying the challenge
No it was boring. I couldnt get with canada. Like they didnt even see tge world
i do mostly agree with the TARC thing, however, one big flaw with staying in the same country is often how the locations often get quite repetitive and boring, for example, there have been several times where the race just goes to bumfuck nowhere and in TARC 9, the race stayed in BC for 4 legs straight.
logistically it was the right move by the producers to just travel around north america with these contestants instead of the usual around the world journey...
This is one of the reasons I thought Great American Road Trip was a better fit for the style of "family-based teams of 4, particularly with young kids". It was more segmented, marketed as "drive down Route 66 across America", and it meant that you didn't have to have them on the clock and rushing for time every step of the way. I think there was also a rule about how it had to be 2 parents and 2 kids, and both kids had to be under 18.
I feel sorry for the Weavers for how the dad died and that the race made them relive the trauma, but that doesn't excuse them from being rude and acting the way they did.
Honestly, I got tired of hearing how their dad died. It seemed like it was constantly mentioned.
They didn't care knowing the cameras were rolling. The girls were throwing trash at one point at another team.
their whole personality was "I'm a good Christian" and "our dad died😢." @@daniel_sc1024
The idea was actually pretty good but Idk, why they haven't booked like many seats for two flights to Europe for the first leg (f. ex. first 5 teams arrive earlier) and there you can travel by train to some countries, eliminate some teams in countries like Switzerland, Austria, Italy, all of them have some beautiful locations. Even some basic tasks in different cities would made difference.
But even only in US/America, this could've been much better season if only teams have been less annoying/forgettable. It looks like some teams were casted just for drama and at many points it was really painful to watch...
I'd guess the reason they didn't go to Europe or anywhere outside of the USA, Canada, and Costa Rico was because of the kids. I mean of course children can travel outside of North America, but I'm wondering if there was some insurance issue because of the ages of some of the kids that meant that they had to stay in the US for most of the time and couldn't enter Europe or another continent.
The Paolo family, at least, did have a redemption arc in Central America when DJ and his mom did the fast forward together. They were far less annoying after that.
❤😂😅😊 I also like the Paolo Family, The Paolo Family were a great family team on The Amazing Race Family Édition, however, I did not like the Marion and DJ fighting with each other, It was really childish of Marion and DJ, Overall the Paolo Family are a great team, I don’t mind them.😂❤😅😊🎉 I did not like The Paolo Family yelling at each other, It was so childish of them.
The family version is just watching someone's family vacation drama on TV
This was a terrible season, but after awhile the Paolo family reached "so bad it's good" levels of TV. Their dysfunction became a sheer joy to watch.
It was excruciating in real time waiting and waiting for the show to go international but instead do things like "find this weird tree" or "go sit in this giant chair" in the middle of Utah or something, not helped by the endless number of non-elimination legs.
The Amazing Race Family season also has the distinction of foisting a young Stassi Schroeder out to the world years before Vanderpump Rules.
the weavers getting the mcdonalds and eating it while yeilded is a core childhood memory for me
I remember when the applications for this went up. I begged my family to apply. Glad now we didn't lol. I remember trashing this season so bad when it aired lol.
One racetrack challenge could be a coincidence but TWO? AND A BUGGY RACE? Jesus
The worst thing to think is the family that got eliminated in their own town,then a few weeks? later Hurricane Katrina hits
Just here from a Black Flags Matter video covering the story of the Weavers' deceased father. Holy crap the showrunners deserve the worst.
I forgot i watched that video but yes, very much
@8:00 omg I didn’t realize Stassi from Vanderpump Rules was on this 🤣
You skipped probably one of the most annoying things about the Weaver family. Mama Weaver says that she homeschools her kids. In the second or third leg, when they were in Louisiana and were driving across one of the longest bridges in North America, she claims that Lake Pontchartrain is one of the Great Lakes. My two step-nieces, ages 5 and 7 looked at us and shouted, 'Since when?' Production did so many things wrong when they decided to do a family addition and I'm glad that they've never done another one.
I noticed that she called it a great lake but I didn't realize the kids were homeschooled
No wonder they're all so incredibly antisocial and the mom thinks everyone loves them. They're in a cult 🤣
The gaghans were so cute they made me emotional. And I was rooting for the Paolo mom. One day those boys are going to feel awful about how they treated her.
Dad had completely given up. At times Mom was just as horrible to the boys, but they were so ugly to her. Hopefully seeing their behavior on TV, especially compared to how the other families acted, opened their eyes.
The weavers getting McDonald's is engrained in my mind. What a moment
Wow. This was really bad.
