Cast from SURVIVOR Season 44. Pictured (L-R): Top Row: Lauren Harpe, Carson Garrett, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle, Claire Rafson, Danny Massa, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Bruce Perreault, Sarah Wade, and Brandon Cottom. Bottom Row: Jaime Lynn Ruiz, Kane Fritzler, Carolyn Wiger, Josh Wilder, Frannie Marin, Matt Blankinship, Maddy Pomilla, Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho, and Helen Li. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS
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No season of Survivor would be complete if we didn’t compile the all-time list of winners each season! With 43 seasons now in the rear-view, we just witnessed Mike Gabler becoming the latest person to win Survivor, the second-oldest person (at age 57) to ever win…but where does Gabler’s win sit on the all-time list? Each season
How do you follow up last week’s epic, come-from-behind challenge win by Noelle? Let’s submerge ourselves in this week’s episode of Survivor, shall we? Don’t worry, we’ll come up for air eventually, but you may want to hold on tight! Say what you will about this season of Survivor, but this cast is among the
For it being the day before Thanksgiving, this episode of Survivor was no turkey. We are watching some incredible players enter the home-stretch of a long and grueling game, and there’s almost zero dead weight. As discussed at Tribal Council, this is a game chock-full of deadly assassins. There is a precision to who is
So, does anyone want a papaya? It was a giant week for Survivor, a double-stuffed episode that gave us not one, but two Immunity winners and two Tribal Councils. It was also a showcase for strategic players to shine and for a few to start setting up the paths to their end-games. Moves were made
First of all, great job Survivor! You managed to hoodwink all of us last week into thinking that Dwight left the game with Jeanine‘s hidden Immunity Idol in his pocket! Well not only was it not in his pocket (it was in his crotch…”Don’t worry,” he told Jeanine. “I’ll wash it.”), the Idol wasn’t even
These “new era” Survivor players just get it. As Jesse explained during this week’s newest episode, this is the point of the game, “Where legends are made or you flame out. This is the big leagues.” You simply aren’t going to coast through Survivor, and win. Sure, you may make it to the end of
It’s a scarcely talked about attribute, but being able to handle your own paranoia is a key component to being a winning Survivor contestant. Sure, in a game such as this one, paranoia is impossible to avoid completely…in fact, if you have ZERO paranoid thoughts while playing Survivor, there is a strong likelihood that you
This is it! We are in the home stretch now, just days away from the Big Brother 24 two-hour Finale this Sunday, Sept. 25th. Tonight’s live eviction meant that we now have our Final Three, and we even got a “Cookout” Reunion on tonight’s live show, where the iconic six-person alliance from BB23, Derek, Tiffany,
Just as the beginning of each season of Big Brother marks the official start of Summer, its Finale usually indicates we are well on our way into Fall. We are now just mere days away from the Big Brother 24 Finale (coming on Sunday, September 25th), with just two regular episodes left between now and
On Big Brother, we know that the slogan is “expect the unexpected.” But this past week – as has been the case many times over the show’s 20+ year television run – it could also have been “defend the indefensible.” After last week saw Kyle blow-up the dominant Leftovers alliance at the outside “Dyre Fest,”
As Julie Chen-Moonves promised, this week culminated in a Big Brother double-eviction episode like none other. Two contestants were sent to the jury, one from two different “festivals” that were held. The first was “Big Bro-chella,” where five players played out an entire week within the BB House. Then there was “Dyre Fest,” where the
Fans all over the Twitter-verse rejoiced this past week when fan-favorite (and in-house least-favorite for much of the game), Taylor, won her first HOH of the season. It was Big Brother‘s iconic “wall challenge,” and Taylor was the last person standing when all the paint – and conspiracies – had ran their course. It was
Karma continued its cleansing of the Big Brother House this week, sending home yet another player that decided it was a good idea to pile-on Taylor earlier in the season. This season continues its strong run after a choppy, uncomfortable beginning. Elvis-impersonator, Daniel Durston was the victim this week of the latest backdoor exit, following
What a tumultuous time Big Brother 24 is turning out to be! I feel bad for those that gave up on this season after the underwhelming Premiere…a Premiere that was followed-up by a week of ugly controversy within the House. I don’t really blame those who bailed, or those that simply wanted CBS to have
We’ve come to accept the Big Brother tagline of “expect the unexpected.” But sadly, all too often, we’ve also come to expect some truly ugly behavior from the houseguests, behavior that always seems to take away from and overshadow the silly, fun, ridiculousness that the show tries to supply us with each and every Summer.
