So many of these twists had one central problem for me: They punished players for COMPETING - in a challenge, by finding an idol, etc. We want to watch the players who show up to play actually succeed or at least go out trying. Not have their game then come down to chance or have their game be exposed by a stupid phrase.

@junsong9581

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I also thought Erika got punished by not being able to socialize for two whole days

@tripledigit4835

2 жыл бұрын

@@junsong9581 that’s like an exile Island though and because of the hourglass, she guaranteed immunity for herself where she has more time to mingle with people

@junsong9581

2 жыл бұрын

@@tripledigit4835 a lot of players don’t get exiled from the get go from the merge. Getting exiled is the perfect opportunity to be an easy vote from a perfect six person tribe when you are not there to put any input. And yes she did socialize when she won immunity which is how she got in majority by the Sydney boot. She didn’t have more time to mingle because those two days were absolutely crucial and she wasn’t even able to be there.

@tripledigit4835

2 жыл бұрын

@@junsong9581 “won immunity” bro she did not win immunity it was handed to her on a sliver platter

@junsong9581

2 жыл бұрын

@@tripledigit4835 her exile was also handed to her on a silver platter when she wasn’t given a chance to participate in the immunity to begin with :D

Honestly my dream at this point is to make it on the show, win, and in the finale shoutout Peridiam for basically mentoring me all these years

@BigmoneyBrickwall

2 жыл бұрын

Are you really trying to get on?

@stormgod519

2 жыл бұрын

Same here lol

@sunshine__daniel4313

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigmoneyBrickwall Hell yes I am! I started watching Survivor when I was about 10, every season watching with my parents. I’ve always loved it and just never applied. As I’ve gotten older Peridiam has sparked my love for what this game is just THAT much more. I turned 24 this year and applied for the first time, and I plan to keep doing it as much as possible now!

@poguclipsrn

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunshine__daniel4313 best wishes to a future winner!

@SYRJack

2 жыл бұрын

that’s my goal too

A big problem I have with this season is that Heather got purpled mostly because she never had any advantage or idol. She did strategize especially with Erika but the edit completely ignored that. This sets a precedent that if you don’t play a flashy game with idols and advantages, you might as well not exist on the show

@nezfrmst2090

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy?

@freddytang2128

2 жыл бұрын

@@nezfrmst2090 he won, so a little different. The editing is done after producers already know the result of the season

@thomaskelly7920

2 жыл бұрын

How do you know she had good strategy of you are saying the edit completely ignored it

@rileyzimmerman1049

2 жыл бұрын

i honestly think that they purpled her because they were afraid of the backlash after she won the fire making challenge. i think they may realize that people don’t like the fire making twist, and if they made heather a fan favorite, that would just fuel the anger

@rileyzimmerman1049

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaskelly7920 she was going to win in a heather, deshawn, xander final three, which at least says something about her strategy if she has a reasonable path to victory

This season suffered from a really bad winners edit in my opinion. I think Erika played a better game than the show runners showed and if they had restructured some of the episodes with BTS footage you can find online (not to mention everything they get that we don’t see) people wouldn’t be so upset. However I also will agree that I don’t understand why the jury hated Xander’s game so much, he did very well and I think he’s only a few mistakes away from the win near the end, but that’s too many mistakes sometimes.

@cookiecrumble619

2 жыл бұрын

He tried telling people what they are thinking which really shot him in the foot I feel. Even if he read the jury right, you just don't do something like that I feel

@EzraDair

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe if Xander was average looking he would’ve had a better chance at winning

@DylanisHere04

2 жыл бұрын

@@cookiecrumble619 Yeah I could understand him taking Erika unlike what some people are saying I think he took her because he truly believed he could beat her he just came off extremely cocky near the end about which is just the wrong play for sure.

@ttkoeda9954

2 жыл бұрын

I think Xander did nothing after the fake idol thing. He never initiated any vote out, he never protected anyone from being voted out, he was just a number floating by, and I think the jury didn’t appreciate it. And the only move he did (flashing Liana’s advantage) was Tiffany and Evvie’s idea (they said so in the interview).

@pinkmapviolin

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, you don't understand why the jury didn't like Xander's game because the edit didn't show us. I'm sure there were many confessional where players explained that they thought Xander was fake or whatever but they left all that on the cutting room floor. It's bad storytelling.

i wish the friendship between heather and erika was shown. women need to see more genuine female friendships on reality tv

@estoniass

2 жыл бұрын

100%, we got some heatherica screentime after the danny vote but that's literally it, which is insane because this is a SEASON-LONG RELATIONSHIP which was VERY important

@leahharvey4657

2 жыл бұрын

ikr! they’d talk about how close they were but i swear i saw like one or two scenes where they were spending one-on-one time. wish i got to see more of them

They needed to take like 1% of the energy they took into editing the jury and put it towards the winner and final 5 haha. I get wanting to hide the winner and the outcome but they really just blew all their editing/storyline momentum so early, it was weird. There’s gotta be a better way!

