SURVIVOR recap - Blindside Time!
If you haven't seen this week's episode of SURVIVOR, avert your eyes...because we're about to hit the beach to find out what happens whether two not-so-great tastes taste great together. That’s right, kids…it’s time for the merge!
Crazy Talk: We begin this week's episode exactly where we left off last week's: With me wondering how the hell Phillip managed to avoid getting his torch snuffed. And the pink-panty-clad superspy is still spinning that tale about how he "threw the challenge"...and trying to sell that story to his harshest critic, aside from me, Corinne. Now, flashback if you will, to what he told Cochran last week...That he threw the challenge for one reason and one reason only: So the tribe could go to tribal and vote Corinne out. But even the most gullible person on the island, Dawn ain't buying what Phillip's trying to sell. As for Corinne? She perhaps sums the situation up best: "He's cuckoo for cocoa puffs!"
What’s In A Name?: Dawn’s not feeling so good about the merge, given as last time she played this game, that was when she failed to hear the sound of the approaching bus that she would soon be thrown under. Fearing the worst, Dawn begins to cry. And it looks like she won’t stop anytime soon. Sure enough, the tribes merge, quickly settling on the name Enil Edan (New Beginning). Me? I’m wishing they’d gone with Michael’s suggestion: Stanley. Corinne agrees with me, calling the new moniker “the dumbest name ever.” Phillip immediately begins cobbling together yet another alliance, and one thing becomes clear: The dude’s obsessed with Boston Rob. “When you’re laying in bed tonight, pretend your Boston Rob,” he tells Andrea. “Because that’s what I do.” Ooookaaaay...
The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth: The immunity challenge turns out to be one of those I look forward to every season: Jeff making the contestants eat gross things while I sit home chowing down on chicken wings. Eddie worries chicks back home won’t dig him after watching him eat beetle larvae. Apparently, Eddie doesn’t own a mirror. But it is self-described pipsqueak Cochran who chokes down bugs, worms, and brains to walk away with the necklace.