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Amazing Race 8: Family Edition


I'm all for new ideas, and I actually thought this wouldn't be so bad. I hate kids, so I knew having too many kids on the show would be awful, but as a whole I thought having entire families racing could be interesting for a season....it wasn't. I'm not one to usually care about the locations, I care about the characters, I was always of the opinion that they could just race in the U.S and it would still be a great show. This season proved to me otherwise, as the fact they didn't go to any far off locations really put a huge damper on the show overall. That combined with the fact that they had the most obvious winners of all time and it was all very lackluster.





Lets put three alpha males along with a alpha female, have them face a bunch of 10 year olds and see who wins!!!11! . This was a joke, they were the clear winners pre season, and despite their clear advantage they were still pretty inept. Youd figure they would dominate the entire race, yet they didn't win a single leg till the final one. I can't distinguish any of them, they were all bland racing robots, and one of the major flaws with the season.






Now we move on to the only 2 interesting teams on the show...first up the diabolical Weaver family. Now I don't live in the midwest, but I imagine every small town in America has a family like the Weaver. Gossipy, bitchy, devout Christians who go against everything they preach. And that's what made them so fun to watch. Kinda like Wendy Pepper, they were everything they shouldn't have been. The most epic moment of the season of course was when they were sent to a race track despite the fact that their father/husband died on one. The saving grace of the team was young Rolly Weaver who despite only being like 12, looked 19 and already had all the makings of an alpha male pulling his family all the way to the finale.







I'm trying to think, and I really don't believe there is as much of a majority on any other reality season, than there is on this one with the Paolos being the favorites. Everyone loved them. And we loved them cause they were real. They didn't put on some fake facade of being a perfect happy family who never argues, they were themselves. They bickered...the kids sometimes treated the mom horribly, but at the end of the day they all loved each other. I grew up with countless families just like the Paolos, a hardworking dad who struggled to provide for his family, a housemom who was overworked, and two kids who despite being a bit immature still had good heads on their shoulders. It's a real shame DJ and Marion didn't come back for all stars, cause despite the fact they would have been out way early, it would have been really fun to watch.