@handsoaphandsoap

2 жыл бұрын

We absolutely needed that Erika/Heather relationship to be established. It's the most important one of the season, as both of them make it to final 4 and had a lot of power in the game, so it's baffling that we don't get to see the inception of it. We're just randomly told that Heather and Erika are a duo out of nowhere and from that point on they're a duo I guess. My hypothesis is that they wanted to separate Erika's game from Heather but there must've been a better way than just shafting both of them for no reason. Cut some of that garbage in episode 3 that ends up mattering not at all and show Heather and Erika bond and form an alliance or something instead. We don't need like 20 minutes dedicated to advantages that go nowhere and players that are fairly early out.

@molinli2148

2 жыл бұрын

@@handsoaphandsoap I honestly think that episode 3 summit could’ve been cut COMPLETELY since Brad Sydney and Tiffany all were pre jury + Brad already had the idol for context of why he was targeted by Shan. It’s a shame they shafted 2 powerful women in a duo after all their performative activism

Jeff/Production tried SO hard to mess up this season. They took an incredibly solid cast and bogged them down early with crazy advantages and twists. LUCKILY this cast was so good at playing the game they really nullified the damage that could’ve been done. I hope production sees that a season can and should be driven by its cast and their relationships. That’s what makes the “social experiment” work so well. It’s the reason 70 million people watched the Borneo finale, and it’s the reason the show can still be so gripping 41 seasons in! We should pay attention to how different people play the game, not the game itself. This cast delivered and I can’t think of a season with more genuine emotion throughout in a long time. Some elements really need tweaking, and some things need to go in the garbage. But hopefully 41&42 are just the growing pains of finding out what the next 10 years of Survivor are all about!

@siwap3809

2 жыл бұрын

i only realised how much i love 41's cast after reading your comment. so many good people and players! i cant wait to see Xander return

@tomcoxford8893

2 жыл бұрын

I think the cast was really bad

@Digibullet32

2 жыл бұрын

this cast sucked....

@siwap3809

2 жыл бұрын

@@Digibullet32 questionable

@honkingantalope

2 жыл бұрын

The worst cast I've ever seen. None of them could survive. Only Naseer had the skills to actually survive, except he had a language barrier. He also never had a sob story or felt sorry for himself even though he was the most disadvantaged. All those black players were successful one was a medical student the other was a NFL player. Evvie was a complete moron and had so many double standards. Ricard was literally a snake. He was referring to other players as guys. It was racist because the black players used their race for a reason to have an alliance. The so called survivors cried in every episode. The constant complaining and saying how bad America is, does any of them move to another country. I don't see the blacks running back to Africa. Also hearing a Philipino women crying about growing up in Canada. Her parents and grandparents never went to residential schools. She was never taken from her parents and put in residential school or foster care. I'm tired of weak people crying about nothing and feeling sorry for themselves. Crying is a sign of weakness a man should never cry.

I thought Xander had it in the bag. But then watching his poor performance at final tribal and Erika’s amazing performance I had some doubts. Hearing the jury talk about Xander’s lack of social awareness, it makes sense that he didn’t win. That seemed to be what the jury valued. Xander misread them hard.

@IAmTheTruCanadian

2 жыл бұрын

nah they just looked at his gender/race

@nezfrmst2090

2 жыл бұрын

@@IAmTheTruCanadian this!!!! And I think sum how it was rigged that desahwn got to the end cuz there was to many times he survived being the odd mad out

@junsong9581

2 жыл бұрын

@@nezfrmst2090is there any evidence they voted based on this because this was actually a very fair jury. Erika was literally punished for her race(not being black or white) and her gender(for being a female and getting specifically targeted because the other men on other tribes were getting taken out.) It seems that it was anything but and the jury genuinely respected Erikas game

@briansledzzz3493

2 жыл бұрын

@@junsong9581 honestly I think that even with a different jury Xander loses however it’s fair to say that the jury had some sort of resentment towards Xander due to his race and gender as Shan Evvie liana and Danny all wanted a black female winner. As Shan and liana and Danny made a whole alliance called the black alliance in hopes of a black winner, evvie said she hates men and wants a female winner. Again I think with a different jury xander likely still loses but definitely would’ve gotten at least a couple votes

@junsong9581

2 жыл бұрын

@@briansledzzz3493 Erika isn’t a black female. She is southeastern Asian which is why she was excluded from the Black alliance. Looking past it the jury put their biases aside as they would’ve voted Deshawn as they thought a black winner would be more important but instead chose Erika simply because Deshawn sucks and Erika is worthy. Xander just hasn’t done anything respectable to a lot of juries in general. He played a similar game to Michele which the jury didn’t respect. People try to compare him the Fabio but the difference is people liked Fabio so much and he was sitting next to two phonies

Hourglass really did piss me off. Danny was visibly frustrated by it and I don’t blame him because he literally did get punished for winning

The cast was never the problem, in fact it was easily the best newbie cast since DvG. It makes me wonder if this would’ve been a top tier season (like DvG) had there not been so many terrible advantages and twists introduced.

@JAMes-vc6gd

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree

@kimberlygleason

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH I AGREE THE CAST WAS TOP TIER!!!!

