At least those other 3 had some moments of endearment where you could relate. Emily was just a c*nt in the first episode, but maybe she will evolve.

Yeah, who is watching this show and thinking it looks remotely easy?

What a terrible cast. Been watching survivor since it started, but I'm having real trouble identifying with any of the people they're bringing on now. Is this society these days, or are they just casting the biggest losers to be on the show? I'm not even sure if I can continue watching.

Yeah… and they probably have a lot of footage of others talking about her and all of her wonderful qualities, but they HAPPEN to just use the (several) teeny tiny instances where they all talk about how negative she is.

Yeah, that’s definitely the most likely possibility.

But for real, Brandon Hannah and Emily have got to be in the top 10 WOAT. Just an amazing job by casting having them all on the same season AND same tribe.

Hannah apparently does this in her exit interviews to be fair

I'm still putting me neck out as having her as my 3rd or 4th most likely winner after the premier. Just a couple of editing things that stood out to me I'll put in spoiler below just in case people don't want to see

Emily won't win, her edit is wayyy too growthy for that, but after tonight I wouldn't be surprised if she goes much further into the game. Kaleb is the only real strategic thinker on that tribe and she might be able to get Sabiyah out with that ammo she gave her in the preview (though probably not the next episode).

Thank everyone they voted out Brandon. He's so bad at challenges people are saying Chet was better.

Loving Brando and him and Kellie are set up well to go far. Same with Drew on Reba.

Bruce is a clown, but quite entertaining

Dee' s foot is going straight on fetish sites.

Grunching so sorry if already mentioned and I'm not even all the way through the episode, but I have to say 90 minute episodes are so elite. They actually have time to build these people as characters. I actually feel like I know the vast majority of the cast, which never happens until about episode 5 or so.

Brandon was the worst contestant of all time. So glad he's gone.

For all the talk Probst does about Survivor being a reflection of society, that discussion between Emily and Sabiya was one of the best examples I've ever seen. They both sit there talking about how they feel attacked by the other one and how their own feelings are valid and guess what, nothing is resolved. They end up both just being upset with the other.

Obviously happy that Brandon is gone. In contrast to the reflection of society theme, Brandon got to learn that not everyone is equal, not everyone is special, and sometimes just because you want it doesn't mean you can achieve it.

Bruce is annoying af and I hope Emily survives some more episodes.
She's hilarious.

I did tell you they would vote out Brandon over her...


People love to point to Wendy Jo as the worst Survivor contestant of all time but Brandon is very worthy competition for that crown.

Only two episodes in and this is by far my favourite season of the new era so far. Simply due to episodes being 90 minutes and finally having room to breath and actualy get to know the contestants.

I give her credit for taking a look at why people didn't like her and at least attempting change a little. We will see. But right now she's only a tool for others.

Drew’s face and voice dont match

Calling it now that Drew wins the game

Everyone’s knees and legs are battered from the first challenge

My top 3 contenders are Drew, Kellie and Kaleb. Drew already is getting a 1st or 4th type edit that could go either way but there's a small chance he's also a mid merge boot that is taken out by the eventual winner as a 'big move' like Sophie was in WaW.

Speaking of which, this Kaleb fellow is a wizard. They better watch out for him. I mean, Emily's episode one was one of the bigger $#!% shows socially that we've seen in a while. Then, Kaleb takes her under his wing, and she's self examining and trying to make inroads. I mean, she was a train wreck. And looked hopeless. I don't think I've seen a more pronounced turn around in the history of the show. Not that she's really improved her position, just that if she had behaved this way initially, it might have been a whole different story.

The lesson here is BEWARE Kaleb.

Definitely the most 'out in front' winner edit so far which to me is setting up more of the Carson Jesse Ricard Omar 4th-5th end boss slot.

Kellie and Katurah still my 1 and 2 at the moment.

I think Sabiya is in a lot of trouble next time yellow lose.

When I saw this happening I thought it was one of the best early game moves I've seen in a long time. She will be loyal to him from now on even though she's a total train wreck. If that tribe can survive and actually win anything, although they might be able to without Brandon.

How does one tribe end up with a quitter, the worst contestant arguably of all time, and a player who nukes her entire social game within the first ten minutes? Casting nailed that one.

Also have to say I like the longer episodes because everything isn't rushed, I think that was a good move as well. I feel after two episodes I know most of the players, and since the shortened seasons there hasn't been a chance to do that. Some were barely even mentioned until five or six eps in previously.

Cant stress how much better it is when the show has room to breath and actually, you know, tell the story.

Completely pointless introducing a bunch of goblets, medallions, amulets, trinkets, vote swaps, vote tipplers, vote trippler nullifiers with the intention of causing big explosive moments when 90% of the characters being exploded have only received base level content.

This week was a good old fashioned old school boot, a majority choosing between two players on the bottom and not a 'hashtag blindside' in sight. I perfectly understood why they were on the bottom and the decision that was being made. Infinitely better than basically every new era vote out I've seen when most the time you just have to shrug my shoulders and stab in the dark guess why everyone voted how they did.

Yeah the Katurah scenes bashing Bruce could be after the fact shoehorning her winning season into the narrative

Definitely how I read this. Alongside setting up Bruce as a Skupin/Mike from S42/Coach losing finalist sort of figure

90 minutes would be good if the cast didn't suck. Most of these people are unbearable.

a lot of you seem to not enjoy this show