Break Time Reviews
After all the controversy, all the outrage, all the episodes airing under a dark cloud, we have finally, mercifully reached the Survivor: Island of the Idols finale. What started with a quite stellar pre-merge run, devolved into chaos after the Dan Spilo controversy took center stage. What followed was a stretch of episodes that lacked excitement and […]
Well, here we are again. Just when it was starting to feel like this season of Survivor was getting back on track (or at least as much “on track” as it could at this point), we get a Survivor first. And not a fun first, either; far from it. Dan Spilo became the first player to ever be ejected […]
Survivor wastes no time this week, jumping right into the reward challenge. And they do that because we’ve arrived at another pinnacle moment of any Survivor season: the loved ones visit. I’m always so-so on the loved ones visit. The sappiness and the tears just don’t do it for me. That doesn’t mean I blindly hate this challenge, […]
The Thanksgiving week episode is typically one of the stronger episodes of the fall Survivor seasons. Of course, we always say that about the merge episode as well, and we all know how that turned out this time around… But nevertheless, this felt like a chance for Island of the Idols to turn things around and get back on […]
It’s not a hot take to say that a dark cloud has been cast over Survivor. And not just for this current season, but the show as a whole. Last week’s merge episode was ugly. It may very well represent the lowest point in the show’s history. I don’t want to spend too much time on it […]
This week’s recap is going to play out a bit differently, and if you watched the episode (if you’re reading this, I’m assuming you have) you know why. First, the minor details for any of you who maybe haven’t seen the episode. Kellee was voted out in the first Tribal Council, while holding two immunity […]
Well folks, we made it to another Survivor merge. This is typically one of each season’s strongest episodes. So with an already good-so-far season, expectations are pretty high for this week. But more than that, the merge offers a major turning point in the game. Alliances still stand, but with tribal lines becoming even more blurred, now’s […]
For the second week in a row, Survivor presented to its viewers an incredibly insightful, important discussion directly relating to the world we live in today. This week’s focus was on gender, particularly in the context of Survivor. And we’ll get to that, but I’m going to save it for the Final Tribal section, as that’s where it […]
Lairo Beach We start off with Noura talking about plans to vote off Jamal and Jack before Dean and Karishma. So she approaches Dean about working together. Dean, however, is wary of working with Noura, saying that while Noura does indeed have a plan, she is “absolutely crazy. And I think a little bit delusional.” […]
Dean Kowalski, Private Eye The morning after the Chelsea vote, we see a new form of Dean. He dons his Dick Tracy hat, gathers his notepad and pencil, and becomes Detective Dean, interrogating each and every member of the tribe to determine whose idea the vote was. He first – and quite astutely, I might […]
