Survivor

By TV with MeeVee You don't need the physical endurance of an Olympian or a genius IQ to bring home money and prizes. This game is all about Lady Luck and enthusiasm. If you enjoy games of chance and seeing just how far your luck will take you, then you'll love this family-friendly game show. The rules are simple,...

By Jackie Let's see... last week we got rid of Rocky, someone who annoyed me to no end. The only other ones on the show who really irk me are Lisi and Dreamz. Will my own dreamz come true tonight?Eleven are left. Who will be voted out tonight?The show opened at the Ravu Camp on Day 20. As Dreamz and Lisi slept in the...

By Jackie Twelve are left. Who will be voted out tonight?The show opened on Day 17 at the Ravu camp as Tribe Testosterone awaited the arrival of Lisi from Exile Island. Alex and Edgardo think she'll be loyal to them and all are worried about her state of mind because she seemed ready to quit went sent away....

By Jackie This episode was very odd. I didn't care too much for the outcome, as you'll see.But that's not why I found it odd.For the most part, it really didn't move forward so much. Instead of, like the last episode, having some sort of show-planned back-up tickets for a flight, the flight the teams had to...

By Jackie There were finally some changes this week. I'm talking about the show itself, not the fact that it aired on Wednesday. Next week it will return to its regular Thursday night 8 PM ET/PT in most viewing areas.Thirteen are left. Who will be voted out tonight?The show opened with flies bugging the R...

By Jackie Well, we can't trust Phil Keoghan, we just can't. Last week I mentioned how he opened the show with "Who will be eliminated tonight?" This week, it was phrased differently, leading me to believe it would probably be a non-elimination leg. After all, we're due one. Ah, but not this week and it wa...

By Jackie Always so close, then the win slips away. I'm so ready for the merge or something to change this season.Having the one tribe at such a disadvantage makes them spiral downward more each episode. Of course, it works to put the fan base solidly in the camp of the wretched, but we can only sit and watc...

By Jackie Is Ravu going to ever win anything? Ever?Sixteen are left. Who will be voted out tonight?After the inevitable recap, the show opened with Ravu returning from the last Tribal Council after voting out Sylvia. James/Boston/Rocky was being a drama queen about it all (especially in light of wh...

By Jackie Gloria Query is a woman on a mission, a gal with a goal. That goal is to make it on the reality television show Survivor. Although I'm a huge fan of the show and have written about it since its first season, that's not a goal I share with her. Reading her history of casting calls that she sent to me via...

By Jackie It's a Survivor start unlike any we've seen before. ... She would return after the Tribal Council and join the losing tribe. The Immunity Challenge was a mix of similar challenges in the past, but not quite done before. ...

By Jackie It's a Survivor start unlike any we've seen before. Now, we were a bit cognizant of what ... Yau-Man ChanAs she was odd woman out, Julie was sent to Exile Island. ... She would return after the Tribal Council and join the losing tribe. ...

By Jackie Okay, this looks like a good cast! I don't care how they're split up. It's great to see real diversity on the show!Tonight's show began a bit differently as the tribes were already separated by ethnicity/race ... whatever. They had two minutes to gather supplies -- from bananas to firewood to tw...

By Jackie Summer is really heating up for the Reality TV genre fans! This week sees in the start of the highly anticipated (for me, anyway!) new series Treasure Hunters, the premiere of America’s Got Talent, and the pre-start of this season’s upcoming Big Brother 7: All Stars. Meanwhile, recent new...

By Jackie Well, last night was the big night, the season finale. As I thought, the commercials deliberately misled viewers into thinking that Cirie would win the fire-making tiebreaker challenge against Danielle. As an observer of the show and its promos since its inception, I know the editors ten...

By Jackie Time is dwindling and the season is near an end. On Sunday evening at 8pm ET/PT in most viewing areas, the two-hour finale will air followed by the reunion show. The Final Four are Cirie, Danielle, Aras and Terry. Who will win the million dollars? And, more importantly, will Shane clean up enou...

By Bennett Dawson Tonight's two hour season finale started out with an extended review of the entire season. It was a mediocre season of this so-called "reality" show, with many of the truly likable characters leaving early, and the annoying cast members sticking around for weeks and weeks. It should be men...

By Bennett Dawson I'm going to gloss over most of the details of last night's show and get to the meat of the matter. However, there were one or two interesting points to note:1) There are four women left and Rafe. Rafe commented on this by saying something like "Here we are, a little gay guy and four women as the fi...

By Bennett Dawson With only six of the original cast left in the jungle, it's easy to see the build up to the end. Wandering in circles all day chewing corn, these sad folks just want the entire ordeal to be over with. Screw the million dollar cameras, the multi-million dollar production crew, and especially sc...

By Bennett Dawson With the reduction in survivors to this final group of seven, the show is starting to be more about politics and maneuvering. The directors provide a long recap of the prior week's show and then a few minutes of infrared footage of the Survivor cast immediately following the tribal council....

By Bennett Dawson The recap of last week's episode seems more in focus, as if they've brought the stage lights up to opening night level. This is the point in the season where I was lured into watching Survivor three years ago. The tribal-crowd has thinned out, and there is more space; more opportunity to check...

By Bennett Dawson After a recap of last weeks episode (including all the thrill and chills of a newly merged tribe dealing with the blah blah of it all) XHAKÚM (sha-koom, heh!) passes another night to the tunes of Howler and The Monkeys.The Cast (Stephenie and Bobby-John not shown) The next morning sees Bobb...

By Bennett Dawson The Cast (Stephenie and Bobby Jon not shown) Where to start? Survivor has established a pattern, a progression that ultimately leads to a merging of the two tribes. That's what happened at the end of last week's episode, and that's where we pick up the action...NAKÚM, sleeping while the infra...

By Bennett Dawson The Cast (Stephanie and Bobby-John not shown) Starting with the usual with a recap of the previous episode, featuring Judd's loud mouth and banty cock attitude, my wife admits, "I don't like that guy anymore."Heh! Told her that I saw it coming from day one. After all, he's from "Jersey".My lo...

By Bennett Dawson The Cast (Stephanie and Bobby-John not shown) It seems like the sponsors of this show are in a hurry to end it. Not that I blame them too much, but hey, it is hot down there in Guatemala! Personally, I'd like to see how this cast of "survivors" would deal with a hurricane like the one that hit Guat...

By Bennett Dawson The Cast (Stephanie and Bobby-John not shown) Not much different this week. A recap of last week's episode, a bit of infrared camera footage of Judd getting mouthy, with Margaret casting down the traitor stone. NAKÚM is in political disarray.The next day it's more of the same for YAXHÁ (ya sh...