Previously on Survivor
Russell Hantz, Danielle Dilorenzo and Parvati Shallow managed to take over the villains tribe though outnumbered 6 – 3, and as the game progressed used a combination of strong game-play, a bit of luck, and a bit of foolishness on the part of their competitors take over control of the game. But in [...]

Introduction
I was trying to title this piece and nothing sounded quite right.  Can’t be “Sweet Six”, it’s “Sweet Sixteeen”.  “Stellar Six”?  “Sovereign Six”? “Special Six”?  “Survivor Six”?  Let’s just stick with “Top 6″. (chindi – Special Six? Succotash Six? As long as we go with ‘Fantastic Five’ I’m fine)
Last weekend chindi wrote an article previewing the [...]

Initial Thoughts
Dude, this season has been crazy awesome.  Every time I think I have something figured out, I am completely wrong.  For example, I figured that since this episode had two tribal councils we would get two pretty straightforward evictions, and we got the opposite of that.  One thing I do know is that Russell has [...]

Survivor: Heroes vs Villains, The Elite Eight
When this season started, I had my doubts about how good the season could possibly be. As we looked at the individual members of the tribes in our Cast Breakdown, what we saw was a serious lack of balance between the two teams. While the Villains tribe had some [...]

Initial Thoughts
Another crazy episode with hidden immunity idols and a couple of swingers being courted by both sides.  The editing of the episode really gave away the ending, but I’ll talk about that later.
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on the merge happening with even numbers.  Russell was working to make the Heroes believe he was [...]

Previously on Survivor
The Heroes and Villains merged at last, and the Heroes saw that their plan had ‘worked’ in saving Russell but that somehow Parvati was still around. The Russell-led Villain alliance sold them on a story that Parvati had played her own immunity idol and that now she was vulnerable and they hatched a [...]

Initial Thoughts
This season of Survivor has really lived up to the hype.  Not all of the game play has been smart, but it’s certainly been entertaining.  Will Russell be able to keep playing the Heroes?  How long until JT regrets giving away his hidden immunity idol?
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on the dwindling Villians [...]

Initial Thoughts
A lot of interesting things happened this episode, but the pay-offs won’t be until next week or beyond.  Were the previews right?  Did JT make a move worthy of  Survivor infamy?
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on the tightness of the Heroes tribe and their mistaken assumption that there’s a women’s alliance on the [...]

Previously on Survivor
After the dethroning of Rob Mariano, the villains tribe wasn’t able to pull itself out of it’s challenge slide. They made bad decisions in selecting who would sit-out of the reward challenge and also made bad decisions allocating people in the immunity challenge. The villains went into scramble mode, with Courtney, Sandra, Coach [...]

Initial Thoughts
Well, we knew this episode would be hard pressed to live up to last week’s but several interesting things happened and the preview for next week is super fascinating.
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment on the Villians showdown between Boston Rob & Russell.  They really paint Rob as the victim and play up Russell’s [...]

Initial Thoughts
We knew it was coming and it was awesome.  Boston Rob against Russell did not disappoint as both put their best game foot forward.  It’s just a shame that in the end it came down to two players (Coach & Jerri) who can’t hold a candle to Boston Rob and Russell’s game acumen.  It’s [...]

Initial Thoughts
Well, that was certainly interesting.  That’s the second time this season that the majority had a fool-proof plan against a hidden immuity idol and it went wrong.  The first time it went wrong because JT used it as an opportunity against Cirie, the second time, well, Tyson was a fool.
Previously
The producers focus the “previously” segment [...]