Episode 7 Chat

Welcome to the conversation about episode 7 of season 46 of survivor!

“Episode Several”

Feel free to head down to the comments, that is where the fun is, the play by plays, the astute observations, and of course that’s where the friendships will hopefully continue. That said, as a shy, silent lurker on Jackie’s blog for over a decade, I can wholeheartedly state that lurkers are very  welcome here as well. Soon SueGee will return and make a blog pool for us for the players who remain in the game.

I’ll be watching the show with the NY time zone tonight, typing quick notes which will display at the bottom of this post.

Did you miss something and want to see it written out? Or maybe you can’t view the show this season for some reason, but you still wonder what is going on? Don’t worry, I’ve got you. Below, I have written out the juicy details of this episode for us to enjoy again:

• Who all was present for that conversation?
• What exactly was said by whom?
• How did the individual players perform in the challenges?
• Who voted for whom?
• What were the final words of the person voted out?
• What details were in the previews of the next episode?

On Sunday I will watch the show a third time, just for fun, with my late-watching Survivor pals. So, if YOU are also a late watcher, please don’t hesitate to add your comments to the conversation! The more the merrier!!

 

Here’s a reminder of Alliances and Advantages in play:

Here is a list of links to previous posts:

• LINK to Episode 1 “This is Where the Legends are Made” Days 1-3
• LINK to Episode 2 “Scorpio Energy” Days 4-5
• LINK to Episode 3 “Wackadoodles Win” Days 6-7
• LINK to Episode 4 “Don’t Touch the Oven” Days 8-9
• LINK to Episode 5 “Tiki Man” Days 10-11
• LINK to Episode 6 “Cancel Christmas” The Merge

Here is a reminder of the “scenes from the next episode” we were shown at the end of episode 6:

• Q stands the centre of the screen, dubbed over, Tiffany tells Kenzie: “This is not the Q show. That ain’t gonna work for us.” Kenzie to camera: “This could go into chaos mode.”
• Jeff stands on a floating platform in the ocean, facing the group who is gathered at the other end of the same platform: “Two people are going home tonight.” All, groaning: “Oh!”
• Tevin: “It could be a blindside tonight.”
• Ben: “I’m screwed.”
• Venus to camera: “I am stressing.”
• Q to Kenzie and Tiffany: “He’s ___ up.”
• Charlie to camera: “We are ready to go at each other’s throats.

Survivor Fans ready? Let’s watch!!

Start-of-Show recaps:

• Siga(green) A boat motors to shore as Moriah reads the Merge mail to the tribe. Cheers and dancing: “Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge!”
• Two boats motor, side by side, to their new home with Nami.
• Hunter digs up his box, unlocks it, holds up his hidden immunity idol and knocks on the wood of the tree while saying, “There it is, a full blown idol, that NOBODY knows about!”
• Q, Tevin and Tiffany talk about the Plus One Alliance. Q summarizes it, the camera shows a shot of each pair as Q names them. Then he calls it The Journey Six and we see the three men knuckle punching their agreement while on their journey.
• Group shot of the newly gathered group of 3 former tribes. Kenzie summarizes: Five on Siga, Five on Nami amd 3 on Yanu, right in the middle.
• Hunter on beach, telling Q that Nami is not Nami strong. Q concluding that since Nami has cracks, it might be wise for Yanu to side with Nami and vote out Mo.
• Tiffany approaches Venus, Liz and Q, who are at the water well, to tell Venus she has to vote Mo tonight if she wants to stay. Venus counters, “I’m unsure about Mo, why not Charlie?” Tiffany excited to camera: “Oh my gawd! All I know is I’m glad I’m safe tonight, because, Baby, it’s about to get messy!”
• Tribal Council. Charlie writes down Venus and whispers: “You were throwing my name out there today.” Jeff reads off the votes. “Venus.” Venus nods and rolls her eyes. Charlie nods and offers a small smile. Jeff: “Sixth person voted out of Survivor 46, Moriah. That’s six, that’s enough. The tribe has spoken.” Torch snuffed.

New footage:

Lit torches mark where the people are as the new, fully merged tribe of twelve walks along the shore back to camp. A full moon lights a blue grey night.

NUINUI Night 13

Players lean their unlit torches against vertical structures and trees. “We made it, y’all.” “We merged!” “Congrats on the first Tribal for some of y’all!” Clapping as they sit in a semi circle around the fire pit where embers still glow. “Wasn’t that intense?” “That was bad, that was really, like, bad.” People make movements of getting comfortable for the night, like removing bags from shoulders, removing shoes from feet, rubbing hair with both hands.

• Venus to camera: “My first Tribal was mind-blowing. Seeing my name writtend down on a piece of parchment as the very first vote – it was just terrible. But the fact that there was only one vote with my name and the rest was straight Mo, I automatically knew that Soda wrote my name down because that’s the only thing that could possibly make sense.”
• Venus to Soda: “Who wrote my name down?”
• Soda: “Probably Mo.” (Couldn’t be Mo, Soda, because Mo gave up her vote to play her Shot in the Dark. Besides, we all know – even though they don’t – that it was Charlie.) “I don’t know, but it wasn’t me.”
• Venus: “If you’re saying it’s not you, there’s no other person I can point to.”
• Soda: “I don’t know, you’re gonna have to figure it out, cause it wasn’t me.”
• Venus: “Sure.”
• Venus to camera: “Our relationship has been a question mark for a while now. I really wish I could have worked with her, but I’m also not stupid.” Sheesh, these two! Always bickering!
• Venus: “I know that I’m loyal, but the way that you were being evasive with your answers..”
• Soda: “That’s why I – that’s why I came to you the way that I did, because it’s alarming to me that you, like, went straight for me in the attitude that you did, though, I’ll be straight up with you.”
• Venus: “I needed a moment ’cause I know I snapped.”
• Soda: “No, that’s fine that you needed a moment, but you did snap at the same time, like, it’s fine that you needed a moment.”
• Venus: “I didn’t want to raise my voice.”
• Soda: “No, but you still were, like, YOU voted for me.”
• Tevin to Liz: “And Soda said, ‘I didn’t vote for you.’ And Venus said, ‘you did.’ But, of course, in true Venus and Soda fashion, they ran off – V gotta go.”
• Tevin to camera: “Watching Soda and Venus is kind of the hottest tea of the night. I told Soda I don’t trust Venus, I don’t trust where she stands, I don’t trust her loyalty, and I think that she’ll flip any second that she gets. Soda hasn’t listened to me, and now they are digging their own graves and showing the people how toxic and dangerous they are to the game. And I hope that they continue to do that because it will slide them closer to that snuffer and keep me closer to that million dollars.”
• Charlie looks guiltily over at Venus where she lay down near the fire, next to Soda. “Hey Venus, I’m just gonna put it out in the open…I was the one that voted for you. If you want to chat one-on-one, or, like, I can explain now.”
• Venus: “We can talk in the morning.”
• Charlie: “Okay, Yeah.”
• Q looks bothered. Q to camera: “Charlie put a vote on Venus anonymously. So for Venus to come back and to now think that Soda wrote her name down was gonna be the perfect plan. I need Nami to be in panic mode. But Charlie lets his emotions get the best of him, and he confesses to Venus that he is the one that wrote her name down. In this game, we cannot have that going on. And I think he needed to be put in his place.”
• Q leads Charlie to a private place to talk. “Why you admit to voting for Venus? We had what we wanted. She thought it was Soda. She would have stayed up all night wondering who wrote her name down.”
• Charlie: Yeah, yeah, you’re right man, you are right. I messed up here. I’m with you.”
• Q: “You know what I told you? Do not let your emotions get you in this game. You don’t have to admit to nobody.”
• Charlie to camera the next morning: “Q’s real mad at me for telling Venus that I voted for her, and in this moment, I’m just saying, “I’m sorry,” and just letting him know that we’re solid. But what I’m thinking is, Q is running this show, and no one is allowed to have any other ideas: ‘We’re doing this, we’re locking it down, we’re getting to the end,’ we’re doing it Q’s way or it’s the highway. So…I need ot get Q out of the game.”

