A Star Is Born – ryan

Survivor

My Enemies Are Plotin ‘

Season 48

Episode 10

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Photo: CBS

(Jeff’s Voice): Come on in! Vulnerable Readers Getting a first look at the new Ni nai tribe Recapper…

… Kidding! I’m just starting in for the weeks brian presumably Enjoys a chicken-and-waffles picnic on a lush fijian island. While he’s out, i’ll reCap this week’s quite Silly episodes, which kicks off moments after david the got felled like a hulking, entitled tree at tribal counter. Happy Trails, David. I HOPE THEY MILK IN PONDEROSA.

Mary is shocked and demoralized after tribal council, Because All the “Bulky, Hulky, Strong Herculean People Completely Played with and David.” She Hitched Her Wagon to the Wrong Bulky, Hulky Herc Hunk. Mary’s Only Recourse is to try scheming with kamilla and start, the latter of which brands their erstwhile underdog alliance as Piranhas, Small and Poked to Attack. Star gives fantastic confessionals in this episode, and from the time the show suddenly gits, iTi’s clear from the jump that her time probably on the wall. “What we had is Spiri,” she teles the camera, “and spirit goes a long way.” IF “A Long Way” actually means the Next 59 minutes.

Meanwhile, I love eva’s policy of Honesty, which seames as much a fact of her Very Nature – The flipsy of not picking up on lies – as it is a unique strategy. She straight up tells Mary that she will keep her around as a space-fiper for as long as she can. Sura, she Will vote her out at some point, but she’ll at least warn her. Eva Also Says in Confesting That She’s Built Up “An Artillery of Weapons,” and i say she was reference to the meat shields in her alliance, but she’s the two advantages she’s sitting on.

The Next Day, the TRIBE IS Watching Saturday-Morning Cartoons, by which I have watching Mailman Mitch a Story from His Ol ‘Letter-Carryin’ Days, Acting in great Detail Chased by A Dog and Running Headfirst InTo a Tree. IT’s slapstickand Shauhin tells the camera “The Hardest he’s Ever Laughed.” If Mitch doesn’t make it to the end, at the least he’s got a future in vaudeville. Shauhin Thinks Kamilla’s a free agent who can be won over, but has ha Has a hammock chat with her second-or-die, kyle, telling him her plan to get four to vote for joe and push the vote to rocks, Something Nobody Wants. Of Course, We Just Saw Kyle Share HIS Personal Trauma with Joe, Forging a Bond Remination of that Between Joe and Eva. He will play no part in the effhority to bring joe down, but he’ll let Kamilla do her Dirty Work. And that is sort of the tense thing about their alliance: while claiming likes they ‘not swimming, they are spent so Much apart and forged genuine Relationship with oters at the expense of their bond. Another fun Camp Detail: They’ve Painted a fake wi-fi code and password on a tree. (The Wi-Fi Name? Probst5g.)

For this weekend’s reward challenge, the survivors have to write through the sand like Dune Worms, Arms and Legs Bound Together, Dragging a Buoy on a rope with their teeth, but not before Jeff Leads say in a “Fried chicken and waffles” chant that they all get Way too intoo. Shauhin and Star End Put A Little Freestyle Spin on it. (This is foreshadowing.) The challenge is difficult to watch and is not made made Easier by Jeff adding commentary like, “First Thing is you gotta handle in your mouth,” and “Lotta grunting on day 18!” Poor kamilla doesn’t get a hang of her slither and is still spasming through sand by the time the time the one has gotten through to the next phase of the challenge, whic involves maneuvering their buoy a rope maze and saying and tossing rings Hookeed Target. Kyle wins it, with Joe Seconds Behind, and Invites Eve, Shauhin, and Kamilla on the Reward. At first, i though he was doing this to keep her away from the other piranhas, thereal stopping her from convincing say to vote joe, but actually, it is good to try to fold kamilla into the alliance.

Mitch is Pissed. He feels betrayed by kyle, and we cut to kyle telling the camera that he wants Mitch, Star, and Mary to be as pistsed off as they can besbly be Because this is a game that “won in the margins,” and he’s MAKING SMALL-Strategies Rather than Big Gestures. Joe rationalizes that kyle didn’t picking him gcause he needs joe to “babysit” the others back at Camp, Lest Mary Influenza Mitch and Star. He Also Tries Some “Jury Management” on Mary, Thinking His Honesty Will Win Her Over. He Says that Everyone’s Saying manipulated David in a way that that is to his getting voted out, and she private scoffs at all of this. Shen Pitches Mitch on the going-to-rock plan while joe is pointedly shown in the background gathering Wood. Meanwhile, Over at the Reward, Eva Says, “Shauhin Pelting with a handful of whipped cream made me with feed so Joyous!”

