[Headie]

I've almost finished 20 and realised I never posted my rankings for 19 (another season I enjoyed and the majority of the cast were really likeable!)

Season 19 rankings:
1) Marcus & Amani
2) Bill & Cathi
3) Ernie & Cindy
4) Justin & Jennifer
5) Kaylani & Lisa
6) Liz & Marie
7) Jeremy & Sandy
8) Ethan & Jenna
9) Ron & Bill
10) Laurence & Zac
11) Andy & Tommy

[Withano]

When will they put this on Netflix.

[Headie]

This is definitely a top tier season, the drama was iconic - and the fact we get another two seasons of Rachel Reilly is perfection

Season 20 rankings:
1) Brendon & Rachel
2) Rachel & Dave
3) Kerri & Stacy
4) Vanessa & Ralph
5) Mark & Bopper
6) Dave & Cherie
7) Nary & Jamie
8) Misa & Maiya
9) Elliot & Andrew
10) Joey Fitness & Danny
11) Art & JJ

[Headie]

Finished 21, and outside of the Twinnies (still one of the best TAR teams of all time and that's not even considering their Survivor legacies ) and the Chippendales the cast was pretty lacklustre. Abbie & Ryan started off strong but kind of fizzled out towards the end, and Lexi was great towards the end but her and Trey as a team could've given a little more entertainment. Most of the teams that I didn't like were moreso because one of the team members was awful whereas the other was fine.

Season 21 rankings:
1) Natalie & Nadiya
2) Jaymes & James
3) Abbie & Ryan
4) Trey & Lexi
5) Amy & Daniel
6) Caitlin & Brittany
7) James & Abba
8) Rob & Sheila
9) Rob & Kelley
10) Josh & Brent
11) Gary & Will

[Headie]

Finished 22, the season itself was fine but it felt a little bit one-note and lacked variety in terms of entertainment. I did enjoy a few teams though.

Season 22 rankings:
1) Pam & Winnie
2) Max & Katie
3) Mona & Beth
4) Caroline & Jennifer
5) Jessica & John
6) Chuck & Wynona
7) Joey & Meghan
8) Idries & Jamil
9) Bates & Anthony
10) Matt & Daniel
11) Dave & Connor

[Headie]

Season 23 was actually a pretty good season, definitely much better than the previous two and it had some great teams in it! The final three were all great

Season 23 rankings:
1) Tim & Marie
2) Travis & Nicole
3) Jason & Amy
4) Nicky & Kim
5) Tim & Danny
6) Chester & Ephraim
7) Ally & Ashley
8) Hoskote & Naina
9) Brandon & Adam
10) Rowan & Shane
11) Leo & Jamal

[Headie]

Finished Season 24. Such a poor season which is a shame considering there were quite a few good individual teams. The Twinnies and Mark/Bopper/Mallory leaving in the first two eps definitely damaged the season as a whole. Brenchel solidified themselves as one of the most entertaining teams ever if we didn't already know, and I finally came around to Margie & Luke <3 This season definitely has one of my least favourite winners ever, but at least I can move on to some good seasons again, looking forward to 25 with one of my favourite teams <3

Season 24 rankings:
1) Brendon & Rachel
2) Natalie & Nadiya
3) Flight Time & Big Easy
4) Mark & Mallory
5) Margie & Luke
6) Jessica & John
7) Leo & Jamal
8) Jet & Cord
9) Joey & Meghan
10) Caroline & Jennifer
11) Dave & Connor

[Headie]

Also this is literally the only thread I ever post in on TiBB anymore purely so I have somewhere to document and look back on my season rankings for if I ever want to revisit it. So I guess once I finish this marathon this thread will be my goodbye to the forum for the most part

[Valmafra]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Also this is literally the only thread I ever post in on TiBB anymore purely so I have somewhere to document and look back on my season rankings for if I ever want to revisit it. So I guess once I finish this marathon this thread will be my goodbye to the forum for the most part

No way, TARCAN8 won’t be the same without the resident superfan Briton!

