Amazing Race Australia vs NZ
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Not quite sure of the air date in Oz, but it has an air date of 29th July in NZ on the TVNZ network - handy if you have us unblock
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Seems like a big shake up of the format from the few clips i have seen. They need to do something like this to the US format as its been stale for 5 seasons now.
I haven't seen any clips, but from what I've gathered, the format sounds more-or-less identical except for the "NZ vs Aus" twist. What's changed?
Either way IMO the Aussies do the best reality tv shows so i know this will be quality
I think the NZ airing is still due to be shown this week though
TARANZ will now kick off in Australia on Monday 4 August at 9.00 pm AEST with a double episode.
I actually found most teams really likeable, love the mother and son, the siblings and best friends. Oh and the parents who foster kids, they were my favourites.
First impressions i hated the body builders and the newlyweds, they both talked up how amazing they were just to make silly mistakes on the way.
The Lord of the Rings setting was cool, thought they would do something to do with it
I also liked how they had departure times for the next day instead of just having them all get a clue and leave at the same time.
The body builders made some rookie mistakes and the fact that they had bigged themselves up made it that much funnier
Sally, she who is with the Hulk, looks a lot like my fitness instructor, except my FI is prettier. I don't like the team, they're just to cocky, without anything to justify that attitude. As we say in the Netherlands: they didn't invent the black yarn.
The double episode was great, although I missed Stahma and Irisa;-)
Let's hope TAR takes a good look at TAROZ to bring back the excitement of days long gone. TAR has become too sanitised, too engineered.
All in all a good start, take note USA.
I didn't hate any of them, which is a reason to like it. But they didn't seem that dull either. The longer length is of course an advantage as other versions of the race have shown, if it's rushed it just takes away from the drama and you don't get to know the teams as much.
Sally is hilarious I don't know how anyone would dislike her. Her team is totally incompetent but funny nonetheless, glad they survived. I actually find them funnier right now than the Lucy/Emelia-like team. Sally saying she wanted to eat and drink as they were on their way to the last task, and climbing the siderails to avoid the mud. And she isn't dull she has the emotion you need on the race, like her squeal of delight when she saw their's wasn't the last clue in the box.
Only one or 2 teams I don't like, looking forward to the rest of it!
The spider eating task was so disgusting, how they kept showing the alive ones
I can't believe they used there express pass already, all the teams were still there so it seemed silly to use it. The fact there was a 'trick monk' made that task all that harder, I feel like if it was TAR USA there would of only been one monk
The only one who annoys me is Jarrod, he's a bit loud. I wish the penultimate team had been eliminated, going on about how they are examples for their children has just been done to death on this show, the US version has a team saying that every season. If that's their 'story' then they are pretty boring. I was surprised at the eliminated team going, it looked like the edit was trying to build them up to be the baddies (only in an Australian sense, so not annoying hateful like it could be on the US version).
Still loving the intensive care nurses and thought the best friends were hilarious at the spider eating challenge.