What a crazy, brilliant game “Survivor: Philippines” is turning out to be. You have so many moving parts, no obvious six-person alliance taking people out one by one, and you really get the feeling here that there is exciting stuff around every turn. By far, this is the best post-merge game so far in years, […]
Sometimes on “Survivor,” there is ambiguity; and other times, there is a nail waiting to be slammed into somebody’s coffin. At this very moment, the window is closing for one Jonathan Penner, and he is going to have to pull off a miracle akin to Russell Hantz’s post-merge game in “Survivor: Samoa” (though hopefully with […]
Generally on “Survivor,” we love it when a castaway opts to make a big move … even if it is not one that works to their own benefit. These sort of decisions keeps us from ultimately watching the same show week after week, and hinder the sort of predictable eliminations that are customary in the […]
There is always something great about a “Survivor” merge episode, especially when you have one as chaotic as we saw this time. The Tandang tribe has been almost like a teenager waiting to get off the house, just so that they can start to drink their faces off. However, about two hours in they realize […]
As we said during our preview piece earlier in the week, Wednesday night’s new episode of “Survivor” may be our very favorite of the whole season. Why? It’s the merge spectacular, where we are going to see a gigantic scramble for survival among the people who are still left in the game. We anticipate this […]
“Survivor” is always a show full of surprises, and this time around, the surprise is rather simple: they are merging at 11 people! What is interesting about this here is that this event typically happens once you make it to either 12 or 10, and we can only think of two possible explanations for this: […]
Can somehow rename “Survivor: Philippines” a name like “Survivor: Holding Pattern”? That’s what we feel like at the moment. Everyone saw Katie Hanson’s exit coming a mile away, and with that we have a first here: rankings that are exactly the same as the week before already. While some people dug their holes even deeper […]
Katie Hanson was the sort of contestant on “Survivor: Philippines” who, more than anything else, fell victim to bad circumstance. Even though Jeff Probst frequently made her the poster child of failure during some of the challenges (even though she often did not deserve it), she was still part of what was presumably the dominant […]
Let’s start off this review of “Survivor: Philippines” by saying the following: anyone who criticizes Skupin and Penner for organizing a deal during the reward challenge is crazy. These two tribes would have sat out there in the mud for hours, killing their energy and potentially even risked an injury that would have taken them […]
We are presumably inching ever closer to the merge happening on “Survivor: Philippines,” and if we were one of these tribes at this moment, we would be thinking about one thing: who is not going to help you later in the game, and who is going to an incredible physical threat? This is why if […]