[Headie]

A great cast and a great season, there were times where it even felt like an old-school season (if you ignore the #Save and #BlindDetour lmao). The London and Morocco legs were glorious (mainly due to the legends that are Shelley & Nici) and the second half of the season was really strong as well

Season 25 rankings:
1) Shelley & Nici
2) Brooke & Robbie
3) Kym & Alli
4) Amy & Maya
5) Misti & Jim
6) Dennis & Isabelle
7) Tim & Te Jay
8) Lisa & Michelle
9) Adam & Bethany
10) Keith & Whitney
11) Michael & Scott

[Headie]

Another great cast and a pretty good season Would love to see a few of these teams back again (especially Hayley & Blair!!)

Season 26 rankings:
1) Hayley & Blair
2) Jenny & Jelani
3) Libby & CJ
4) Jeff & Jackie
5) Matt & Ashley
6) Steve & Aly
7) Tyler & Laura
8) Harley & Jonathan
9) Jeff & Lyda
10) Mike & Rochelle
11) Bergen & Kurt

[Headie]

I actually enjoyed this season despite Justin's many attempts to ruin it!

Season 27 rankings:
1) Logan & Chris
2) Tiffany & Krista
3) Denise & James Earl
4) Tanner & Josh
5) Jazmine & Danielle
6) Ernest & Jin
7) Cindy & Rick
8) Kelsey & Joey
9) Alex & Adam
10) Kelly & Shevonne
11) Justin & Diana

[Headie]

A snooze of a season... but I'm almost done with my marathon!

Season 28:
1) Sheri & Cole
2) Dana & Matt
3) Blair & Scott
4) Darius & Cameron
5) Marty & Hagan
6) Brittany & Jessica
7) Burnie & Ashley
8) Zach & Rachel
9) Erin & Joslyn
10) Brodie & Kurt
11) Tyler & Korey

[Headie]

I can't believe I used to dislike this season, it's honestly top tier and Brooke & Scott in particular are one of the best teams ever!! I really liked the majority of the cast too which is always a good sign for a season

Season 29 rankings:
1) Brooke & Scott
2) Liz & Michael
3) Vanck & Ashton
4) Shamir & Sara
5) Tara & Joey
6) Kevin & Jenn
7) London & Logan
8) Jessie & Francesca
9) Becca & Floyd
10) Seth & Olive
11) Matt & Redmond

[Headie]

Very average season with a bunch of forgettable teams, but it had a decent ending overall and I didn't end up disliking any teams as such. Definitely nothing to shout about. Team Yale were a scream though <3

Season 30 rankings:
1) Henry & Evan
2) Lucas & Brittany
3) Cody & Jessica
4) Cedric & Shawn
5) April & Sarah
6) Kristi & Jen
7) Trevor & Chris
8) Alex & Conor
9) Eric & Daniel
10) Dessie & Kayla
11) Joey & Tim

[Headie]

Finally finished rewatching 31, it wasn't as good as I initially remembered it to be at the time but it wasn't bad either. Any scenes with Rachel in them are always good And I never have to watch Nicole Franzel on anything ever again thank god!!!

Season 31 rankings:
1) Rachel & Elissa
2) Corinne & Eliza
3) Colin & Christie
4) Janelle & Britney
5) Rupert & Laura
6) Chris & Bret
7) Becca & Floyd
8) Leo & Jamal
9) Art & JJ
10) Nicole & Victor
11) Tyler & Korey

I think that wraps up my TAR marathon watch for now but I may be tempted to rewatch 32 at some point just so I can have complete cast rankings for each season, but other than that I've really enjoyed watching the series back

[Headie]

Okay now I'm done!

Season 32 rankings:
1) Michelle & Victoria
2) Kaylynn & Haley
3) Leo & Alana
4) Gary & DeAngelo
5) Kellie & LaVonne
6) Jerry & Frank
7) Hung & Chee
8) Eswar & Aparna
9) Nathan & Cody
10) Riley & Maddison
11) Will & James

[Macie Lightfoot]

Dumping my TARCan 8 thoughts here in this desolate forum!!!!



This season...... it wasn't good but it wasn't not good? A truly surreal TAR viewing experience with three boring ass episodes, COVID knocking out three teams and bringing back the first two elims, and then a new ~On Ramp~ twist to bring back two of the COVID teams??? The whole thing was absolutely hilarious and perplexing, especially when you consider that it took 9 of the 11 legs to properly eliminate half of the teams. That being said, it was a little exhausting and suffocating when you realized how many teams were still in by like Leg 7, and this franchise still has its problems with sanitizing any villainous behavior in the edit, but even so I found this season moderately enjoyable if not only ironically! Current season ranking would probably be 2/4 > 7 > 1 > 3/8 > 5 > 6. Not sure how I feel about this in comparison to 3 but they're both definitely a step up from 5 and 6 for me.

