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He just smiled and criticized my Vegemite sandwich.

And then to watch him go out crying like he just found out Santa isn’t real was the cherry on the sundae.

Love Sandra. Takes zero shit, and yet still manages to hand out gobs of it at every opportunity. She manages to play both smart and aggressively at the same time. She’s my ideal winner for Winners at War.

Jerri has said that at the tribe swap in All Stars, the buffs in the urn that everyone drew out of were all laid flat on top of each other. So you grabbed the top buff, meaning that the order was predetermined. In that swap the only player to change tribes was Amber, breaking up the Rob/Amber couple. Believe that if

“...but he was the only person in this episode to say ‘Hey, maybe Rob and Parvati are up to something.’”

Did...did you see his performance in this episode? It was not what I would call “shrewd gameplay.” (I am mostly allowing my rage at the way they rigged the game to avoid him being voted out affect my overall impression of a perfectly average Survivor player, I’ll admit, but he was a mess here).

Myles -- I haven’t even read this review yet. But PLEASE let me tell you -- THANK YOU so much for writing these reviews up. The more Survivor content out there the better. Losing the AVClub’s reviews for recent seasons hurt me and I’m so pumped to see it back, especially for the most epic season of all time. 

He’s so great in Enchanted.

If only G/O Media had a sports site to cover this.

I’m very fond of this ‘Rushmore’ exchange:

Finding out that Jack and Jamal are now roommates was a rare moment of joy during this finale.

Boy oh boy did Survivor screw the pooch on this one. Kellee had been complaining about this guy since day 1. The fact that they’re not requiring the contestants to do post-show interviews (along with the fact that they’re pre-taping the reunion show for the first time in 39 seasons) shows how nervous they are about

And they bring back the Fan Favorite Award and unanimously give it to Janet and Kellee.

I wish we could go back to the point in the season when Noura’s craziness was the biggest obstacle for these players.

The only way to make the reunion work is to cut the live audience, ban Dan, read the votes, and then have a conversation where everyone repeats their apologies they already posted on social media.

The thing is, before this week’s episodes, this season was almost unanimously praised. The cast was great - diverse, engaging, older than usual - the type of players we don’t normally see on the show (4 African-American players made the merge, the first (?) time this has ever happened, and Janet, a 61-year-old woman,

During the second tribal council, Dan awkwardly grabs Noura’s shoulder and arm while defending himself. The dude just doesn’t understand boundaries.

Thanks for writing this, Myles.

Chicks, man.