@HawkUnleashed

2 жыл бұрын

Disagree most cast was good but when one actively says they hate men then you might have a slight problem

@moviemaniac14

2 жыл бұрын

@@HawkUnleashed Ricard was my only issue with the season because they came off as VERY selfish and entitled all the way until the end of their game, but they’re still much better than people like Colton.

@HawkUnleashed

2 жыл бұрын

@@moviemaniac14 Yea, Ricard seemed to be a bit condescending as well at times. I didn't really like his attitude but appreciated his gameplay.

This season is a perfect example of why the only hidden advantage should be idols, and to do away with all the extra bs and just give us more screen time of the players and their interactions with everyone else. With that being said, this season did have my favorite cast and winner probably since season 33, and there are probably a good 5 or 6 of them I wouldn’t mind seeing play again

I am not upset at all that Erika won, I could see her game play, especially in these last couple episodes. But what I am upset about is that Xander got 0 votes from the jury. I think he deserved at least a few because he did have great game play.

@DitzyKisser

Жыл бұрын

They need to bring him back!!!

The cast was not bad, the editing and weird twists/advantages were

@l2ealChuckNorris

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe not bad but definitely not a good cast

@wassupitsyaboi3680

2 жыл бұрын

@@l2ealChuckNorris I loved the cast, they were all such a breath to fresh air in my opinion

@l2ealChuckNorris

2 жыл бұрын

@@wassupitsyaboi3680 yikes

@kimberlygleason

2 жыл бұрын

@@l2ealChuckNorris SHUT UR MOUTH IM GONNA CZANCEL U!!!! U ARE A BAD INFLUENCE TO MY CHILDREN SO BE QUIET

@denglish5275

2 жыл бұрын

@@wassupitsyaboi3680 A lot of strong personalities made for a lot of really interesting moments. Definitely a preferred active cast over seasons with a lot of passive people. Even Danny, one of the most passive players this season, had a lot of great interactive moments being a level headed guide to Deshawn, sadly to no avail.

If they were to remove the drag-me-by-the-throat pace, and go back to the original 39 days post-COVID, though, a season like this could work a lot better. I legitimately LIKED the people for as far as I got to know them. My problem is, I VASTLY prefer character-based stories to plot-based ones. So if I don't know your characters, I don't care.

Here's a way I just thought of to make the hourglass twist work: still have the two teams of 5 with 2 people unpicked at the merge. The team that wins gets to skip tribal council completely, and they pick one person to go with them. The other person gets sent to exile island, where they choose if they want to join the group of 6 who avoids tribal completely, or join the group of 5 going to tribal, only they get immunity and can't be voted out. It still gives a lot of power to the person on exile, but there is no obvious choice for what to do like before. Erika could have chosen to stick with her old tribe + Ricard in an attempt to not make any early enemies, or try and help Heather survive a vote with Yase + Shan.

@eastonburnor4018

2 жыл бұрын

If she decides to go to tribal, she shouldn’t be safe so it’s a High risk High Reward like the other twists this season

@ProudPapaJD

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastonburnor4018 If she’s not safe then there is no decision to be made. For it to work she has to be immune no matter what. I like this twist way better than what it was. Of course you take immunity and smash the hour glass, it was a non decision.

@yoloyolo-bj3by

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProudPapaJD good idea. It's just interesting because I feel that if Naseer had been sent to exile instead of Erika he wouldn't have smashed the hourglass since Danny deshawn Sydney and erika would be safe which was good for his game at the time, but not Erika's since heather was her closest ally and she was on the losing tribe. It's just how it went. The rocks were random and would've given someone like Shan or Ricard a chance had they been really screwed

I actually had many many problems with this season..... first is right from the start Jeff Probst when Jeff states that is gong to be like "old time Survivor" then....... proceed to be everything old survivor was not...... multiple idols, multiple twists, exile island, only 26 day, spoon fed lines from Jeff and no rice..... all of these did not occur in the early seasons. Survivor is no longer a social experiment and survivor show where they would integrate the culture for the location they are in, they are more a entertainment show with the producers throwing as much sand in the gears (as the viewers will allow) to see what crazy voting scenarios would occur. Frankly they could just do this show somewhere in the desert just outside Los Angeles and achieve the same result the way it is produced now. The last couple years you can tell they are getting cheaper and cheaper with staying only on Fiji to combining more and more reward/immunity challenges to now the reduction in days on the island.

@rokeYouuer

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. My first season was 32, so I'm not even fueled by nostalgia, but the old seasons were way better. Different locations, themed challenges, actual surviving in the wild, real moments with real people. Now it's just a board game set on an island. I don't understand why the show keeps backsliding, when they had such a successful formula from the get go.

@Shmokahontas

2 жыл бұрын

I never got the vibe he was pitching the season to be like old time survivor by saying “drop the 4 keep the 1”, I interpreted it as it’s gonna be like a whole new game/different experience.

@acefist5502

Жыл бұрын

@@Shmokahontas don’t fix what isn’t broken thankfully 43 it seems like the 4 is back

Showing Erika and Heather working together earlier in the season would have helped this season so much. They clearly played from the start they just weren’t flashy which such a disservice. Especially during the merge where they were honestly critical from final 10 onward.

