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Jack-Pumpkinhead said on March 16th, 2015 at 7:53 am

Again, thank you. Because twice now, the dvr screws up recording this show. Not any other show, not the commercials, just the race.

Sorry, bitching mode over.

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Hayley and Blair have, in four episodes, moved from complete strangers to reach a level of antagonism usually only possible from teams whose race hook is that they’re there to work out the problems in their relationship. On that level, it’s kind of impressive.

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chrisrw109 said on March 16th, 2015 at 11:06 pm

They’ve gone from Team Cockroach, to Team TaraWill.

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John . . . do you feel the same sense of dread about future editions that I do? A three week hiatus is unheard of, the format isn’t blowing anyone’s minds in a positive way, and the most recognizable Racer (Jonathan) is out. I fear that CBS will use weak ratings as an excuse to kill the show, and it would take a lot to convince me otherwise.

Seriously . . . TAR isn’t as mediocre as Survivor, where there’s no clear favorite after five episodes, and you have the makings of a perpetual pre-merge slaughter thanks to the tribal shake-up in the latest episode, what with most of the men being on one tribe. Also, Jeff Probst is hyping this season, which probably means an alpha male won the game. Rah.

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I’d be more worried if there wasn’t such a clear and obvious thing they were being postponed for. As much as I, personally, consider “March Madness” to be the single most overhyped sporting event of the year and primarily an excuse for middle-aged white guys to masturbate to the myth of the amateur student-athlete, there’s no denying that it’s both insanely popular and very very long. It fills up a lot of TV time, and CBS knows that there’s a huge audience for every second of it. (When I lived in North Carolina, the company I worked for rented a big-screen TV and put it in the cafeteria for the entirety of the tournament.) The Race isn’t going to compete with that. Probably nothing could.

That said, TAR is coming up on 26 seasons. That’s Grand Old Man territory for TV. I don’t think this, specifically, is a danger sign, but it certainly could be taken into account with other things to form one.

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The actual warning sign was moving it to Fridays last time around. Still, reality is cheap. It can probably hang there for quite a while.

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