A family edition could work but it would need a lot and I mean a lot of tweaks.
I love how the Shroeders (sp?) Got eliminated in their own home town. It was very bittersweet as I watched this from a hotel room since we were still a month away from being able to get back home after Katrina. It was weird seeing the city before all of the devastation.
Great job editing everything! This was my first time hearing about a family season of Amazing Race.
Surreal to see the Black family labeled with their name being the Black Family.
This is actually my FAVORITE season because of how realistic it is.
It actually is.
It’s been 18 years, which means the youngest contestant from this season is now 26. Bring them back and cast a regular season with them. It’d be an entertaining train wreck, especially if it included Stassi Schroeder.
They need to have an all star season with the winners from past seasons
I thought they already did?
They already did that for around 4 times i think
@@franzreyes6185season 10, and season 24.. i think the season 18 was the unfinished business not the all Star
The Gaghan parents and they're mini me's. Someone should do a psychological paper on that dynamic.
I really liked the Linz family and the Bransen family so they made the season better in my eyes
I behaved like the Paolo's kids 10 years ago, I would be either dead or living at the roadside right now.
I guess nobody remembers the line I remember the most (and the one that made me most wonder how it got aired):
On the leg where the Paolo team got eliminated, one of the sons yells,
“Mom, there’s nobody here for miles! I could drown you in this river right now and nobody would find your body for weeks!”
I have no idea who or what recommended this channel. But this is interesting trivia on a few game shows i watched. You earned a subscriber.
the paolo family might be the most queens thing ive ever witnessed
and i have no idea if they're even from queens
By the end I was rooting for Linz family and Bransen family just so the Weavers wouldn't win. Also lets point out that one family was from New Orleans which would get hit a month after filming by Katrina. That family made friends with another family who offered to take them in when Katrina hit.
Very nice of them to do that! 👏
Can only imagine the casting staff told to find a black family and when they presented the Black family to CBS, there could be people on top of the network that might have said 'Perfect'
I suspect TAR wanted to get rid of the teams with young kids quickly. I imagine they didn't want them hurt.
I have a feeling that’s why they didn’t go outside of the US much either
That’s right.
The Weaver Family is good enough. I respect your opinion if you dislike them.
The Amazing Race Family Edition couldn’t go outside the us due to the safety of the young kids. Is my prediction why the Family Editions route not the teams was terrible. The Amazing Race Family Edition is not a bad season. In my opinion.
The Family Édition of this show didn’t want the little children from the Gaghans and Blacks to get hurt and that’s why they sadly got eliminated early. Wish the Black Family and Gaghan Family went further in their Amazing Race career. I have no problem with the Linzes winning.
Supposedly production were very upset with the Weavers as they flat out refused to travel to Belize forcing them to change the route of the race. Also worth mentioning that the Weavers made some awful comments about Utah.
Since when does a team dictate the race course? If they didn’t want to go to Belize (why not, it’s a beautiful resort country), they can just be eliminated. 🤷♂️
I am wondering if that led to production torturing the family.
I need to know more about this. Where did you hear this from?
Sounds highly improbable. According to other comments on the internet the trip to Belize was canceled because of a hurricane which is much more likely.
My understanding was that Belize had to be canceled because of a hurricane at the time.
In defense of TAR:FE, this was the first season I’d ever seen fully. (Id only watched the last couple episodes of season 7), and as an 8 year old who wanted to travel the world, it blew my little mind that kids my age could be on the Race too. And that if the people on the show could do it, why couldn’t I? It truly opened my mind to the world and made me fall in love with the show.
TAR: FE will always have a special place in my heart ❤️
I had the same reaction when i was a kid. Now on rewatch i realize how bad this season is. But i wanted like a kid version of survivor more when i was little. I'm kinda glad that has never happened lol
@@sarahjordan7406 I believe that would be called Kid Nation
@@NathanJakobMichaelThomas oh god I’d completely forgotten that show existed.
The Black Family is the most deserving family to be there. I’m sad they went out early.
Really like to see how those kids are doing now and how they have grown up.
You missed the part about the shortcut the weavers took and then gave up on the last leg
That was a crazy bit. I intentionally did not include every moment so people could watch this season if they want to and still be surprised by so many things.
The teams that’s mostly fit people in their 20’s got Top2? Shocker!
I'm so glad someone like you finished it since I rage quite halfway through the season. I hate the idea of kids doing things like this. It's like a child beauty pageant, it's gross to subjectify kids like this.
Did you ever see Kid Nation?
