Race Across The World - BBC

BobbyBobberson · 10-04-2019 10:25pm

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah for everyone else it seemed like it was a great experience for them but for him you really got the impression this could change the direction of his whole life. It was great to see. Was funny after the finish where the son was talking about the experience and how amazing it was and the dad was just next to him arms crossed having a sulk such a role reversal from the start!

I could not stop laughing at him, the puss on his face. Really great series, so enjoyable to watch something like this without the celebrities doing it.

Loved the guilt of the winner when she would not tell Darron what route they took. Great insight into people's thoughts.

10-04-2019 10:33pm

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah for everyone else it seemed like it was a great experience for them but for him you really got the impression this could change the direction of his whole life. It was great to see. Was funny after the finish where the son was talking about the experience and how amazing it was and the dad was just next to him arms crossed having a sulk such a role reversal from the start!

Really hope the young lad stayed out east, could easily fall back into a rut back home.

Great series, tbf, wouldn't have minded if any of the teams had won.

jimmii · 11-04-2019 9:45pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Really hope the young lad stayed out east, could easily fall back into a rut back home.

Great series, tbf, wouldn't have minded if any of the teams had won.

Yeah would be a shame if he just went straight back his mums house and onto the playstation!

Be nice to get an update episode see if the guys opened the bar!

Kiwi_knock · 01-03-2020 11:25pm

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Back next weekend, racing across Central and South America.

S.M.B. · 02-03-2020 12:11am

Excellent, really enjoyed this.

jimmii · 02-03-2020 4:15am

I had never heard of Ushuaia before seeing the advert a couple of weeks ago but since then its popped up in other things a few times! Funny how that happens sometimes. Probably a case of it always popping up but had just never paid attention to it.

S.M.B. · 02-03-2020 10:49am

Classic Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I'll now start noticing it everywhere now as its not a place I've heard of either.

4Ad · 29-03-2020 8:38pm

Anyone watching this years series ?

PieOhMy · 29-03-2020 9:26pm

Watched the last 3 weeks, really enjoying it, the hour goes by so fast. Its ways suprising how close they end up to each other in getting to the checkpoint as each other when they can be 100s of miles apart the day before.

4Ad · 29-03-2020 9:48pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

Watched the last 3 weeks, really enjoying it, the hour goes by so fast. Its ways suprising how close they end up to each other in getting to the checkpoint as each other when they can be 100s of miles apart the day before.

I'm enjoying it too, I thought the first couple gave up too soon, I know they had lost half their money still.Considering the contestants have no resources, only a map they manage ok not to get lost or looking for a bed etc, and never get hassled in the streets, unlike myself, backpack=victim...hmmm, guess it is only tv..
Still enjoying it, mainly the people and their characters and how they change, or your opinion of them change. Maybe thats the point of the show..
Never heard of the Rainbow mountain before, looked stunning.

S.M.B. · 29-03-2020 10:20pm

It's such an enjoyable show and the casting is spot on again this year.

Found it difficult to get into this season given the ongoing situation we're all living through but I'm now hooked again. Would binge through it if available.

Would question the race aspect of it but that's part and parcel of reality TV.

Caprica · 29-03-2020 11:51pm

I’m really enjoying the show again this year. It’s got a real sense of adventure with a likeable cast. I did think that the couple who quit gave up a bit easily, they could have gone on a bit longer, found work along the way and maybe stop if the money did run out. I never heard of the rainbow mountains in Peru, so it was nice to see them. I was impressed that Jamiul got to the top with his asthma.

Did last years race eliminate one of the couples? Maybe not. It was interesting that the continuity announcer said the show was filmed last year. I doubt the BBC would have the contestants racing in the current climate, maybe viewers did comment?

S.M.B. · 30-03-2020 12:12am

There was an elimination at the end of the second leg last season so maybe production had a hand in this seasons quit. Some of the jobs are paying £20 and they lost about a grand wasn't it?

Muahahaha · 30-03-2020 1:06am

jimmii wrote: »

I had never heard of Ushuaia before seeing the advert a couple of weeks ago but since then its popped up in other things a few times! Funny how that happens sometimes. Probably a case of it always popping up but had just never paid attention to it.

Ushuaia is a cool little town, spent almost a month there snowboarding in a tiny resort locally and loved the place. Its also the main hopping off point for cruises to Antarctica.

Really enjoying this program, especially as I did most of this route about 10 years back so seeing a lot of places Ive been on it is great.

