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by WindUpDoll
Last week, Simon Cowell told a group of TCA reporters that he’s sure talent has slipped through the American Idol cracks. However, none of those talents have made it big. Well, tonight begins the festival of thousands that will, inevitably, slip through the cracks. Talent or no.
We’re starting off with the required shots of [...]
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Michelle & Bex
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This week gave us a more exciting episode — airport suspense, physically challenging (and possibly dangerous) tasks and teammates hating on each other. That’s the kind of stuff that makes us love Amazing Race!
TK and Rachel came in first last week so they leave the Pit Stop in Vilnius, Lithuania at [...]
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Posted by Zhillbear
To give you an idea of how bad a contestant I would be on Survivor: I get exhausted merely from watching the two-hour finale and hourlong reunion show. The final four reflecting on their journey, the tribute to the fallen Survivors, the endurance challenge, the agonizing decision of who to take to the [...]
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Posted by Zhillbear
Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new at this blogging thang, but I admit to getting a kick out of checking the blog stats for me and my fellow Channel Guide bloggers. It’s interesting to see which of my postings get lots of hits and which of my brilliant musings get barely a glance. [...]
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Posted by Zhillbear
It’s not often that a strongly divided tribe engages in a group hug after voting out a member of the majority alliance, but that’s what happens when the Survivors return to camp after blindsiding James and are overcome with relief that their plan worked and that James didn’t use his immunity idol to [...]
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Michelle and Bex
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We find our teams ready to leave the Pit Stop at Hotel De Ville in Ouagadougou. Azaria & Hendekea are the first to depart at 6:45am. The clue is to fly to Vilnius, Lithuania and drive their marked cars to St. Anne’s Church. Nathan & Jennifer are second to depart. [...]
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Posted by Zhillbear
Our Thanksgiving leftovers can finally finish digesting in peace — after waiting two weeks for last episode’s cliffhanger to be resolved, we learn that the “more business” Jeff Probst warned of after Frosti was voted out isn’t an additional elimination vote but is instead a reward challenge that, apparently just for dramatic effect, [...]
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Michelle and Bex
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There’s Phil to introduce the episode and tell us a little about Burkina Faso as a montage of images go by. The village of Bingo was the Pit Stop for the last leg, and Azaria and Hendekea are the first team out. As they read their clue we find that they [...]
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The remaining teams leave from the Pit Stop at Durgedam. We learn that Ronald has developed a hernia as he was driving the bakfiets. The doctor tells him, “I reduced the swelling by pushing back the tissue into your abdomen.”
Bex: Somehow, I don’t feel too sorry for him.
The first to leave the [...]
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Posted by Zhillbear
The majority of this episode wasn’t all that exciting for me. The high points of the first half:
Now that overbearing Jean-Robert is out of the picture, Peih-Gee senses that the tribe’s need to be irritated is going unfulfilled, so she steps into the void by micromanaging and by picking a fight with James [...]
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