Outmuscle, Outbrain, Outpretty
I admit it: I've skipped the last several seasons of Survivor, because (a) the show keeps wanting to fill my TV screen with the most noxious possible participants from previous seasons, and (b)...
View ArticleBrain, Brain, Go Away
"Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty": please. This would be so much more interesting if they flipped the script and called it "Stupid & Ugly vs. Weak & Ugly vs. Weak & Stupid." But I guess we have...
View ArticleWhere The Buoys Are
Obscure Survivor: Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty trivia for you: this season is actually called "Survivor: Cagayan" and the tribe names are, respectively, Aparri, Luzon, and Solana. You may now forget all...
View ArticleShuffle Up And Deal With It
After four evictions, the tribes are shuffling. So...what was the point of that division then, exactly? Did we learn anything from the fact that three of the first four boots were from this Brains...
View ArticleIt's Quittin' Time
The Bags O' Puzzle Pieces send their best regards from their extended vacation in Aruba. As you'll see, they've sent in a replacement to fill in for them this time. Night After Tribal In what may be a...
View ArticleKassed Away
Although I've made plenty of fun of the absurd and arbitrary Brawn/Brains/Beauty division this season, I have to admit that having three tribes merge into two and then into one is compelling. The...
View ArticleLunkhead Supreme?
So here we are at the final four, and if the editing so far has been fair, then it seems clear: Spencer beats everyone, Tony beats everyone but Spencer, Woo only beats Kass, and Kass is the goat. This...
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The More Survivor's Games Change, The More They Stay The Same
The premiere of Survivor's 34th season also marks its 500th episode, so you know they're going to want to mark the occasion by doing something extra-special. And this is something, at any rate: twenty...
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Survivor Tries To Get Your Goat
It's Not Easy Being Green Jeff calls everyone onto their respective mats and asks them if they know what's about to happen, and to their credit, nobody blurts out "reward challenge" or "free hugs" or...
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Survivor Goes From Blindfolds To Blindsides
It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right Hey, did you remember that Tai and Caleb were BFFs the last time they played together? Just in case you missed it the first twelve times they brought it up, we...
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It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time On Survivor
Buried Idols; Not-So-Buried Resentment Previously: Orange Tribe and Blue Tribe collectively attended Tribal Council, and thanks to some insider info from JT and a well-placed hidden immunity idol,...
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Survivor Says Hello To New Tribes And Old Friends
Swap Meet Aubry -- who went into the last Tribal Council assuming that Michaela was going to be voted out, only to be blindsided nearly as hard as the person who actually went home -- realizes that...
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Survivor Serves Up A Slice Of Realness
Return Of The Debbie After Blue Tribe votes out Sandra, Debbie takes her place, and of course the first thing everyone wants to know is how her time on Exile was. She's playing it off like it was the...
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Survivor Feels The Urge To Merge
Gathered For The Feast Survivor wisely spends very little time dwelling on the fallout from last week's very uncomfortable Tribal Council, in which Zeke was outed as transgender not only to an...
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Survivor Takes A Walk On The Blind Side
Sandcastles In The Sand Debbie crows about the fact that her move to eliminate Ozzy worked like a charm. The sixsome of Debbie, Sarah, Sierra, Troyzan, Brad, and Tai will now proceed to steamroll over...
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Survivors Unscramble, Then Scramble
Heavyweight Impoliteness And Grin Meaningful stock footage of a snake punctuates the tribe's return to camp after Sarah flipped and voted out Debbie. Sarah flat-out admits to everyone that she was the...
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Loyalty Is All Relative On Survivor
A Leg(acy) Up On The Competition Last time on Survivor, Zeke went home in a shocking blindside, and it turns out that Zeke was not the only person shocked by this turn of events. Sierra, Brad, and...
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Survivor Doubles Down On Strategic Plays
Lega-see You Later Aubry proclaims the most recent Tribal Council "one of the weirdest Tribal Councils I've ever seen." Of particular interest is the fact that Sarah -- who was well aware that Sierra...
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Survivor: Game Changers Has A Few Final Tricks Up Its Sleeve
Everything That Happened In Episodes 1-13 The name of the game is Survivor: Game Changers, Jeff Probst reminds us. The cast was packed with players who made historic moves, the season was packed with...
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