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The ultimate team survival competition pits contestants in a series of grueling activities in a race around the globe.The ultimate team survival competition pits contestants in a series of grueling activities in a race around the globe.The ultimate team survival competition pits contestants in a series of grueling activities in a race around the globe.
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Incredible feats of endurance by the contestants, 10 stars for that. But the editing is one of the worst and most biased I've seen in the already pathetic genre of reality TV. They focused on about 10 teams out of 66 for most of the race, who had some back story they could endlessly bring up for emotional effect. They never even showed some of the top teams or their finish at the crossing line. Extremely disappointing editing, not worthy of this great race and it's contestants.
I kinda liked it..
Watched all 10 episodes but i did fast forward thought some parts. A little too much focus on some of the the american teams. I didn't even realise there was a uk and irish team until i read a review from one one else! (ps i am from the uk)
Some things i found annoying:
a Japanese team just suddenly appeared when they got like a min of air time when they had to call or rescue after 2 of their team got trenchfoot.
They never showed the completed leader board.
Would have liked to know a little more of the other teams in the top 10!
They never showed the completed leader board.
Would have liked to know a little more of the other teams in the top 10!
Team Onyx, first all African American + LGBTQ team... however they were totally useless. Difficult to watch Americans being typically over dramatic. Should have been much much better. So over Woke America.
To start with this show is super entertaining and is a lot of fun ... Fiji is just beautiful and the show displayed the island in a beautiful way. The camera work is amazing and the hosting by Bear Grylls is Good too.
All the challenges put forth seemed to be very demanding and it was interesting to see the participants conquer every task at their own pace and intellectual level. Any person who likes even a little bit of adventure will love watching this show. None of the episodes seemed boring however the last 3 episodes became a little less interesting as the winner of the race was announced on the 7th episode itself.
The only thing that i didn't like about the show is the amount of screen space that the American teams occupied. The backstories of certain teams were inspirational I agree but all the teams with an inspiring back story happened to be American and they ended up getting most of the screen time and to be honest, even certain American teams with not much of a backstory ended up getting more screen time than the other teams. The irony is that none of the American teams made it to the top 10 but despite the positions, all the American team got enough Screen time than any other. For example, there is a team called "The Able Abels" and this team quit in the middle of the race for no profound reason and still, you could see more of this team on the show than certain teams that made it to the top 10 and this is unfair. One could say that this is an American show and that's why the show was focused on the American teams but I would not agree because it doesn't make sense to invite teams from all around the world and keep focusing on the American teams just because the makers are Americans. If the makers wanted to display the American teams so badly then they might as well invited only the Americans to participate in the race.
having said this, The Worlds Toughest Race has every potential to become on the best adventure racing showers to be ever made and it all depends on if the makers are able to find a common ground from the next season and display teams irrespective of the country of origin in a fair manner. Looking forward to more of this show.
The only thing that i didn't like about the show is the amount of screen space that the American teams occupied. The backstories of certain teams were inspirational I agree but all the teams with an inspiring back story happened to be American and they ended up getting most of the screen time and to be honest, even certain American teams with not much of a backstory ended up getting more screen time than the other teams. The irony is that none of the American teams made it to the top 10 but despite the positions, all the American team got enough Screen time than any other. For example, there is a team called "The Able Abels" and this team quit in the middle of the race for no profound reason and still, you could see more of this team on the show than certain teams that made it to the top 10 and this is unfair. One could say that this is an American show and that's why the show was focused on the American teams but I would not agree because it doesn't make sense to invite teams from all around the world and keep focusing on the American teams just because the makers are Americans. If the makers wanted to display the American teams so badly then they might as well invited only the Americans to participate in the race.
having said this, The Worlds Toughest Race has every potential to become on the best adventure racing showers to be ever made and it all depends on if the makers are able to find a common ground from the next season and display teams irrespective of the country of origin in a fair manner. Looking forward to more of this show.
While it's a bit of overload on the inspirational stories, in the end it's worth the watch just to see who makes it and who doesn't. I have to say I was more surprised by the teams that DID finish as compared to those who failed.
Did you know
- TriviaEco-Challenge Fiji Island (2003) was spoken as "World's Toughest Race" in the opening.
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