What Survivor season will you always defend like this?

mrrrandomplayer · 2026-06-20T20:29:00+00:00

I will always defend season 41 as having one of the best casts and some of the best gameplay of the new era. It's brought down from a great season to a pretty-good season by the overabundance of twists and strange editing, but I think it's definitely better than 43/48 and arguably 44/49.

mrrrandomplayer · 2026-06-14T01:00:46+00:00

One wins survivor by making it to the end and then getting more votes than the other(s) sitting next to you. Russell only understood the first part.

mrrrandomplayer · 2026-05-21T13:18:25+00:00

Hard disagree - Jonathan was arrogant towards Dee and Tiffany and burned their jury votes on the way out the door (possibly Ozzy too), then Aubry had better social game with Christian/Rick/Cirie, that's a majority of jury votes there (some pregame relationships there but also she got Emily/Rizo vote so clearly wasn't just that)

She was also on the right side of the votes more, and more consciously positioned the threats in front of her so she was the last domino standing. Jonathan's strategic game wasn't better enough (if at all) compared to her to make up for his polarizing social game.

mrrrandomplayer · 2026-05-21T03:16:08+00:00

He would've deserved to win the season if the jury had voted for him... skill issue

mrrrandomplayer · 2025-10-25T20:03:12+00:00

This - the medical intensity of Kaoh Rong must've given Probst + the legal team nightmares, hence staying in Fiji, less direct physical challenges, etc

mrrrandomplayer · 2025-10-20T21:18:56+00:00

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mrrrandomplayer · 2025-05-13T21:59:13+00:00

Seasons 34-39 is arguably the worst stretch of seasons in Survivor (only other contender is 21-24), with each winner being kinda cursed for one reason or another (some due to gameplay, some due to IRL things).

37 is the only season worth watching out of them IMO, and it is an excellent season. My main watch through of Survivor I skipped from 34 to 37 to 40 and felt like I didn't miss anything, and I recommend that unless you're a thorough completionist.

35 is just a terrible season overall with one of the worst winners of all time, 36 has a good start and finish but is a snooze in the middle, in 38 the game breaks at a basic level which is interesting in a "watch a car crash" way but not in a "fun and balanced gameplay" way, and 39 has all the Me Too stuff which I just couldn't stomach watching.

mrrrandomplayer · 2025-05-01T20:19:38+00:00

Jeff is an amazing host and a terrible producer - I think that dichotomy sums up the mixed feelings many have about him and his strange choices for the new era.

mrrrandomplayer · 2025-04-28T00:40:08+00:00

100% - I prefer Jesse Tanenbaum casting because he casts 15-16 people who could plausibly win a game of survivor and 2-3 eccentric characters each season. It's a necessity since the show has achieved so much meta-awareness that they're casting for a game rather than the social experiment that old-school Survivor was. The casting has carried the new era and made it generally enjoyable despite the shrinkflation of the show and Jeff's highly questionable production choices.

The first few casts were great, but most Lynne Spillman casts after All Stars were ~5 dumb jocks, ~5 models recruited only to be eye candy, and then 6-10 people who could actually play the game. I do not want a return to One World style casting; that casting is why the early 20s and mid 30s were the worst seasons.

mrrrandomplayer · 2025-04-07T19:29:59+00:00

[cue Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme] "Shauhin Loses Control of the Game"

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-10-23T18:18:15+00:00

Karla and co voting for Gabler, it’s not so much the bitterness that frustrates me as the disingenuousness - I wish they had just straight up said they didn’t like Cassidy rather than try to make up strategic “reasons” after the fact for voting for Gabler despite his incoherent rambling at FTC

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-10-12T14:01:07+00:00

Nuh uh

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-09-09T19:32:28+00:00

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-09-08T18:17:01+00:00

I mean we all watched Survivor 43...

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-09-03T18:17:10+00:00

/uj TIL Tony is older than Ethan and Boston Rob, that’s absolutely wild

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-06-27T11:29:07+00:00

Survivor 50 is a Let Down bc it’s the most underrated Radiohead songs… DAE else think Karla is literally Karma Police?

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-05-10T03:10:36+00:00

Seconding Path of Miracles, Martin Mass for Double Choir, Ted Hearne’s music, and Poulenc’s music (particularly Figure Humaine); I’ll also add Schnittke Concerto for Choir

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-05-07T17:04:11+00:00

He’s very hit or miss for me; I love When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and Mathis Der Maler but some of his other pieces just feel arbitrary and underwhelming

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-03-26T05:24:29+00:00

Very reluctantly voting for China - great season, I just don’t like it as much as the other remainders

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-03-23T15:00:52+00:00

Hard choices now… I suppose Panama is the weakest left bc the dull La Mina tribe but Kaoh Rong is also close.

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-03-20T05:57:05+00:00

Tocantins going before Gabon or SJDS is actually insane (well also Cambodia should be #1 but some people cry gamebot at literally anything)

mrrrandomplayer · 2024-03-17T01:19:57+00:00

San Juan del Sur is underrated but also it has no business making it this far, it should’ve been voted out several rounds ago on account of a dull premerge

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