The good thing about Survivor is that just when you begin to get bored with how the season is playing out, they change it up on you. Now this episodes turnabout was no surprise, they gave it all away in the previews. But it’s still nice to know that even a season that was turning out to be semi-predictable could still become exciting again. More after the jump…
Ding Dong, The Dick is Dead!
Alright, so I’m writing this a little late, so I’m going to keep the recap part out (if you don’t know by now . . . you don’t really care).
After last week’s episode, I had a horrible vision. I could imagine very clearly, all done up in too much makeup, Dave sitting in the top 3 at the final tribal council. I don’t know what it was, but the image was all too easy to conjur up. Well, now I don’t have to worry about that any more! More after the jump…
This season’s Survivor might as well be called Survivor: Smackdown. Another episode of down and dirty, man-on-man (and woman-on-woman) combat leads me to believe that they thought WWE Diva Ashley was going to stick around a lot longer than two episodes. More after the jump.
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Here we go again, another season of Survivor. Luckily, we had some time to rest this go-round before they threw another cast at us (what was the hiatus between Cook Islands and Fiji, like two weeks?). Last week’s episode was alright as far as intro shows go. Much more after the jump…
I sat down in front of the television this morning with plans on hammering through some piled-up programs saved to my DVR. To my dismay I was greeted with the new Anne Heche chick-show called Men In Trees. I should have just deleted it and moved on. No one would have been the wiser, but instead I pressed play, still determined to watch at least one episode of every new program offered by the networks.
To my surprise, Men In Trees is not a horrible show. For some reason I thought it was. I was even going to go out on a limb and declare it the first to be sacrificed to the ratings gods (that’ll actually be Happy Hour on FOX, it appears). As it turns out Men In Trees is just hacky (Northern Exposure meets Sex and the City), and if I’d been born with a vagina and worked as a secretary I might even become a regular. But that isn’t the case. If ever there was proof that some shows are just targeted at other people, this is it. Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives offer a little something for both genders. Men in Trees, not so much. Perhaps the real question in all of this is why I kept watching the whole hour when the program was so clearly designed for someone else.
Men In Trees airs Friday nights on ABC. That should tell you all you need to know.
Would you believe that I’ve never seen an episode of Survivor? That is until twenty minutes ago, when I watched the premiere episode of the new season (the controversial season!). As it turns out, its pretty entertaining. Not something I’m going to be checking out regularly, but who knows. What I really wanted to see was how the whole ‘divide everyone into tribes based on race’ thing was going to play. It was about as expected. Anyone tuning in to see America take giant leaps backward in civil rights wasn’t going to find it here, but there were moments that smacked of stereotype. The best being right away when one of the white guys stole one of the minority team’s chickens. Classic white guy!
I didn’t tape last night’s installment so all ready I’m beginning to think that may be the last Survivor episode I see for the next seven years, but everyone can relax– society isn’t going to crumble.
Survivor is on CBS Thursday’s.
[For further reading, check out Chuck Klosterman's column in the current Esquire (Oct. 06) where he compares Survivor to Lost.]