I think what Peridiam mentions about the cast being really good is part of what makes me dislike and hate how many twists there were, because each of those twists took time away from us seeing more of them. Imagine if the Pearl Islands or Cagayan casts had the time we had with them cut by 30-40%. That being said, if I had to rank this season right now, it would certainly be in my lower half because of the amount of twists, but I wouldn't put it in my bottom 5 or bottom 10.

Thank you for including Heather's "Whatchu singin' over there??" The most classic line of the season :). Always a great job Peridiam!!!

Would’ve liked to see you address the on-site winner reveal more. I hated it. Made erikas win even more underwhelming. Part of what makes reunions good is seeing how they have adapted to post survivor life and they know who has gotten which receptions by fans

@molinli2148

2 жыл бұрын

Well they had to do it because of the pandemic so it’s not really something they could’ve changed

My initial assessment was that it was a middle tier season but slightly above average (15-20, but closer to 20). I think if they spend ANY amount of time developing Heather/Erika relationship the outcome is much easier to understand. I shouldn’t have to read the cast interviews to understand that Erika did a lot of UTR work with the underdog alliance and the cast thought Erika was savvy and dangerous. Also, if you read them, you knew going into the finale that no one on jury respected Xander’s game. The writing was on the wall for him to be a 0 vote finalist. It makes me frustrated that the few modern female winners we have are so often underedited to tell the story of why their fellow finalists lost, rather than how they won.

@kyletucker3811

2 жыл бұрын

I think the reason they under edited her is slightly justified here. Remember they revealed the winner on the island. Maybe I'm reaching, but I'm guessing they were doing everything they could to keep it secret. That might have even included comparatmentalising editing so as few people as possible could leak the result.

@discoelysia

2 жыл бұрын

Kyle Tucker hmm that’s an interesting point. I actually think her post-merge edit isn’t that bad its her pre-merge content that’s woeful. We really lacked an early game perspective from her

@sockmonkeyjg

2 жыл бұрын

I do think he could have won but blew it because his late game was too safe, he wins if he takes out Erika at fire making (like he removes his immunity and takes there place then take Erika out)

@discoelysia

2 жыл бұрын

James Green if he’d taken out Erika, he definitely would’ve had more respect from the jury and a late game move to his name

@stockton350

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyletucker3811 I don't get what you mean here

I think Jeff Probst and Production did a disservice to an outstanding cast and a deserving winner. Probst was about an 11 on the season's insufferability index and the number and scope of the twists/advantages in my opinion detracted from my enjoyment of the game and nearly stifled the gameplay and strategy that was occurring organically from the cast. Not to keep harping on Jeff Probst, but the self-congratulatory tone in which he touted the "great social experiment" of Survivor at any and every opportunity was obnoxious. As much as I liked Xander he torpedoed his game at the final 4 tribal council by attempting to tell the jury what they were thinking. Erika had an outstanding FTC and articulated her gameplay expertly (I would also say that with the exception of one momentary pause Xander also performed well at FTC). I am happy with Erika as the winner but I think Probst/production overcooked Season 41, akin to overdoing a steak by smothering it with sauces and embellishments. Let it breathe.

The editing no doubt ruined the season, purpling the winner is one thing when they’re up against stiff competition but in a jury vote that clean it’s just ridiculous

@shesjustafrienduhhafriend8655

2 жыл бұрын

I agree if it was a jury vote of 4-2-1 for example then yeah but 7-1-0 what

@sideeswipe

2 жыл бұрын

@@shesjustafrienduhhafriend8655 no fr though like winners like Yul who won by a MUCH smaller margin got ten times the edit Erika did

@molinli2148

2 жыл бұрын

@A Nigerian ninja who should’ve switched their votes from Erika to the others? Because jury votes are individual and binary, not collective.

@molinli2148

2 жыл бұрын

@A Nigerian ninja but the jury have all said they were not allowed to talk to each other about their votes and were monitored at ponderosa. The jury decided not to vote for Angelina, Laurel, Julie, Noura, etc. Every loser loses because they don’t get the votes. YOUR opinion on who they should’ve voted for is irrelevant because you weren’t there on the island with them 😂 you only see a few hours of a month long experience. There’s no such things as an incorrect vote.

I think the cast this season was great. So many players were determined to play and win!! I agree the twists went overboard and took away from the greatness of the cast. I also wish they had kept the 39 days because it did feel rushed. As far as editing, the season started off like we’re going to see behind the scenes throughout, but it only lasted for like 2 episodes.

I had a problem with rewarding the person who was voted to Exile Island with the game-changing time clock, reversing the outcome of the challenge. Hated that they were told by winning the challenge, they wouldn't go to tribal. Then they found out they will be going, and those that lost the challenge are safe! Terrible!!!

I mean… it wasn’t the worst? There’s just so much that I was expecting from it especially after the break. And it feels like they didn’t meet the insane hype and standards that they were leading on.

@greentree211

2 жыл бұрын

i feel this way about alot of things right now(not just survivor)... we had such a long break that so much should be better and yet it is all the same( actually worse) then it was before 2020...

