Carey

If you'd ask Q, he probably hopes so too

To be fair, Venus kept her mouth shut for an hour. The problem is, Survivor is now 90 minutes long

It may or may not be worth it to create a dream Survivor season, where Liz is in the game with people like Jon Dalton & Ben Wade. If certain people & things now make you miserable, just imagine

The only thing that makes sense for this much time is the time it'll take for Peachy to stop Tribal, walk off set, and collect his delivery pizza to help get through yet another insane TC

Could be a You Tube television thing. Or whatever. That's the price paid for streaming vs cable (or antenna)

I guess I'd take Jeff Probst on Reward if I were in the spot. It would be worth the reaction and who knows what follows.

If Maria goes somewhere, Tiffany & Hunter will be made to look smarter than Rob & Sandra

New Era Survivor! It's part of Survivor staff's resume to be lazy with those at this point!

May the first person who came up with that phrase lost a million dollars. It's a damn TV show, not a job at a beach somewhere!

I agree, to an extent. When they're burned that's fair. One is enough here, but I do think that with the new F4 rules, the HII should be done away with at Final 5

It probably should have. To be fair, based on what TAR does, the deserve(d) all of the awards, but their credits are/were just a little more than okay

MerBearHou: Marked safe from the LIZ

Who needs Applebee's when someone can PNJ with or without flint, less mediocrity, and an ounce of common sense

Why did someone call Venus "modern day Parvati" and who?

Yeah that makes sense. I was just saying that Q going home would not be a surprise to him at all, but it sure would be (or might be) a surprise to Maria if her crew were the people definitively responsible. With that comes yours truly seeing how an 8-0-0 vote would turn realistic. First things first: I think it would be a Survivor first if Kenzie the beneficiary of that. It would be easier for that to play out if both Ben & Charlie survive over Maria & Liz. It just depends on how the final boots play out. 7-1-0 is just plain boring

That should be more than enough to crown her. Though I think it would be more of a blindside for Maria than for Q at this point

It's either a combination of both, or neither. JMO, but trying to get someone you hate out of the game is fine. You just need to going all in if that's the plan (i.e. using an idol). Furthermore, if one is actually a great player, they're going to have a plan B, so taking out a hated player doesn't work, HII or no

Well, I called this out when Denver barely beat the Lakers. They trailed by double digits in every game. I noted that the TWolves would be a greater test, and here we are. Denver looks like hot garbage. It's all about matchups. I'm not too surprised since the expectations were there for these outcomes to occur. I do agree that LA would have lost to the TWolves, but that didn't come up since it was more likely that LA would beat OKC and avoid one of Minnesota or Denver in a possible second round had the Lakers been the 8th seed. Nice stuff from Minnesota, as they'll always have this West Semis in their history on their way toward getting completely pummeled by the East winner

At the end of the day, to be fair: I still look at the positives when it comes to the new era. I'm more of a fan of what was very good in the past for the most part. As mentioned, I respect Jeff Probst. The jokes have come & gone, and hit or missed, but he's been the face of the program since Day One. It is a shame that things change based on what he prefers before anyone else, but for me, if it were totally bad, I wouldn't watch. Hats off to him for doubling down and not making excuses for what may be unpopular. JP ain't going nowhere. If so, that's outside of the foreseeable future. Hopefully Survivor doesn't get to a point where a change makes the show look like TPTB putting something together with bare-minimum effort. I image they'll adapt which is what contestants have to do or they're out of the game. Maybe they will; maybe they will not. Hopefully the latter isn't the case since there's never been a (network) TV show that lived on forever taking the cheap & easy road

I'll get to the Probst interview from US Magazine in a minute. I do have to say it's a combination of laughable, sorta unnecessary, and a non-shocker that 90-minute Survivor is hear to stay. I think there is plenty of time to fit in a quality episode within a single hour. Like most things at the very least, it doesn't make (too much) sense to go backwards. Furthermore, no sense in putting a new show slated to fail when to fill it with 30 extra minutes to go along with 30 extra minutes of The Amazing Race (or whatever airs after Survivor when TAR isn't on the schedule). What's hilarious is new era survivor is about 66.67% compared to Old Era Survivor in terms of taping length. Meanwhile old era survivor is about 66.67% compared to New Era Survivor in terms of TV time. I disagree with Jeff (to a point). Part of it is due to casting, and remaining, well, isn't. The old era had less benefit from previous seasons compared to the new era. Going over 5 weeks is more taxing than South of 4 weeks. You played against a ton of decent players. While it is just a game, those people cared about the top prize and really just winning. More often than not. Jeff is right in that you cannot easily hide with 6 people, but there weren't always teams of 10 in the old era. In fact, several seasons had even fewer than a half dozen to start. Plus, hiding wasn't automatic. If people can make a case over several people as to why they should stick around, the invisible player loses that invisibility. Another defense for Probst is that you have to earn stuff that used to be given to people at the beginning or close to it. Given all the changes within the new era, that can be difficult. Plus, it's not cool when it feels like it's done on the fly; it's at a point where someone can't prepare for it. Finally, there weren't an infinite number of HII opportunities in the past. Not that it matters on the show today

It might be a result of the strike, all the stars are now back to work at the same time on their projects. Lorne probably had to call in a few favors to find a few uncommitted stars to host. I think it's a combination of that & preference. I don't recall a strike in the latter part of the 90s; Lorne might've preferred to have well-known people host around that time. To be specific 35% of the hosts in Season 22 were previous cast members; five consecutive shows featured former repertory players. Probably not a common occurrence, and until proven otherwise, probably something that will not happen again. On the other hand, the 50th annual season would be the best opportunity for a repeat of it. Nonetheless, it's nice to see former players return to host. Especially when it gets to the point where one loses track upon their fifth time hosting

Pretty accurate points, Tango. I basically agree here. If we're wrong, that's on production for not showing us more. Plus, that's on them being lazy since they've increased the show by 50% which now seems permanent. It's pretty sad as they have over 2 decades of material to adapt to avoid being voted out. Sure the show changes, but the basics and what not are available for people to study & prepare for prior to their shot at the title. The zoom thing actually makes sense in all fairness. I think they'd still have to meet in one setting for a TC. From that comes a visual that'll be stuck with me this evening. Since Survivor loves Survivor, they'd have TC in an empty Applebee's restaurant (store settings are still there for visual effect). Amid pre-voting chat comes (at least) two survivors like Maria & Charlie having to hold Liz back from Jeff Probst as he eats an Applebee's dinner in his spot during TC

No, Hunter did. I think 30 Helens was wondering if Tevin left with an idol in addition to Hunter & Tiffany. Or not; it isn't easy to keep everyone in track. Tevin was booted big time in the aftermath of HII talk. Q wanted Tiff gone & so did Maria, but there was a fear about the plan getting skunked with her idol. If only they knew that she was planning to use it on one of her opponents at final tribal council if she'd made it that far. That last sentence was a joke, BTW

100%. No burgers or dip for me. The safe bet for me is to go to Applebees for a drink while placing a takeout order from Outback

Too bad I didn't get to make my joke on Darvin Ham's future & how he would not make it to May. Well, I didn't get the chance since I didn't bother to post it before Game 4 took place