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I cannot remember a single thing from this episode other than that enchanting dance by Nymphia Wind. Well, I do remember another boob flopped out on the runway in a LSFYL. Jane is the self-styled villain of the season. And she tried to cook the top two by putting Nymphia last in her vote. Also! Unlike others on this thread, I remember Ru did tell them the top two would be LSFYL, so Jane knew what she was doing. What was unclear to them was if there would be a bottom two LS or not.

Amanda is adorable in her talking heads, so I hope her makeup skills improve rapidly over the next few episodes and she is able to showcase her other talents, especially the wit and comic timing. I prefer a slightly busted queen who is funny to someone with neat makeup and a silicone ass, or even the polished ones like Willow Dawn or Q.

Same. The judging is really off this season.

I am so bummed by this inevitable outcome, especially when it looked as if there was a snowball's chance in hell of Jake turning it around - until old mate Katurah stuffed things again and handed Dee the win on a silver platter, while curtseying - but I will always remember the courage of weeping Jake saying, "I wish I was a bigger snowball".

She kept crowding it in and smothering it.

It was a good post. (Here it is. I had left a browser open on that page.) **** Great night for the forums to go down! Oy vey. Dee wins 5-3-0 over Austin and Jake in the closest vote of the "new era:" Jake will probably be in need of therapy based off this episode alone. He had a few breakdowns, fumbled the ball, and he had Probst rub salt in his fresh wounds. Oh, and he broke the final challenge . . . as in, he literally broke it. Yeah, he beat Katurah in fire-making, but he didn't get a vote. Once again, I feel that I know the third-place person (Carolyn last season) better than the winner. Big fat whatever for this finale. I got more out of TAR's finish last week. Next season will be more of the same, even with the sneak preview at the eager contestants.

Deeply underwhelming. It really needed a better script editor, and also someone on continuity for Darby's hair alone. Maybe a tech advisor; it seemed really naive in that area. The "twist" in the last episode was not much of a twist as that was the most likely way the murders had panned out, especially given the bulk of the cast was so underdeveloped, forgettable, and rarely seen that it was unlikely to be any of them. I am glad I watched it for the Bill scenes and the scenery. But the trailor promised so much.

It expired a while back, apparently.

Oh, my God. Austin, my man, is like a dumb trusting labrador. I was so hoping Dee would repay his (dumb) confiding in her last episode and he would save Drew with his amulet idol. I guess Julie was always going to tell Dee the plan to get out Drew anyway, but I loathed that scene of Katurah telling Dee and then jumping up and down gleefully with her "bestie". Ugh. This season already went downhill with Emily going - which was a big mistake on Austin and Drew's part, which I guess Drew would have recognized as he clumped out of that tribal council... The only way this season can be redeemed is if Jake and his idol triumph! Finally someone keeps their find a secret. I liked the line he had: "I'm a wolf in goat's clothing!" Would have been a good episode title.

Harris Dickinson is why I watch. Was amused to see Darby had time to reapply her pink hair colour in between almost drowning and getting her hair blowdryed by Lee and then meeting up with Lee and Oliver in Bill's room. Also that this supposed super sleuth sat down and step by step discussed the most obvious facts with the other two, without paying any particular note to the missing copy of her bloodstained book suddenly reappearing, unbagged; or that all of Bill's stuff was conveniently still there and not with the Iceland police or returned to his relatives. Her modus operandi seems to be blurt out anything to anyone she happens to be with. The only way she rules out a suspect is if they're dead. I do not have high hopes for this all wrapping up in a satisfying, let alone surprising, way in only 40 or 45 minutes.

Yep. At this point I am mostly watching for the scenery and for scenes featuring Bill. The rest of the time I am trying not to notice the pink hair and its lack of continuity. Or turning the subtitles on and off to try and catch some blurry line of dialogue. It's like a new level of mumblecore. I have no idea who anyone is, aside from the main four living characters plus Bill. I kind of don't care who the murderer is, if it's not one of the main four (plus Bill), and even then I don't really care! It had a great trailer, though.

a) He said he was hoping she'd give it back. The fact he just hoped and didn't ask suggests he is quite passive, and the fact Dee is dominating him and puppeteering him and he is enthralled with her suggests he is malleable and likes to please, and asking might have displeased Julie (and posssibly Dee), and he didn't want to rock the boat in his alliance. b) I have read elsewhere the amulet idol was definitely not transferrable.