Opening Credits 5:07

Night 13, continued

It’s sleep time. Clouds cover the moon like a blanket, a bat nestles in, and all humans at camp are also asleep. Ben gasps. Someone is rapidly panting. It’s Ben, he is having some kind of a panic attack from a bad dream. Kenzie raises her head and looks his way, watchful. Ben gasps awake and raises his head. Liz, her head near his folded legs, asks, “Ben, is that you?”

• “Yeah,” he groans. Liz and Kenzie scramble up to help him.
• “Can somebody just, like, hold my hand just a little bit?”
• Liz: “I’m right here, I’m right here,” as she continues getting up.
• Ben: “It’s not bad, it’s not, like, hurting.” Liz crouches beside him, holding his hand.
• From below his feet, Kenzie says, “Okay, just breathe through it.”
• Liz asks if he is is alright. “I think I’m really cold, too.” Kenzie comes closer and puts her hand on one of his knees. Liz bends over him.
• Ben to camera the next day: “After Tribal I wake up from a dream, and panic mode, like, kicked in. I have this hysteria for about 50 seconds, and I have to calm down for a minute.”
• The three of them sit in a triangle, facing each other. Ben: “It was, like, a bit of a shock, part of it…” Liz: “Yeah.”  Eventually Liz lays back down, and it’s just Kenzie with Ben.
• Ben to camera: “I understood how nuts it was in the moment, ’cause I’ve had panic attacks before, it’s like something I can’t control. Thank gawd there were some nice people in the tribe, and Kenzie was able to just calm me down…”
• Ben: “I’m sorry.”
• Kenzie: “Don’t be, take your time.”
• Kenzie to camera: “My mom and sister both struggle with anxiety, they struggle with their mental health. So, I’ve been helping people regulate sleep and anxiety before I even knew what that was, really.”
• Ben drinks some water. Kenzie reaches out a hand to him, “You okay?”
• Ben: “Yeah, thanks buddy.”
• Kenzie to camera, teary-eyed: “You know, this is a game, where I very easily could have been like, “Good, don’t sleep, I hope you mess up in the challenges.” But that, I couldn’t, I couldn’t.”
• Ben to camera: “Kenzie held my hand, helped me make a fire, and she made me feel like it wasn’t gonna be some kind of, like, “You, Ben’s being a freak show,” back to, like, the sixth grade vibe.”
• Kenzie to camera: “I don’t care if it’s a game for a million dollars, like, at the end of the day, Ben’s a person. Is he my competition? Yes. But he’s my friend, and sometimes you just got to be there for somebody, and just sit with them through it. Just be with them through the storm, you know? Sometimes that’s all someone needs.”

We see them build the fire, we see the fire become a warm comfort to Ben, they sit there for a while. The sun rises on Jeff waiting on a platform, floating on the surface of the ocean.

Day 14  8:15

Early morning Immunity and Reward Challenge. We’ve seen this challenge before: floating in the extremely calm ocean are 12 platforms, each with a triangle structure on top. It looks like there are two footholds leading up to the top level. Six of the platforms are orange, and six are purple. The tribe is randomly divided into two groups. Players who lose footing or fall off are eliminated from the challenge. The player from each colour who stands/balances the longest, wins immunity. The player who stands the longest overall will win a reward for the people who stood on the same colour. There are two immunity necklaces, and one person from each colour will have individual immunity, and one person from each colour will be voted out.

The reward is twofold: 1/ Winners will be the second group to go to tribal council and person voted out will be the first member of the jury. 2/ A feast of : Coffee and tea, hot and cold. Sandwiches, veggie and tuna. Meat Pies. Cream cheese danishes.

Two random groups are formed, but the groups will not form a team who works together to win, it is more of an individual challenge. In Purple: Soda, Liz, Maria, Charlie, Venus and Tevin. In Orange: Tiff, Kenzie, Hunter, Ben, Q and Tim. (OK, how is it that the former Yanu tribe is together AGAIN in one group, giving them AGAIN a clear majority when it comes time to vote?)

As the challenge begins, everyone stands on the footholds directly beneath the level top foothold of the triangle. Jeff tells them that they will stand on that level for fifteen minutes. Jeff remembers that the last time this challenge was done in Survivor, the entire challenge lasted only three minutes because the water was so rough that day. To pass the time, Q leads them in an alphabetical game, some people misunderstand how to play it and Q quickly loses patience. Eventually Charlie intentionally does it wrong, just to make it more frustrating for Q and funnier for everyone else. Afterwards, Charlie looks straight at a camera and smiles.

Jeff: “I would just like to take a moment and say, in honour of Jelinsky, you’ve been up here several minutes.” Everyone cheers. “Which means seven.” Kenzie: “Legend.”