@sideeswipe

2 жыл бұрын

It had a great pre merge and then a dumb merge and then a fine post merge and then a god awful fourth quarter cause of the editing

This season is definitely in my bottom half. I just never got into it. It was great having such a diverse cast, but I didn't find any of them likeable enough to root for. All the twists and advantages took away from the game in a big way; it was more like a scavenger hunt than a social game. The hourglass twist was the worst; how can they penalize people for winning a challenge? It also rubbed me the wrong way that only because of the hourglass was Erika able to stay in the game and eventually win; to me it was slightly reminiscent of Chris Underwood's win. Finally, Erika was given a horrible edit; by the end of any season the winner should be somewhat obvious to the viewers. The whole time I was thinking that Erika and Heather would be a dream to take to the final 3. When the final 3 was revealed I honestly thought Erika had no chance, and it was between DeShawn and Xander. I only started to realize that Erika had a chance as the jury questioned the finalists. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention all season, but I would bet that most viewers were surprised by the final vote.

@loganielsomething7218

2 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth apparently some players have said in post game interviews that even wirhout the hourglass twist Erika would've stayed in at the merge

@manueltreill6358

2 жыл бұрын

@@loganielsomething7218 Really?? Who was gonna be voted out?

@loganielsomething7218

2 жыл бұрын

@@manueltreill6358 I believe it's said to have been between Sydney and Tiffany

@DitzyKisser

Жыл бұрын

Take away being sent to exile with an advantage & the outcome would be totally different, Xander wud of won it, hands down!!! ❤

I think that this review is really fair. I would probably add a comment about how well the season was shot! Everything looked so beautiful and impressive and larger than life. Great kudos for that. What Jeff Probst doesn't seem to understand is that these overly complicated twists and advantages are not necessary for the success of the game or the show. This cast definitely proved that. All you need is good casting. I mean... I know squat about producing Survivor, so what do I know? What I do know is I've been watching Survivor from the first episode in January 2021 (I'm at season 32 now) and watching the first seasons - they're still as interesting, colourful and addictive as it's all about the people! I think this season, like a lot of first-seasons-of-a-new-era was good for that. I am curious to see what 42 is going to be like as the players there hadn't seen 41 and wouldn't know what to expect. Hopefully that 42 production would have improved on 41. Survivor 43 will definitely be a different ballgame!

your summary videos and the finale of the season of Survivor itself are equally as important to me. i look forward to them both simultaneously, thank you for these videos!!! they are the best

Let's gooo! Did not expect this today, and on my lunch break, perfect timing!

I think the editors gave Xander a hero edit intentionally to throw us off at the end. We all seen him as a Rockstar when in reality he wasn't ever a real threat in the eyes of the rest of the cast which explains why he never got targeted despite having an idol.

i would love to see a video on game theory and how it comes into play in survivor. like the different kinds of theories they have implemented or attempted to!

What a perfect analysis of the season. Great, well spoken critiques of the issues with the twists, but fully recognizing the massive strengths of this season. Well said, my guy.

Thank you so much for this video! I love your level-headed review.

Love your recaps!

I started out so enthusiastic and then Half way through I was “meh”. Then we it got good again only to be let us down time and time again with way to many rewards, twists that really had no resolve or reason. By the end I was just disappointed. I know they want to fool us into a fake winner but honestly they ignored Erica so much with almost zero confessionals that’s when she won I was just left scratching my head. I still don’t understand what happened. They need to at least give the eventual winner a storyline and not just some weird plot twist that didn’t really change anything. I’m not sure I still understand Erica’s rewind. I love Survivor, I just need a little more suspense and clarification, this season just left me confused.

I love your videos so much. One thing that caught my ear was your pronunciation of “denouement” (used while describing post-Shan gameplay), I totally agreed with what you were saying, but I’d check that pronunciation.

13:39 Extreme ways are back again, extreme places I didn’t know. Love how you edited that scene like The Genius

Great review. Worst moment: Hourglass. DUH., followed by Xander's underwhelming final tribal performance Best moment: Xander's fake idol play, followed by the magnificent duo named Shan and Ricard

@eastonburnor4018

2 жыл бұрын

I think the best part is the amazing solo: Ricard

Loooooooove your reviews!!!!! Really love them. Well done. More life to you

I’d love to see a season featuring Survivor “experts”: Peridiam, Rob C, Mike B, etc, etc. That would be MAD! Maybe experts vs superfans vs returnees!

@NK-bz9wb

2 жыл бұрын

I want a season called Family Ties where people come in pairs (Father/daughter, married couple, step siblings etc) that are hard to guess and don't reveal them. Everyone draw rocks so that maybe one tribe has several couples on it but the others don't know. I think it would make for some interesting strategies and alliances. edit: I haven't watched all seasons so if I missed one like this please let me know

Great video, I definitely agree that this was a middle-tier season. I actually really liked the cast and the plot twists since it was diverse, but there was definitely too many advantages. Hopefully, in season 43, they can decrease some of the advantages. This was amazing tho :)

Loved the use of Extreme Ways with the lack-of-knowledge is lack-of-power advantage. The challenge also used it in their final last week, and now I'm in a huge Genius mood again

Great review as always!

