I tend not to write that much about reality television. I’m not quite sure why that is, but today that’ll change. At least it will for today, because we just have to talk about The Amazing Race: All Stars. I’ve really enjoyed this season so far, but the show is infuriating at the same time. How’s that? Let’s look…
First, the fun, which this past week involved watching people eat two feet of kielbasa sausage and then promptly vomit, or, in Charla’s case, vomiting in the middle of eating the sausage, almost immediately grabbing the fork and knife again, and going back at it. If there’s something better than watching one-half of The Blondes, 2005’s Miss California (Dustin), heave just as she finishes her sausage, I don’t know what it is. Unquestionably it helps that I despise the teams of Charla and Mirna and Dustin and Kandice more than words can possibly express.
And, that’s another reason why The Amazing Race is fun (at least if you’re just a little bit mean-spirited). I go through the early episodes figuring out which teams I like and which I absolutely and completely detest (I’m looking at you Charla and Mirna).
Please note before I continue on this little jaunt that I am in no way saying that Charla and Mirna, or any other team I detest are bad people (or that those I like are good people). I give the benefit of the doubt to all people on reality shows that the way in which the show has been edited has simply made people appear more like the Spawn of Satan than they actually are. Thus, when I say that I detest Charla and Mirna, I am referring to the characters that I watch on television and not the actual people that Charla and Mirna may be in real life. Let’s face it, the situations these people are put in are not “reality” and all reality shows work better when there’s a bad guy. Charla and Mirna may be great people, the nicest, kindest, sweetest, most wonderful people you can imagine in real life. On TV, they are wretched refuse and deserve no shelter.
Article comments
1 - Ty
"Once a team gets way out in front (like the Blondes did this past week), there’s always some airline flight thing that will inevitably slow the front team down tremendously."
Just like last week when Mirna and Charla were going to get ridiculously ahead of everyone else in Dar Es Salaam, and all of a sudden weather couldn't allow them onto a boat until the next morning, in which Oswald and Danny showed up and were on the same boat.
I am sure CBS paid off that boat guy to say that to keep Mirna and Charla from getting that far ahead.
2 - lori
Well you may not like the Charla and Mirna but how is that for Karma tonight . I was so pleased to see Rob and Amber go out aftre bragging how they had tricked and lied to Charla and Mirna.
I laughed until I cried when you do bad things bad things come back to get you.
The wonderful gesture of Echhena putting out his hand to Charl was of great significance and it was so nice to see. What a lovely Guy he is and his wife Joyce.
It is good to see how the characters emerge and what they will do to win. Rob was just a little too cocky for my likings.