In this season of Survivor, we saw just how much the title of greatest player to ever play the game means to some of these players. Even the ones whose names we wouldn’t generally put in that conversation (Rupert, Amanda) would like to be able to step forward and identify themselves as ‘Last name ever, [...]

Initial Thoughts
Well, here we are, the end of one of the greatest seasons of Survivor.  Will the finale live up to the rest of the season?  Let’s find out.
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on the entire season.  The Villians jumped out to a lead and Russell, Parvati & Danielle took control of the Villians [...]

Previously on Survivor
Jerri Manthey became the last member of the Jury, and my jaw hit the floor when Russell decided to bring Sandra and Parvati to the Final Tribal Council with him. As Jerri leaves us she states that she feels like she’ll be voting for Russell, because he’s played an amazing game so far [...]

Previously on Survivor
Colby Donaldson joined the Jury.
Yin Yang Tribe
As the Villains wander back to camp, they talk about how Rupert looked like a crazy person at Tribal council (though to be fair to Rupert he might just have been hopped up on desserts from the Ponderosa chef). In the morning after, Russell and Jerri discuss [...]

Previously on Survivor
One of the best seasons of Survivor on record happened. We’ve had excellent usage of Immunity Idols, we’ve had intricate voting strategies fall apart through subterfuge and stupidity. The Villains tribe, clear physical underdogs seized control of the game and seemed to have what they needed to run out the game… but then [...]

On Sunday the 20th winner of Survivor will be crowned.  This season of Heroes vs Villians has been an instant classic with great gameplay, horrible blunders, memorable moments, and big personalities.  Our pre-season predictions of a Hero dominated game ended up being horribly wrong, with predicted favorites leaving early and predicted dogs going deep into [...]

Game play
Parvati Shallow didn’t make much of a splash on her first season, as her alliance completely underestimated their opponents and found themselves making the walk of shame one by one. On Fans vs Favorites, we saw her come into her own and win it all. That transition from just another pretty face to the [...]

Game Play
Sandra has been under the radar for much of this season, but always lurking in the background behind the ‘power’ players. Sandra has attempted several moves during the game, some of which were successful and others which failed because she couldn’t convince players to see the game board the same way that she did.
We [...]

Game Play
Jerri has never been the biggest strategic threat on Survivor, and both of us were dismissive of her being included on this season, predicting at best a Jury finish for her. But here we are with the Final 5 going into the Sunday finale and here Jerri is, not only surviving in the game, [...]

Game play
Colby is a Survivor legend, and deservedly so. On his original season of the show he was such a physically dominant player that he arguably created the term ‘challenge monster’, he also established that he put strategy second in many ways when he brought Tina to the finals just to make sure there was [...]

Gameplay
Of the five players left in the game, Russell Hantz has probably had the largest impact on the game and the fate of the other participants. Russell’s read on the weakness of Tyson and the planting of his ‘Russell seed’, got Tyson to vote himself off of the island, and set the stage for a sweeping [...]

Initial Thoughts
In the end, this episode was pretty straightforward and amounted to much ado about nothing.  Now, the ado may lead to something during the finale but it’s hard to tell at this point and the preview for the finale didn’t give us any clues.
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on how Russell, Parvati and [...]