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Woo-ful strategizing costs player a $1 million dollar prize in an eventful and entertaining season of Survivor

The Return of the King

Survivor: Caramoan “Show me your teeth!” I don’t quite know how it came to this but here we are at the final tribal council and there is a contestant badgering Dawn, an elderly Mormon mother of six, to take out her false teeth so she can reveal her insecurities on national television as penance for voting someone off.  That’s reality ...

The West Wing Season Four The fourth season of The West Wing sees the show continue on as strong as ever.  It is however, notable for bringing a close to the Aaron Sorkin years on the show as he left at the end of the season due to disagreements with Warner Bros.  The show also loses Rob Lowe midway through ...

Survivor:  Caramoan The 26th season of Survivor starts in February and the cast has now been fully revealed.  They’re doing a repeat of the Fans vs Favourites set up.  Well, officially, they are.  In actuality, we seem to be getting Fans vs Goats. ‘Goats’ in Survivor are the contestants that are so terrible/unlikable/mentally-unhinged that a smart, dominant player purposefully doesn’t ...

The West Wing Season 3 The third season of The West Wing sees the show at a crossroads in its narrative.  The major story arc for the second season is focused on Jeb Barlet’s failure to disclose his MS condition to the public and the ramifications this has on running for a second term as president.  In some ways, I ...

Survivor: Philippines My favourite reality tv show of all time Survivor is back for its 25th season with Survivor: Philippines.  The producers had some work to do after their previous season Survivor: One World fizzled badly with a cast too heavily stacked with pawns, introverts and idiots.  The winner, a woman named Kim, comfortably outplayed her opponents and strolled to ...

Survivor: One World Finale Survivor: One World ended up being a pretty terrible season.  It’s probably one of the bottom five in the show’s history.  The final episode didn’t really improve much and in fact, the lead up to the final Tribal Council pretty much summed up just how dreadful some of the contestants were.  Christina, the self-styled ‘underdog’, simply ...

Survivor: One World – Episode 11 – “Never Say Die” Okay I give up.  Survivor: One World was a season with an interesting premise and a fresh cast but this episode was just too much stupidity for me to handle. It’s been a somewhat entertaining season in its early stages, particularly because of the stupidity of some of the contestants ...

Game of Thrones Season Two Episode Four – Garden of Bones For my money, this season of Game of Thrones has continued the high standard set by the first season and continues to be my favourite show on the air.  This season has done an excellent job at ratcheting up the stakes of the first season with the four kings ...