Tag Archives: Survivor

 Game of Thrones Season Two – Episode One – “The North Remembers” It was with great anticipation that I sat down to watch the return of Game of Thrones, one of my favourite new shows of 2011.  Its a minor miracle but I’ve managed to avoid reading any spoilers on Twitter or via a messageboard which made me very happy.  ...

You would presume that after twenty six seasons and over four hundred episodes of Survivor, everything that could happen, has happened.  We’ve seen people voluntarily give up individual immunity (Erik the Ice Cream Scooper), get voted out when holding two immunity idols (James), fake the death of a relative so they could go on a reward trip (Johnny Fairplay).  You ...

After about four or five seasons of major tinkering, Survivor One World feels like a return to roots for the grand daddy of reality tv shows, now running its 24th season.  The last few seasons of Survivor have been of varying quality but they all felt like they moved too far away from the basic formula of the show and ...

It was me Austin! It was me all along!

Black Mirror Black Mirror is a three part futuristic drama created by Charlie Brooker.  Each episode is thematically related in showing a rather bleak and morbid view of how the future could be if taken to an extreme length.  Some of the themes and motifs that are covered include 24 hour news media, reality television, social networking and video game ...

Survivor: South Pacific – Season 23 – “Double Agent” *contains spoilers for episode eight’s eviction* The latest season of Survivor has really hit its stride with the eighth episode as the two tribes head into a merger and with several players on the show now carrying pretty compelling stories leading into the final few episodes.  Of the two returning players, ...

Terra Nova One of the lasting legacies of JJ Abram’s show Lost is that it reversed a trend from the early 2000s that saw free-to-air America television networks being dominated by reality tv shows.  Reality tv programming was cheap to produce and easy to make – it wasn’t reliant on the consistency or quality of a group of writers to ...

The Killing In the pilot episode, The Killing came across as a smart, sharply written crime drama that had a similar look and feel to the popular Girl With A Dragon Tattoo series.  The show was based on a popular Danish cop drama although I’m not sure how true to the source material it is.  The concept of having a ...

Q&A Anyone who’s kept up with The FAT Website over the years will know that one of my favourite forms of television entertainment is politics.  Modern day politics is all about sound bytes, spectacle, name-calling and muck raking.  Whether its Silvio Burlusconi having bunga bunga parties, Donald Trump running for the White House or Muammar Gaddafi giving a speech under ...

Here’s what I’ve been watching on the telly this week: Jeopardy: IBM Watson Episodes I normally never watch the game show Jeopardy but I was drawn in by their recent IBM Watson series.  You might recall about ten years ago when IBM created a computer named Deep Blue that played a series of chess games against the grand master Gary ...