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One of the only seasons in the twenties to not feature any returning players, Survivor Cagayan at least had a killer gimmick.

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Up to this point in the show, Survivor has gotten the most pathos from its Loved Ones segments, where late in the game contestants would get to hear from home.

The back half of this season is a solid season, with a great arc for the winner and some nice alliance shakeups.

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Another season with a sprinkling of returning players, which is a very good way to get some in-depth character studies on top of the base game.

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Not much to say about this one.

A mechanical rehash of the previous season, “Survivor South Pacific” (it’s Samoa again) brings back two returning players and keeps the Redemption Island gimmick that allows players to return from the dead.

Besides a very stupid mechanic twist, this season was a character study of two Survivor power players.

After an incredible run, it was almost a relief to get a total dud of a season.

After finishing up the Dune series (boy I wish I had had a place to review those at the time), I was looking for something that felt more like a good book, and less like a weird boring slog.

A few years back, for pandemic and budget reasons, Survivor announced a “New Era” change in format.

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I’m really trying to avoid having my viewing experience tainted by “fandom” consensus opinions, but there was no escaping the knowledge that this is considered one of the best seasons ever.

This one really just fires on all cylinders.

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This season has two very different halves.

At the beginning of my Survivor journey, when I no longer could bear waiting a week between episodes and my jaw unhinged to the floor, ready to consume more content, Jesse told me to watch Tocantins.

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Gabon provided exquisite scenery and the challenges and merge shenanigans were great, but it was the social game, and larger-than-life characters, that put this one over the top.

The "Fans vs Favorites" format is basically All-Stars with red shirts.

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An all-timer.

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I'm given to understand that this is not a well-liked season for the fandom due to its "class war" gimmick (following the "race war" of season 13), but I enjoyed how it confirmed basic material analysis: the tribe that was well-fed and well-rested had the…

A great season, after getting past the iffy "race war" pretense of having tribes of white people, black people, asian people and latin American people competing in tribes. things got very good when a mutiny left the Aitu tribe outnumbered and they stood t…

a heavily reused location and a dumb Exile Island/hidden immunity idol gimmick that went nowhere, boosted by back-to-back triple crosses orchestrated by Cerie, Terry's run of immunity challenge wins, and an all-time great crazy in Shane, a 3 pack a day sm…

middling cast is elevated by a stunning Mayan temple setting and the return of Steph, who is the most Main Character a contestant has ever been.

One of my favorites so far, for location, challenges, game mechanics, and personalities.

A gender war season, not too notable except for winner Chris's incredible run after the men were whittled down to just him.

You know, I was really primed to hate this show.

All-Stars was fun having seen the previous 7 seasons, like an Avengers team-up of survivors come and gone.

An all-time great hero in Rupert and an all-time great villain in Jonny Fairplay.

The best survivor thing is when a coalition who thinks they have the game locked up are betrayed from within, and their leader is obliterated in council with 0 warning.

Great locale (Thailand) and some great contestants (Robb the goth bartender, Shii Ann the corporate recruiter, Helen the diving instructor) that got voted off in favor of the two laziest dudes in the bunch

disney put the "sorry for the racism" card in front of this one for the Siamese cats, but there's lots of fun to go around!

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The best Pixar movie about the raw power of human creativity.

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Myst, for many years the bestselling PC game of all time, has been subjected to like a dozen remakes with more and more realistic graphics, but the core experience doesn’t marginally improve because the world is not meant to be seen in that high fidelity.

Here’s to all the big kids at the playground, clipping through walls and corrupting memory to get on top of the monkey bars, inspiring the next generation of toddlers to make their own fun.