It's been about 15 years since I watched Survivor. My last official season was Season 11 with Dani Boatwright as the winner. (I vaguely remember Redemption Island, but that's about it.) This season was great. I liked the cast, I liked their dynamics. I liked the fact that despite a few players acting a bit edgy, there wasn't really a villain this season. The social dynamics amongst the crew were great. There wasn't a Sugar or Russel this season. Everyone got along surprisingly well and I appreciated that. Especially with an all newbie cast. This was my first time really diving into the world of advantages, and frankly, I only vaguely remember hidden idols. But while there were a couple of episodes where they overshadowed everything else, this felt mostly like a social game. I liked that. I'll be back to watch next season.

26:47 cracked me up. I also thought of that scene when Naseer said that LOL

I will stand by my Do or Die idea: Death Plinko. 1) it's more visually interesting than Jeff and a player have a lil conversation in front of boxes 2) there's potential for the rest of the players to get involved - have them place (depending on their numbers) safe or death spaces. Players like Xander or Chochran know about the bell curve of probability and can use that knowledge to their benefit strategically. Edit: yes I agree that Do or Die isn’t the greatest - I’d rather have it be a play-or-get-food option like in the past, but you’ve gotta admit Death Plinko would just be cool as hell.

@noahs5636

2 жыл бұрын

I still think this takes away the social aspect that voting offers, but this is way better than what we got. If they're gonna keep doing twists like the Do or Die(which we know they will) then Death Plinko is way more interesting. Neat idea!

@HeavyMetal-jy4vj

2 жыл бұрын

This would work great on Big Brother tbh.

@HelloIAmJo

2 жыл бұрын

@@noahs5636 the thing about this alternative method is that there’s STILL a social aspect to it. You can be totally blatant and plonk your death space right in the middle in front of everybody or you can put it off to the side as a show of good faith.

@noahs5636

2 жыл бұрын

@@HelloIAmJo still doesn’t feel quite the same as rallying the right numbers to vote someone off.

Erika played a game that reminded me of Tina and T-Bird and honestly Sandra minus the confrontation. It wasn't luck that she got no pushback after the merge, it was the result of strategy that unfortunately we weren't shown much of because other tribes kept losing pre-merge. She's also a POC Canadian woman, the first, to win this game with incredibly steep and enthusiastic competition. Her edit is unfortunately downplayed because of the stellar cast across the board. #SurvivorGiveUsASecondWeeklyEpisode

Omg I would love to read your essay on Survivor and Shakespeare holy shit!!

I love that the idols are out in the open and known, it makes the game much harder and brings it back to how the show was before there was idols being found every episode. It adds such a complex element of how to use the idol and makes the idol not as powerful for the individual holding as it used to be. It gives incentive to use it in a big way to save someone else

I think this season had a couple good players but then mostly players that thought they were better and more strategic than they actually were. Many mistakes made and way too many simple solutions overlooked. I look at Shan as an overhyped player. She made way too many mistakes for as good as she thought she was. I think most seasons she would get an edit showing how she kept screwing up but everyone else kept messing up or making bad moves for the sake of calling themselves “big brained” or “a strategic player”

Love Peridiam dropping that The Genius edit.

Thrilled with your work. Thrilled with the winner. So grateful to have the show back that I’ve dedicated countless hours to since 2000.

Can you do an official road to Victory for Erika? I’m studying those and I get A LOT of use out of them.

After this season, I'm starting to get Guatamala vibes form season 41. Erika is Danni Boatwright, Xander/Ricard is Rafe, Heather is Lydia, Danny is Gary Hogeboo.. I mean Hawkins. Even the pre merge is a lot like Guatamala, JD is, while not as game savvy, is still like Brain. But the cast in 41, while is a lot better, seemed a lot more safer then past seasons.

@NotTheAverageGamerz

2 жыл бұрын

Yes ! I can totally see that

10/10 review, keep up the great videos!!!!

I mean you could’ve done a AU and SA review,btw whatd ya think of BvB? It was chaotic but in a fun way I reckon,some good characters/players,and I started SA this week,just finished the double tribal

If I could I would rank this as 0 out of 41. The focus on identity is killing our country! Erika deserved the win, but then to focus on her being a Canadian is so wrong! What .. we still have something like 200+ countries to get a win??? Erick because of who she is a person not what she is .. not what type of boxes she checks!

That's why I love you Peridiam, you criticize the season without any discredit of Erika's win. I've seen so many youtubers pissed at Erika winning and at Shan and at this point it feels personal or even racist, it's just too much hate for them... especially being a TV show. I can see most of the castmates of this season being returnees.

Thank you for pointing out episode 3 because that one was painful to watch. So much took place but nothing actually happened. By the end of the episode everything essentially reset to how it was before the episode and Ua did the exact same thing the next episode.

Thanks for acknowledging Jeff's haircut

"It was all just too much too quickly" You nailed it. I was honestly confused most of the time with all the rules and advantages

I super agree with your assessment with the Hourglass twist. Because Erika was tied to one of the tracks, what would have been a tense trolley problem decision became a drawn-out no-brainer moment. Of course she would break the hourglass. Only those very comfortable in their position in the tribe (and that their target was in the 'not safe' half in the first place) would have chosen not to break it.

