The Amazing Race S29-31

Everyone’s favourite round-the-world reality show is back with three seasons now ready to stream.

In Season 29, the usual format of family or friend teams is flipped on its head, as every pair consists of complete stranger. They’ll team up (or put up) with each other in the race to win $1 million dollars, covering nine countries, 17 cities and 58 000km.

This means that contestants had to face their greatest fears – such as window washing a skyscraper in Brazill, which was a living nightmare for those with a fear of heights – with only a stranger to support and encourage them. Stream all episodes of the season back to back to find out how this affected even the strongest contestants’ chances of winning the million.

TheWrap.com had this to say about Season 29: “Each of the 22 racers on this season was identifiable, memorable and got a full story arc” – so, in some ways, this was a winning formula.

The 30th season of the multi-Emmy-Award-winning reality show reverted to form with teams who entered as couples to begin with. This time, however, contestants included some familiar (to Americans) faces, such former NBA players Shawn Marion and Cedric Ceballos, Big Brother houseguests Cody Nickson and Jessica Graf, and IndyCar racers Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly.

There were also new elements added to the race, from team swapping to head-to-head competitions. The couples started off in Iceland, being tasked with crossing an enormous canyon. Keep an eye out for their African stop in episodes 7 and 8, where they have to pull off the notorious “double U turn” in Zimbabwe.

It’s a reality showdown in the latest season (Season 31) of The Amazing Race, where eleven teams of contestants from past seasons of Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race compete against one another in a race across the globe, from the US to Japan, Uganda, Croatia, The Netherlands and the UK. With host Phil Keoghan and the $1m prize waiting for them, the teams face challenges from a 120m free-fall into the Gletscherschlucht Glacier in Switzerland, to fishing for prawns in Vietnam to… karaoke?