Everyone makes it through the first fifteen minutes, many bend over to touch their platforms and take a bit of a rest as they start to position their feet at the top. It’s a live transition, so if they fall during these seconds, they are out.  Before Jeff completes the countdown, Q falls, then Soda falls. Jeff narrates a few seconds. Ben falls. This next pose will last 30 minutes. Jeff narrates some more. Hunter quips, “It makes you really appreciate those elapsed time minutes.”

• Tim: “What’s up, Jeff?”
• Jeff: “What’s up, Tim? Thanks for the shout-out.”
• Q: “Nah, Jeff, that’s how Black people ask you, like, what the time is.”
• Soda, laughing: “Yes.” Tim smiles hugely.
• Jeff: “Ooooh. I learn a lot on this show.”
• Time passes. Tim, slower and clearer than before: “What’s up Jeff?”
• Jeff: “You are 23 minutes in to this section.” Laughter.

Jeff observes how quiet it is. Hunter looks over at Q, Soda and Ben and says: “Now y’all want to be quiet.”

• Q: “I can’t talk, Hunter. My Daddy told me when I’m not in a fight, shut my mouth.”
• Tim starts calling shout outs to his family, begins more shout outs and names the family members of Charlie and Maria before Q interupts him and translates again for Jeff: “That’s what Black people do on the radio, Jeff….shout out to uncle PooPoo and my nephew John.”
• Tim: “Your daddy said, if you ain’t in da fight, shut up!”
• Q: “You right.”
• Jeff, laughing: “Ah, most fun I’ve had at challenge in a long time.”

One minute left in this part of the challenge, no one fell during this half hour, unless you count the three who fell during the transition. Players have ten seconds to lift one foot. Charlie falls. Tim falls. Venus falls. Liz falls. Hunter falls. Tiff falls. Kenzie falls, but is the last to fall. She wins immunity! But purple loses the challenge, no reward for them and they will be first to Tribal Council, the person they vote out will NOT be in the jury.

The rest of the challenge has the remaining two players, Tevin and Maria, balancing on one foot. Maria stands rock solid with very little movement. Tevin moves a lot, almost falls, recovers, keeps flopping around, but looks alright until he falls too. Maria wins individual immunity, reward for their group, and when they vote their person out, that person will be the first member of the jury.

While she sits on top of her platform, Jeff asks Maria what her emotions are right now. Maria: “I just kept thinking about – just think about yourself. Think about yourself. You’ve done harder things in life. Don’t think about anybody else. I’ve felt so much more pain than this. Just-just forget about it.”

Kenzie squeals and smiles as Jeff clasps the immunity necklace around her neck.  Maria scores a hug from Jeff as he clasps the necklace around her neck.

Liz, Soda, Venus, Tevin, Maria and Charlie will go to Tribal Council second. They swim out and head back to camp to enjoy their afternoon and their feast – and to plan who to vote for. It’ll be a tough call for this group, all of them are pretty decent and likable, in my opinion. Yes, even Liz and even Venus.

Ben, Hunter, Kenzie, Q, Tiffany and Tim will go to Tribal Council first, where the person voted out will not make the jury. They are not going back to camp though, to watch the winners feast, no, they are to head back to the old Siga camp. Hunter: “Nobody wants to be the person that’s chopped off right before they make it to the jury, and I am the odd man out, so I need to play my idol to get me to that jury, to get another day, to get back to Tevin and to the Nami people. And if that’s what it takes to get there, then that’s what I’ll do.”

Commercials Break 21:43

Nuinui Day 14

Orange Beach

The winners return home to their feast. They congratulate themselves on the fact that no matter what happens tonight, everyone present will either be in the jury or in the final three. As they eat and chat, players point out that if you go along the old tribal lines, Nami is the majority of four, and Siga is the minority of two. One of the Siga, Maria, cannot be voted out, so it’s fairly clear to all that the person to go tonight will be Charlie. This makes Charlie feel uneasy, and frankly, it makes me sad. Charlie is a smart, observant, nice person and I enjoy watching him interact with the others, I also want to watch his secret partnership with Maria continue to prove itself solid for a while longer.

Tevin points out to the camera that though this seems like the obvious result of tonight’s vote, because of the Plus One Alliance, he and Maria understand that there is another game being played that spans across tribal lines, so they understand that it is not Nami versus Siga here.  It isn’t long before the four Nami members, in private conversations with one, two, or three other players,  begin to turn on each other, suggesting blindside options left and right.To Charlie’s quiet and self-controlled delight, he begins to cautiously accept that he might actually be safe tonight.

Purple Beach

The losing group return to the old Siga camp and joke that it looks like a hurricane blew through since Siga left. Q: “Is this what it looked like when y’all left?” Ben: “It ain’t too far off.” In private, to the camera, Q tells us that he’s been holding back in challenges to keep the target off of himself, in fact, he says that today he jumped off “on purpose to see if my alliance was really strong.” In this group, there are four members of The Six, which is a majority. Kenzie can’t be voted out, so in this group the logical choice to go will be Ben. Which makes me sad, because Ben is just a HONEY! I love watching him interact with people, I love how gentle he is with other people, and how tenderly he accepts and deals with his own emotional vulnerabilities.  We get a closer look at Kenzie’s immunity necklace, and it is just gorgeous: beads are sewn together and there are wooden lizards on it too. Here’s a screenshot from when Jeff unveiled it:

In a private conversation together, Q and Tim discuss that if you go by tribal lines, Hunter is alone among this six. Tim sees this as a great opportunity to get rid of a major threat. Q rightly sees Tims attitude towards Hunter as anti-The Six. The whole reason Q came up with the idea of The Six was to protect the obvious “Big Man” threats from an early departure, so when Tim immediately turns on Hunter, he seals his fate with Q, who quietly understands that Tim, by pushing and pushing Q to violate his loyalty to their alliance, needs to go. In their conversation, (which I am tempted to outline here, but trying not to, because I write about these two a lot) you can see that Tim is trapped in the old tribal lines, and he mistakenly believes that he is strategic and persuasive, when it is clear to everyone he talks to that he is 100% Siga Strong. I want to like Tim, but he is just so BLIND to self awareness, and so incapable of reading the people around him, let alone caring about any of them. Ya, I’m gonna outline their dialogue. It’s just too rich. I’ve got a lot of respect for Q now, and I didn’t at first because of how he treated Jess, but he is a man of his word and he reads people clearly.

