Amazing Race

My parents have watched this show since it started, with myself occasionally checking in. The logistics of it are mind-boggling, even in an era where the magic of television is as transparent as Jeffery Tambor. The problem with reality TV is that the casting process, reliant on prospective drama, undermines the spontaneity of "reality," by promising conflict, which, in itself, undermines it.

The nightmare of American production crews & casts swarming other countries in a tone deaf spectacle of indulgent avarice.

The Amazing Race is basically just a bunch of goofball obstacle courses set in idyllic locations that only thematically tie to that location aggravated by the usual reality TV trappings. At times this can be decent depending on how the roadblocks and detours are designed, but most of the stuff the contestants are expected to deal with could be made within an enclosed space at some Hollywood studio rather than pushing them to rely on any sort of logistical or geographical reasoning.

it was amazing when Flo & Zach somehow won this show. i also liked it when the gays from the first season somehow managed to get behind everyone by A FULL DAY lol