1. Beverley and Veronica (seemed like boring MOR racebots until the midgame where it was revealed that everyone in the race kinda hates them! They were largely competent until the knot tying Roadblock and then we had a few legs of Beveronica just trying to mooch for help from whatever team was near them. Franella and Beveronica had a few confessionals bashing each other and it all culminated in what I still think is the peak of the season, where Franella tried to game the Pass to get Beveronica eliminated but they somehow ended up surviving despite it being a Double Elimination?! It was a truly great performance and probably my favorite episode of the season. Sadly the feud kinda died after that but they were still fun until they boot where they ran a great leg until they couldn't memorize like seven words while doing an obstacle course )
2. Franca and Nella (went from being fun and likable to secretly evil villains to being not exactly likable but kinda rootable? A truly bizarre arc ESPECIALLY for a franchise like this where everyone defaults to MOR or MORP. They're a liiiiitle forced and Aware for my liking and The Alliance was a little annoying at times, but they were amazingly mercenary with trying to break the Pass in order to eliminate Beverley/Veronica AND cancelling the alliance as soon as they didn't want to be slowed down by Catherine and Craig anymore <3 they truly wanted to win more than any team I can remember in recent memory and it's a damn shame that they didn't win out)
3. Jesse and Marika (just kinda fun and likable? They're nice, good people who are also strong racers and weren't boring to watch despite what their edgic strip might imply. I like Jesse a good amount but Marika really ended up being the star of the endgame with her weepy meltdowns every time a team passed them or they got stuck at a task or when they realized that they lost to Catherine and Craig of all people which I don't blame her for?)
4. Jully and Kathy (remarkably ****ty racers but who cares? Jully at the adaptive bike Roadblock was a genuinely great moment and that alone is enough to put them up into green. The elimination is also kind of bull**** especially after what Dave pulled last season AND it kept Cedric/Tychon in the race so I'm still mad about it)
5. Cassie and Jahmeek (yes I am shocked that they are this high but the Jahmeek and Sarah meme was stupidly funny to me! But not only that, I think Cassie provided a lot of meltdown content that would've made the edit in any franchise other than this one? Like, this is a girl who PROUDLY asserted that she delayed getting pregnant for two years so she could get on this extremely mediocre television show and if that doesn't indicate a certain level of craziness that she possesses then I don't know what does?)
6. Catherine and Craig (SO fake and SO annoying and SO obnoxious and it should be funny but it never really got there with me? Their codependence on the alliance was actually annoying as hell and it still feels wrong that they won lmao but Catherine's story is actually sad even in spite of how annoyingly Theater the two of them are. I don't really know what the missing piece was but there was just something that wasn't there that prevented me from enjoying all the fake surprised reactions and cartwheels and ****ty dance moves as they mugged for the camera 25/7)
7. Brendan and Connor (I definitely don't like them, but I didn't really hate them like I expected to? For being the loudly annoying and extremely competent team, they weren't really even that annoying AND they were kinda not the best at racing in the second half of the season? They did impress me that one time where they found a shortcut to get to the Pit Stop and passed Court and Ali. The only thing that really annoyed me about them was the ~in the pocket~ **** but it really was tame in comparison to other **** this show has made me put up with like GIVER)
8. Dennis and Durrell (alol truly one of the most pathetic edgic strips ever <3 They seem like nice people I guess?)
9. Court and Ali (seem like Nice and they had some moments where I found them vaguely likable but there were more moments where I found them vaguely annoying, especially being part of The Alliance despite being so ****ing boring)
10. Cedric and Tychon (I'm unfamiliar with Tychon from BBCan but ultimately I'm not impressed! HE and his dad definitely thought they were Funny and providing Comedy but they were just vaguely annoying)

And then here are my overall and winner edgic charts for TARCan even though no one asked

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

[Valmafra]

Season 34 rises even as its haters die.

