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8. Alex & Conor (The Amazing Race 30, 4th Place)

Going into TAR30, I was absolutely dreading these two, if only because the show has a long history of casting M/M teams in the vein of buddies that work together, who wind up eating a ton of screentime because theyre able to easily overcome the highly-physical aspects of the competition, and their personalities are deemed interesting by the editors. So imagine my surprise when I didnt outright hate Alex & Conor. They werent shoved to the front and center of the cast (mainly due to the overall quality of the cast as a whole), and this allowed them to serve as genuine and likable buddies.

It certainly helped that, unlike a lot of the aforementioned awful M/M teams, these two werent interchangeable. Alex was the hyper-competent one, and youll notice that whenever he was put in charge of a task, the team wound up dominating. But Conor? Conor was incompetent in the best way possible. He wasnt COMPLETELY bumbling, but whenever he was the face of a task, it seemed like he found a way to completely fuck it up. And that dynamic of competence/incompetence becomes all the more enjoyable when you throw in the backstory of Conor sleeping on Alexs couch cause hes essentially homeless (hence Alex wanting to win to get him the fuck out of his house.)

Overall, these two were just really likable and fun characters, and after a full season of Matt & Redmond (mainly Redmond) being awful in TAR29, it was such a shock that I finished the final four leg feeling BAD that a similarly alpha-adjacent M/M team got eliminated.
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