A brief recap and thoughts about the premiere of CBS’ Celebrity Big Brother, which managed to not be terrible. Mostly.
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If you need a metaphor for Survivor Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, the final immunity challenge will be sufficient: a relatively straightforward game which fell apart every time it seemed like it was making some progress. If you need yet another example for why this season, its players, and/or its editing frustrated me, look no further …
A recap of Survivor Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers episode 12, “Not Going To Roll Over And Die,” during which everyone’s secrets were revealed and they played a drama-free game of marbles.
Going into these three episodes of Survivor—the pre-Thanksgiving episode and the two-hour episode last night, amusingly titled “Buy One, Get One Free”—I expected the merged tribe to just burn through the remaining three people who were in the minority alliance: Cole, Joe, and Mike. Conveniently, they also happened to be the most grating personalities remaining. But …
A recap of “Playing with the Devil,” Survivor Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers episode 8, on which the reward challenge led to a dramatic scene at camp.
Tim Gunn learned about Kentaro’s inspiration for his original composition—a dead cat. Tim had some reactions. I made some GIFs.
“Are you worried that maybe something isn’t going to go the way it usually goes?” Jeff Probst asked the newly merged cast, and I leapt up from my couch and screamed, Yes! Yes I am so worried the back half of the game is going to be like more of spinning the same ball in a …