• Q: “Bro, what are we gonna do?”
• Tim: “What you feeling?”
• Q: “Man, if we’re doing The Six, we’re left with one shot, you know?” (Camera shows Ben, sitting alone by the fire pit.)
• Tim: “Unless you want Nami.”
• Q: “Ain’t no Nami even here.”
• Tim: “Hunter’s Nami.”
• Q: “Hunter’s part of The Six!”
• Tim: “Hunter’s Nami, though, is he not?”
• Q: “Yeah.”
• Tim to camera: “This is like a Christmas present that we have to open. It is a gift wrapped opportunity because Hunter is alone. Yes, we’ve made agreements with Hunter, but it’s not about the alliance. Hunter’s a beast in challenges, and now that we have him pinned, let’s take him out.”
• Q: “He’s part of The Six.”
• Tim: “Are you gonna beat him in an individual immunity?”
• Q: “Me? I can, yeah.”
• Tim: “Neither one of us have beat him the whole season.”
• Q: “That’s OK! Ain’t nobody in this game conna ever win ten individual immunities. Nobody.”
• Q to camera: “Tim feel like Hunter is the most physical threat here, which — debatable, but I would rather go against a physical threat than one that somewhat has some skills off the gridiron competing.”
• Q: “I gotta vote Ben because I committed to the six thing, with YOU, Maria, him, Tevin and Tiff.”
• Tim: “The point is Nami. Nami got the most numbers. Nami was the target. So after today, once again, Nami’s gonna outweigh everybody, and they can control anything.”
• Q to camera: “Time right now is trying to position himself  in this game to get to the end in multiple ways. He wants to have the Plus-One alliance, but he also wants to have his Siga alliance, he also want to have his sub-alliance with Ben….which is it, Tim? Which game are you playing? The Siga game or the Q game?”  Ooo, who is in charge here? Charlie has it right: Q is in charge. “Well, buddy, you are going home tonight, and you just don’t know it.”

Commercials Break 27:15

Nuinui Day 14

Orange Beach

The winning team, groaning with the fullness of their bellies, relax on the beach in the sun. Groans, moans, burps. Everyone seems pretty comfy about tonights vote, except Charlie, who lists (off camera and dubbed over this scene) his ride or die Maria versus all the others who naturally will vote against him. Charlie wanted immediate conversations, everyone else wants a nap first. Clearly, if they keep napping, Charlie will be gone. But after they wake up, the plotting begins.

• Soda is the first one to tell Charlie that she doesn’t want to be Nami Strong, she wants to keep Charlie and get rid of Venus. She likes Charlie, and she can tell he likes her too. Venus and Soda bicker a lot. “But we have to make her fully believe it’s not her tonight, so she doesn’t play her shot in the dark.” The story is that it “will be Charlie, but we’re really going after Venus.”
• Soda tells Tevin that she just told Charlie she won’t be voting him out, it will be Venus. Tevin agrees, he also likes Charlie “a lot, he is very sweet and loyal.” He says Soda is right, Venus is shifty, she has to go tonight.
• Tevin then sets his sights on Soda. She is good at making everyone feel comfortable and for that reason I can’t necessarily read her. That’s why I have separated myself from Soda, alliance-wise.” Tevin talks with Liz, who still is reclined in the sand of the beach. First he tells her Soda’s plan to make V feel comfortable and then vote her out while telling her the plan is to vote Charlie, AS AN OPTION. Then he introduces another option, a blindside against Soda. Liz smiles a slow smile.  Liz: “At least we know what kind of game Venus is playing, Soda has been laying a little low, I feel.” Tevin agrees. “Well, you know, I’m DOWN.” They smile at each other. Liz tells us that she’s been waiting to lose so she could get Soda out, she’s her number one target, a big threat in this game.
• Tevin now tells Maria. “Venus is an easy vote, but for me, I know what kind of a game Venus is playing and everyone is on board with, like. Venus is snaking, but we also have a chance to get out Soda and she doesn’t expect it. I just don’t know what kind of game Soda is playing.” Maria asks her trademark clarifying questions, basically summarizing what Tevin just said, and repeating it back to him a little different than how he said it. Tevin tells us that he trusts Maria.
• Charlie approaches Tevin now, passing Maria with a friendly remark on the way. “You ain’t going nowhere tonight.” Tells Charlie that everyone will vote Soda. Tell Soda we’re all voting Venus, which Soda wants to do anyway.
• Venus notices that she is not included in any of the conversations. “It’s obvious we should vote for Charlie, but that’s not the only way in this game.” She approaches Maria, “I can feel Charlie scrambling a little bit.” Maria: “Oh, is he? Already?” Venus: “A little, walking off with Soda..” Now, I’ve been looking forward to these two women meeting, I felt sure they would hit it off because they are both confident women, with a similar attitude towards life, of a similar heritage, however, THEY CLASH! Venus says too many words, and Maria feels affronted, challenged, overrun. Venus brings up the names Soda and Tevin to Maria, as threat levels. Maria immediately raises her guard and answers vague. She closes up. Venus tries to push Tevin as the bigger threat, worthy of a blindside vote over Soda. Maria feels sympathy for her. She can tell that Venus is trying very hard to get some footing in the game, but by throwing out Tevin’s name as an option, she turned Maria off. Maria makes it clear to Venus that she has committed to nothing with her. She doesn’t want Venus to think she turned on her if she does the thing Venus told her not to do. “Ah,” says Venus, “As in, you might want to work with Tevin instead?” Venus takes it personally that Maria is unsure of working with her, but she doesn’t realize that Maria holds a secret loyalty to six other people in two different alliances, and that two of those people are among this group of six, and she will not go against her allies.
• Venus talks to Charlie, hoping to work with him against Tevin or Soda. She points out to him that Tevin and Soda are close. He says yes, he’s noticed. Venus proposes breaking them up. She says she is impartial to which one. Option one: Blindside Soda. Option two: She tells Liz “Soda”, Soda and Tevin think it’s Charlie. Venus, Charlie and Maria vote Tevin. Like a 3, 2, 1. Charlie understands. Charlie is impressed by how big the cracks on Nami are. “More like, Oceans between Continents.”

Commercials Break 35:17

Orange Beach

Charlie naps under the shelter. Venus and Maria sit nearby on a log and Venus asks if Maria has talked to Charlie. Maria looks back, sees him “napping” (he is waking and listening) and tries to respond to Venus with nonchalance. Venus probes her, why wouldn’t she comment. Maria leans away from Venus and becomes as clear as she can be.