@@WisteriatheFirst No, the ads did enough for me to know I'd hate it
I think it could be fun but only if it was restructured to be accessible to the kids, like adapting the boating challenge that was clearly oversized, so that it works for them, and altering how long each challenge takes. I don’t think it has to be like a beauty pageant, not if it’s done right.
The only good competition show I seen that look fun when I was kid (made for kids) was all the competition shows that was on Nickelodeon from early on to current times.
I wouldn't compare it to a beauty pageant, but there's definitely something to be said about making sure the kids are mentally capable for this sort of thing. The kids who lasted longer didn't seem to be mentally exhausted from all of it just yet, I was honestly expecting a child meltdown and instead they came from the adults
I love that the Weaver where literally made to be sympathetic but came off so bad this season.
One of the Paulo boys basically had a catch phrase which was “unbelievable” he said it like 5 or 6 times an episode. It became quite amusing
I don’t remember the details of this one but remember watching the family season. It’s seems like an obvious thing that you would still have the normal age limit as any other season and you would just be making the teams up of family members. Not just for fairness, but for the liabilities of having young kings on a show like this. It’s probably because of them having young kids on the show why they didn’t leave North America except the small stent in central.
Rolly Weaver later became a professional cyclist.
The Black Family (that's their last name) were actually from my old hometown. I hated this season but have to admit the Paolo's constant meltdowns and the insanity of the Weavers got me through it. I want to make a pun but I feel like it would be in bad taste.
In my opinion I think Family Edition is a good season In my opinion The Blacks and Gaghans have cute kids and The Black and Gaghan Families are the ones that deserved to be there. I’m not saying other families are bad. The Linzes are Kind The Bransens made it far enough The Weavers did well through the passing of their dad.
This is horrible. That speedway crap was beyond cruel
If you're American, you should know that if you go to Quebec City and Montreal, it's French Canada, and they speak French.
My controversial TAR8 opinion is that the Weaver family is honestly not THAT bad compared to both the Paolo family, and basically 95% of the teams from TAR6, and don't get why they get all the hate that they do. My other controversial TAR8 opinion is that USA-only seasons could actually be really good, but it should be MARKETED as such (including the teams should be told) and obviously they should be hella hard and not as easy as TAR8 was - and maybe the cash prize is smaller. Sadly TAR8 was so bad, and the route/challenges were so easy and uninteresting, that a TAR America season will never happen - even though the pandemic would;ve been the PERFECT time for a USA roadtrip only season. Oh well.
I'm in the minority here, but this is my favorite season of the show. It's the one I've rewatched the most, probably 5 times now.
I haven't seen the amazing race to much, but one show I'd think you'd like that is a little more recent is "Race *across the world". You get a limited budget (the cost of the airfare from London to Shanghai), and your not aloud to take aircraft travel. Just wheels, ships, and your feet.
Jeez, between the Weavers and Stephenie LaGrossa on Survivor, CBS reality shows really had a lot of people tossing the word "r*tard" around in 2005.
Yep BB6 had it too
It's so funny I just watched that season. The one black family had me very mad tho, why just one?....and they did the Weavers wrong, like come on the racing related challenges knowing that their dad died at a racing track.
I mean, ok, buuuut…..the show is called The Amazing Race. Literally the whole game is a race. They were bound to hv to face a race at some point in a racing game. 🤷🏼♀️
There's nothing wrong with just casting one black family.
@@jenniferv3219 A certain group of People would be complaining if only 1 white family was casted
@Eric Turner I think the problem is the only black family is also referred to as the black family both in having the surname and in looks. So it’s just funny
I actually don't think the concept is bad - it should have just all been families where everyone was over 18. That would have removed the giant divide. I wonder if the reason they only went to Panama , Costa Rica and Canada is a legal one. Because kids can only work x amount of hours a day in entertainment and I imagine flying and travel is considered on the clock and with how long some flights are that would have been a whole day of filming wasted. Plus they would have had to hire a tutor and pay for the tutor to travel or get an exemption. It would have been a mess. But also that's their fault as they could have made it families with adult kids.
Unpopular opinion, this season is actually good. I like The Linz Family. They performed well in their time. The Bransens are tough as well, they did well with Wally who is a little slow but smart. The Weavers did well through the passing of their dad.
Gaghans went far enough.
It still cracks me up that this is Stassi from Vanderpump rules 😂
Yea...there's no way that any of the producers thought that this was a good idea. I'm convinced that they only did this for the drama and controversy. I get that the Weavers were awful but why were the producers so intent on triggering their PTSD ? 😂😂😂
I've never even heard of this show before, but I read the title, saw the thumbnail, went "oh boy..." and then clicked on the video
I'm glad this recap exists because I'm trying to watch every season of the Amazing Race but I tried to watch s8e1 and I could not get through it
As far as the Weavers being tortured....I am sure all these tasks were planned WAY in advance of anyone being cast.
