SURVIVOR Gabon Season Finale: The Big Winner & Lessons to Learn

This season of Survivor produced a satisfying finale, with 57 year old physics teacher Bob Crowley taking the million dollar first prize back to Portland, Maine. While the events leading to Bob’s victory were full of the predictable twists and turns that have accompanied this reality juggernaut for 17 seasons, I want to dig [...]

Survivor Gabon: “The Good Things in Life Aren’t Easy”

After a Thanksgiving highlight show gave Survivor fans a recap of the season’s eliminated contestants, the Gabon crew returned to their manipulative ways this week.
With just seven contenders left in the Nobag camp, the dramatic tension was more palpable than ever.
Corinne delivered the first hard punch before three minutes had elapsed in the show, when [...]

Survivor Recap: “The Brains Behind Everything”

This week’s episode cut the list of castaways down to eight potential millionaires. After a slow start with a bloated cast of eighteen contenders, the past two weeks have focused the show into a competitive sprint for the finish line. In order to keep up with the faster pace, it is time for [...]

Survivor Gabon “It All Depends on the Pin-Up Girl”

The Ace Has Been Played
As a child of the 80’s, I clearly recall spending endless hours and quarters at the local video arcade. Classic consoles like Dig Dug, Ms. Pac Man, and Super Off Road consumed both the majority of my free time and a ridiculous chunk of my mother’s pocket change. Though [...]

SURVIVOR: “He’s a Snake, But He’s My Snake”

Survivor Gabon is on Life Support.
It is time for Mark Burnett to take a cue from GMMR and shake things up once in a while. In the case of Survivor, I believe that the need to overhaul the show’s format is essential in recruiting an audience for future seasons. Unlike standard game shows [...]

SURVIVOR: The Camp is Cursed

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this season of Survivor is beginning to sound like a broken record. After a timely redrafting of tribes provided fresh tension last week, viewers were led back to the path of predictability. Ironically, this unscripted reality show has begun to suffer from the repetition [...]

SURVIVOR Recap: It Was Like Christmas Morning

We start with the obvious Survivor-related news of the week: Last Saturday’s shocking loss by Mixed Martial Arts star Kimbo Slice. With 8,000 hometown fans cheering him on, the YouTube sensation was knocked out in 14 seconds by a guy with pink hair who pours smoothies to pay the rent. Just 24 hours [...]