13:37 loved the use of Extreme Ways by Moby! Xander=Bourne😂

Erika's biggest move was the most no brainer, absolute bs move of all time.

@chickenchicken9072

2 жыл бұрын

Her biggest move was the Danny vote

@johnappleseed203

2 жыл бұрын

I actually take this back. Upon further review, I think her edit was poor and she deserved to win.

@ThoughtSP95

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnappleseed203 what changed your mind?

@johnappleseed203

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThoughtSP95 just hearing all the behind the scenes between the cast and jury. I do think Erika might have gotten screwed by the edit. Zander was glorified on the edit, but no one took him serious at all. It was a couple different things the jury said that brought Erika's game plan to light.

@ThoughtSP95

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnappleseed203 oh interesting, I don’t listen to or watch much of the bts stuff. I wonder why the editors did that :/

This season sucked hard mainly because the producers were trying so hard to make it epic. They failed. Second, I'm sick and tired of Probst talking to the camera. He is not the star of the show. He is simply a facilitator. He mansplains things that everyone already knows that have seen the show. Finally, Survivor and Probst overtly trying to be politically correct is nauseating at best.

The best way to try and fix the hourglass twist is to make it where there are consequences if it breaks. It was basically “break this and you are safe” there was nothing to stop it. But if you make it where they lose their vote for 2 or 3 votes if they break it or they are already safe and they can just change who is on the chopping block by hitting the hourglass, I think that could make it a bit better. Make it where there is a question as to if it will be broken instead of an obvious choice of breaking the hourglass.

18:36 Umm... I dunno, mate. Jeff Probst has said in an interview with Variety that, with the new era of Survivor, "Where 'Survivor' needs to go is with fresh faces, fresh voices, players who are of the moment, players who can let us watch them and learn." Basically, we shouldn't expect to see any of our favorite players from any season back for a while. :( Here's to hoping Jeff changes his mind in the future once a few more seasons have been produced. I'll give him until 50 - then an All-Star cast with castaways from 41-50 (Maaaybe 33 and onward, too) could be arranged.

Those last ten seconds 😂

Great season, one of my favorite winners. Happy survivor is back

I love the intro paying homage to Tarzan

Thank you for spoiler free thumbnail 🙏

Xander's loss (and Lauren's in Ghost Island) shows how Survivor juries have evolved over the years (I think due to changes in casting). In the first 20+ seasons it was completely unimaginable for someone to be the sole survivor of a decimated tribe, make it to the jury, and then lose without getting a single vote. In older seasons of Survivor if you made it to the end as part of a losing/pagonged tribe you automatically won no matter what kind of a game you played (assuming you weren't sitting next to other members of your former tribe). But that's just not the case anymore.

@gasharan

2 жыл бұрын

Xander would've been targeted more in an older season too by that logic. He was basically ignored because no one considered him a threat

@zjzr08

2 жыл бұрын

The underdog winner threat does seem to be less of thing now (we see it also with Natalie and Michele to a degree in Winners at War, and Dean in Island of the Idols) probably because players don't take the votes too personal now and does see that voting wrong is a weakness.

I think the Do or Die player should lose their vote but if they find the flame they get to leave Tribal Council (like Safety Without Power). So you have the option to protect your vote but can’t play for immunity or risk it and play. You could also play and throw and go for a 66/33 percent chance at safety the same way you could this time.

I had a really hard time with this season. It definitely got better at the end, but it was rough at the beginning. I just need to adapt with the game I guess

I didn't like Ricard. Like the whole time. This mostly came because I enjoyed watching Shan and the whole "I don't want to give you your advantage back" just soured me all season and I was screaming for the tribe to vote his butt out

@rokeYouuer

2 жыл бұрын

You were on Shan's side for that argument? She was being a whiny control freak, while Ricard rightly pointed out that one of them shouldn't have both advantages, because then there wouldn't be an incentive to vote the other out, especially since they themselves set a president for taking an advantage then voting out the original owner.

@brynunderwood

2 жыл бұрын

@@rokeYouuer I don’t think either of them were necessarily in the wrong. I see it as both Shan and Ricard trying to play with their cards close to their chests, despite the fact that they were aligned. Those two played the game harder than anyone else, and those scenes with the advantages made it really clear that they weren’t going to give each other any wiggle room to earn the upper hand.

@tj.8924

2 жыл бұрын

@@rokeYouuer You’re forgetting one thing though. Ricard promised to give it back after tribal council but he didn’t. Shan went up to him the next day and asked for it back but he made it into a complete scene. Ricard is a petty ass man.

The show/Jeff constantly bragging about how great and progressive it is became cloying as well. It took you 20 years, kid. And lord do I not need to ever again hear, "That's what Survivor is all about!"

I think this is one of those seasons where its a debate on how to edit: should they tell the story of the season or the story of the winner. Usually those stories are the same story but occasionally, which we've seen in a few seasons, the winner is more in the background of the story of the season. Usually when that happens its because of one specific player so its about "why Russell lost" but sometimes it's not one specific player eating up the story but just that everybody else is driving what is going on more.

Xander wasn’t robbed the finale edit made it obvious why he lost.