Kiwi_knock · 05-04-2020 10:11pm

Great series this year, really enjoying all the teams and how each one has their own personal story and you see them developing. That seizure was fairly scary stuff, glad it wasn't the end of their trip. Spectacular scenery as well.

HeidiHeidi · 05-04-2020 10:34pm

Ah here, this is beginning to stretch my credulity - a LOT.

It's all soooooo staged. The uncle/nephew family bust-up chat.... the mammy leaving the son off in La Paz and trusting to luck that he (and his camera crew, duh!) would find his way back..... the wife (not unreasonably) telling the husband to f*** right off..... the sister having to take charge after the brother gets ill (although in fairness, they hardly staged that).

I'm loving all the far too brief snapshots of places they're visiting - but I feel like I'm seeing far more of dots moving along a map, and the contestants hamming their personal stories up for the cameras.

The last series felt much more like it was about the travel, the figuring it out, the adventure - this all feels completely manufactured. And fake.

I'll keep watching, because I want to see who "wins" - but not sure I'll be tuning in to the next one, if there is one.

ricero · 05-04-2020 10:42pm

The son and the girl with the top bun are very annoying.

The rest seem sound.

HeidiHeidi · 05-04-2020 10:53pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Ushuaia is a cool little town, spent almost a month there snowboarding in a tiny resort locally and loved the place. Its also the main hopping off point for cruises to Antarctica.

Really enjoying this program, especially as I did most of this route about 10 years back so seeing a lot of places Ive been on it is great.

I was briefly in Ushuaia before I hopped off on a boat to Antarctica a few years ago! Still my favourite holiday EVER. Will we ever see those days again, I ask myself??? (part of me says hopefully not)

That looked like Perito Moreno glacier that they showed - we also did a week around Patagonia, trekking and seeing glaciers - OMG, it was amazing. I was blown away by the small bit of South America I saw on that trip, I really hope I can get back there again some time.

HeidiHeidi · 05-04-2020 11:01pm

The biggest tension in the whole series for me is whether that lovely Mammy, who just looks worn out, gets to fulfil her dream. and by extension her son's, although he doesn't know it yet and most definitely doesn't appreciate any of it - or will the son (I know, I know, he has issues and I'm not discounting them) pull the plug.... and if he does, it'll absolutely break my heart.

HeidiHeidi · 05-04-2020 11:10pm

The husband and wife look like they've found the Johnny Fox's of Salta :rolleyes:

It might be the wine, but my cynicism at this show has gone through the roof, and my patience with it is wearing very thin!

4Ad · 05-04-2020 11:36pm

It is annoying.
The blonde girl ran away when her brother had a fit, amazingly a medic with the film crew was nearby..
Blonde wife with bun is painful, poor hen pecked husband.
The son getting 'lost'..bollix.
At least write the hotel name down..
As for the 'working' for money lark..I guess it is only television.
No sign of them being stuck in a strange city at night,in the rain and no language, no bed and everyone trying to rob you or rip you off !

PieOhMy · 06-04-2020 12:51am

4Ad wrote: »

It is annoying.
The blonde girl ran away when her brother had a fit, amazingly a medic with the film crew was nearby..
Blonde wife with bun is painful, poor hen pecked husband.
The son getting 'lost'..bollix.
At least write the hotel name down..
As for the 'working' for money lark..I guess it is only television.
No sign of them being stuck in a strange city at night,in the rain and no language, no bed and everyone trying to rob you or rip you off !

Yea I largely agree on all of the above- it was a bit dramatic tonight. The fella offering the lift and then going out on the lock was funny enough thought too, no way that could be scripted! The uncle and nephew must seriously put the boot down off camera to do so well.

I thought it was harsh that that brother and sister lost 24hours over a medical emergency. It was hardly their fault and it could encourage the young lad to keep quiet on how hes feeling in future in order to keep them pushing on. I wasnt quiet sure either what happend them when they got the safety alert to leave chilies asap. Do the producers evacuate them to the boarder directly or do they need to get there on their own dime?

20k as a prize is nothing to be sniffed at in a 4 horse race either and if I was doing it I'd be 90% eye on the prize and 10% having a look around but the contestants seem to be 99% in it for the experience and dont mention the prize much. Maybe there is some requirement that they do X amount of jobs and visit X amount of places to ensure there is enough content.

JoeExotic81 · 06-04-2020 12:55am

I love it!