Which one is worse? Them picking the tasks first and then casting the Weavers or them casting the Weavers and then picking the tasks?
Either way, they knew what they were doing.
My brother and I were about to watch this season again and then all the seasons got taken off of Amazon prime, do you know if there is any streaming platform that all the seasons are on (there are some on Hulu but not all)
In canada, they are on Disney+
Im currently watching them on Paramount +
17:43 "No one hugs the Weavers"
I'm pretty sure I saw Carissa Gaghan jump in Rachel Weaver's arms though.
This season and season 4 are awful. I would like to see the little girl again racing now grown-up
Season 4 is way worse. Family Edition is pretty good.😊
Geez! Even just this video of season "high"lights was tough to watch!
I didn't hate the concept, but I think with some better contestants, a better route, and teams that were better matched in age, this could be good.
At the start of the season, I was rooting for the Weavers, but they just made that harder to do every episode until I finally gave up.
When I watched the Amazing race from season 1-20 in order I was excited for this season but um yeah it ended up being such an awful season, staying in the US, just was not fun. Only rivaled by season 32 for awfulness. I wish the amazing race would go back to airport drama vs having everyone take predetermined flights. Also bring back the fast forward on every leg and having cultural challenges. It sadly started going slowly down hill after season 7.
Personally I prefer this over 32 as at least it is fun to laugh at this season. 32 is just sooo boring and predictable
My concern with cultural challenges is that it can get very VERY close to feeling extremely disrespectful. There were a few times in a couple of seasons that gave me the ick during cultural challenges. In the intensity of the race, folks aren't thinking about the possible significance that a challenge may have to the local people; they're just focused on getting it done as fast as possible, even if it means cutting corners that they can get away with. It feels like trivializing an important cultural pillar into a cutesy little task for a TV show.
YES, it's super cool to see the show explore different cultures and may be the first time some viewers see a given culture, but some folks are just downright disrespectful or get angry easily... and that just makes the whole thing uncomfortable to watch.
The booking of flights made the earlier shows great as it a relatable real world struggle. Plus it encouraged out of the book thinking and some careful planning. Recent seasons have truly become a just-don't-finish last competition since even "winning" a leg gives you almost no real advantage.
I remember when this aired on Aussie TV and I hated it but I pushed through to watch it to the end to see who won (not the Weaver family).
Casting was really bad with the unbalanced teams- should be all adult kid and family units, unless they can cater for a slower kid friendly version.
Also we had an Australia only race (Season 5) which was interesting cos they went to the non tourist trap areas.
Please Talk about Oswald and Danny and Jet and Cord on being one of the best all-male teams of the race, having both an average of 4th place, and have a laid-back and independent strategy going on to the race but different generations of The Amazing Race.
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Unpopular opinion -- I actually liked the family version. Yes, there were a lot of problems and if they were to do this again, they need to make this fair like having age limits (or having two adults and two children between 12-17)
I feel if they ever do this family concept again, they should stick with the traditional teams of two, with teams made up of married couples, siblings, parent/child, cousins, grandparent/grandchild, something like that.
I don't know if it's me who misunderstood something when you say that Americans know that people speak english in Canada (which is true). But the problem is that this episode is in Montreal which is in Quebec, Canada, a french province, so the Weaver kid was right.
I remember a few years ago, there were rumors of a kids only Amazing Race that was only going to stay in the United States, thank goodness it was just that. I hope it will never happen and if it ever does, I probably will not watch it
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I'm sorry, just for appearance sake, I would never cast a black family with the last name black. It doesn't look good on screen, and I understand the host being uncomfortable with that.
Imagine if phil casted the beavers family in this season.
So, this was season 8, and by this point, the producers had to pull off a few twists to keep the show fresh, so kudos to them for trying something different. And to say that this season could’ve ended the show for good is an overreaction because I don’t think the fans would’ve stopped being fans just for one season where they tried a different format.
the route is giving "american musician on a world tour" vibes
pretty unpopular opinion, but i actually liked this season unlike the mass majority of people. the only part i don't like is how they stay in the united states for many of the legs. however, i think there was a lot of entertaining teams (even if they were villains). it was an interesting concept even though i know it will never be done again.
I think Cyndi Seidelman at Game Show Gumbo should have a look at this not-so-amazing season, including a "How I Would Produce It" segment to top it off.
I honestly don’t even remember this season. Must’ve purged it from my mind 😂