Sad but true. They had a couple of great personalities who really wanted to play the game for a while. I hope somebody in U.S. Survivor casting has been watching and invites two of these people onto a future returnee-including American season despite the fact that most American audiences will never have heard of them.…

So many of these players mentioned the Bible or other such religious rubbish in their pre-season bios that I wondered if religious vs. secular was the initial idea for this season before they chickened out and switched to something less controversial. But then somebody reminded me that the producer is Mark Burnett,…

I figured they'd mention it a few times in the first couple of episodes and then forget all about it, like they do with most of their dumb themes. But it's episode three and Probst is pushing this condescending silliness harder than ever with that goofy stuff about texting! LOL Probst u r so L7. Fortunately we can bet…

Supernatural is wildly overrated IMHO, and gets by on the charm of its leads. If you were to read the scripts, you wouldn't see anything much better than this. It's basically a lousy Buffy knockoff with all the interesting, surprising reversals and counter-cliches of Buffy taken out. Kripke is a joke from what I've…

Once they realize how boring soldier boy is, hopefully they're alter him out of existence! Easy show revamp opportunity!

This is a pretty common time travel trope. If anyone (in this case, the villain) goes back in time and changes things, everything may be altered. Sometimes it's called the Butterfly Effect: Something as minor as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can have major effects somewhere. You could also liken time to a…

In the press, this was actually pitched as a show with stand-alone adventures every week. It will probably just sprinkle in references to an ongoing storyline but I doubt that will occupy any entire episodes, at least until the season finale. And maybe the mid-season finale (late November or mid-December) and maybe…

That would be hilarious except that this show, as conventional as it is, seems too far-out even to pitch to CBS. Maybe they wanted to pitch it to them and came to their senses though?

Some people keep saying shit like this. I call it burn-it-down-ism. It seems to be sweeping the globe but it's almost always a bad idea for the little guy. Another strain of this disease caused people to vote Duterte into power in the Philippines because they were tired of the usual politicians from the usual elite…

That way lies Greece: http://www.newyorker.com/ma…

History has shown that most of these people do NOT admit that the horrible person they voted into office (say, W., or Nixon) caused things to go to hell, and they blame the Democrats instead. Even today they continue to place all the blame for 9/11 on Bill Clinton and every time somebody brings up the war in Iraq they…

It's not that I use critics to find shows; I'd find shows no matter what. I use critics to decide which shows NOT to watch, because there are too many. I'm not the only one.

Actually, it does. There's too much stuff to watch. It's peak TV. I gotta outsource some of these decisions on what to watch to somebody. Might as well be some critics I basically trust, or at least ones who are funny sometimes when they're bashing stuff.

Yeah, shows about lone heroes are really out of style, but I think those are also harder to produce to today's quality standards. TV production must have been quicker and dirtier back in the day, and even so, it was fucking exhausting for one dude to carry an entire show and make 22-26 episodes a year. Also, if you…

I loved the concept of MacGyver (relatively humble hero, hates guns, uses his brain to improvise his way out of anything), and Anderson was good, but the actual execution of the show was usually pretty lousy. Only the first two or three seasons had any value, and when I go back and watch some episodes from those…

Review suggests yes, BUT the TV ads show Eads's character sharpshooting some Stock CBS Evil Arabs (I think…hard to be sure) who were about to kill Mac and then wisecracking about it, so, UGH. Way to circumvent the MacGyver rules, you bastards.

That's the image used in the NYC subway ads for this. It's hilarious to see this at almost every subway station.

Uh, so the ratings for Dancing with the Stars and maybe a couple of other ABC shows were inflated by 0.25% for a little while in 2014? What does that have to do with Fox in 1999?

Wait, is it true there's no more AV Club coverage of Survivor?! ARRGGH. That was the best place to discuss the show with other commenters. Are we just going to discuss it here in What's On Tonight or what?!

"Syfy’s attachment to its sci-fi origins has grown tenuous—a quick glance
at its programming lineup reveals there are only two shows in that
realm (have fun guessing which)."