It's clearly got some scripting involved, and with the production team and checkpoints they're essentially racing on somewhat fixed rails, bowling with the bumpers up :pac:

But I still think a lot of the drama is genuine. Jen is genuinely a painful person, and Sam issues aside seems a right spoilt bugger.

There's some great characters. It's a pity GI Joe lost the money a few weeks back as I think they could have been gold, especially as their relationship seemed to be in very early days.

I don't think they could make it any more dramatic though. I always laugh at the huge dash at the end, when the same people have spent a day chilling by some rocks the previous day.

I'd say Jen's husband fakes issues with his hearing aid regularly God love him

Muahahaha · 06-04-2020 1:23am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I was briefly in Ushuaia before I hopped off on a boat to Antarctica a few years ago! Still my favourite holiday EVER. Will we ever see those days again, I ask myself??? (part of me says hopefully not)

Would have loved to have gone to Antarctica but it was out of season when I was there. Dont think I could have afforded it anyway, I think those cruises are something like $3k and upwards?

That looked like Perito Moreno glacier that they showed - we also did a week around Patagonia, trekking and seeing glaciers - OMG, it was amazing. I was blown away by the small bit of South America I saw on that trip, I really hope I can get back there again some time.

Yeah that was the Moreno glacier, fab spot as is all of Patagonia. The Valdes peninsula is also great in that area, we timed our visit there to see the killer whales hunting for seals, it was unreal to watch, proper Attenborough stuff and I believe thats the spot he goes to when the BBC want to film killer whales in action. Also saw a colony of over 5,000 elephant seals roaring and beating the crap out of each other, stunning sight.

I really must get back to Argentina soon, its easily within my top 5 in the world. Food there is top class too, had some of the best meals of my life there.

Muahahaha · 06-04-2020 1:33am

Just watching now, another good show.

On the medic showing up so quick- I read an article on the show a few weeks back and it said all teams have a security lad who speaks fluent Spanish and is also a first aider. The producers of the show also did the entire route in advance to road test it before the actual race, they set up the work places along the way too.

Loved the scenes on the Salt Lakes in Bolivia, just a pity they didnt go further into it to see the Salvador Dali mountains.

The blonde wife with the bun is a bit of a head melt. Then the poor mother just wants to win the race and the cash but the son isnt arsed and just wants to take days off everywhere. Funny thing is the mother is the only contestant who has a decent level of Spanish and with that they're at a big advantage in finding out about routes and little tips and tricks that would speed travel up. If the son would let her she could actually win it for them but he couldnt care less.

S.M.B. · 06-04-2020 9:56am

Surprised people think that there aren't medics, security, translators as part each teams entourage.

I still think the show delivers, albeit through the lens that it's a manufactured reality TV show and not some gritty raw documentation of a race across the world.

Regarding the prize money, I'd assume they're also getting a salary as part of the production to a £10k prize wouldn't be that big in the grand scheme of things.

PieOhMy · 12-04-2020 10:13pm

The wife with the hair bun is truly a head melt but I suppose that's why they were chosen to go on, the husband is very quiet and just gets on with it.

I'm noticing the drama / human interest aspects played up now, like the mother discussing her illness, or the unbelievably staged conversation between the siblings over the parts I like more of the show - the traveling / race aspects. Also if the brother thinks hes bad at communication then I must be a mute coz he is well able to talk and convey a point!

JoeExotic81 · 12-04-2020 11:09pm

He had his chance to push Jen into the waterfalls. Even though it would have been captured on film, any judge would have cleared him.

4Ad · 12-04-2020 11:12pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

The wife with the hair bun is truly a head melt but I suppose that's why they were chosen to go on, the husband is very quiet and just gets on with it.

I'm noticing the drama / human interest aspects played up now, like the mother discussing her illness, or the unbelievably staged conversation between the siblings over the parts I like more of the show - the traveling / race aspects. Also if the brother thinks hes bad at communication then I must be a mute coz he is well able to talk and convey a point!

At least the blonde wife realises she is a pain, at leadt she is honest with herself.
Young blonde sister threw another stropp (again) over the map, tough work.

The Mother certainly went through a tough time, seems a nice person..

They made short and easy work of getting that long distance to Brazil..

Poochie05 · 12-04-2020 11:13pm

The brother seems to spend a lot of time beating himself up and believing his sister’s version of him as an overbearing bully. I know these things can be edited but he seems to be none of those things and she’s the one with the problem.
Really like how the uncle and nephew seem to get along with everyone they meet.

JoeExotic81 · 12-04-2020 11:14pm

Lizzie comes across as even more spoilt than Sam.

