Ken and Jessica are the only people for whom I can really muster any enthusiasm right now. And even then, it's predicated on them simply not being other people.

Right? Why is ice water not an option? It's always something dehydrating like beer or soda. I get that they want to foster drama, but all they're doing is upping the likelihood of a medical evacuation.

When they said they were fourteen days from the end, I was shocked, because it really doesn't feel like we're very far into the season. But I guess time flies when you don't really care about the season that much.

I don't know why anyone would want to drink alcohol on Survivor anyway. Much like with coffee and overdosing on meat like Joe from Kaoh Rong, it just seems like a recipe for disaster.

If you'd told me this story a week ago, I wouldn't have been envious. But for some reason, Jessica was super fine this week. I really don't know what changed, but I'm not complaining.

However, in contravention of any real world parallels, this episode briefly ended the ongoing war against women and minorities, as a straight white man went home this week.

They almost didn't give it to Fabio, a guy who was also young as hell. There's just this built-in hesitation to giving a million dollars to someone barely old enough to drink, much less someone who isn't old enough to drink at all.

I really wish they'd stop doing themes altogether, because Probst hammers them home SO hard that it actively detracts from whatever is happening onscreen each time he does.

I haven't been a fan of Taylor's game at all, but I thought it was genius of him to implant the thought in everyone's mind that Adam could steal their loved ones visit. However, it really would make no sense for Adam to steal a loved ones visit, rather than save it for the inevitable "Reward for an advantage in the…

I can only imagine someone on the Gen X tribe informed Jay about the vote split.

I'm still trying to think where the hell Will is going with all this. On the one hand, it makes sense that he's abandoning the Millennials ship while he still has the chance, but he doesn't seem like he's yoking himself to any one faction within the majority Gen X alliance.

I think Will recognized that the only way to save Taylor was to vote Jay. It didn't work, but hey, he still tried.

I think the series is trying to draw on the notion that making men in power feel as though they're letting down their sovereign is about the only real penalty she can levy against men who disobey her.

He would stick his dick in the potatoes. I guarantee it.

They could have done it with Glenn, because part of the tragedy in the comic book is that Negan killed the one guy who didn't actually kill anyone at all, much less any of Negan's men. But then they had Glenn actually kill one of Negan's men last season.

I always enjoyed "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" any time it would air in syndication.

That's a great point, and now I'm retroactively annoyed by it. Why the didn't he give Carl a good smack?

And what makes this all the more frustrating is

I'm just hoping that Enid eventually has some sort of reason for existing in the story, at this point.

I mean, even from watching the show, they should probably know. No villain gets dispatched quickly.