#Survivor50 I guess there's no reason they can't exhume the unpopular way for reducing player numbers that resulted in the Willard boot episode from Palau: No immunity, each (every) tribe has to boot someone. Three tribals might explain why Episode 6 is two hours. Or *sigh* post-merge split Tribals.

Damnbueno is back to recap Episode Number Two of #Survivor50: some fun idol play, two separate challenges, Cirie magic, and more: www.truedorktimes.com/s50/damnbuen...

#Survivor50 Belatedly appreciating that we probably only revisited Kyle's medevac in the opening minutes of the episode to add extra emotional weight to Christian's "unexpected evacuation" confessional.

#Survivor50 Adam Klein and Rick Devens: introducing #SurvivorSA idol concepts into the US game (in this case the Shona idol from Return of the Outcasts), even though *someone* had the show removed from Paramount+.

#Survivor50 Kinda crazy that Jenna Lewis isn’t even here now, yet her All-Stars crusade is going full speed ahead in her absence. (Watch your back, Dee.)

#Survivor50 I'm exactly three years older than Coach. I realize that makes me old, but I was unaware I was also dismantled. Probably true, though.

Y'all are cold blooded… VOTE HERE: ew.com/which-era-of...

¡Oi, pon la tilde, #SurvivorAU!

#Survivor50 My Ep1 recap talks about while the premiere was a LOT and fun as a whole, bringing back all-time greats and recent standouts, but also worrisome, as it subjected them to a maximalist version of the new era's anti-gameplay excesses, for ... reasons. www.truedorktimes.com/s50/recaps/e...

#SurvivorAU I think Rich's vote (#Justice4Matt) is a reference to the last time Harry was hopelessly outnumbered, made a big play at Tribal that saved himself, and took down his only ally, a pro wrestler (Matt Farrelly, aka Grayson Waller), in the process, which is a crazy coincidence.

Well my pre-game #1 ended up being boot #1, so I may be completely unqualified to continue with this series, but here anyway are my post-premiere power rankings going into week 2 of #Survivor50! Hoping my new #1 can do better than boo diddly. www.truedorktimes.com/s50/kaiser/e...

#SurvivorAU Nice to get in-episode acknowledgement of Brooke's 100th day. A little weird there was no mention of it for Coach or Colby in #Survivor50, but I guess they were so busy taking votes away, there wasn't room. (Also possible neither Coach nor Colby was aware of it, so it didn't come up.)

#SurvivorAU Poor Rich is so far on the bottom that the editors forgot to show how he voted (it was obviously with the majority, but still).

#Survivor50 I didn't see any announcement in pregame press, nor did we see any mention of them in the episode itself: Am I correct in thinking the Shot in the Dark is on hiatus for S50? If so that's disappointing, because there are a lot of players who could do creative things with them.

We have our first “-gate” of #Survivor50: POTGATE

#Survivor50 Ryan Kaiser @ryankaiser.bsky.social is back with power rankings freshly updated after the premiere, with a few surprises that aren't torn Achilles tendons: www.truedorktimes.com/s50/kaiser/e...

Speaking as someone who maintains a #Survivor website, I always start every #SurvivorAU season saying "24 contestants is too many." I can now confidently state that two seasons with 24 contestants starting at the same time (with 7.5 hours of show the first week) is too-squared many.

#Survivor50 "Welcome to your new camp! Please wear these beaded necklaces in lieu of camp supplies or rice." Only Christian, apparently: "Okay"

Bluesky has the juice! (I am not sure what is being squeezed. Probably better not to ask.)

The physics of making fire. Stay in school, kids. #survivor

guys with the power of friendship together we can move the survivor discourse away from the nazi man's app and over to this one. pretty please it's 2026.

I’m excited to bring you some photos and videos from the first few days of #Survivor50 when I was out in Fiji! First, here’s the post-challenge negotiation with Angelina that didn’t make the edit

#Survivor50 In addition to being a few years older than Rizo's dad, Colby's now also 11 years (!) older than Keith was in S2: The Australian Outback, and is almost the same age as Rodger was (51 vs. 53).

#Survivor50 I swear I'll immediately rescind my complaints about celeb cameos if next week someone finds the Jenna Fischer "Let's Just Give the Tribes Rice and Supplies Anyway" Advantage, or especially if there's an Adam Scott "Are We Having Fun Yet? No? How About if We Had a Normal F4 Vote?" one.

#Survivor50 From a "420!" auction bid to "Eh, you go ahead and take the pot, Q!", #Survivor has been a long, strange trip for Ozzy.