Such a major bummer. Austin telling Dee, ffs. Mind you, if Emily hadn't convinced Bruce he needn't play his idol and instead told him to play it for sure we'd have had Julie out last week, Emily not seen as a threat, and a far more interesting end game than what-Dee-wants-goes.

I thought it was marvellous! Mai used strategy and her knowledge of the game and how men usually played and won round after round, and then pulled out the right key. Phil was gracious and kind in his defeat. Lovely little postcards of some of the key players living their happy lives without the money. Mai was a great winner. Stoic and brave, as she's lived her life.

I love anything with snow featured in it, so that episode was really exciting to watch. It is beautifully shot, but still peppered with obvious plotholes. Am still unable to not notice the ever-changing degrees of pinkness of Darby's hair at vital moments. That was a choice.

I can see why someone who has only recently learned to swim would be afraid of swimming in relatively deep ocean water far from the shore. And there could be sharks!

And by making that move she just gave Austen and Drew even less reason to ditch Julie and Dee for her, as now she has something for her "resume".

Every single time the old Belo remnants has had an opportunity to get the numbers advantage they squander it - and are pleased with themselves. If they'd actually used the fool Bruce decoy plan and got out Julie, then they might have had a fighting chance going forward, but Emily wanted to win brownie points for a move, and Katurah was like the cat that got the cream at getting out Bruce finally, and Jake was just anyone but me... So irritating.

Well, damn. Every single player I was ever rooting for, or the slightest bit interested or invested in, is now gone. By default, I guess I am hoping that 287, Mai, wins, if only for standing up to 278, Ashley, and defending the group decision in the previous episode the others seemed to have amnesia around, that 278 went against defiantly and led to the loss of 301, Trey, who I really wanted to see win the whole thing. The end game was really horrible. I guess it was in the original show, also. But we had some poignant friendships and a plucky hero to root for who got through. Now there is Phil with the long sleek hair, and some big bushybearded fellow randomly seen in the background occasionally who is apparently Phil's friend, and Mai. Seeing Mai and a few others trick their closest remaining allies in that last game was not pleasant. At least no-one died.

They are looking at losing out on 4.5 million dollars, or a large slice of that. People are there competing hoping to change their and their families' lives.

No, it isn't. The only acting is when their dye bags go off and some of them go to more trouble to play dead or act as if they have been shot.

Bruce having a little epiphany that some work and self-reflection may need to be done was nice. I fell for the photo of dear little boy him with his toothy smile. Quite glad he won immunity again. It's also nice to watch Katurah boil silently every time he does and every time he spoke at tribal. Dee can go next. It would be beyond tedious to have those four control the rest of the game. I like Austen, but I'd quite like to see Jake, Emily, and Bruce pull some move that overturns everything.

Woah! That was such a fun reading of the votes. Kellie's doubletake when her name came out of the urn was so good. Then Kendra behind her pulling a Cowardly Lion face while crying. Kellie so cross about being voted out, when moments before she was all happily "sucks to be you" as Jake's name was being read out. Jake letting out that enormous "Woah!" with amazement and relief and then realising it was a bit tone-deaf, doing a second sadder-sounding little "Woah". So good. The little facial expresssions from Kaleb, also. Kellie banging on this episode about having to get Bruce out now was ridiculous when she was the one who scuppered the plan to get him out at the previous split tribal. The auction was fun, too.

I enjoyed the first episode more than the second. Britt Marling plays the same character in everything I have seen her in: a dull woman with a flat affect. If I see her name attached to a project, I usually avoid it. The trailer for this was so good, I risked watching. Same inability to act. The other thing that bothered me majorly was Darby's hair. It seemed absurd - unless it features in the plot somehow later - that she would pack a hair colour and apply it in the retreat. But from that point on, I could not help noticing the lack of hair continuity. One scene it is still a deep pink, the next it is washed out and almost back to her normal hair colour, and then the following it is denser in pink tones and then again the pink is almost gone... Also when parted to the side, after freshly applying the dye and apparently blowdrying her hair, there was a good inch or two of dark roots, which in all later scenes vanishes when it is combed forward. I spent the second episode, more or less obsessed with her hair. So sad the handsome fellow was the murder victim, but at least we'll have flashbacks. All that palaver about it being on the wrong side to inject drugs.... He obviously didn't inject himself as the injection marks were nowhere near a decent vein.

I think you've got a good point there. I was thinking of Bruce with say Austen and Emily at the end. But if it was Bruce with some of the (in my view) limper players, he could quite well be respected for his efforts in getting there and I am sure Kaleb would reward the most hustle.