I loved Tasha's strained smile when Abi was complaining about Woo. I could absolutely relate to that feeling, like "this person is nuts but I don't want to cause a fight so I'll agree as mildly as possible."

Oops, I guess I should have said "no spoilers please" in my original post. :( :( :( I guess I brought that on myself

Any predictions for next week regarding Jeffy's late night visit? I think the obvious thing would be a medevac, but the intensity of the reactions made me wonder if it could be some sort of bad news from home? I can't remember a time when that's happened before, but I suppose they might do it (and actually show it in…

Question: Do you think the edit is easier or more difficult to "read" in an all returnee season? I keep finding myself thinking "they would surely be showing us more funny Keith confessionals if he at least made it to the jury…" But on the other hand, there is really a wealth of personality and strategy this season…

This is probably a long shot, but I can't help but think it would be hilarious if everyone was scrambling to bring kass to the final 3 because of her goatness from her first season and then she won because she actually learned something in the meantime. Hilarious.

I thought about that too but I did wonder if they would have been willing to burn Abi if she refused to vote Varner. It would not have been a pleasant 3 days after that :/

I was hoping they would have let Angkor swap the sausage reward for a giant bag of rice or something. It somehow didn't seem super fair to jump right into the feasty rewards when one tribe didn't even have the basics yet.

I actually found myself rooting for Woo during tribal council, even though I was all in on Varner for the first 3 episodes. I think Woo was the right choice here for the reasons others have listed, but also because of a weird Survivor paradox where a physical player may actually be less of an endgame threat than a…

I'm a little late to the commenting party this week, but I just wanted to say I agree with you 100% on this feeling about Tasha. I was rooting for her all the way on Cagayan, but I find myself actively disliking her this season. Everything in her confessionals seems so fake - like she's trying to give us soundbites…

Most beautiful brunette in the world. 125th most beautiful over all.

I've been trying to decide whether the Savage/Fishbach stuff was supposed to be foreshadowing or if they just needed to craft some sort of narrative for Bayon in the first couple of episodes. I ultimately think you're right, though - it's going to come up again. The edit for Savage seemed obvious (the tearful story…

Agree completely. Maybe if Woo had the skills to recruit others from the majority alliance to join them it would have been a different story, but I was actually nodding along with what Woo was saying in that scene (even though I was disappointed about Shirin's downfall). He was in a good place with the majority…

I may be in some Fishback-related denial, but after his tribe won and I realized he was at least safe from being the first boot, I started wondering if his dodo edit was some sort of practical joke on the part of production? Or perhaps a wink to the superfans, who know him as the knowingest know-it-all? I'm grasping…

I had never realized that Joe was particularly tall, but in the introductory sequence of the episode he looked ENORMOUS. I mean, he was gigantic to the extent that I thought it was some sort of optical illusion, like Hagrid in the HP movies.

I thought that sending the losers straight to tribal council was an interesting idea, but the payoff was rather subtle. Instead of total chaos, what really seemed to happen is that it forced people to go with their first instinct alliance rather than getting to thoroughly explore all of their options. I think the…

I think it's totally reasonable to argue the likability and even relevance of any character on this show. I guess I just bristle a bit at painting all women on any given show as merely being there for their sexual organs. Full disclosure: I'm a woman, and it just strikes me as too easy and too dismissive of an entire…

I'm not sure what we're arguing here. You made a factual statement that there were only 2 non-hooker women in the episode and I corrected you that there were at least 8.
I personally think that Jordan is way more than an empty womb (she's a calming and loving influence on Frank, for one, and her utter acceptance of…

I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to elaborate on, but my point is that this episode had quite a few non-prostitute women (perhaps they were easy to overlook because the hooker party took up center stage). I'm not super high on this season over all, but I've enjoyed Ani and Jordan up to this point, and Ray's ex…

Your dismissal of nearly all of the women on this show may say more about you than the writing. Also, by my count there were at least 8 non-prostitute women on this episode, and a few of them are actually pretty awesome, if you're paying attention.

I was looking over the cast and I was also struck by how old the average age of the players was - especially the women. I think many of the women will benefit from being on an older cast, but I think the men will absolutely implode. There are so many strong, athletic alpha male types that you can almost guarantee that…