#Survivor50 Here's Damnbueno with his hot-off-the-press reactions to the premiere's many, many events (and players). A lot of good, some sad, but mostly a lot. www.truedorktimes.com/s50/damnbuen...

#Survivor50 The Billie Eilish Boomerang idol (BEBI) rules that the recipient can't give it away were in the note Genevieve had, the editors just skipped over that. (Makes some sense to save a reveal for Ozzy reading the same note, I guess.)

#Survivor50 Rewatching the opening historical montage, and while it's still fantastic overall, the shots of the Caleb medevac, Amy getting crunched by the boulder, and blindfolded Spencer having a heavy puzzle piece dropped on his foot in Cambodia are clearly foreshadowing, and just make me sad.

#Survivor50 "Tell Jenna. I want her to know it was me." (And Cirie.)

I've been thinking a lot about why the celebrity emphasis on #Survivor50 is so annoying. Will have more on this in my #Survivor recap later.

#Survivor50 Genevieve's reaction to the Billie Eilish note was great, but the actual mechanics of the idol are pretty fun. (I don't love the "you must play it for yourself" restrictions, I guess.) A big step up from the Legacy Advantage, though.

CBS is resurrecting the Early Show (CBS Mornings) interviews for #Survivor50? I hope they bring back Harry Smith for the interviews, so that five-time players can talk to someone who's never watched the show.

#Survivor50 I especially enjoy The Traitors buying ad time for its finale during the 50 premiere.

#Survivor50 A three-way Sundra-vs-Becky version of Prison Break (with no honor and integrity) is a welcome surprise.

#Survivor50 so far (pre-Ep1 RC), the fan’s choices suck. What is wrong with you people?

#SurvivorAU With an idol in hand, Brooke should theoretically make it through Sunday's episode. She's at 97 days played right now, which means she *should* pass the 100-day milestone in Monday's episode. (4th AU player to get there.)

#SurvivorAU came up with a brand-new, simple yet visually pleasing challenge, which you will never see on US #Survivor, because we are only ever allowed to have three tribes, and every tribal challenge must have a series of obstacles and a puzzle.

Okay, this is pretty cool with a super fun "flip-card" feature. Test your #Survivor knowledge with this 50-question flip card quiz and let me know how many you got right! ew.com/ultimate-sur...

More Survivor content no one asked for! I wrote about watching 44 seasons of the show over the last year, and how I slowly went insane from the Jeff Probst of it all. defector.com/i-lost-my-mi...

Who will have more Boston Rob mentions in their first week: #SurvivorAU or #Survivor50? Marker placed:

#SurvivorAU It really is unfortunate for Brooke's transaction-making goals that Swyndl looks exactly the same as Lyndl. Lesson learned, I guess?

#SurvivorAU Time to re-up my annual plea for timestamps telling the audience what day it is. From the internal logic of the edit, it looked like Ep2 was three days, but it also could have been two. Even one "Day X" chyron per episode is a step up from zero!

#SurvivorAU I am not a lawyer, but isn’t it against Australian law to not shorten the Barren tribe’s name to “Baz”?

An important thread rating the hats of #SurvivorAU: Redemption. 1. Lottie's "Gimme coffee" - Simple, direct, funny. 10/10.

#SurvivorAU Brooke was a tribemate of Mat Rogers in All-Stars. Sure, that season's airing ended with the COVID lockdown and they live in different cities (as do Mat and Don), but is it likely she and Don had met before?

We’re back with the Survivor 50 Cast’s most FUPASU-coded moves & moments from their previous appearances. Hope it helps some of you pass the time this week ahead of #Survivor50! 🏝️ futurepastsurvivor.com 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/64xM... #survivor

#SurvivorAU Mark: "Wow, our pyramid has a slick yellow stealth bomber on top. Cool. Let's go!"

#SurvivorAU I like Mark and he had a great episode, but the “Ruby Soho alliance” is a terrible name. The only other words in the chorus beyond that name are “Destination unknown”! Not exactly inspiring.

It’s #Survivor50 week! While I took a break writing about the new era, with old schoolers back in the mix, I made like a boomerang idol back to @truedorktimes.bsky.social. You can follow my weekly #Survivor whimsies starting with these pre-game power rankings: www.truedorktimes.com/s50/kaiser/p...

Dunk & Egg season 1 hit the perfect combination of sweet and gritty, just like the novella(s). A TV show remarkably *also* faithful to the source material, apart from the extra stuff added to stretch it to six episodes (which was still good, nonetheless). Really well done.