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 [...]

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 [...]