[Macie Lightfoot]

What a boring season! This franchise really is the pits now and this season might somehow be worse than 5 and 6? It's close but this season wasn't even fun to snark on and that's really half the fun of TrashCan at this point! Only fun things to make fun of were ZANK GLOOP BOOP and "we want pancakes!" but even then I forgot all about we want pancakes until very recently. Kinda sad we got renewed for season 10 because it really deserves cancellation at this point. In summary, this interaction from the premiere truly sums up how ****ing dire this franchise is:

Anwar: Can you believe we were in Winnipeg this morning and now we're climbing off the side of a building in Calgary?
Jermaine: Exactly, it's The Amazing Race Canada *blank stare and slow nod*

1. Jermaine/Justin (Make Penalties Great Again truly the antithesis of what this show is all about and I thank them for that)
2. Gracie/Lily (ummm they're big ****ing weirdos who could've been a lot of fun! But look at that edgic strip but I saw the potential there so pity green)
3. Allie/Eddie (ultimately forgettable but Eddie was SO hapless and bad at like every challenge thrown his way and his meltdowns were kinda funny so pity green)
4. Tyler/Kayleen (pity green for being our lasting hope. Just SO boring and lame and dorky and lacking of any sort of charisma that it kinda worked???)
5. Deven/Amanda (kinda vibed similarly to Tyler/Kayleen where they were lame and boring and lacked charisma but didn't have that charmless charm)
6. Derek/Jaspal (controversial BUT they actually were kinda charming despite being awful loud YouTubers who I absolutely should've hated? I would've REALLY liked them more if the show leaned into the villain status but it's The Amazing Race Canada so the thought of negativity is blasphemous)
7. Shayla/Joel (boring but Joel was cute)
8. Gail/Gisele (Gisele is maybe the worst racer of all time because I don't think she did a single aspect of her one leg correctly BUT they also weren't exciting)
9. Ty/Kat (I don't even hate hate them but they're BORING and boringly dominant)
10. Ben/Anwar (also so ****ing boring and were somehow ~the strategists~ of the season by playing the middle between the frontrunners and the back of the pack teams and couldn't even make it interesting)

[Macie Lightfoot]

Finally watched the finale and eh. Very processional, just them doing tasks for the full time without any real Moments, which is kinda the big problem with TAR Canada in general? It's so much of people running the race parallel to each other rather than against each other. Kevin and Gurleen really tried their best to bring life back to the season but it really peaked at the U-Turn and hasn't really been that good since? I know lots of us were praising the season for TAR Canada being BACK, but then it went back to its subpar state lol. Like of course this season was better than 9 but I still preferred 7 and 8 for sure.



1. Kevin/Gurleen (literally the only team that breathed any life or conflict into this season, one of the easiest #1s ever)
2. Dorothy/Olus (Dorothy sobbing that HER LEGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSS hurt and she wants to go home before reaching the first Route Marker is all-time back of the pack TAR content)
3. Lauren/Nicole (a little sanctimonious and whiny about getting Passed and omg that edgic strip is so uninspiring BUT they were also MORfun and kinda neat girls with a great skill set for the race?)
4. Michael/Tyson (could've been fun himbos in a different franchise but alas this is The Amazing Race Canada)
5. Brad/Sam (could've been a fun bickering father/daughter team but alas this is The Amazing Race Canada)
6. Colin/Matt (unpopular opinion BUT they didn't bother me at all. They hardly registered as a team for the first half of the season but they were nice enough and annoyed me 0 times so gj)
7. Julia/Olivia (were kind of annoying at times but they at least had the decency to be U-Turned by Kevin/Gurleen)
8. Eva/Trystenne (arguably the least remarkable first boots of a very unremarkable franchise, gj!)
9. Michael/Amari (had the potential to be situationally interesting at times but alas this is The Amazing Race Canada. Their sudden heel turn in their last two legs attempting to be villains was out of nowhere and kinda funny but also very tryhard and didn't amount to anything. I also hate Amari's stupid hat that he tried to make happen)
10. Taylor/Katie (I think I'm supposed to like them because they're an F/F winning team BUT they were both annoyingly loud and whine-cried a lot and made the UGLIEST faces that I kinda hate them???)
11. Connor/John (I don't want to seem ableist by bashing the little person but John was also the most annoying person on this season and it was entirely due to his personality so sorry!)

And then let's do a season ranking because why not...

2
4
7
1
8
3
10
6
9
5

Bring on 11 I guess