Review: Survivor, "How Am I The Mobster?" | Season 45, Episode 10
Hope springs eternal for a shakeup to a predictable post-merge dynamic
Let’s state a fact, first and foremost: the Reba alliance is extremely boring.
None of the individual players are inherently bad, but there’s just something about each that doesn’t connect. Drew’s too obsessed with narrating the game to actually play it, while Julie’s struggle with voting people out after being forced into a “Mom” role reinforces her lack of investment in the larger strategy of the game. Austin, meanwhile, has held a huge amount of power over the course of the season, but has no real personality to speak of beyond that, fitting into an Ozzy archetype without a whole lot of natural charisma.
The one exception to this has been Dee, because she’s the one player who has really committed to using the alliance as opposed to just sitting back. I wouldn’t call her an excellent player, but she’s at least made moves like the play against Sifu, and her strong opinions about who needs to go—albeit solely based on who she thinks is targeting her—at least create some dynami…