PieOhMy · 12-04-2020 11:18pm

JoeExotic81 wrote: »

Lizzie comes across as even more spoilt than Sam.

What ones are they? I havnt taken anybody's actual name on board at all!

The mother is a really nice lady alright, so patient! I dont think that 'job' of moving the sand was real at all for a second! They spent a considerable amount of time last episode on about how they were changing strategy to spend more and spoil themselves but their budget is there or thereabouts with the others too, they must have been very frugal at the start.

4Ad · 12-04-2020 11:20pm

JoeExotic81 wrote: »

Lizzie comes across as even more spoilt than Sam.

Spoilt, thats the word.
Do they even consider what people might think of them when they get home ?
Or is that an Irish thing ??

JoeExotic81 · 12-04-2020 11:25pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

What ones are they? I havnt taken anybody's actual name on board at all!

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Lizzie the sister to Dom, Sam the son to Jo.

You'd swear they were both 14 the way they carry on. I know Sam has issues but he's still hilariously spoilt. The strops they both pull too!!!

I'm not sure who I want to win. Maybe just Jo, leaving Sam in some food coma after eating his weight in boots meal deals!

PieOhMy · 12-04-2020 11:28pm

JoeExotic81 wrote: »

Lizzie the sister to Dom, Sam the son to Jo.

You'd swear they were both 14 the way they carry on. I know Sam has issues but he's still hilariously spoilt. The strops they both pull too!!!

I'm not sure who I want to win. Maybe just Jo, leaving Sam in some food coma after eating his weight in boots meal deals!

If there was a vote I'd have to follow you there, maybe the mother and the husband somehow share it. The nephew and uncle I think will probably win, they seem like very decent types so no qualms with that but I'd like to see the mother be able to fund a few more trips for herself, she well deserves it!

PieOhMy · 12-04-2020 11:33pm

On reflection it must have been a very very incident free trip relatively sneaking, of the screen time that isnt dedicated to the racers personal circumstances the majority of time is spent either showing them in yet another bus station asking 'what time the next bus leaves' and 'how much' or the part where they spontaneously start jogging at the end. The balance being the narrator reading out the first few lines on the wikipedia page for the new location. Could be my mind playing tricks but I feel like the last season had more of a racing/ travel element but I could be wrong

HeidiHeidi · 12-04-2020 11:42pm

Only starting to watch tonight's show... but I'm honestly starting to lose patience with this now.

Are we seriously expected to believe that they all make decisions on a 3600km trek based on a large scale paper map? Given that they apparently haven't heard of (or can even pronounce) their destinations?

I'm calling shenanigans!

Poochie05 · 13-04-2020 8:30am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Only starting to watch tonight's show... but I'm honestly starting to lose patience with this now.

Are we seriously expected to believe that they all make decisions on a 3600km trek based on a large scale paper map? Given that they apparently haven't heard of (or can even pronounce) their destinations?

I'm calling shenanigans!

When the brother and sister were squabbling about having lost the map, Dom referred to the travel guide so I imagine they have some form of guidance to set them on their path and with work opportunities and stuff. There is no way they pick out the next checkpoint by looking over the map.

harpstilidie · 13-04-2020 9:33am

Just came across this thread. Love Race Across the World. I see some folk mentioning The Amazing Race. Where can I watch it?

S.M.B. · 13-04-2020 10:10am

Don't think The Amazing Race is televised or available to stream in the UK.

Not sure why.

It's a lot more contrived that this show too, there's not many similarities between them beyond being a "race around the world".

Muahahaha · 13-04-2020 11:00pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

On reflection it must have been a very very incident free trip relatively sneaking, of the screen time that isnt dedicated to the racers personal circumstances the majority of time is spent either showing them in yet another bus station asking 'what time the next bus leaves' and 'how much' or the part where they spontaneously start jogging at the end. The balance being the narrator reading out the first few lines on the wikipedia page for the new location. Could be my mind playing tricks but I feel like the last season had more of a racing/ travel element but I could be wrong

Yeah have to say I felt this way to after the latest episode and the mother Jo revealing she has cancer was another wtf moment. Every single pairing has had some sort of adversarial circumstances happen in their life and it gets a bit tiring hearing about it all when you really just want to watch a travel show. Im not interested in hearing why the uncle left the nephews family in some heartfelt moment sitting on a beach, the personal aspect to it is often way overcooked.

