Josh-da-man

Huh.

I don't remember that at all. But I'm not sure if I even watched the last season...

The last sexual harassment scandal I remember from Survivor was when a fully nude Richard Hatch rubbed his dick on Sue during a challenge.

cdollaz

Giving away your extra vote and then immediately getting voted off. Classic.

What a dumbass.

mugwump

For all the bluster about a back to its roots season of Survivor this one is just as dull as expected. No food (but everyone looks well-fed); tough challenges (middling amounts of physical exertion topped off with, surprise surprise, a puzzle!); crazy new immunity (or lack thereof since no one can manage to get an idol played properly); and a whole new way of playing (you mean having all the physically weak players band together and ride things out until the merge where they can then dazzle us with their innovative gameplay?). At least it's a short season.

Shannon Nutt

The UA Tribe is so awful the LUVU Tribe can't even throw a challenge.

Damfino

A few seasons back a male contestant was groping at least one of the women at night and was removed from the game after failing to heed a warning to stop.

Damfino

Exactly. JD claimed to be a student of the game, but forgot about Eric the ice cream man giving the immunity necklace to Natalie at tribal council and was promptly voted out. Jeff called it a life lesson as the jury was rolling in laughter.

GatorDeb

Man Heather sucked I was like if this was an immunity challenge I'd vote you out myself.

Shouldn't have said money should have said tribal

I'd cry right now but I have no water left

Naseer singlehandedly winning the challenge.

I'm trying to throw this challenge and I look back and they're still in the water like darn can't you people do anything right
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Choosing people in a challenge with ring throwing NOT HEATHER

Loving this season.

lwhy?

So, I'm guessing the extra vote is Shan's now? I wasn't sure how the rules worked for that since she technically didn't find or earn it. Can you steal or destroy someone's hidden immunity idol or advantage if you find it?

Decker

I don't know. That is a good question.

I was wondering why they didn't show Xander talking about butterflies again before the immunity challenge. That will never get old

GatorDeb

She kind of talked about it, since he willingly gave it to her and she didn't steal it she can use it.

lwhy?

Just because she said it, doesn't mean it's true. He gave it to her to hold. He didn't specifically say she could use it. I was wondering what would have happened if she just threw it into the fire instead of giving it back to JD at the beginning of the episode.

lwhy?

I just asked the question to Jeff Probst, Survivor CBS, and Dalton Ross (EW's Survivor expert) on Twitter. I'll post their response if they respond.

leeta

Not very many to root for. I like Xander and the ex-NFL player and I think Liana and the pastor are playing a good game, getting people to trust them. I just hope that it's not a group of awkward, unathletic people with no game that make it to the end just because they have the numbers.

Also, there are way too many gimmicks this season. CBS is trying too hard to make changes for the sake of change. The 3-way Immunity Idol is interesting, though. And funny.

chowderhead

you cannot steal someone else’s hii
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Hid...ity_Idol#Rules

AaronHernandez

Yeah it's a shame because they have some really strong charecters(Shan,Ricard,Naseer,Tiffany) and have done some great casting. But all the overloaded twists is turning it almost into like Mario Party or a board game.

davidh777

Glad Ricard didn’t fall for the old “Gimme your idol” line.

D'ohboy

Probst started out the season saying there would be more behind the scenes content integrated this season, but there hasn't really been much. (Fine by me.)
The thing that they are doing that bugs me a bit, is what they are not showing chronologically, but are instead showing as inserted flashback reveals.

SunMonkey

My wife and I started watching the All-Star season there, and wow, it is really fun. And it shows how mediocre the US version has become.

brainee

I'm disappointed it looks like they're not going to risk making the one tribe go down to a single player. I forget the specific season, but one year a tribe kept losing. The players assumed the show wouldn't let them go down to one person. But that's exactly what they did, and one player had to sit around sadly at campside all by herself for a bit

bluesix

I think that's a sign of how boring this cast is when they have to start editing tricks to make things more interesting...

Decker

I had no problem with that. It made for an unexpected twist and put you in the position of knowledge of some of the other players.
Now if you want to point out the fact that it took the "best team" a whopping 11 days(!) to find a not-very-well hidden Immunity Idol and claim that proves this is a boring lame cast? I am willing to listen to that argument.

windom

Dafuq is this show?

Goldberg74

Dalton Ross had an interesting take on this episode:

https://ew.com/tv/recaps/survivor-season-41-episode-6/

bluesix

Hah! I chuckled after reading his column too...

I don't watch Big Brother so I wasn't aware they were doing all-Black alliances or 'non-white' alliances. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
As Dalton said, after 40 seasons of all white alliances its not a shocker that alliances form based on skin color.

What this episode pointed out was that this season's cast is definitely one of the most diverse. Which makes me wonder if that's why its also the most boring. Were the casting people so concerned with casting for diversity that they didn't bother looking at who might actually make an interesting player?

Finisher

Yes, they just want safe SJW/diversity castings. Their psych testing must be more rigorous now too. Big Brother became unwatchable and this will too, and it was already hard to watch.