Jeremy is playing really, really well. He is fully draped in meat.

Fully on board. Ciera is the best. Because of her youth, gender, and lack of physicality, she seems destined to sink to the bottom of any dominant alliance, and so she planted a flag during TC — she's up for some ad hoc gamesmanship. She's terminally underestimated, but she's paying rapt attention and her head is…

Saw that there were 350 comments about one of my favorite movies of all time and got excited. Hey, let's see what everyone ha…..oh, goddamn it I forgot.

You're absolutely right, they ARE making it harder on themselves than they had to!

With a weaker alliance than before. The Monica voters were all safe for that TC, and had two players to sacrifice pre-merge if necessary. Then they can show up to the merge ready to take on additional alliance members, and could assure them they're not joining at the bottom, as that's where Monica resides. They had…

I'd say the casualty is their alliance, which they've shown they'll ditch at the first hint of trouble.

Possibly, although it seemed to me they collectively lost their heads, so it's hard to paint any of them as having had a fruitful episode.

But if they're in an alliance it behooves them to at least try to shore it up by asking Monica directly, rather than rely on Kimmi's version of events. It's still the same Spencer-or-Kelly question they knew they were facing, and they chose not to face it (editing shenanigans stipulated).

It doesn't speak well of Stephen and Jeremy's games that they were so easily convinced to jump ship from the original plan. Kimmi made a huge narrative leap (at the end of the day, wasn't Monica just providing a rationale for advocating one ex-Ta Keo over the other?) and they caved. They're all meat for the…

You can't trust Abi, but you can always trust Abi to be Abi. She's a wildcard, but I think that appeals to players who believe they can muster ad hoc alliances.

As a short term strategy for Tasha and Savage (which is the primary strategy to employ right now), keeping the two players who don't trust each other is the right move, I think. (Edit: or, what mratfink said)

Quinn has gone full Dexter.

Liking the power couple potential of Savage and Tasha. Two amiable, smart people who might resist getting pulled into drama too early. Certainly can't see Varner, Woo, and Abi taking them down (although the comedy potential of the three of them trying to keep it together is unlimited), and they'll seem a solid block…

JGL's self-regard (as I've gleaned from a couple of his interviews) has begun to seep into his performances, I think. Having seen Man On Wire, I believe I'll pass.

This is considerably less overcooked in production than most old ELO songs (I say that with all sincere affection). But that burst of strings at 2:24 — that's the stuff right there.

Totally agree. He might be incompetent, but he's also choosing not to help and blaming it on some innate nature that he claims to lack. Stephen sucks.

I found that to be a revealing answer — all it would take to be a minimally acceptable weaver of palm fronds is a couple of minutes of observation. He's claiming incompetence because his heart isn't in doing any work whatsoever. Same with the wood-chopping — he actually appears to be in good physical shape, but his…

My only complaint — not that he wasn't in the episode, necessarily, just that I wish I knew ahead of time so I wouldn't be trying to find him in the jazz band or elsewhere. Knowing he wouldn't appear would have changed my focus.

Not my favorite, but definitely Armisen's best episode so far.

Certainly explains why the lyrics of so many country songs read like a roll call of corporate sponsors.