They desperately wanted their own Jon Stewart, and Drumpf’s feeble “wit” on Twitter when he constantly attacked President Obama (for things like going golfing too often, LOL) was the closest they could get.

Not only that, but as Chrissy Hofbeck astutely pointed out on Rob Has a Podcast recently, *all* of the people voted out on an EOE season will be on the jury (unless they raise the flag before the merge), so once you start voting a certain group or “class” of people out (such as old-schoolers), you’re incentivized to…

Rob’s tired mob-boss shtick doesn’t work anymore because the show doesn’t cast half-chaff anymore (i.e. half of the players in early seasons were recruits who were there to look pretty and had no idea what they were doing). Rob was excellent at getting rid of the intelligent people who could actually play the game…

They did that, and it was called Redemption Island (seasons 22, 23, and 27), and it sucked too. A lot.

I’ve been watching Aussie Survivor and now I’m on the 2018 season. This show is definitely interesting, but I wouldn’t go with “amazing on every front”. It has its own problems, to say the least. I agree that the 2017 season was the best one so far, though certainly not perfect and a bit too long (but not as…

Assuming you haven’t already covered this somewhere, what are your thoughts on the firing of the long-time casting director? For the most part (with the huge exception of Dan S.) I feel like casting has been going in a good direction from roughly S33 onwards: away from half of the cast being chaff, a.k.a. recruits and…

Sophie’s good edit seems so obvious to me that if she got voted out, my jaw would absolutely drop through the floor and plummet all the way through the core of the Earth and come out in Australia. I like her, but I sort of hope that happens, actually, because it’ll mean the editors have really learned something and…

Great to see more Survivor coverage here!

Hey AV Club, we want more Survivor coverage from Myles!

I have a lot of nostalgia for that ridiculous show because I was a kid when it aired and was really impressed with the gross-out effects and the weirdness and eccentricity of Harrison Blackwood as a main character. I went back and watched some of the episodes recently and, whew, that two-hour pilot is rough. It was…

I’m also glad to see a Myles McNutt review back here again. I’ve been going to the Purple Rock Podcast site and commenting there (even if I don’t usually listen to the podcast itself... sorry guys) and also Reddit, but back in the day, this was one of the best places for TV discussion in the whole series of tubes! As…

Somewhere (I think in one of the pre-game interviews, maybe one of the Gordon Holmes ones) Sandra said that she and Natalie are good friends outside of the game. So Natalie sending her an idol makes sense in that context.

Most of these predictions seem on-point but recent Survivor seasons are filled with aggressive players who try to knock out the “threats” ASAP, so he seems to have Kim, Parvati, and Tyson too high and Sophie too low.

I abhor most reality TV, but believe it or not, Survivor often makes for often an excellent and thrilling game show. There used to be recaps on this site, with a whole crew of obsessive, funny commenters. Of course, the quality varies a lot from season to season; you can tell it’s not scripted because sometimes boring…

Hey Whovians, beware major spoilers for this episode even just in the headlines of various reviews online. If you’re spoiler-phobic, don’t be an idiot like me and look for reviews thinking they won’t have big spoilers RIGHT UP FRONT because they do. And don’t go onto any UK news sites or anything like that either (if…

I’d say “It Takes You Away” was the best episode of the season, certainly significantly better than the Amazon episode or any of Chibnall’s wretched entries. And it was also the only properly eccentric episode of the season. Doctor Who is supposed to be a quirky show. Most of season 11 seems like it’s trying to be…

Will Tom Scharpling have a scene that gets cut out of this one too? Might as well make it 3 for 3!

I’d love a fourth season, but it seems unlikely given that the ratings for Showtime were miserable. Of course I realize you can’t surmise very much from live ratings these days given that a lot of people were probably not watching on linear TV, but they can give you a rough idea of a ratings “floor” that a show is…

Agreed, and this is why I haven’t read much by King. The first quarter of “The Stand” is SO engrossing and intense, and then it all ends with this splat.

That Time Magazine review is absolutely scathing. If it’s accurate, this sounds exactly like what America does NOT need right now, and something that all sorts of quasi-incel types will really dig, so... yeah... yikes. And Zacharek is a well-regarded critic whom I’m inclined to trust.