Review: Survivor, "Following a Dead Horse to Water" | Season 45, Episode 8
One guess who delivered this nonsensical mixed metaphor
These reviews have been later this season because of a night class I teach each fall, and for the most part I’ve avoided spoilers about the episodes since I don’t follow a huge number of people who livetweet the show. But recently someone I know caught up and is starting to watch live, and I’ve caught myself checking Twitter during our mid-class break and seeing bits and pieces about how the episodes are progressing.
To call these “spoilers” is inaccurate. The thing about Survivor is that there’s rarely narratives that come out of nowhere. If I see a tweet that a player might be in danger, all that means is that she didn’t win individual immunity, which is a pretty high possibility given that only one player can do so. Anything other than literally seeing a tweet about who went home is just outlining which of the existing stories in the season are being emphasized, and that’s basically work that the show itself does in the “Previously On” sequences we’ve gotten back with the longer epi…