Amazing Race, Season 32, Episode 8/9
By Jim Memmott
Hyderabad, India -- It took a while, but the haves have eliminated the last of the have nots in this Race around the world. Now the real back-stabbing and double-crossing can begin.
What Phil Keoghan touted as the first-ever Mega Leg in Amazing Race history – basically, a two-hour show that took place in one spot with no elimination in the middle – ended as everyone believed (and I feared) it would end:
Sisters Kaylynn and Haley Williams were finally eliminated, taking Emily and Drew out of the pool, thanks in part to the other remaining teams ganging up on them in order to preserve their alliance, the self-labelled Mine Five.
Which I kept hearing as “Mind Five,” which didn’t make any more sense than “Mine Five.” Research revealed that, in the second episode in a salt mine in Colombia, the five teams swore an oath to help each other, thus the Mine Five. Those teams are:
In the Mega Leg, the Miners hit the Sisters with two 20-minute Yields (delays), a bit of overkill that certainly smacked of abuse.
Though the case could be made that the Sisters would have been eliminated anyway, as they seemed more like cheerful tourists than focused racers, quite resigned to the fact that that things will always go wrong when you're in new places.
All of this played out in Hyderabad, which offered up a host of good challenges, including food delivering, code breaking,
During most of this, the Alliance teams helped each other, though Will and James, ever angling, tried to play favorites within the favorites.
So who will be eliminated next? Based on past performance, Aparna and Eswar would be the most likely to go. They didn’t do that well in Hyderabad, finishing fifth, even though at least one of the challenges allegedly played to their strengths as software engineers.
DeAngelo and Gary have the second-worst overall showing, though Gary has proven himself to be quite brainy. Still, no one in the Alliance thinks the NFLers have been pulling their weight, so there’s always a chance that they will thrown them to the lions.
Of the other three teams, in a just world, Will and James would be gone as payback for their scheming (or gamesmanship, if you’re on their side.) Hung and Chee would survive, based on her acts of charity alone. And it would be a major shock if the Volleyballers were to be eliminated. They’re simply very good.
Overheard:
Aparna: We’re techies. I hope they’re going to ask us to code something.
DeAngelo: What’s a rickshaw?
Hayley: We get lost everywhere we go.
Will: It would be us to get blood on our hands.
James: Yield the blondes: We're trying to make our own luck in this race, and they’ve had the best luck.
Hung: Being a parent, kids are so disgusting you can’t imagine what kinds of disgustingness comes out of their little bodies.
DeAngelo: The girls are like cockroaches. Every natural disaster they come back strong.
Kaylynn: We had our nine lives, and they just ran out.
Order of Finish: Episode 8/9
Maddison and Riley
James and Will
DeAngelo and Gary
Chee and Hung
Aparna and Eswar
Haley and Kaylynn
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