3:00 at the very least they could have had it as if Erika smashes the rock. They back to the team challenge, re-draw rocks (with no grey rocks) then have a 6 on 6 showdown, but no feast this time.

I have agreed with you on almost everything, but I believe this was genuinely the most unenjoyable season ever

@seanberrodin801

2 жыл бұрын

I like how you worded this. I dunno it just stuck out to me. Like you didn’t take it as a deep personal offense thst you didn’t like the season, but end of the day you didn’t like it. How can someone get mad at that? It’s really a beautiful thing!

9:48 most iconic part of the season Edit: Also at 19:03 THAT IS NASEER

What? Erica wins with that blue puffy sleeve? Sublime. I miss the food auction.

I'm usually terrible at picking my Survivor fantasy league, but this time around I was on fire! I chose Erika as my #1 to win before the show started because she exemplified sneakiness while not being perceived as a threat. My second choice was Ricard, then Heather (though as the show kept going I was like "why did I pick her again? They're barely showing her at all"), then Xander, and then Genie. I was so glad that I had 4/5 chances to have the winning player on my team going into the finale and I was stoked to see how it turned out. I liked this season a lot post merge, and I'm hopeful that 42 will have fixed some of the obvious flukes.

Peridiam, do you have a review?

Your Naseer mentions were like "songs to my ears" lol

Jeff: “We just want to have fun this season…” Me: “I see you using the ‘Royal we’ there, sir…”

I think the idol twist was one of the worst things they've done and I am floored that they are bringing it back. Like, really? What's the point of an idol if everyone knows you have it...

@noahs5636

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, 42 was filmed before 41 aired so they didn't get to see the reception. But like, yeah, it's pretty obviously a dumb idea. I don't totally hate them having to say phrases or do something specific but it should maybe be something that's easier to work into a conversation and won't totally give away that they have an idol to literally the entire cast.

@airhawkey

2 жыл бұрын

@@noahs5636 totally agree, the astroturf one was so much easier to work into conversation.

@noahs5636

2 жыл бұрын

@@airhawkey exactly. If someone like Brad got that one you could just pass it off as a silly country saying.

Thank you for posting the video. I would place this season of "Survivor" middle tier? 🤔

26 days leaves less interactions between people per vote out, making it more about gameplay. i am not at all against gameplay content, but it doesn't feel like a social experiment the less social drama there is. i hope they go back to 39 days soon. i give the season a 6.5. i like twists to shake up dominant alliance meta, but i also like the pace better of a less hurried season. everyone was playing the game hard, and it's hard to relate to the show when there is little small talk to see what's troubling people. also, the punishment of losing challenges made it like the haves and have nots in survivor fiji, where the first winning tribe dominated everything from the first challenge. that's the main reason erica got a weak edit: one-sided tribe dominance.

I loved this season, because instead of having a lot of people who I hated and who didn't like each other, I felt sad when a lot of people post-merge went home, and the cast seemed to as well. Ya, there were too many twists, but I'm okay with experimenting with their formula.

I am a fan of the show since the beginning and I am glad I found this channel as I can relate to all the fans of the show. Hope you will notice this, Peridiam - I couldn’t find a way to contact you so I can personally thank you for the great contents you are uploading. I hope that you could also help me find a community where I can join and engage with all Survivor fans, globally. Please notice me! 🙌🙌🙌

Really enjoyed this season, looking forward to season 42 and all the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy jokes :)

Shoutout to Danny, probably my favorite player this season and he seems like a really cool dude. Honetsly loved the entire cast though i could watch them all play again

Im ok with any winner tbh , like this is a really smart and good cast , if Heather won Id have a case for her. But Really wanted Xander to win cause the last Himbo that won Survivor was Fabio and that was ages ago ..

Only thing I have to say about the Shan vote is it feels easy because as she said she was out all day which makes a blindside easy if someone else can’t find out about it.

It was my first season I watched live after coming back into the Survivor fold after season 40 finished up, and I LOVED watching it! The hype of seeing it air and getting a first look at the new Survivor era really made me happy. Given that, I do disagree majorly with the pre-merge advantages, as the post-merge showed us what it could have been like without them (and it was much better IMO.) I also think if they were to remove the bulk of these random twists and spent time building up the castaways more (not just the one's relevant to the story) it would fix a lot of the grips I have with the editing too

Definitely this season was in the middle. I understand why Erika won but I definitely thought Xander should of got 1 or 2 votes. I definitely agree with you on all the advantages they had. One of my favorite people was broccoli brad so I hope he comes back for sure, definitely made me happy

Can't wait for Richard Hatch's take...

The moment when they got rid of Ricard and she got the first confession after it, I called it that she’ll win simply how she talked about her gameplay.

@damianmorris6700

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she definitely was much better at marketing herself than the other two. I personally think Xander played a slightly better game than Erika, but still, could see the votes going either way going into final three. However, when Xander pretty much avoided talking about what he did in the game, I had a feeling he'd lost. Part of the game is knowing how to market youself to jury, and he did a very poor job on that end.

@molinli2148

2 жыл бұрын

I wish they had done that a bit more throughout the season so we could hear her processes