I can't remember the last time we made it this deep into the game without any hidden idols being played. They hardly even seem like a factor at all, which I love, honestly.

I think Wiglesworth is probably leery of being edited in a bad fashion, failing to realize that being depicted as a boring slab of sentient tofu is arguably as bad as being portrayed as a scheming asshole.

I'm more interested in the potential Savage/Jeremy power duo. While I doubt that alliance supersedes Jeremy and Stephen, it seems strange to me that two physically strong men have formed a strategic bond, since you would think the idea would be to get rid of the physical threats. Then again, maybe Jeremy is simply…

In a couple years, Spencer is going to have a breakdown on Survivor: Third Chances, talking about how he knows what happens when you let the Golden Boy get to the end.

And then Ciera randomly came in, right in the middle of the Tasha/Kass argument, and tried to sow discord between Jeremy and Savage, making her look like an asshole who loves to stir the pot. Why would you not approach Jeremy privately? Why would you throw it out into the open like that? If I were Jeremy, seeing Ciera…

Spencer always complains about not having any true alliances, but part of me feels like he enjoys being in the middle of all the drama and not really having anyone to yoke himself to. He seemed downright giddy in explaining to Joe how they're the two swing votes. If it's possible to get comfortable in being…

We don't get enough Keith these days. He's becoming Cambodia's Cowboy Rick.

Playing a different game on your second go-around doesn't really matter if your reputation precedes you.

I could maybe understand where Kass was coming from if Tasha were a more pressing target than the Joes, Jeremys, and Savages of the world. To be fair, she likely is a big threat, since she's playing a really strong under the radar game, and is positioned to go far. But Kass didn't really pretend that her decision to…

Which, to me, came across as a move so he could say to Kass, at final tribal, that he didn't write her name down. Well, either that, or he just happened to be in the part of the group that was told to write down Ciera's name. Still, I do find it somewhat absurd that even if Spencer had voted with Kass, Ciera's random…

Savage's rain-soaked celebration over the merge was a thing of beauty. I think he lacks a certain amount of self-awareness.

I fully expect everyone will pitch in and buy them for him at the Survivor auction.

I like this idea best because with only a certain number going to tribal, you'd get the scenario where some people would see their ally march off to tribal council, his/her fate in someone else's hands. The "now getting your first look at the new tribe" bit where it's revealed who was voted off would now take place in…

I love how the lion's share of the conversation about this episode on Twitter, Reddit and even here is focused on other characters John Carroll Lynch has played.

The Preacher trailer premiered tonight, and I bet a lot of people are going to be in for a shock when they hear Dominic Cooper speak on Preachin' Preach, or whatever the hell they end up naming the aftershow (because that thing is so getting an aftershow).

I actually really dug the episode, even though you knew the entire time that Eastman would die due to Morgan failing somehow. I mean, a story doesn't have to be full of twists and turns to be good, after all. Otherwise, no one would ever give the Rocky movies a second look.

I'm wondering how many TWD fans are learning, for the first time, that Lennie James is British right now on Talking Dead.

Before the preview even aired for this week at the end of last week's episode, I figured we weren't going to get anything resembling an answer about Glenn here, if only because the show seems to enjoy doing big cliffhangers, followed by unrelated "cool-down" episodes.

I appreciate what they were going for, but no episode needed to be 90 minutes less than this one.

This was top-tier Survivor, in my opinion. I thought the episode was setting up a Bayon tribal council, but when Ta Keo ended up being the losing tribe, I actually wasn't disappointed, because their strategizing and drama wound up being every bit as compelling.