• Venus: “Is it something personally, character-wise about me, that you can’t…”
• Maria: “Yes. I’m gonna tell you. When you come at people, you come at ’em. You came at me, and that puts me off.”
• Venus: “Have I come at you?”
• Maria: “Just like, when we were just down at the beach, you’re like, “Oh, so you don’t want to work with me?” I don’t want to be pressured before I’m ready. I’m open to working, but, like, don’t pressure me. And when I say I’m gonna do something, I’m doing it.”
• Maria admits to the camera that when she was the age Venus is now, she’s been there, done that. She recognizes what Venus is doing, because maybe she remembers doing that kind of thing herself. But right now she feels really put off by Venus’s demeanor, so she doesn’t trust Venus. She says “she is conniving and sneaky and dangerous.”
• Venus to camera: “She’s probably used to calling the shots and doesn’t like being told what to do by someone she probably considers her junior.”
• Venus returns to Charlie, tells him she is down for Soda. Charlie tells her that he will probably just play his shot in the dark. She responds with her own threat that she will just stick with the Nami four and vote him out.

Charlie and Maria talk to clear up their plans. Charlie, after talking with Venus, is clearly afraid. Charlie says Venus wants Soda out, Soda wants Venus out, so apparantly I’m okay? Maria agrees. He is okay. Charlie feels that Maria and him are in a position of power tonight. No one knows that they are aligned and they get to choose between Soda and Venus.

Purple Beach

The purples show Tim strategizing with Tiffany to split the votes between Hunter and Ben. Tim, Tiffany and Q discuss how Tevin will react to them voting out Hunter, and Tiffany throws it out there that Tevin will be fine with it, the others agree. Tiffany to camera: “Tim’s logic is Hunter’s the biggest threat on the beach, but what I know for certain: It’s not about Hunter being a threat. It’s less about Hunter being a threat and more about the fact that they are thirsty to get a Nami player out because a Siga player went home last night. They’re still trying to chip away at Nami’s numbers. I don’t care about chipping away at Nami’s numbers, ’cause I know I could do that easily on my own.”

Q tells Tiffany and Kenzie that all three of them are voting Tim. Tiff agrees: “First of all, he’s getting real shifty.” Kenzie says she is good with that. Tiffany’s only hesitation is that if they leave Ben in the game, it’s gonna be harder to get him out. She thinks that Ben is a bigger threat than Tim is, because she can see through Tim. He thinks he is a good liar, but he is not. She thinks Ben is a sneaky player. Her perfect plan would send Ben home tonight.

Gathered together are Hunter, Q, Kenzie and Tiffany.

• Q: “Tim is flipping, flopping, playing a __Siga game. He’s still playing the Siga game.”
• Hunter: “Are they trying to sell me?”
• Q: “Yes. Yes. B-Bro”
• Hunter pulls a goofy face: “I-I-I’m Chill. I’m vibing.”
• Q: “Tim gotta go.”
• Hunter to camera: “The plan tonight is to get the four of us — the three Yanu and me — to all vote for Tim. What could go wrong is, they’re all lying to me, and the Yanu people vote me out. There’s no doubt I’m nervous about this, but I have an idol that nobody knows about, and if I have to play the idol, then I’ll just play it. And if I look crazy because no one voted for me, that’s that. But if that’s what it takes, then that’s what I’ll do.”

Ben and Kenzie talk, seemingly alone as they walk through greenery taller than them both.

• Ben: “There’s only, like, a couple options happening tonight, obviously, my name being one of them, right? But, um, what are you feeling?”
• Kenzie: “I think that we’re all open-minded, is the thing, and we also don’t want Nami to have all the numbers.”
• Kenzie to camera: “It’s harder to lie to a friend, and Ben and I have bonded. He’s just, like, such a sweet and kind, gentle person. And Ben had a panic attack that I was there for him for, so Ben and I have formed this, like, friendship. That’s why this game is so complicated, because it’s hard to figure out who I, like, like as a person versus who I’m gonna work with long-term.”
• Kenzie to Ben: “I mean, what do you and Tim want to do? Go Hunter?”
• Ben: “For numbers, it makes sense. The only thing that makes sense is to try and equalize the entire playing field.”
• Kenzie: “Exactly.”
• Ben to camera: “My biggest hope tonight is that I can convince the Yanu three into going Hunter, or else I’m screwed. That simple. You know, like, Kenzie – she looked hesitant, but I don’t have much to go on. I’m in a tough corner, but you can’t go down not swinging.”

Now Ben pulls Q aside to talk in a private spot.

• Ben: “The reason I’m talking to you, straight up, is, like, I know we haven’t had a moment and I know Tim and you vibe.”
• Q: “Correct.”
• Ben: “So…”
• Q: “Listen, let – Man, you got to just make me comfortable, bro.”
• Ben: “I hear you.”
• Q: “Who are we gonna tell Hunter we voting for–you?”
•  Ben: “I think we might have to do a cover like that.”
• Q: “But you cool with…we gonna tell this man to write your name down.”
• Ben: “Yeah.”
• Q: “I write his name down.”
• Ben: “Yeah.”
• Q: “He stands his ass up, he play something, and he wrote your name down.”
• Ben: “Yeah.”
• Q: “Then what?”
• Ben: “Yeah, then I’m screwed.” Quiet and thoughtful for a sec. “But that’s Survivor, right? You got to take a chance.”
• Q: “But, I’m just making sure you aware..”
• Ben: “That my name could be…Yeah”
• Q: “When you on the island-“
• Ben: “But what do they say in Survivor? No risk, no reward.”
• Q: “No reward.” I love this conversation, because Ben has just shown Q how humble he is. Where Tim, in a similar type of conversation, would probably have offered up Ben’s name as the dummy vote, Ben did not offer up Tim, instead he risked himself. PLUS, Ben is not in the Group of Six, so there is no assumed loyalty between himself and Hunter. He is not betraying any group to suggest this group vote out Hunter tonight. Tim is absolutely betraying the group by suggesting this.
• Ben to camera: “Would it suck to be taken out tonight? Sure. But it’s like gambling. If you pulled this off, I would feel high the rest of the game. You know, in the words of the mighty Van Halen, ‘Time to go bottoms up.'”

Q is now alone with Kenzie and Tiffany while Ben sits on a log and Hunter works behind him moving dry branches around.

