Episode 40.11

I am currently unsure yet where to rank this season. It will probably be among the good seasons if it has a good ending in the end. That means it would need a good winner and an otherwise satisfying ending that I like in the end. I wouldn’t rank this as the best. But to rank it as bad or even average just does not seem like it works for this season yet. I would hope that it doesn’t go down in the rankings later.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 2, Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 3, Tony- 3, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Sophie- maybe a regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, Jeremy talks about how he used the advantage as he is at tribal council by himself, wondering what happened at tribal council. He wants to know what happened. Ben talks about how his target was able to leave before the vote and will target Jeremy the next time around. While Jeremy had Tyson as a shield, it might have worked too well.

Michele thinks that no one trusts her since she was left out of the vote. Tony talks about how he hasn’t been looking for an idol since he does not want to repeat the mistakes of his second time in the game. He looks for one now as everyone else is exhausted and asleep. Nick joins him at some point, but Tony redirects him to where he already looked. Tony does find an idol. We then switch to Sarah helping make clothes. She’s doing a clothing line that I have to guess that Survivor might want part of the profits of or they wouldn’t promote it for free like this. A fashion show is put on for the others with these clothes. Tony wants to play the game and lies to Jeremy about what happened since he wants to get rid of Jeremy. Tony never went undercover in the real world. Kim thinks that Tony is now her biggest enemy out here.

In the second segment of the show, we go to the edge of extinction. People don’t want to lose the game that they are playing. Tyson thinks that Adam is going to have a hard time. What did I do? Wait, not me. Parvati and Natalie find a note there. They don’t want to tell anyone about what’s going on. They look up there for something, but realize they have to find something under the bed of the shelter. Parvati distracts people while Natalie looks for it. She grabs it and it is an extortion advantage. They can’t play in the challenge or participate in a vote unless they surrender all their fire tokens. They have to figure out who the best person to do this to is as it would cause a lot of chaos.

In the third segment of the show, Nick talks about how he was called a vampire in his season. Tony reads his new advantage which he is very excited about up until reading the last line where it was used against him. He has to give six fire tokens. He confronts his fake alliance about it. Michele reveals that she gave hers away, but lies about why that would be. Jeremy gives one of his away. He also gets one from Nick and Ben as well. We get to the immunity challenge next. The winner of the challenge gets two fire tokens.

If the players know their way around a pole, they will win the challenge. Will they go low or high on the pole? Maybe they will have fun going all over the pole in various places. Kim is out of the challenge first. Denise and Michele both lose control of their poles as does Sarah. These women do not know how to do poles in the end. Nick is the first man out of the challenge. Sophie is the last woman. Who would have thought that all these men knew how to handle poles so well? Ben is out of the challenge and Jeremy drops out next right afterwards leaving Tony with the win. He knows his poles well. He is glad that Jeremy did not win the challenge. He might give the tokens he just won away.

In the fourth segment of the show, Kim knows that Jeremy is the target and many people think that the vote should be split between Jeremy and Michele. Ben is also brought up as a potential target. Tony wonders if Sophie should be the target in the end. But he has to know that Jeremy could win immunity more likely than Sophie could. Still, he wants to change the target and even tells Jeremy that some other people were targeting Jeremy, without revealing that he was the one who was doing this. Jeremy does not know what is going on anymore. Tony has to know how this will sound if it comes to light. But it does seem like now Tony wants to save Jeremy. What is going on?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Sophie talks about the advantages and idol that were played at the last tribal council. Jeremy thinks that everyone is telling half truths. This makes me wonder if Thanos is there since he likes halves. Nick hopes that big moves don’t backfire as you have to make moves that add to your résumé while also not getting rid of the jury votes you want. I should look up how many winners voted out every member of the jury. Michele didn’t scramble and most of them thought that things were too quiet after tribal council. The game level is high.

Psychological warfare is going on with all the players. Not much can be gathered from tribal this time and it doesn’t seem like we know what might have happened with the votes just yet. No idols are played this time around. Sophie is voted out and even mentions to everyone that she had an idol in her pocket. She gives one fire token to Sarah and the other to Kim.

On the next Survivor, Sarah is upset at Tony and he is now the target for many people as he now has a spy nest by climbing a tree. Kim wants to make a risky move and we will see what all happens later in this show, maybe. They set up a lot for later.

Total confessional count: Ben- 18, Michele- 14, Sarah- 16, Kim- 11, Denise- 10, Tony- 24, Nick- 11, Sophie- 16, Jeremy- 20; Natalie- 12, Amber- 14, Danni- 9, Ethan- 10, Rob- 19, Parvati- 15, Yul- 12, Wendell- 9, Adam- 25, Tyson- 16. New confessionals this episode: Michele- 2, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 1, Tony- 7, Nick- 0, Sophie- 2, Jeremy- 5, Ben- 1; Natalie- 1, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 2, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0.

Fire token count: Sarah- 2, Kim- 3, Denise- 3, Tony- 2, Nick- 2, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 0; Natalie- 6, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0, Sophie- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Tony- regular idol.

I do not know if Tony gave his two new fire tokens to people that he felt he owed them to or not so I can only guess that what I have is right unless or until being told otherwise. Sophie has sixteen confessionals and is higher than Michele, Kim, Denise, and Nick with Denise as the lowest with ten. She has the same number as Sarah. The highest of those still in the game is Tony with twenty-four. As for confessionals that are new, Sophie had two or maybe just one. I think that it was two and it was the same number as Michele and Kim. The only people higher are Jeremy and Tony with Tony as the highest with seven. The lowest is Nick with just zero. I will be back next week with the next post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.