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“Please, Lord, Give Me Milk”

November 18th, 2007

You know, the title of this episode really doesn’t evoke the level of insanity which Lorena poured into it. It was much more desperate, pleading even, than you could possibly imagine. In short, Lorena went into full-on emotional breakdown mode in this episode. And while I know that this characterization is perhaps a bit quick, she really is an equivalent to the ill-remembered Flo of Season Three (Fulfilling, further, Erin’s belief the season might head in this direction).

As for the remainder of the teams, this wasn’t an episode for personal triumphs or anything of that sort. Rather, a number of teams quite literally broke down at the roadblock, and the tightness of the leg kept any team from coming back from any sort of deficit. That said, the episode did end up with two teams fairly darn close to one another at the detour, although methinks there was some tricky editing afoot.

And yes, Lorena eventually got her milk; but, as Kate and Pat said last week, I don’t think the Lord had anything to do with it.

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“I’ve Become the Archie Bunker of the Home”

November 11th, 2007

After last week’s episode resulted in the two most frustrating teams battling it out for last place, we should have known that it wouldn’t last. This week, while the show certainly did not devolve any great deal, we did see a team that deserved to stick around longer get beaten down by mostly just plain fatigue. It’s not that they didn’t earn their departure, but rather that I would have liked for the race to accomodate their pace just a little longer.

It wouldn’t have been so bad if the other, less likable teams hadn’t also had a pretty good leg as they traveled from Ireland to Amsterdam. It was actually a leg in which we saw the worst in one team, and no one really stepped up to show us anything we didn’t expect…well, outside of a bit more of Donald than I personally expected to see at this stage of our television relationship.

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