(Season 17, Episode 12 – “The Good Things in Life Aren’t Easy”)
They do this to me every year. Even though I know it’s coming, it still gets me. Maybe because I can imagine what it would be like to be doing something so difficult and doing it completely out of touch with your loved ones. [...]

(Season 17, Episode 8)
So we go into tonight’s episode with ten remaining castaways. Sounds like a good time for a merge. Certainly the contestants think so. Don’t you just love it when the players of this game start thinking they know what’s going to happen only to find out things are different this time around? [...]

(Season 17, Episode 7)
Well, tonight Jeff threw the tribes for a loop by sending both to Tribal Council. I think it’s because the folks behind the scenes realized that the only way Kota was going to go to Tribal Council again was if the show forced them to. Hell, when they switched to individual immunity [...]

(Season 17, Episode 6)
What I love about this show is how things can turn around so quickly for people. Look at Susie. She was on the chopping block right after Gillian, and here we are a month later and she’s still hanging in there. At this point, other than hoping her tribe keeps on winning, [...]

(Season 17, Episode 5)
The theme of this season is the horrible curse of negativity and just downright ugliness that makes up the Fang tribe. Even shuffling up the tribes didn’t do anything to change the streak. All it did was make the Kota people that switched to the Fang tribe more miserable. But nobody is [...]

(Season 17, Episode 1 – Season Premiere)
One of the best games on television kicked off an amazing seventeenth run. As always, it takes a few episodes before you really start to care about any of these people, but it always happens. For now, at eighteen new faces it’s almost too early to care about who [...]