Review: Survivor, "Epic Boss Girl Move" | Season 47, Episode 2
A narrative rebalancing comes with the hope of a cosmic rebalancing
In a three-tribe format, Survivor’s second episode is always something of a challenge. The first episode is, by its nature, hyper-focused on a single tribe: even with 90-minute episodes, the narrowing of the story onto the tribe that goes to tribal council is inevitable. And this year in particular, Andy emerged as the premiere’s main character so significantly that you kind of forgot the other tribes existed. There were stories that emerged, mainly due to Gabe and Rome finding the Beware Advantages, but there was never a real commitment to exploring the dynamics of their tribes compared to Gata.
Accordingly, the second episode starts by ignoring Gata entirely, giving us significant scenes at both Lavo and Tuku. In the former case, we get a fastforwarded version of Rome’s idol hunt, which involves some truly wild decision making as he brings Teeny in on the details of the idol discovery, who subsequently brings Kishan in on it. At Tuku, meanwhile, T.K.’s knowledge of Gabe’s i…