Carolyn may have some undiagnosed mental illness for which she ought to *be* on meds. At best, maybe she's afflicted with something like Tourette's. At worst, she might be possessed by demons. She reminds me of the crazy Portuguese girl from many seasons ago, but worse.

G Martin 87 said:

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Carolyn may have some undiagnosed mental illness for which she ought to *be* on meds. At best, maybe she's afflicted with something like Tourette's. At worst, she might be possessed by demons. She reminds me of the crazy Portuguese girl from many seasons ago, but worse.

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She's a drug counselor. Bet those sessions are a blast!

We turned it on and I opened thread right after that bozo fell. Best thing to happen on this show in years!

I liked seeing that snaky chick voted off.

Just got caught up and noticed the same thing. I wanted so bad to see her play the wrong idol. The return to camp should be interesting. Since a second vote for Carolyn was never read, will they other chick (Sara?) come clean about not having a vote, or will she change her story and tell everybody that she also voted out Helen? And she'll want to know why Carson flipped, but she can't have that conversation without revealing her secret.

There is nothing better than someone playing an idol that isn't real, so fingers crossed!

I read somewhere that the idol and the fake are different for each tribe. So tribe A finds idol A, fake B. Tribe B finds idol in the B shape, fake C. Tribe C finds a real C and a fake A. If that makes any sense.

Some pretty hilarious stuff on yesterday's episode. One of the worst jumps into the water / belly flops in the show's history during the immunity challenge by Lauren, and then the six words that Jeff Probst has probably been dreaming about for the last few months, "Jam Jam on a balance beam."

I really liked the twist of sending people to the other island, giving them each an II, but then sending them to another tribe.

I loved how bad a liar Josh was, telling his new tribe that he was 34, but then saying he had gone to college, he tried to get into medical school for 2 years, it didn't work out, so he became a personal trainer in 2020.

Within about 3 seconds they had realized that unless it had taken him 15 years to do his undergrad work, he had obviously gone to medical school, after hearing him say he wanted to do a puzzle at another challenge because he had to be good with his hands in his line of work.

Not to mention him saying he got into personal training in 2020 when basically every personal trainer in the world went out of business because of COVID.

Nevertheless, epic blind side, and Sarah depriving me of the thrill of watching her play a fake idol at Tribal.

At the very least, she is on the spectrum.

The Porkchop Express said:

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G Martin 87 said:

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Carolyn may have some undiagnosed mental illness for which she ought to *be* on meds. At best, maybe she's afflicted with something like Tourette's. At worst, she might be possessed by demons. She reminds me of the crazy Portuguese girl from many seasons ago, but worse.

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She's a drug counselor. Bet those sessions are a blast!

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it means she fried her brain on drugs.

I'm actually enjoying this season after stopping watching last spring and not watching in the fall.

The whole birdcage/fake idol was genius. Plus the tribe swap and idol.

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Did anyone notice that Carolyn appears to have mixed up which thing is the immunity idol and which is the dummy? I'm positive she said the coin was the idol and beads were the placebo after she found the key.

Absolutely hilarious watching the other 4 all suspect each other while they all assumed she was too dumb to find it.

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I thought the same exact thing and I'm confused by what happened last week with her hiding the "fake" idol that I thought was the real one.

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The Porkchop Express said:

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Did anyone notice that Carolyn appears to have mixed up which thing is the immunity idol and which is the dummy? I'm positive she said the coin was the idol and beads were the placebo after she found the key.

Absolutely hilarious watching the other 4 all suspect each other while they all assumed she was too dumb to find it.

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I thought the same exact thing and I'm confused by what happened last week with her hiding the "fake" idol that I thought was the real one.

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Yeah I still don't know which is which. Although the Survivor message boards say that her coin is the real idol and it varied purposefully from tribe to tribe.

Upon reviewing the #Survivor44 birdcage idol finds, it looks like each tribe's real idol is indeed the fake idol of another tribe:
Ratu - Beads (real), Medallion (fake)
Soka - Medallion (real), Coin (fake)
Tika - Coin (real), Beads (fake)

We are in for chaos at the merge! pic.twitter.com/O3F6unXzWK

— Mike Bloom (@AMikeBloomType) March 9, 2023

Damn.

On behalf of the entire Survivor crew, we send our deepest condolences to the Nale family. Keith was a one-of-a-kind human. He brought endless joy and laughter to Survivor fans and to those of us who made the show with him. He was adored by so many and will be greatly missed. pic.twitter.com/g7WMVaIJXq

— SURVIVOR (@survivorcbs) April 19, 2023

Pour one out.

How sad about Keith. Dying at 62 is way too young. Sounds like he had really bad cancer that he didn't realize about.

Good episode last night. Big move by Danny to get Brandon out and make an ally out of Frannie, not to mention ripping one on Probst on national TV..

I'm utterly baffled by Jamie. She thinks she has an idol (it's fake), but last night when Danny played his idol for Frannie, which meant all of their Frannie votes were nullified, she didn't try to play it to save herself even though there was a 1 in 4 chance they were going to vote her out. Some people seem to get far in the game just by drifting in the breeze.

Survivor will always be known for the first "alliance " of all the reality shows

Pretty good spot for this season to be in, a 3/3/3 split and not many goats. Whoever can navigate the game from here to the end will probably have a solid story to tell.

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Pretty good spot for this season to be in, a 3/3/3 split and not many goats. Whoever can navigate the game from here to the end will probably have a solid story to tell.

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Good take. Survivor has course corrected from Woke R Us and given us a lot of good players who are easy to root for in the past few seasons. Three years ago we would have had 10 Yam Yams and 6 Carolyns.

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The Porkchop Express said:

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Survivor has course corrected from Woke R Us and given us a lot of good players

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1/3 of the cast this season is gay

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At least none of them came after someone in real life because they were upset about something on a message board!

Did that happen?

Huh?

Is there something you would like to share with the class?

Albatross Necklace said:

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Huh?

Is there something you would like to share with the class?

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Nope. You know what I'm talking about.

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I gave this season a shot after turning survivor off when it went woke. While I don't like the over casting of LGB, they are not preaching at me so I am continuing to watch. I have liked this season enough that I binged season 43 last week and enjoyed it as well.

Keep the politics out of the show and I will continue to watch. The players are significantly more advanced now and I thoroughly enjoy that most all of them understand it is a game and do not hold personal grudges. There is a dramatic improvement in gameplay in my opinion. I also enjoy the shorter season as you don't get the really boring episodes where everyone is obviously depleted and comatose.

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Great point. Lots of people on this season have come in with a strategy that is smart but flexible. Harry potter's clone has held it together well despite changing tribes and has never been targeted at all. Danny made a big move and I wonder if it will immediately cost him, but he is definitely the most physical guy there now which always helps in Individual immunity.

Frankie is a dork with poor taste in men, but she is a survivor bada$$!