Review: Survivor, "I Don't Want to Be The Worm"
Early in “I Don’t Want to Be the Worm,” Jake passes out for a second time, in an incident extremely similar to the one from a few episodes ago. It triggers an emotional package about his battle with a binge eating problem, showcasing two years of work to get himself into better shape both physically and mentally. And it comes after a lengthy interlude at Belo where the players talk about the impact that 10 days of little to no food is having on all players’ minds and bodies.
That being said, I don’t fully know how to interpret what we’re seeing. The editors clearly know that Jake is physically struggling, given how they’ve been signposting it, but was the medical team not involved in this discussion? The presence of critical care nurse Kellie is used to suggest that this situation is fine: she’s convinced that he just got up too quickly (because Bruce bullied him to), and that he just needs to move more slowly at camp. We know that everyone is struggling at this point in the season, bu…
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