I am – Hercules!!

The only CBS shows Herc watches (well, if one excludes Don Hewitt’s Sunday reality show) approach their finales.

The great thing about “Amazing Race” this season is this love\hate thing Flo and Zach share. He’s this amiable geek, and she’s this mercurial hottie who wants to bone a competitor: the twin who models for a living. (How does she choose between the two twin models? Well, the one she claims to like more is the one who’s not married. What luck!) Meanwhile, one can’t help but root for Ken and Gerard, who never seem happier than when contending with the most daunting circumstances.

“Survivor,” meanwhile, has been a menacing bore for weeks now as we’ve waited patiently for the remaining Chuay Gahn to methodically vote off the grotesquely outnumbered Sook Jai. Mark Burnett has got to do a better job of shaking up this dual-tribe structure; the votes have simply grown too predictable. Things should really pick up again Thursday, though, as any of the five remaining players – Clay, Ted, Brian, Helen or Jan - could hit the skids tonight as easily as they could win the million a week from now. It really is now anybody’s game, though Herc hopes Helen gets the boot this episode. The grating (and manufactured?) desperation she displayed as she pled for her portly, hirsute mate to suck down tarantulas last week served only to creep out an unnerved viewing public.

"Amazing Race" airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. "Survivor" airs Thursday at 8 p.m.

I am – Hercules!!

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