The Amazing Race

I am obsessed with the Amazing Race!

The show is fantastic and smart. I love how these twelve teams must race each other around the world with the Amazing producers messing with their minds along the way. One team can be hours ahead of all the others and end up being last by the end of the episode. Now I am relatively new to the Amazing Race fan club, but I truly believe this season is the best ever. This is in due in large part to Boston Rob and Amber.

Who are Boston Rob and Amber you ask? They are former Survivor winners. They Outlasted, Outsmarted and Outwitted some of the swarmiest and sneakiest people on reality television. A great edition to the Amazing Race right? Well that depends on who you ask. From the players' standpoint, Boston Rob and Amber are rude, obnoxious and the team to not only beat, but hate. From the viewers' standpoint, it just makes for great T.V.

Boston Rob and Amber are adding their skills that worked in Survivor to the Amazing Race and they are doing a great job. They bribe everyone, omit (stretch) the truth and have just plain good luck. (Boston Rob can be charming when he needs something) In every episode so far, they have been fortunate enough to have a native of whatever city, town or country they are in to help them out. Once they even got a police escort! They also have a celebrity advantage. People have recognized them and offered to help them out!

Not a fan? I strongly suggest you check out at least one episode. (CBS 8/9 central) Even if you don't like the show, the glimpses of the many countries they visit are worth the hour. Conflicts with another show? Check out SnarkWife at TVTome, she'll give you the recap and provide great entertainment!

Already a fan? Check out this fantastic episode review from SnarkWife. She is hilarious and I wait every week for her post almost as anxiously as I wait for the actual show! :)