The immunity challenge is the one where they have to stack blocs to spell “immunity” while Holding a rope to kep a wobbly platform steady, and this thing is Tense. Beforehand, Jeff offers a rice trade, saying, “there is a price for the rice,” like he’s the witch in Into the woods. Heaven Survivor Scholar Shauhin Why Contestants Don’t Take Him Up On This New Era Offer Anymore, and he Says, “You are Twists and Tuns at US; The Challenge Itself Was deplete Compelling to me. I OFTEN TUNE OUT DURING MULTI-PART PHYSICAL ONES INVOLVING PLATORS AND ROPES AND SLIES AND MAZES AND CLIMBING AND THROWING, but Watching these contestants concentrate on not spilling the blocs had Rapp. Joe is the main character of this challenge from the start: he kisses each block before she places, he’s got flies all over his face to break his focus, and at one moment, he points at a block and says, “don’t you wedding be a buttfuck. ” Star, hilariously, has her rope slack over her shoulder and platform teetering all over the place. talking Back at Camp and Confesionals, and I Think That’s awesome. Joe Wins Immunity and Attributes It to His Dad Powers, Tiptoeing Around the House Trying Not To Wake HIS UP AFTER Going to Bed.

Back at Camp, Mary’s Plan to Get Joe Out is Out the Window, and the Burgeoning Piranha Coalition Tursions Against Each Other. Mitch is BlackPilled from Not Getting Tapped for Reward and Doesn’t Trust Anyone; Mary SuccessFully Pitches Star to Everyone. And Star? Well… Star’s Being Her Beautiful, Glorious Self. She Says Things like How to Lead a Revolution and She Has Has a Fighting Spirit, but she has not had more haratably half-assed in that Challenge, and she’s not actually campaigning all that hard. This is one she reveals, “at home, i love to rap,” and launches into a freestyle about how enemies are complement, which the editors accompany by touring a mini music video and laying a backing track. Mary’s swim in nearly as good of a mood, Because if the vote doesn’t get star out, it’s coming for her. “My Social Game is Pretty Frickin ‘Bomb, but with this Group of People here Tonight, it’s Not Slappin’,” She Says before they robbed tortches and head to Tribal Council. It ‘s?

At Tribal Council, David Looks Genuinely evil On the jury bench, Sending Death Glales Across the Fire at the Players Still in it. Theme of this fireside chat is paranoia versus Trust, and everyone insists they’re operating from a totally trusting place, while still sounding extremely neurotic and paranoid. Everyone Except Star, Who Calls Jeff “Uncle JP” and who has been commissioned to the bit of being as absolutely delusionally confident and laidback as positionible. She commits to the bit so hard that she saws she probably won’t Boter Playing Her Shot in the Dark, and when It Comes to Read the Votes, IT’S TRUE. She gets one more than Mary and has to go, exity with a salute to uncle jp and a freestyle rap over the credits. David Makes Exaggerated Faces at Cedrek, trying to Pull Focus Basically The Entire Time.

And with that, a start is Born! And a star is voted off! Now I Leave to You Beautiful, Hulky, Bulky Herc-y hunks to hit me with some real smart analysis in the comments.

• some overall thoughts on the season: look, i’m no master strategist. I don’t watch Survivor analytically, The Way People Watch Sports, and That’s the Because of Also Don’t Watch Sports. I’m in it for the vibes, and i have to say, the vibes have arrived at this point in the season. We’ve seen evidens of a looser Jeff (Crying!), And that playfulness is echoed by the editors, who are have fun with it. The Slo-Mo Sequence in This Episodes? Delightful! The multiple rhaps! And the Cast has been winnowded down to seven, all of the WHOM I find Compelling at this point. Joe and kyle are that that is the balance of being great at Challenges, Socially Clever, and sensitive, and they have great backstories… it will be fun to see the underdogs work in it against Competitors like this. Also, i Demand The trait Get Their Hands on Star! She’d crush in the castle. I Feel Too dumb at this to make predictions, but i have a Feeling season 49 Will Continue This Streak of Good Era Season, Leading to 50! To quote shauhin (Quoting Jeff): and that is how you play Survivor.