The Amazing Race - Season 13, Episode 11
Previously on The Amazing Race: The only boring season in the history of this show. Thank goodness we can wrap this shit up and hope for a better crop of tasks and contestants next time.
The final three teams make their way from Russia to Portland, Oregon, which appears to be a very pretty city. Lots of trees. Once there, a Detour requires teams to choose between climbing a tree and doing a balance beam walk across a suspended log, or simply running across a lashed series of logs on the water. For some odd reason, everyone opts for the former, including Tina, who reminds Ken (and us) about a gazillion more times how scared of heights she is. Gee, if only there had been an option where climbing a tree wasn't necessary. Say, the other Detour choice? Dan and Andrew get a crappy cab driver on their way there and fall behind. I'd feel bad for them if they had any business being in the final three.
After the Detour, teams take a 2000-foot zip line across a river from a bridge, which Tina suddenly has no issue with. Weirdo. At the bottom waits one of those wonderful mental tasks I love so, as it neatly shuffles dumb people out of contention. Teams must think back to each of the previous legs, and find a picture that corresponds to either some Route Info, the Detour, the Roadblock, or the Pitstop for that particular leg. Ken and Tina get a good jump on the task, but are eventually overtaken by Nick and Starr. After two pointless intervening tasks in which they find a dinosaur statue and a donut shop, teams race for the finish line, where Phil and all the eliminated teams wait. Everyone except Toni and Dallas, who were still stuck without passports in Russia.
Nick and Starr become the first family team to win (except for the Season That Shall Not Be Named, obviously), which is nice to see, as is the fact that it's always nice to see the team that raced the smartest win. Ken and Tina come in second, whereupon Ken re-proposes to Tina. Have your heart warmed if you must. Dan and Andrew, who the cameras stopped paying attention to after the Detour, manage to finally check in, which must mean that they weren't required to do the memory task. Otherwise, the teams would still be waiting at the finish line now.
Nick and Starr are pleased as punch with their win and with each other, proving that it doesn't matter if you're dating or related or gay or intense or laid-back. The real key to winning The Amazing Race is being young and muscly.
Overall Grade: B
Overall Season Grade: The blandest C possible.
2 comments:
oh god, I didn't even notice that Toni and Dallas weren't there (as you can imagine, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention by the end of the episode.) Man that sucks. I wonder how long it took them to get back?
I was watching with my mom and I kept looking at the clock and laughing about how long it had been since they'd even SHOWN the fratties.
I just read that Nick is currently appearing Off-Broadway in The Fantasticks, which immediately raises his coolness level ten-fold and now I might actually bother to go see the show.
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