Survivor, Season 31, Episode 3: “We Got a Rat”
Two great things about this season’s “second chance” theme. First, we get to see people taking advantage of their “second chance.” Like Super Terry who basically survived his season by winning every...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 31, Episode 4: “What’s the Beef?”
Can we just get to the merge, already? I hope CBS is about to switch it up, because right now, this season’s Survivor is a show about one tribe. A dysfunctional, helpless tribe that keeps going to...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 31, Episode 5: “A Snake in the Grass”
I guess just because you get a second chance on Survivor doesn’t necessarily mean you can actually play. Some of the contestants, yes, they’ve agonized over their previous demise and watched their...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 31, Episode 6: “Bunking with the Devil”
It is with a heavy heart I write this Survivor recap. One of my favorite contestants, ever, was Terry (Super Terry) and as soon as last week’s episode started, he was ripped from the game to attend to...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 31, Episode 4 and 5: “Play to Win” and “We’ll Call, You Haul”
Welcome back, boys and girls. Sorry about missing last week. Indeed I’m really sorry because the “merge” is my favorite moment of any season. In fact, I would argue, nothing really matters before the...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 31, Episode 10: “Like Selling Your Soul To The Devil, My...
Seems like it’s always been a Thanksgiving tradition that the Wednesday-before-Thanksgiving, Survivor would look like a new episode via the commercials, but then would be a best-of type show. Not this...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 34, Episode 1: “The Stakes Have Been Raised”
After what our nation endured through the 2016 Presidential race, in the months following the election, Inauguration Day, and in the month or since Trump became President, I don’t care which side...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 34, Episode 3: “The Tables Have Turned”
For the first two weeks of Survivor, Season 34, Game Changers, nobody was doing much “game changing”, but in week three, it all changed. First, CBS changed the game by splitting and re-arranging teams...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 36, Ghost Island – Episode 1 & 2
Welcome back to another season of Survivor coverage on spunkybean. If you’re new here, lemme quick tell you how spunkybean recaps and analysis work (when I write them, anyway). First, we only write...
View ArticleSurvivor, Season 36, Ghost Island – Episode 3
Oh how I love the early episodes of Survivor each season when nothing matters, truly, but everyone on the show feels like everything matters. I’ve said it once, and will say it again (to anyone...
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