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Yet another reason I'm sad there's no Ponderosa: I would've enjoyed seeing the jury's complete non-reaction to Sami's dramatic revealing of his actual age.
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...and suddenly, there are more remaining players I find tolerable than not. It's been a while. Next to go, hopefully: Jeff's "British" accent.
Noelle's "Anybody want a papaya?" gave the show its long-overdue equivalent of Big Brother's immortal "Anybody want cake?"
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That's nice, but from any further than three feet away, I'd think they were McDonald's-themed.
(Or In-n-Out.)
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Yeah, of all the rumors that have been floated, I'm back to potentially believing production hated this season, what with the women being steadily Pagonged and the men mostly being unlikable. It's starting to feel like an uphill battle to a tolerable winner.
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34 minutes ago, HurricaneVal said:
I agree, the comp lasted too long and took up too much time in the episode. Remember when there used to be two challenges per episode and still plenty of time for scheming, hut building, wave bobbing, fishing, chatting, foraging, deal-making, idol hunting, etc? Now we just get endless marathon challenges, scenes of advantage finding, production interviews regarding said advantage, and...oops, gotta take care of some business...quick and inexplicable votes.
Endless marathon challenges that just recycle the same features, at that. How many of us tune out the challenges altogether now because they're just repetitive loops of swimming, digging, dragging, climbing, and puzzling?
11 hours ago, Nashville said:“And I dedicate Minute Number 37 to… my proctologist’s cat!
Stay strong, Fluffy - stay strong!”"And I dedicate Minute 38 to...my cat's proctologist! God bless you, Dr. Matorin, for the, uh, the removal."
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22 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:
I might be sad about Abby and Will being eliminated if I had any idea who they were.
Same. I don't remember another season where we were half a dozen episodes in and there were multiple teams I found to be complete ciphers. You could've told me it was Aubrey and David being DQed while Abby and Will were onscreen and I wouldn't have caught it. All of the teams who were unable to return after the COVID-induced shutdown last season left stronger impressions in a shorter amount of time.
I can't help wondering if TPTB considered bringing back Linton and Sharik, but either Sharik declined or the crew was like "Oh hell no, not another leg with her."
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2 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
Now, if Noelle and Karla are the next to go and we wind up with a final 3 of Sami, Gabler, and Cody, I'll probably pretend this season never happened.
If you hadn't said this, I would've—put the absolute worst-case scenario out there in hopes of jinxing it. Reverse psychology on the universe, LOL.
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I still don't care about most of these people but I am enjoying the fun the editors are having with the chyrons this season. That list of who was holding what advantage was certainly handy.
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Man, this leg would've been the death of me. I'd love to see Petra, but I don't do well in extreme heat and I suck at slide puzzles. Linton could've swept half the desert and still might've beat me to the mat. Phil would have to come do a field elimination, and all he'd find would be my bleached bones face down in the sand.
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I still kind of wish Aastha and Nina had lasted longer, just because the only coed teams I really like are Derek/Claire and Glenda/Lumumba; everybody else is kind of an indistinct blur. I'm glad the two sibling pairs are shaping up to be contenders—hopefully they can thin the herd of hookless duos.
Phil's snappy response to Sharik's chiseling question made my evening. Obviously it was a megaleg, but it's still awfully early for KF to be hitting people this hard. #freelinton
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2 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:
So, apparently Kyle tried to self-evict from jury lol.
Can that ridiculous manchild last longer than ten seconds at anything?
If I'm Taylor and I'm being approached by Amazing Race's people, I'd be trying to jettison Joseph and get cast with Michael instead. "Don't worry, Mikey—if there's a Roadblock or Detour involving untangling ropes, I'll take that one."
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4 hours ago, Nashville said:
Phew.
YEEEAAAAHHH!!!
Whew.What about the summer's other dangler—are you Grandpa Nashville now?
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38 minutes ago, Callaphera said:
Is she the one that has the husband that looks like Shrek? Sells Plexus and looks like she hasn't removed her eye makeup once in the last twenty seven years?
The one and only!
Spoiler
I suppose Jasmine's ass-wiping pales next to things like Jill's ghoulish funeral selfies, but context is everything.
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...and so begins the weaning. I know I said earlier that I'm glad this wasn't another 97-day season (maybe those are a thing of the past, like Survivor isn't going back to 39 days), but it does make the ending seem more abrupt. After three months of checking this thread early every morning, the first week after a season always makes me feel like Wile E. Coyote when he's run past the edge of the cliff but gravity hasn't kicked in because he hasn't looked down yet.