In a world where up is down and down is up, you can at least always tell that it’s Summertime when Big Brother is back on TV! That’s right, it’s time to expect the unexpected all over again, as the 24th installment – appropriately titled Big Brother 24 – is set to premiere on Wednesday,
Following an incredibly intense, important and powerful Tribal Council last week, the eight remaining players heading into this week’s episode of Survivor were reminded of just how close they are to the end of this game. Three players received some much needed food and a good night’s sleep, but they also received a bit of
Early Survivor fan-favorite Maryanne Oketch showed up at this week’s Immunity Challenge a bit disappointed. When she was able to get her first look at the other tribes, Maryanne noticed that her secret crush, Zach Wurtenberger, was not there, having been voted out last week. Jeff Probst teased her a bit, and Maryanne gave us
Wednesday night’s Season Finale of Celebrity Big Brother was quick, to-the-point and without many surprises. After 30 days in the Big Brother house, as the episode started we were done to just three celebrities left in the game: Miesha Tate, Cynthia Bailey and Todrick Hall, and there was little chance that it wasn’t going to
Sometime the game isn’t just a game…it becomes something bigger. While this is a Survivor recap, if you’ve been reading this column at all this season, you know that there have been more than a few mentions and comparisons to another CBS reality competition show, Big Brother, specifically its past season, Big Brother 23. The
Ever since they stopped running “recap” highlight shows each year, the Thanksgiving Eve episode of Survivor usually has delivered the goods. This year was no different, and we were once again given one of the best episodes of the entire season. It leaned heavily into what makes Survivor so great: Inter-personal relationships and internal struggles
If you think about it, plans on Survivor – more often than not – go awry. There can only be one Sole Survivor, and as much fun as it is to watch a winner’s run and look back at all of the key moments along the way, the fun of the show is in the
Say what you will about Season 41 of Survivor, but I think this week’s episode has solidified something important: This is truly one of the best all-around casts in quite some time. Technically it was a “part two” episode after last week’s anticlimactic dud, but just when we think we might give up on Survivor,
There can only be one winner, even on a season full of them. “Survivor: Winners at War” came to an explosive close on Wednesday, and a winner was indeed crowned. The chaotic, overly aggressive, super-strategist, known for building Spy Shacks, Bunkers and Nests on the island, Tony Vlachos became the Sole Survivor of Season 40
It’s hard to believe that we have just one more episode left of Survivor, with no more (for the time being) loaded in the chamber. “Survivor: Winners at War,” the monumental 40th season of the greatest Reality TV Show of all-time, gave us a two-hour penultimate episode tonight, with a massive three-hour Finale and Reunion
If you love Tony Vlachos like me, then tonight was about as good as it gets when it comes to Survivor. From the first moment until the last, this was a Tony-centric episode through and through, culminating in yet another absolutely epic blindside at Tribal Council. They even managed to fit in a Survivor fashion
Tonight was the episode of Survivor that we needed. It was a “loved ones” visit like the show has never seen, followed by a Tribal Council that when the smoke clears may land in the Top 10 Tribal Councils of all-time. It ended with a “secret scene,” unscripted (not that any of this is scripted,
Somebody famous once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” On tonight’s wild episode of Survivor: Winners At War, several players took some big shots, risking their games in the process, because really, why not? You win, or you lose, right? In the end, it really is that black-and-white. Sometimes, it just
The merge episode of Survivor is always one of the best episodes of every season, and this one lived up to the hype. I’ve been soooooo looking forward to this particular episode ever since the them of Season 40 was announced, as it also featured The Edge of Extinction Return Challenge where one of the