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Season 21

Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through China, Russia, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Bangladesh, and Indonesia before a New York finish. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production ran a workmanlike fall outing in the franchise's twelfth year on the road. The casting widens across partner types again. Phil Keoghan hosts the format running its trusted lane — the season is competent without making a distinctive argument about itself.

Filmed
Global route, starting Los Angeles, California, finishing in New York
Premiered
Sep 30, 2012
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
11 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
22 players
11 teams of 2
Host
Phil Keoghan
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

Competent, and comfortable with it.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #30 slot.

Slot #30 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 21 is the workmanlike outing in the format's twelfth year. Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through China, Russia, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Bangladesh, and Indonesia before a New York finish. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production ran a competent fall outing in a year when the franchise was visibly between arguments about itself. The casting widens across partner types again. Phil Keoghan hosts the format running its trusted lane. The canon places it thirtieth because the season is competent across the route without making a distinctive argument about what the show was for in its twelfth year.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

The resemblance was never just a fun factlist · 10 entriesThe Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #30