Yay, it’s a new season of Amazing Race, and we have all new
contestants, ones no one has ever seen before!
Tons of stuff happened in this episode, let’s take a peek, shall we?
The teams started in LA, of course, because it’s not like
there aren’t literally a million other places they could start. Everyone made their way to Bora Bora to go
skydiving out of a helicopter, followed shortly by a needle-in-the-haystack style
roadblock that always tend to be the demise of at least one team. The teams had to dig through hundreds of
sandcastles to find their clue, rebuilding each destroyed structure as they went.
The teams then had to build a canoe to paddle to the pitstop. With eleven teams, this episode was
jam-packed, with lots of personalities to go around.
Chuck and Wynona
are married rednecks. How do we know
they are rednecks? Well, the mullet is
the first clue(on the man, in case you were wondering), and Chuck is also into
taxidermy. They manage to get on the
first flight to Bora Bora, but are held up on the sandcastles, pulling them
back a few slots.
Bates and Anthony are
professional hockey playing brothers(in the blood sense). They did crack me up in the intro, where they
started in on the clichéd ‘we’re so close’ bit, but the other brother ended it
with ‘each other’s sandwiches,’ so, amusing.
They didn’t have much time on screen at all though, so I’m not sure if their
prospects are very good.
Mona and Beth are
moms who happen to roller derby, which is fun.
Of course, they had a snafu on one of the signup sheets-missing a line
but other than that, had a pretty solid leg.
Max and Katie are
terrible people, and they know it. I
hate them, and was not sad they had such a terrible leg. I’m really hoping their penalty will doom them
next leg. Oh, and according to Max, Katie’s
‘likeability factor’ is low, and her being sociable is horrifying.
Dave and Connor
are father and son cancer survivors. Son
is a professional bicyclist, and that is about all we learn about them in an
overstuffed leg.
Jessica and Jon are
dating, and are a non-entity. I don’t
even remember them doing a single thing this leg, so maybe gone quickly, but
who knows.
Idries and Jamil are
twin OB/GYNs, and are kind of hilarious.
When another team asked them their professions, one of the twins first
responded ‘I’m a delivery man.’ The
other team calls them on those shenanigans right away, and the other twin goes,
‘okay, okay, you got us. We’re
kindergarten teachers.' I’m not ashamed
to admit, I lolled.
Pam and Winnie are
Team Asian Besties, only to differentiate between the three other besties on
the race. They were yet another
non-entity. Though I did wonder if
Winnie is an homage to Winnie Cooper.
She seems about the right age.
Joey and Megan are
Youtubers, and I am so glad I have never run across their show before, because
they annoy the living hell out of me already and they had VERY little screen
time as well. If that’s what
non-internet users think all online content producers are like, then I can see
why they don’t even want to try.
Matt and Daniel are
firefighters, rednecks and really poor racers.
Caroline and Jennifer
are country singers that I’ve never heard of, and had very little screen time
as well, though what I did see of them seemed…whiney.
The first episode of a season is always fun, but so
jam-packed you don’t really get a feel for many of the teams. So far I’m on the hate train for the
newlyweds and the youtubers. Everyone
else was kind of meh.
It was interesting that the final three team came together
and decided to quit the sandcastle challenge together. I don’t think I’ve seen that kind of
game-playing since Rob and Amber.
Finally, we have team placement:
1. Jessica/Jon
2. Bates/Anthony
3. Dave/Connor
4. Pam/Winnie
5. Mona/Beth
6. Joey/Megan
7. Chuck/Wynona
8. Idries/Jamil
9. Max/Katie
10. Caroline/Jennifer
11. Matt/Daniel-Eliminated
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