Oh well. At least I have Jill Rodrigues in the Duggars-adjacent thread for year-round trainwreck watching.
Strange not to have @Nashville around at the end of all things, but I'm sure he had fun. Hopefully he still has his hearing.
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Observation: Taylor is the third consecutive Black woman to win AFP, after Da'vonne and Tiffany.
She wasn't the best strategist, she wasn't a comp beast, but her grace is something I can only aspire to. #taylorthesword
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Oh, I think Kyle will be remembered for beating records as well. A record, anyway. And he'll probably hold it forever, because who would admit to clocking in at nine seconds?
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This has been such an odd season. I can't remember another cast that was so entertainingly volatile yet individually unmemorable. Looking at the purported Top 5 for AFP again, of course Kyle and Joseph are up there, in a "This is the best of what we've got" way. I don't see many potential returnees in this lot.
Whoever wins, though, it won't be a worse outcome than Boogie. Or Dick.
As always, thanks to the feed watchers! And at least we don't have to go completely cold turkey this year, with Derex and Claire on Amazing Race. Hopefully I can hold my tongue around the Race fans who get snobby about BB (or as my friend and I jokingly call them, "Racists").
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Open memo to Taylor: If you do win AFP, don't take any of the guys on the cruise. They don't deserve it. I suggest taking 160 lbs. of cargo instead.
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Meh. I could've guessed that Top 5 just from process of elimination. Pre-jury? Forgotten and largely unlikable. Indy, Alyssa? Weren't even playing. Jasmine? Ridiculous. Terrance? Ew. Brittany? Crazy-eyed coattail rider. Monte? Boring. Boom, there's your five. #callmespoilerking
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Heh. I forgot I'm registered on CBS.com under a pseudonym. Not a lot of middle-aged Asian guys named Kieran! We do have Kevin on lock, though, for some reason (also not my name).
I still have a hard time seeing Joseph running away with the vote; I felt he had a relatively low-key edit and he went early jury, but I guess we'll see.
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43 minutes ago, Lamb18 said:
I'll actually kind of miss them when it's over. I always do, even the rotten ones. They've kept me company over the summer, and I see and hear them more often than I do anyone else. But I'll be kind of glad when the show's over, too.
I know the feeds are dead boring right now and the scheduling of this final week was shitty planning (shocker!), but on the whole I'm really happy with these 80ish-day seasons after so many years of 90+ days. (Typical Grodner, it takes a global pandemic to improve her show.) Even a cast this volatile didn't need another two weeks of padding; I feel like I can't complain too much about the overall pacing prior to F4. For better or worse, Split House was the right kick in the ass at the right time, IMO.
That said, I'm looking forward to the Great Annual Forgetting that begins with the return of Survivor. Usually by December I've gotten to the point of having to look up who was in the season that just ended. I'll for sure remember Taylor, Michael, and—bleh—Kyle, and maybe Jasmine and Turner on a good day. I'll probably need prompting to remember Monte, even if he wins (ZING!). Otherwise: "Wait, which Alyssa was in this cast? Obviously it wasn't Britney, but was it Brittany, Britini, or Other Brittany this year?"
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BB production, royally screwing up?
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23 minutes ago, Lady Whistleup said:
Another thing is the F4 juror does not actually go to the jury house. They stay in a hotel to do press before going straight to the jury roundtable. So if Brittany is evicted I actually think that will be good for her to not go to jury.
Good for her, but I'd say even better for the jury. Homegirl needs to decompress in private.
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5 hours ago, Nashville said:
Depeche Mode has been one of my main jams since the’80s, so don’t ask me to pick a favorite; if pushed on it, though, it would probably be a 3-way tie between Personal Jesus / Blasphemous Rumors / Barrel Of A Gun.
"Strangelove" for me, followed by "People are People" and "Behind the Wheel."
17 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:Regardless of what Taylor and Monte have said or are saying, they’ve been quite obvious with the sly smiles, longing looks, and flirty banter. You’d have to be a complete idiot not to realize that something has changed.
Oh, wait. I just remembered who I’m talking about. Never mind.
Monte and Taylor, please be smart about this and keep it under your hats, please please please.Everybody else, please continue being dumb, self-absorbed, and unperceptive about the obvious, please please please.
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S43.E13: Snap Some Necks and Cash Some Checks
in Survivor
The veterans thing puts a redemptive spin on this mess of a season. (Open memo to CBS/Probst: Matching donations—rarely a bad look.) But man, I hope 44 is edited by actual editors; I don't think the interns they used for this one have a future in the biz. I like Jesse, but this should not have been his 13-episode audition reel for a returnee season.