Recaps and analysis of reality TV show episodes, including nearly every episode of CBS' Survivor.
After Survivor’s first-ever auction, which made me miss the Survivor auction even more, Jeff Probst showed up to camp to trade shelter for food on Survivor: The Australian Outback’s 11th episode, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
The Masked Singer’s staged bits—like Kermit’s appearance, or Nick Cannon’s reappearance—have undermined the very-important foundation that’s holding up this entire ridiculous show.
Jerri Manthey and Colby Donaldson won a reward that sent them to the Great Barrier Reef, which led to Colby breaking the law while making a strategic move on Survivor: The Australian Outback episode 10, “Honeymoon or Not.”
Ogakor has Kucha “outwitted,” Rodger says at the start of Survivor: The Australian Outback episode 8, but in this recap, I write about the two variables that could change that: the jury and Jerri Manthey.
The merge arrives on Survivor: The Australian Outback, and while the producers try valiantly to get the evenly-matched tribes to cross tribal lines, they fail, and Tribal Council leads to another tie vote.
Survivor The Australian Outback episodes 5 and 6 foreshadow and then show us the aftermath of Michael Skupin passing out in the camp fire, becoming Survivor’s first medevac.
Updated with an answer from Phil Keoghan about why Mikey “Eyebrows” exited. Two players left Tough As Nails between its second and third episodes—Tara and Mikey—which is highly unusual for a show that doesn’t actually send any players home.
