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Incorrect, again. Unless you are willing to provide a source?

The only thing that makes sense would be Dexter becoming like Harry was in the first few seasons, providing guidance to Harrison in Harrison's mind. That premise doesn't interest me much. And the premise of dexter surviving the end of New Blood interests me even less, so I'm not that excited about a revival. I'll probably check out the prequel series. I don't really see the need for it given the flashbacks that exist in the first few seasons, but I'll give it a chance.

Hong Kong Osaka/Kyoto, Japan Bali, Indonesia Dubai, UAE Bulgaria Naples, Italy Strasbourg, France Porto, Portugal Miami, FL That is the route. I don't know why you insist on always throwing out other countries.

What is up with all those 'likely' countries you list? There is no evidence of Romania, Mauritius, or Morocco to my knowledge. Last week you had South Africa listed as likely. Stick to confirmed countries and not speculation/wishlist.

I've been watching TAR since the beginning and overall I agree. I do, however, prefer when they have 90 minute premieres. 1 hour is not enough time for a premiere episode, especially if they are going to keep 13 teams as the new norm. I felt that 90 minutes was too much even for some of last fall's episodes that were filmed with 90 minutes in mind.

That episode moved at rocket speed condensing 2 legs into 90 minutes. Finale was fine, if a bit anticlimactic. Can't have a close finish every season I suppose. This season certainly had its faults, but I thought it was easily the best of the 3 covid seasons, mainly as the cast was very entertaining. Maybe it was the 90 minute episodes giving much more time for character moments, or just a fun group of teams to watch, but I'll look back on this season overall fondly.

CBS has been trying for years to find a new reality hit to go with their 3 reality shows that have been on forever. They have been candid about this. TAR has a loyal audience that is smaller than Survivor and BB and will follow it wherever it goes. Survivor is still their biggest reality show so is their best chance to launch a new show behind it. They've had some reality flops recently with Hunted, Million dollar mile, and Real Love boat, so we'll see how this goes. We've made it through 36 seasons and have a season 37 confirmed. The idea that CBS hates the show is laughable at this point. Hopefully focusing on one season let's them film the best season that they can. Let's just enjoy it.

Regarding that last point, they would never just let a team continue without being filmed, but the solution is to have other teams stop in their tracks while they get production lined up to resume. They have constant communication with all teams and could just force teams to stop working on their detour until things are settled. If it was unsafe for driving teams to pull over, then time how long it takes them to reach the detour and then have them stop for that long.

90 minutes for the premiere was great. With 13 teams to get to know plus both a detour and RB in the premiere, it was much needed. Then episode 2 had the entire leg on foot in a 2 block radius with face painting and carrying balloons. That was the first sign of trouble. They've done a decent job with the situation they've been presented with. Combining the 2 halves of the megaleg into one episode was smart. But when there's only 6/7 teams left and no other route markers besides detour/RB/Pitstop (plus no flight footage shown since they don't want to confuse the casual viewer with how they went back to charters), it's going to drag. There's only 3 episodes left but probably 4 legs. My guess is we'll have another slow-moving episode in Barbados this week, then they will combine both DR legs into one episode on May 8, then the finale May 15.

I feel like this episode would have been better if it was an hour. With fewer teams left, they are struggling to draw out these remaining edits to 90 minutes so it kind of dragged. Probably rooting for Juan and Shane or maybe Rod and Leticia.

On the bright side, they didn't drag this mega leg out into 2 90 minute episodes. That would have been absolute torture. The original edit likely had this as 2 1 hour episodes, so this is a weird occasion where they actually cut 30 minutes from the original edit (15 minutes in each half of the leg) where every other leg has actually had 30 minutes added. Shame about Derek and Shelisa. Would have been more interesting if they had succeeded at the bulls and one of the alliance teams had to fight to avoid elimination.

This was the best episode in a couple seasons. Sure you can already probably tell who the final 3 will be because most of the other teams are such trainwrecks, but this season has been pretty entertaining so far. Plus, that shot of the dog coming down the escalator was one of the all-time Amazing Cameramen shots.

I thought this was a really fun premiere and I was laughing throughout. The siblings were comically toast from the beginning, but that Austin Powers moment was an all time classic. Lots of other fun moments throughout. Hopefully a sign of a good season to come.

I am in the minority here which pains me but I did not think much of this premiere when half of it was people sitting through painful massages. Pretty unbalanced detour. And a mandatory u-turn vote upcoming? Great [rolls eyes]. On the other hand, it was great to see commercial travel and taxis back, and I liked the opening task at the hotel. I paused it on the close up of the puzzle and tried for 5 minutes to figure it out and got nowhere. I can only imagine how it would be in the heat of the moment. The cast has the potential to be interesting so it can be a great season. Just wasn't a fan of the detour.

This is a SPOILER thread. Saying San Antonio 'would be a good location for a finale' is not a spoiler. It's speculation/wishlist. You do this every season. There is also no evidence to support Romania.