This is a baffling opinion on so many levels. I haven't had this many people I've wanted to succeed in ages.

All summer long, I was worried that Kass would be the first boot. After reading all the pregame stuff, I resigned myself to that inevitability.

I'm torn about this, because on one hand, I completely agree with you that Shirin getting shit on over and over again by demonstrably horrible people and then going home unceremoniously as part of a Pagonging is unsatisfying and depressing. The editors had to have known that the audience would feel this way about it,…

Here's to hoping that someone bullies Tyler during Tribal Council and then he starts crying, humanizing him in front of the jury? No, wait. There's been enough bullying this season. How about…

I definitely have my complaints with SJDS, but one thing I will say about it is that a boring pre-merge turning into an exciting post-merge is infinitely better than an exciting, promising pre-merge turning into a glorified Pagonging.

No need to get so hostile. YOU BETTA RELAX, BRO!

It's certainly possible, without the burden of increased expectations. One thing this season does have going for it is that there's been a lot of hilarious character moments, which age better than vote-splitting/strategy talks.

This season is reeeeeally going to suck on a rewatch, once the suspense of "Can our fun, plucky No Collar underdogs beat out an alliance comprised of people who are alternately boring, sour, and terrible?" is no longer there.

I have just been made aware of the existence of a 60,000-word One Direction slash fanfic version of Survivor All-Stars, in which one of the boys is Boston Rob and one of them is Amber. The internet is a confusing and magical place.

Someone already has! http://frebergmalcolm.tumbl…

Okay. I should have said "we're." I was just trying to emphasize that the widespread assumption here that Nicaragua is Literally The Worst is not at all universal among Survivor fans.

Um. I love Nicaragua too. I'm not alone in this opinion either, Nicaragua is pretty popular on places like Survivor Sucks and Previously on… Survivor, and has a decent following on the Survivor subreddit. (This place and Dalton Ross' articles are really the only places I've seen where Nicaragua hate is taken as a…

My thing is that at least, from my perspective, the only really objectively "villainous" thing she does is go through Kel's bag for the beef jerky. But today, everyone agrees that Kel totally did have the beef jerky, so I can hardly hold that against her. Other than that, her great crime was… being kind of annoying to…

It depends on why you watch the show. If you're in it for spectacular blindsides and high-level strategy, well, that's not what Borneo is about. If you're in it for challenges, Borneo's challenges aren't great either. Also, so much about the show feels like a time capsule of late-'90s, pre-9/11 America that it might…

I'm pretty sure he hates Leif-in-a-box because he always gets people haranguing him for a Funny 115 3.0, and because the people who ask for it nearly universally ask for Leif-in-a-box. Plus, he tends to prefer humor that involves long, convoluted explanations that he can riff off, and like, what is there really to…

Man, even after seeing the episode, I still don't want to commit to anyone! This isn't like last season, where the craziness started right out of the gate and I just immediately *knew* I was going to love Kass and Trish. And I doubt I'm going to do better this time than 18th. Still, though, I should pick something…
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If you do that, and you put Leif-in-a-box on the list, I will link Mario Lanza to your podcast. And he will weep tears of blood.

Maaaan. This cast is really underwhelming so far. It all just seems so overwhelmingly generically young and bland and bro-like. Three firefighters? Boooring. And the "older" ladies this season don't really speak to me either, and that tends to be my go-to favorite demographic. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority…

Related update: So Kass has been posting on Survivor Sucks under the handle "mrscolbydonaldson" (that will never not make me laugh) and she recently wrote that she "wanted to vomit at Spencer's pandering and almost voted for Woo out of spite for Spencer but remembered the gameplay." Amazing. Spencer's also been…

Tony winning was okay. Not really a whole lot to say about that, except that I'm glad that the editors did a fairly good job of hiding it. Let's be real though, he doesn't win without Woo's ridiculous decision. Which I loved, by the way, what an amazing old-school throwback! Christ, people, THIS is why final 2 > final…