# Amazing Race Season 33 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [December 20, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367 "2021-12-20T15:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/1 "2021-12-20T15:10:53Z")
After completing just three legs in February of 2020, TAR obviously had to shut down production due to COVID. But it looks like they’ve managed to film an abbreviated season between the last global pandemic and the current one! Yay! Premiers January 5, 2022. > **[Inside the Herculean Effort to Resume ‘The Amazing Race’ After Its 18-Month...](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the-amazing-race-season-33-covid-restart-phil-keoghan-1235130165/)** > > When “The Amazing Race” Season 33 contestants hit the road in February 2020, executive producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri were already keeping an eye on reports of a coronavirus begi… ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/2 "2021-12-20T15:14:41Z")
That’s excellent. After a disappointing Survivor Season, I’m looking forward to some fun “Vaccination or Tax Evasion” type challenges. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/3 "2021-12-20T15:39:13Z")
I have not watched an Amazing Race since about 2005 or so. I have a really simple question. Do they still “tie them all up” by forcing them into situations where businesses and places are not open and then the leading teams sit there and wait. The forced “catching everyone up” of the show was a major turn-off for me. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/4 "2021-12-20T15:57:40Z")
Bad news – according to the _Variety_ article, for this season they had to charter a plane so every new country will begin with them bunched up. On the other hand, it looks like they’re filming multiple legs in each country. COVID protocols can’t help but make it a very different show. No booking their own flights, no confused taxi drivers abandoning them miles away from their destination, no accosting random strangers desperately asking “English? Do you speak English?” And the most exotic locale they’ll visit is Portugal. I’m sure I’ll still watch though to see what they can make of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/5 "2021-12-20T18:13:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I have not watched an Amazing Race since about 2005 or so. I have a really simple question. > > Do they still “tie them all up” by forcing them into situations where businesses and places are not open and then the leading teams sit there and wait. > > The forced “catching everyone up” of the show was a major turn-off for me. They are called equalizers, and yes, they still happen at businesses, sometimes on travel as well. The alternative is never having an equalizer. Then some team builds an hours long lead which they maintain show after show. Reportedly this season is going to do some staggering to account for the charter flights. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/6 "2021-12-20T18:22:31Z")
Flights really haven’t been an issue for a while now so I don’t think the charter flights will make a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/7 "2021-12-20T18:42:23Z")
When there’s a situation where everyone lands on the same plane, but the business they need to go to for the next leg doesn’t open for several hours, they’ll sometimes do a schedule - first 3 teams to arrive get to enter at 8:00, next 3 at 8:20, the rest at 8:40. So you get a little drama as to who can navigate from the airport to the destination most quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/8 "2021-12-20T19:34:19Z")
I was sorely disappointed in the last race, with that stupid cliquey “alliance” bullshit. So I will watch the first couple of legs, but if it looks like it is heading off the rails, I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/9 "2021-12-20T20:20:10Z")
It’s a shame that the locations they had to shoot in (Switzerland, Corsica, Greece and Portugal) seem less like a typical season of _The Amazing Race_ more like a trust fund kid’s gap year itinerary. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-33/956367/10 "2021-12-20T21:19:57Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > That’s excellent. After a disappointing Survivor Season, I’m looking forward to some fun “Vaccination or Tax Evasion” type challenges. “Flotillas or Chinchillas?”