Episode 2 of The Amazing Race was a repetition of the first episode: A very dramatic fear of heights roadblock coupled with a hilarious detour. I won't recount either other than to say again TAR gets credit for outstanding camera work within a beautiful setting. Who wouldn't want to fly off that hill and glide down from 6,000 feet over a stunning valley?
Unfortunately for our eliminated team, one team member took the wrong way down the hill and got lost - costing them the leg and the race. That's too bad because this team deserved to see the world a bit longer. But sentimentality doesn't win this reality competition. So Phil gave them "you're the last team to arrive. I'm sorry, you have been eliminated."
The detour featured two choices which were a bit deceiving. The one that at first seemed more difficult - an obstacle course race on a motorized device - turned out to be rather easy. The other was a classic TAR detour. Find one object among many. I hate this challenge it always seems to upend the race with good teams getting very unlucky. However this time I couldn't help laughing as the way to find the correct cake with the cherry filling was to throw it in the face of your teammate. Very funny.
It's nice to see a reality competition show that doesn't take itself too seriously even when the prize is a cool million dollars. It's also nice to see that CBS hasn't cheapened it up like NBC. You go on a CBS reality show and win and you get paid off very nicely.
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