• Q to Kenzie and Tiffany: “Ben. We’re goning Ben.” Ugh! Q can be so wishy washy! He knows what he considers strength, and humbleness and self-sacrifice ain’t it!
• Kenzie: “We’re not going Tim anymore?”
• Q: “No, no, no. Listen. Ben is comfortable now. He said he’s fine with Hunter writing his name down, and if Hunter has an idol or something, he plays it, he’s fine with going home.”
• Tiffany: “That was a bluff. I hope y’all know that.”
• Kenzie: “Yeah, 100%”
• Q: “Well, I can only go on what I read.”
• Kenzie: “He’s not comfortable, he’s not comfortable going home.”
• Tiffany: “Like, if you bought that, you are a sucker.”
• Q: “I’m not a sucker, I’m smarter than what you think, I promise.”
• Tiffany: “I’m telling you, that was a bluff.”
• Q: “Okay, so do you want to go Tim?”
• Tiffany: “Dude, I just told you what I wanted to do. I want to vote for Ben. I’m just telling you what I’m observing!”
• Kenzie to camera: “Q is the type of person where we’ll have a conversation, he’ll be like, ‘Tim is the vote.’ I’m like, ‘Perfect.’ I walk away. I come back from the water well, and he’s like, ‘It’s Ben.’ And I’m like, ‘Q, what happened? Like, you can’t just do this. What if we have to go to Tribal and you don’t get a second to tell me that the vote changed? and why is it you are the only one who’s deciding the way the votes go? Like, we’re a three. We’re supposed to be working together.”
• Q: “I would rather see Ben go.
• Tiffany: “Well, that’s what I’ve been saying since we got here – “
• Q: “And we just – and if – If the three of us are in it together, let’s take te shot at Ben.”
• Tiffany: “Ben is definitely playing something if he got it, just so you know.”
• Q: “Ben ain’t playing anything now.”
• Tiffany: “Yes he is.”
• Q, losing patience: “Well, do you want to go Tim, then?”
• Tiffany to camera: “The stakes are high right now, but Q keeps flip-flopping back and forth. Like, ‘All right, we’re doing this.’ And then you step away, and he come back, ‘No, no, no. We’re doing this!’ You can’t do that. This is a conversation. You’re not just telling us where to place our votes.”

Tiffany and Kenzie stand alone under some narrow trees.

• Kenzie: “Q is working everyone.”
• Tiffany: “He is.” “So do you want Tim?” “If you don’t shut your ass up –“
• Kenzie: “He’s gonna come back and be like, ‘Vot me, yo. I’ve decided.'” laughs.
• Tiffany, sighs: “Oh, gawd! I’d be like, Okay, boy.” “This is not the Q show. At some point, that ain’t gonna work for us.”
• Kenzie: “Uh uh.”
• Kenzie to camera: “The way Q is approaching stuff right now is worrisome. However, I’ve got my girl Tiff. The three of us have been strong this whole time, but the way Q is barking orders at us has Tiff and I being aware that this could go into chaos mode very quickly. The plan right now is that we’ll vote out either Tim or Ben. Tiff and I need to be on the same page, so no matter what goes off in Q’s world, Tiff and I have a foundation. So, is it worrisome? Yes.”

The tribe gathers their things and makes their way to Tribal Council where they will vote off the last person who will not be on the jury.

Commercials Break 45:13

Purple Group Tribal Council Night 14

The group sits in this order: Left to right, front row Kenzie wearing Immunity Necklace, back row Hunter, front row Tiffany, back row Q, front row Tim, back row Ben.

