Episode four and The Amazing Race 14 is still going strong. Less time in airports, more time on challenges, more time to act like idiots--and more time for the greatest fake-out in the race's history. At the beginning of the episode, Margie said Luke is "living his dream" and said that when pressure...

Last week, it was cake and frosting; this week, teams checked in to The Amazing Race 14's mat covered in blood. And it was awesome. For a Detour task, one option was to drag a coffin down a hill, open its locks, and then take wooden frames from inside it and impale them on stakes, looking for a flag...

Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan will leave his mat behind as he bikes across the United States starting March 28 in L.A. and concluding May 9 in New York. "I fly over 400,000 miles a year and I figured it was time to stretch my legs. I love to ride so I thought I'd see what this great country looks l...

I'm convinced whoever schedules The Amazing Race must secretly hate the show and be trying to kill it. Not only is its start regularly pushed back because of sporting events, but last night, they aired an original episode opposite the Oscars. Of course, it is the era of DVRs, and the show's full epi...

I've been mostly bored with The Amazing Race for the past few seasons, for the reasons detailed here. The show hadn't become worse, it just was repetitive, refusing to do anything differently, which was the real problem. And because of that, it certainly didn't deserve all the Emmys it keeps winning...