Sadly this seems to be the way many reality tv shows have gone. Its the same with the Irish version of First Dates, the producers dont just want single contestants, they want single contestants whose lives have been visited by tragedy and who are willing to talk about it on a first date of all occasions.

I did enjoy the scenes at Iguazu waterfalls, its a stunning place. Not surprised that they are all running out of money in Brazil, its an expensive place to travel almost on a par with here in many ways.

PieOhMy · 19-04-2020 8:23pm

I actually don't mind who wins as long as the wife looses. Are they editing her to seem worse as this progresses or is she just loosing the plot altogether?

JoeExotic81 · 19-04-2020 11:12pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

I actually don't mind who wins as long as the wife looses. Are they editing her to seem worse as this progresses or is she just loosing the plot altogether?

If Rob doesn't divorce her after this, he's a sado masochistic!!

I'm almost sure when they were queueing to buy tickets, some Brazilian lad patted him on the back as she was nattering, in a "unluckyyyyy man!!" kinda way

Dom and Lizzie begging was all kinds of wrong. Wtf were they thinking?!

Poor Jo scrubbing toilets to ensure the man child gets his twelve meals a day.

PieOhMy · 19-04-2020 11:31pm

JoeExotic81 wrote: »

If Rob doesn't divorce her after this, he's a sado masochistic!!

I'm almost sure when they were queueing to buy tickets, some Brazilian lad patted him on the back as she was nattering, in a "unluckyyyyy man!!" kinda way

Dom and Lizzie begging was all kinds of wrong. Wtf were they thinking?!

Poor Jo scrubbing toilets to ensure the man child gets his twelve meals a day.

The wife has it sussed, when her sporadic random impulsive nature works out it's great and shes right yet again, but when his methodological way doesnt yield instant results hes all sorts of wrong, they hardly got to their great position at this stage by randomly winging it! He can't win with her! The going to the 'cinema' was funny tho and also when he went to get directions from a literal clown!!!!
I know we only saw a few seconds footage of Argentina but it looks like a beautiful place, not what I was envisioning at all, have any of you guys traveled there?

The begging was such a strange decision and it was suprising how bad they were at hitchhiking, Lizze complaining about him not listening to her flying directly in the face of the lenghty piece last week where she is now confident and he wont impose decisions on her any more.

Jo also said that her son is also now invested in finishing the race but not one thing he said or did confirmed this at all! Maybe the part when he mentioned hed like 20k and she said that he was just after writing his car off!

lertsnim · 20-04-2020 10:36am

There are a lot of irritating people on this. I would like to see the uncle and nephew win it.

patmac · 20-04-2020 10:48am

I'd like Jo to win and keep all the money for herself.

HeidiHeidi · 20-04-2020 10:51am

lertsnim wrote: »

There are a lot of irritating people on this. I would like to see the uncle and nephew win it.

+1

They're easily the most likeable (or least dislikeable) of the lot.

I'd have given that youngfella a kick up the arse a long time ago. Or sent him home. That mother should be put up for canonisation. (I know, I know, he has issues, but he really would try the patience of a saint!)

I was in Argentina a few years ago - stopping off before and after a visit to Antarctica - I wasn't expecting to, but I absolutely LOVED it! We did some hiking/trekking in Patagonia, and then four days in BA on the way home - apart from the shock of flying from ice and sea and sky straight into 35 degrees of a bustling city which lasted two of our four days, it was an amazing place, and felt really safe (my travelling companion was a bit of a nervous nelly, but I was happy walking everywhere at all hours of the day or evening, and we had no incidents at all).

Would love to go back sometime for a proper look around (like, for six months or something

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I could never do that race - would drive me nuts just because you have to skate past so many amazing places, because RACE!

HeidiHeidi · 20-04-2020 10:52am

patmac wrote: »

I'd like Jo to win and keep all the money for herself.

But you just know she wouldn't......

HeidiHeidi · 20-04-2020 10:54am

And yes, the two rich kids trying to beg tickets was just utterly toe-curling..... at least the husband and wife went around the place looking for work, but that was kinda morto as well!

I laughed out loud when it became clear that the fella just thought he was needed to go to the desk and arrange the purchase of the tickets - to see the penny dropping on all their faces was priceless

Living Off The Splash · 20-04-2020 2:03pm

I cannot stand the wife of the guy with hearing problems. She always has a nasty comment.

The son that never stops eating is a total idiot. His mother is great.

The brother and sister. She does my head in. Constantly analysing everything. Leaves it to her brother to do everything and them complains that he never lets her do anything.

I hope the uncle and nephew win.

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