• Jeff: “All right, so Q, what was it like this afternoon with only six people, knowing Tribal was looming?”
• Q: “First thing I noticed, a tornado had to come through Sigaa’s camp, between the time they left and when we got there. ‘Cause it was awful. They was living rough. But we had to start talking plans, making this game fair, because Yano only has three members, Nami and Siga still has the advantage when it comees to numbers. So if we send the right person home, it could even those numbers out a little more.”
• Jeff: “But, Hunter, at what point do Tribal lines disappear and it becomes, ‘This is who I want to play with because I can see my path to the end?'”
• Hunter: “Yeah. It’s this weird spot where the Yanu three are in a power position, because I’m here by myself, and there’s two Siga’s over there, but the majority falls with Yanu. I am the only person who has not voted within any group, and so, I would love to be a Yanu member right now.”
• Jeff: “So, Kenzie, Hunter’s saying, ‘I’m willing to join Yanu three, make it Yanu four.'” laughter.
• Kenzie: “Okay. Hunter’s a free agent, so that’s appealing, that’s a number, but at the same time, Nami HAS the numbers. What way do we take it? Do we adopt one and hope that he’s…you hope he’s our baby? Or do we, like, chance it that he’s gonna go back with his original family? It’s-it’s a toss up.”
• Jeff: “And, so, Tim, if we stay with this train of thought, you and Ben would be saying, “No, no, no, take out Hunter, let’s get Nami.”
• Tim: “Yeah, I mean, it’s an individual game, and you’re not really thinking about the alliance, you’re thinking about who’s threatening. And I think Hunter has carried Nami the entire game by leading and dominating in every single challenge.” Here, Tim is not bluffing, he is laying his true feelings out in the open. He is a betrayer of an alliance meant to protect people like himself: muscley people who appear at first glance to be a threat in the game.
• Hunter: “Yeah, but I’m not tied to Nami in any real way other than I had to get them here so they wouldn’t vote me out. And I’m telling you, this Nami group is not even getting along, when the Siga group is really, really close. And it was clear at last Tribal, the four that have been working together are still here and still trying to work together.”
• Tim: “I love that Hunter just loves how Siga has been able to operate. It’s like, ‘Siga did this’ or ‘Siga kept a close, tight lip, but he’s never had to show any allegiance to anyone. He’s never sat here and had to make a decision about one of the individuals that sit amongst him.” (poor Tim, has no idea that he was carried to where he is by Maria and Charlie choosing the male side instead of the female side of Siga tribe. Uggh! He bothers me the most of everyone in this game right now, his naive arrogance.)
• Hunter: “And I’m assuming he’s saying that’s a hard thing to do, which I haven’t been bonded to somebody in that way, and I’m looking to do it tonight with these three.”
• Jeff: “Ben, it’s very clear that Siga was trying to work on Hunter, and Hunter was trying to work on you two, I haven’t heard either of you say that you were trying to work on each other.”
• Ben: “I mean, I’d be lying if I hadn’t heard people try to break me and Tim up.”
• Jeff: “How do you respond to that?”
• Ben: “Well, it’s like, I try to be personal, I know this is a game of deception, but, like, it makes it really hard to separate the personal from the game. And, I know it might sound like an open target, saying that here, but, like, you know, I had a panic attack last night. It wasn’t so much about the game as just being like, ‘Wow, so much intense negativity, how am I gonna keep a straight mind? I don’t know which other way to say it. Kenzie woke up at 1:00am to make sure I was doing okay. That was something human, which is very hard in this game–“
• Kenzie: “That was human. Like, I would be there for you no matter what.”
• Ben: “It makes me want to cry now, ’cause it’s like, when do you get those moments in this kind of game? I came into this game thinking I was gonna be on the bottom the whole time for how I am as a human in an individual society. I’m usually people’s, like, entertainment monkey that, like, they like having around at a party, but don’t wanna get deep with. But, like, it wasn’t that case. It was a breath of fresh air, where it’s like, wow, we’ve actually made bonds that I think might go beyond this game. And then to bring it back to what we were saying before about me and Tim, all we can do is try and play our game. It’s like, we came and did our thing and if that’s what got us to the end, so be it. But, like, what a beautiful ride it was. You don’t get an adventure like this or make bonds like this very often. Sorry, I know that was a lot.” I think Ben’s open sincerity and quest for ‘good vibes’ might be why the Siga tribe grew so close to each other. He needs to bring positive to his life, wherever he is living it, in order to survive emotionally. I respect that.
• Jeff: “It was great, beautiful. Kenzie, if it really is the Yanu three in charge, and your choices are Hunter, Tim, or Ben, it’s gotta be a bit of a Sophie’s Choice in terms of humans, because they all three have made very compelling, likeable cases tonight.” I disagree. Hunter and Ben did, but Tim is just arrogant, ignorant, disloyal to an existing alliance with three alliance members present, maybe a little bitter, and trying to be controlling.
• Kenzie: “This is really hard for me, because I wouldn’t be here without these boys. Like, they literally threw me through the merge. Sorry. And, you know, I wouldn’t be able to, like, have won this without these boys…and Tiff, obviously, but, you know, um and I’ve bonded with all of them, deeply, so when we were all on the same team today, I was devastated. And the fact that now it’s up to me to decide, like, which one to cut, is a hard pill for me to swallow, it’s tough, because, yeah, like, I like, held Ben’s hand last night, and like, I’ve talked to Hunter, I’ve talked to Tim, I’ve talked to everyone here on a deep level, and it is so human and that’s how I make my money at home, is building human connections. so, it-it gets hard for me to separate.”
• Q: “Jeff, I know you didn’t ask me a question, but I wanna recognize, amongst all these giants, today in the challenge, the smallest person standing amongst us won. When Yanu went 11 days without any positivity, that girl right there – she smiled, she cried, she kept it together. That deserves more recognition than we’re giving. And I understand we have to vote, I do, but I ahve to give credit where credit is due. Kenzie, you did an amazing job.” All clap, while Kenzie laughs uncomfortably.
• Jeff: “So I’m getting the impression this is going to be a tough vote tonight.”
• Q: “It’s gonna be a very tough vote, Jeff.”

Time to vote. Hunter watches from the other side of the group as Tim knuckle punches first Ben to his left, and then Tiffany to his right.

Commercials Break 52:57

Purple Group Tribal Council  Night 14

Before Jeff reads the votes, Hunter chooses to NOT use his idol. I’m biting my nails and sitting on the edge of my couch.

• Ben: Hunter
• Hunter: Tim (I like the way Hunter did his letters)
• Kenzie: Tim
• Q: Tim
• Tiffany: Tim
• Tim: Hunter

TIM is GONEzo! And not even in the jury, so I’ll never have to listen to him talk about how wonderful he is again. Ben gives him a goodbye hug. He sings their brotherly love song, but it kind of falls flat, because the song is playful and Tim is blindsided and though he smiles, he doesn’t sing a long. Ben cries. Hunter can’t hardly believe that Yanu didn’t lie to him. As he walks away down that bridge, Tim pauses, and can be heard crying.

Tim’s final words:

“Theeeey got me. They got me. Technically, I lost, but I didn’t have to fake and follow anybody else’s game. I was a leader. I wasn’t a loser. I’m honoured, I’m thankful. I’m the sexiest dad to ever do this, and I’ll get over it.”

He smiles his lovely smile at the camera. (I disagree, he was no leader. To be a leader, people need to be following you, and that wasn’t the case.)

 

Orange Group Tribal Council Night 14

The group sits in this order: Left to right, front row Liz, back row Tevin, front row Maria wearing Immunity Necklace, back row Venus, front row Charlie, back row Soda. It seems that they do not know ahead of time how the vote went for the previous group.

