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My guess is they think Sam has the better chance of beating Kyle in a challenge, since they need someone to stop Kyle from possibly running the table.

Kinda expected the real Chalamet to make a cameo appearance amidst his lookalikes

I enjoy that once every few seasons, the editors abandon all pretense about who's going home and it's just an episode-long dunk on an annoying player.

If I was on Survivor and another player casually asked how to spell my name, my spider-sense would start tingling. :) Correction, ultimatuming Sol the way he did! When Genevieve started getting lots of confessionals after being invisible for three weeks, it made me think she was going home next.

He's actually just like Boston Rob, in that Rome is also definitely going to lose his first attempt at Survivor

Didn't Gabe have the idol that was only good for one tribal council? Or, if not, maybe the fact that everyone was suspicious of him made him play it here as a sign of good faith.

There is no criteria for voting for a Survivor winner. It could be "outwit, outplay, outlast" or checking boxes off a so-called resume.....or it could be the more human reason of giving a million dollars to someone you just like more in real life. Kenzie openly admitting she was dragged into a few votes was a plus for her, not a minus. If she'd come in all "well, actually...." and tried to pretend she was a secret mastermind, the jury would've rolled their eyes. Instead, just bring honest and forthright about everything won her enough votes for the title. AND, Kenzie did highlight her sneaky best move, which was helping create the social mirage that allowed so many players with idols to be blindsided. And, at least from what we were shown in the edit, Kenzie being real came off better than Charlie being a little too rehearsed. This is where being a superfan can backfire, with Charlie trying to hit all the boxes in a speech he's rehearsed a million times in his head.

I actually saw this as a good move from Charlie. The undercurrent was "look, Q is losing his mind at this tribal council, and you can't trust him. What about a common sense alliance of you, me, Maria, and Kenzie?"

Venus was 100 percent right about voting Charlie off, by the way. If Tim and Ben hem and haw about giving a Siga name before begrudgingly saying Moriah, then the absolute right play is to target Charlie or Maria since they're the ones Siga REALLY doesn't want to lose. Maria would've been safe due to the "Journey Six" alliance, but Charlie would've been the much more logical boot. Q and Tevan seemed upset at the idea that Venus would try to vote a man out to keep the women's numbers, but a women's alliance isn't likely to work since Venus/Soda/Liz all hate each other.

Agreed. If he'd lasted more than an episode, Jelinsky would've really gotten on my nerves. But as the first one out, he is immediately up there in the Trainwreck First Boot hall of fame.

Remember Austin's confession about how he wished he and Dee could be the next Rob & Amber? Well, that might be a bit truer than Austin realized, complete with the guy losing a jury vote. Did i miss something, or didn't Drew have a "safety without power" advantage? Did it have an expiration date, or did he play it and I forgot about it?

I was really hoping for a 3-2-1 vote to eliminate Drew, since all of Original Belo (Kellie, Kendra, Bruce) should've been able to realize that Drew is a bigger part of that Reba alliance than Sifu was. And, because I can't stand Drew.

Beyond casting, the show itself has to take some blame in this. They go out of their way to make it harder (fewer clothes, limited flint, limited rice) on the players because CBS is too cheap to pay for a 36-day season anymore. Then they arrange the original Lulu to be very obviously the weakest of the three tribes, to the point that an 0-3 streak seemed almost likely. So by just nine days in, no wonder it has to at least a couple of people being broken already.

OH MY GOD, I can't believe it's the same guy. That's amazing.

Bowen placing the last sketch in Seattle made me think it was going to be a rare case of an SNL running gag, where suddenly the guy with the long nails would be attacked by a giant dog (i.e. the puppy "destroying Seattle" from the previous sketch) I enjoy how 70% of Weekend Update is now everyone dunking on Colin Jost