Special K

You gotta offer something to your tribe. She is not athletic, she is bad socially, clueless strategically, and not valuable with camp life/chores. One wonders why she even wanted to be on Survivor and why they would cast her. She is so sad-sack and pathetic, I find it hard to believe she is an effective lawyer -- she just seems so depressed. Which I guess makes me feel bad now. Thanks for nothing, TPTB!

Karishma's favorite "sit-down" restaurant is Applebee's?!? She lives in friggin' Philadelphia, which has an amazing restaurant scene, at all price levels, including amazing ethnic food. Girl has pretty narrow horizons. I guess she just got revenge on her parents for 10 years of shaming by shaming them for forcing her into a loveless marriage on national TV! I just could not with the orgasmic, and prolonged, reaction to the idea of Applebee's. I was embarrassed for all of them. Noura: dragging Karishma in the challenge. Girl's got amazing core strength!! Most of that challenge I FFed through. I just can't with the sand in the eyes/mouth/nose, etc. I think Noura was squeezing water out of her bra -- it probably has a foam liner like so many do now. Dean is dead to me for mocking Tommy's red hair and implying that a redhead should be a non-athletic dweeb. I don't care if Kellee is attracted to him or not.

Ha!! It continued: Ashton: Do you have a type? Courtney: Not an asshole. Ashton: Fair enough.

It's pretty harsh that they called this episode "Weekend at Brandy's" considering Bernie was a corpse they dragged around.

Seriously. I prefer to nurse my morning coffee for a while before actually eating. Like even hours, if I have them to spare. Kevin seems pretty high-strung. He should have just asked Simone to ask the guests if they still wanted breakfast at 10:00 or if they wanted it sooner.

Surely someone (Kate? Lee?) has had a conversation with the primaries about Brandy? Please tell me that someone cares that this woman keeps approaching the brink of death while everyone else is partying like nothing's wrong. I liked Helen and her husband on the Adrian-love-fest charter, but they are displaying despicable indifference, even cruelty to one of "their closest friends." Hell, I'd hope most people would treat a stranger better. Courtney is growing on me. Girl has some great deadpan snark. And despite claiming not to like working, she seems to do her work really well/efficiently. Abbi - tie your damn hair back! Even when she tied it up, it was somehow still all over the place. Doesn't she know how to braid hair? There's too much damn hair this season, and I have big hair myself. This is maybe the one thing Hannah has on Kate: Hannah always looks neat and groomed in front of the guests, especially when serving food. She usually has her hair smoothed back into a pony. Don't make me defend Hannah, ladies! Yup... once they left to go fishing, he probably had time to call for seafood to be delivered by tender to the boat.

Not all male-female alliances are a showmance. It's the blatant romantic part of it that contestants fear. Ironically for this season, mostly because of Boston Rob himself and the way he and Amber played. Chelsea must have been aware that she was being perceived as having a showmance, since she had a conversation with one of the other women about it and denied it.

It was kind of shocking how her friends were going about the boarding/boat tour as if nothing was really wrong, when their friend was incoherently moaning and unable to stand. Seemed like more than just alcohol to me -- perhaps a drug/alcohol interaction? I guess we'll find out this week... OMG, really!?!

My favorite part of this season so far has been Sandra's zingers from the spy shack. I LOL every time.

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Right? When she cried in her talking head about not wanting to go home, I was like, "Really? Because you seem absolutely miserable."

After the swap, I bet Noura and Karishma both flip to the other side. Then they'll be sorry they didn't boot Karishma this TC! They'll end up with even-crazier Noura instead!

Don't hold your breath. We had to wait a long time for that in GOT.

Seriously. Especially with no irony whatsoever.

I'm a fan of Kate's, but it seemed to me that they both, Kevin and Kate, started off by being inexcusably rude to each other. It seemed odd to me watching it -- most people at least make an attempt to be courteous initially in a professional setting. It makes me wonder if the producers didn't ask them to behave rudely for the drama. Like the thing with the label maker -- wasn't he just asking if she had one? Just say, "no, I don't think we have one," and move on. I don't understand how that turned into a hair-pull and an indictment on his character. And I thought it pretty un-called-for that he would call her out at the tip meeting, especially after just one charter with two inexperienced stews, instead of at least trying to sort things with her first. It would be more profitable with Kate, for one thing, and we all know Capt. Lee well enough to know that that kind of thing does not sit well with him. Based on the fact that they bothered to show us Lee's deadpan face when Kevin mentioned that, I predict Kevin doesn't last the whole season.

Yes, I have heard that -- but does that apply to the pre-show promo shots as well? All those clothes seem more idiosyncratic and personal to me (and more to the point, reflect varying degrees of modesty). Remember one year when they were photographed for promo shots in bathing suits, and Debbie had that shark-maw swimsuit on? That had to be her own item. Also, aren't their Ponderosa/jury clothes their own? My impression was that only the in-competition clothing was mandated by the producers.

I just watched her intro video -- for someone who claims to be uncomfortable showing skin, that's a fair amount of cleavage and midriff on view. Does Survivor also choose the contestants' promo attire? Also: her hair is gorgeous.

Ahem.

To be fair, she has essentially volunteered to keep ironing. Some people find ironing relaxing (in the right circumstances, I do). Though she might have offered to continue ironing because every shot of Courtney ironing including her bitching about how she can't get the wrinkles out and how much she hates it.

Simone said she was 29, but she was talking about being "old" which is why they were laughing about it.

It has to be asked: Who is Mr. Dobson? And if that's the chef's own last name, who refers to themselves so formally whilst sh*tting their brains out? 😂 Abbi's hair has a pronounced dent in it when viewed from the back where the top level doesn't blend into the longer level -- either she cut it that way or it's a weave. She should tie her hair back, if for no other reason that in every scene of her, her face was running with sweat. I like Simone and Tanner so far. Courtney is obviously a plant to drive Kate crazy.

Oh, man that's cold. Verb tense is how you tell who the killer is on murder shows! You know when a woman disappears and the husband is all "I didn't do it, I really loved my wife." LOL

Because she'd rather stick out than stick in. Ahem. (Another moment from TC where I can't believe they all kept a straight face.)

OMG, hilarious! This goes down like a bracing shot of scotch! Yes! There's altogether too much being one's self these days. 🙂

When Molly said to Jason: "we've been really enjoying getting to know you" I couldn't believe he didn't laugh in her face. Or that the whole tribe didn't burst into laughter. It was sooooo fake. I'm not sure how much was producer manipulation, but she really was insufferable and way too into her self. To quote Sandra's immortal words: Dang...they played her ass. When Tommy was talking about his mother's advice to choose wisely between hanging with the cool kids or the nerds, I was all "Dude, you ALWAYS choose the nerds!" How can a functioning adult not know that? How can a fourth grade teacher not know that?! Lauren was definitely the MVP of the episode, my eye is on her now. Though Kellee was no slouch either. I find myself rooting for Jason -- what can I say, I love a nebbishy underdog.