• Jeff: “So Liz, where is this tribe right now? ‘Cause for a moment, you were all together as individuals, but then, now you’re back into two groups in a small group.”
• Liz: “Yeah. I, actually, am really excited that we’re split into two groups. For my game, I made a lot of friendships and connections on both sides. So, for the individual game, if you’re in the right spot, you’re in a good spot tonight, no matter what happens.”
• Jeff: “Charlie, what do you read into that answer? It’s a very interesting comment.”
• Charlie: “I find it fitting for a person who’s in here with four of their former Tribemates. There’s a little bit more comfort where Liz is sitting. For me, you get divided onto a tribe where you’re the odd tribe out and the only person vulnerable on that tribe — it’s like I have a big, red target painted on my forehead.”
• Jeff: “Soda, can you appreciate how that might feel? Might be accurate, might not be.”
• Soda: “Yeah, I can, I can. Like, I mean, it was – I felt it for him, and I, like, I don’t think there’s any way kind of around it as much as, like, I adore him as a person. It’s kind of clear where the numbers really are, so…”
• Jeff: “But, Tevin, we also reached a new phase of the game where it’s not always that simple.”
• Tevin: “That’s true. But, I mean, just last Tribal Council, you heard the kind of division between the two tribes, still, and I don’t know if people are necessarily willing to let down the tribal lines right now, and they are still trying to playa tribe game because they’re scared that one tribe may pick off the other.”
• Jeff: “Where do you sit? The easy vote would be for the four of you to stick together and take out Charlie, and there’s not really anything he could do other than maybe he has some power in the game where he could play a Shot in the Dark.”
• Venus: “Exactly what you said, Jeff, it’s a pretty easy vote, but, um, unlike Soda, I feel like my butt is more on the line because it’s no real secret here that, the other night, Charlie wrote my name down. So, if anyone here really has to be worried, it’s me.”
• Jeff: “Maria, if you want to try to take somebody out, six people is a great opportunity, because there’s nowhere to hide.”
• Maria: “Um, I’m gonna paint a picture for you. You’re having a party. You get gussied up and you put on, like, your favourite red necklace.” She gestures at the Immunity Necklace she is wearing.  “And you wait for your guests to come. And maybe they don’t come.”
• Jeff: “So, no one approached you?”
• Maria: “It’s not that nobody approached me, it just didn’t feel like I had the power. It just kinda felt like, you know, maybe they stayed for a little bit, but not too long.”
• Liz, laughing: “I’m sorry you got all gussied up. Y’all, I didn’t bring my bag tonight. I am staying Nami strong. That’s that, ready to go back to the fire and get warm.”
• Jeff: “I mean, that is a lot of confidence. Soda, is that just the luxury that comes with having the numbers?”
• Soda: “Yeah, it’s like, the luxury of having four Nami right now. You know, and, like, that’s the thing. That’s the big steak on the plate right now.”
• Jeff: “So how does that change the dynamic for the six of you? What did you notice in terms of behaviour?”
• Soda: “We were just more like, I don’t need to run around, which is very different from yesterday. Feeling like you have your Tribe there, like a magority of your brain space is not worried. You could see that in people’s physical movement in their body.”
• Jeff: “So, Charlie, what’s it like to hear Liz say, ‘I didn’t even bring my bag’?”
• Charlie: “Not great.” (Long pause, during which Venus laughs.) “You know, I knew what the odds were as soon as Maria was the one that won that immunity. And i did my best today to just pitch myself to every single person here. And, it’s so hard in the new era, because, you know, I have this little number in my pocket.” (He holds up his Shot in the Dark bag.) “Little Shot in the Dark die. And that makes it so people will give me a little bit to work with. But I don’t know if I can believe one word of it, ’cause they don’t want this to come out. It’s a one in six shot. There are only six people here, that’s still scary.”
• Venus: “I just want to say, realistically, Jeff, I feel like I already know the move that they’re gonna play. The fact that my name was written down not only one Tribal ago, like, it’s very clear to me that that’s gonna be their move today, and I’m just hoping that the Survivor gods are in my favour, and his Shot in the Dark doesn’t work, and I get to live another day.”

Does it feel to anyone else, like Liz, Venus, Maria and Charlie have been following some sort of role play script designed to keep Soda confident that it was Charlie or Venus going to be voted out that night? On second watch, it felt to me that they were all going along with Liz’s initial arrogant claim that she (and, therefore, all Siga) is safe and comfortable, and does not care about the vote, just wants to get warm by her fire, because someone who doesn’t matter to her (Strongly suggesting Charlie) is going home tonight.  Charlie plays up his own vulnerability, and if there is any doubt that it might be a Siga, Venus keeps bringing herself up as the Siga option, while Liz repeats that she (and all Siga) feels confidently safe. They’ve set it up so that it looks like Charlie will vote Venus, everyone will vote Charlie, he will play his Shot in the Dark, it will work, and Venus will go home by one vote from Maria. If this was their plan, I’d say it was genius, because poor Soda was completely taken in by it and blindsided.

Charlie does not play his Shot in the Dark, and no one else plays any advantages either.

• Charlie: Soda
• Liz: Soda
• Maria:  Soda “There’s just not any way that we could work togethr. You’re way too dangerous.”
• Soda: Venus
• Tevin: Venus
• Venus: Soda

While the votes are being read, it looks like Tevin and Soda are surprised by the votes. Charlie, Maria, and Venus can hardly hold back their smiles.

After Jeff announces that it’s Soda, she sighs an impressed, “Wooow!” while smiling over at Venus. She walks up to Venus and says, “It was you, wasn’t it?” Shakes her hand while Venus says, “Yeah,” and smiles proudly at her. They laugh and hug. Tevin was left out of the scheme, and he does not look happy about it. He shakes his head and whispers, “no.”  As Soda pulls on her backpack, she looks back at them again, laughs, and in her confident, generous way says, “I did NOT see that coming at all.” Venus looks back at her: “You played an amazing game, Soda.” Soda picks up her torch, “Oh, man, so fun!” Venus: “I love you.” Soda: “I love all you guys, it’s really hard.” Charlie: “We love you, Soda.” Soda heaves a big, emotion filled sigh, looks back again (at who? Venus? Tevin? All of them?) “I hope you crush it, man,” and cries loudly. Just beautiful, she is perfection. Tevin cries. Soda’s torch is snuffed. She slowly turns, bows at them all with palms facing together in front of her face, in respect. They applaud. “You played a good game.” Soda walks the bridge, Tevin eyeballs the group. And with that, Soda goes to the jury. I was looking forward to watching more of her than I have so far, but this was an amazing departure.

Scenes from the next episode:

• Liz, Kenzie and someone in a white hoodie walk in a straight line through trees. A man’s voice calls out, “Hunter!”
• A close up of Charlie’s head and face, looking up at the tree tops. Someone says, “Hunter, where are you?”
• Up in a tan tree, we see the sole of a shoe, a bit of a red shirt and one arm, resting on a branch. Camera zooms in to a close up of Hunter’s face in that hiding place. He sits perfectly still, while his eyes roll all over, looking around.
• Tevin stands in the shelter, covering his face with his hand, laughing hard.
• Liz snidely speaks the laugh to camera: “‘Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha’… Shut up!”
• Tiffany walks alone while Q is dubbed overtop: “She broke MY rule.” Camera closes in to Q’s face: “I’m a mob boss.”
• Charlie to Maria, alone on beach: “This game is getting crazy.”
• At Tribal Council, jury member Soda covers her mouth in shock as Jeff says: “Never seen anything like this.”

Soda’s last words:

“Did not see that coming at all. It was an excellent, excellent move. This adventure was amazing. I conquered so many fears and, like, busted my ass in challenges, but I got to live inside, like, my favourite TV show ever. And now I get to be on the jury, and, like, vote for someone to win a million dollars. I’m just happy that I got to be a part of it all.”

Classy, great attitude. She is a strong and confident person who sees this whole experience as the adventure of a lifetime.