gregr-76475 Once upon a time I really enjoyed the Amazing Race. It was fun, exciting, and sometimes heartbreaking. The contestants were people you could cheer for... or against. Of late, though, I have lost interest because of a decision by the executives to move away from what made the show appealing. At one time the racers were common people, just like you and I. A couple of coal miners from Kentucky. Two cowboys who were brothers. The list is too long to continue. This made the race fun. You could sit down and compare yourself to your peers. Now, however, the executives have decided to feature teams made up of ex professional athletes. models, stars from other reality TV shows and YouTube stars. In short, people who are not like the average American. I watched a couple of episodes this year and realized I just did not enjoy the show anymore. If the producers decided to go back to the original format, maybe they get my viewership back.. Until they do consider me an ex-fan.

Alecia Thompson The Amazing Race is an action-packed, daring, and surreal reality competition that features eleven or twelve teams from across the United States, competing across the world to win one million dollars or a travel package of a lifetime to share to their friends, families, and co-workers.During each "Leg", teams get a clue envelope to direct them to travel to an unknown location. They have no idea where they are headed to and what adventures they may encounter along the way. During the Legs, teams get to complete regional challenges either featured as a Route Info (a mandatory miscellaneous task), a Detour (a choice of one task or another), a Roadblock (a mandatory task only one voluntary team member from each team can complete), and the eventual Fast Forward (a special task which only one team can achieve to skip all further tasks along the Leg, immediately heading to the Pit Stop). There are many challenging struggles, navigation errors, and disagreements, but that's the beauty of The Amazing Race. You do not know where you are heading to and you get to experience it first hand of what a magnificent country's city looks like. There are many funny moments on the race which builds up the excitement and makes you want to root for that team to be and win in the final Leg. Despite some seasons may be better than others, overall, it's a wonderful program that provides you travel, competing, and humor all in one bundle.

Kristjan Though I find most of US reality TV-series quite boring I must admit that's the one I really love. Mainly because it's so global, mixture of different cultures and traditions. You can see difference between developing countries and developed countries and so on. It's fun to watch teams pushing themselves over the top with some rather weird quests and having an arguments over nothing. The tasks are usually tied with the country they're competing and that's very cool too.The series budget is huge. They were racing in Estonia (Where I live :) in summer and my friend took part of it too and revealed how the show was being made. It's just amazing, local TV stations were paid for not to show or write anything about the series. Every smaller detail is checked and must complete the checklist of 5 pages of contract. The story also is usually confirmed on the very last minute after searching for optimal tasks and routes by the producers. And that is what makes the show special.Only thing I don't like in the series is the fact that some conflicts are shown too prolixly. For example when one of those black sisters called Luke "bitch" in the last season.But otherwise it's brilliant show and I think everybody find it exciting when one bothers to watch it.

bull-frog I would rate this show a 9 if it wasn't for last season. The family edition three seasons ago and the one after that with the hippies were awesome. I loved every episode of those. But last season I stopped watching after the 4th or 5th episode. I don't remember seeing a show in which I didn't like a single contestant. They either had no personality or were too bitchy. TAR's aim for diversity produced some of the most ridiculous array of contestants that I've seen. We had an equal helping of Muslims, handicapped, Indians, homos, and ho's. I hope they have better characters next season.