Review: Survivor, "Hide 'N Seek"
When CBS announced last year that Survivor was expanding to 90-minute episodes (a little over an hour with ads), I felt generally optimistic. Like many fans, I’ve had a lot of issues with the direction Jeff Probst has taken the show in the New Era, from the shortened 26-day game to the proliferation of dumb twists and advantages that obscure the show’s basic “vote out a tribe member every week” premise. But longer episodes, at least, would allow the editors to show us more camp life, and better communicate the competing motivations and alliances heading into each weekly tribal council.
In theory, anyway. While I loved the Survivor 45 pre-merge, the season got a lot less interesting as it went on, especially because the edit didn’t foreground some of the most important dynamics (like Dee and Austin) until near the very end. And Survivor 46 has suffered from even more editing issues, with the first two pointlessly long two-hour episodes a real nadir for the New Era. Even now, there are v…
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