Sophie won Survivor tonight because the season’s best player, Coach, made the crucial mistake of overvaluing Rick’s likability and undervaluing Sophie’s challenge badassery. There came a point bizarrely early in the game when it was inevitable that Coach would make the finals, but he didn’t clinch the loss until he brought Sophie there with him. […]
This has been a mighty weird season of Survivor. After last year’s dual narrative of redemption island’s Christ-like figure in Matt and the main island’s godfather figure in Rob (and the awesome landslide victory in favour of manipulation and mind control), I was thinking it might be time to put Jesus away for awhile, maybe […]
The summer reality season has been winding down (thanks for an incredibly awkward summer, Bachelor Pad!) and the fall season is starting up (go Chaz Bono, go!), never more interestingly than on the network that undoubtedly rules the reality universe- CBS. We’ve still got a couple days to go before the new Amazing Race (Ethan […]
Jeff Probst said it best: “I’ve gotten in trouble in the past for having an opinion. But I’m gonna have one now: that was as close to a perfect game as I’ve ever seen played”. Now, as any Survivor fan knows, Jeff is smarter than you; Jeff is always right. And he has never been […]
Until this week I’ve been watching the 22nd season of Survivor rather casually. I’d pay attention to the first fifteen minutes or so, just to make sure Matt won the duel, then I’d casually watch, just to ensure Rob was still in control- both these things in tact, I wouldn’t care who was voted out […]
A week from tonight, Survivor: Redemption Island premieres at 8pm on CBS. This season, along with the return of fan favorites Rob and Russell, a new twist has been added to the game. Each week the eliminated castoff will be sent to live alone on Redemption Island. When the following individual is voted off, the […]
At the finale of Heroes vs. Villains, Jeff mentioned it might be fun to have the two power-player rivals back to go head to head one day. On February 16 we’ll finally get to see that as the 16 new Redemption Island castaways are joined by two of the greatest players ever to play Survivor. […]
With 2 great offerings this year, the ultimate reality show still reigns supreme 21 seasons in. The institution, still hosted by best-in-the-business Jeff Probst, kicked off 2010 with possibly their best idea in 10 years: Heroes vs. Villains. The season brought back Survivor icons like Colby and Jerri, fan favourites like Rupert and Boston Rob […]