Review: Survivor, "No Man Left Behind"
The “Previously On” sequence that opens tonight’s episode of Survivor is a luxury the show couldn’t afford before 90-minute episodes, at least this early in the season, and it made a conscious effort to pretend that there have been meaningful storylines coming out of Reba and Belo. The longer episodes did enable a general sketching out of the dynamics—Katurah’s one-sided feud with Bruce at Belo, and Austin’s Beware Advantage at Reba—that we get reminded of here, but there’s just no way for those details to feel like stories when they completely fall out after the immunity challenge. When only one tribe has been to tribal council, there’s really only one storyline, even with longer runtimes.
I’m glad that Jeff has taken some degree of responsibility for Hannah and Brandon being casting failures (and Brandon posted a fun TikTok showing a sense of humor about his level of failure), but I don’t know if I can understand why they would ever be placed on the same tribe. Perhaps they…
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