Survivor is back and so am I. Let’s recap this!

We start with Reem on Extinction wondering what the hell the Edge of Extinction means. In a multi camera confession, Reem explains the typical “I’m doing this for my kids” reason for being there. I hope that the multiple angle confessionals become a regular thing because it looked great. Also, I swear the fallen comrade music was playing during this sequence.

Manu

Over on Manu, They are comparing prune hands and Wendy explains her vote in a confessional. She did not want to work with Wentworth and is anti returnee. On the other side, Wentworth understands Wendy’s position and knows how dangerous that person can be. The group decides to do a group idol hunt in order to keep Wendy from finding it.

Kama

Kama on the other hand is having dance practice that leads to nowhere because most of it never happened at the challenge. I am getting La Flor vibes from this tribe. Aurora explains the importance of moral. I agree that a happier tribe tends to work together better than a disaster tribe but Aubry does not agree. She is sick of this kumbaya stuff and starts to play because she and Joe are ants with a magnifying glass. Victoria brings Aubry’s tactics to Eric resulting in a hilarious montage of Aubry saying the same phrases to everyone. The editors are roasting Aubry and as much as I like her, I admit that montage was my favorite part of the episode.

Manu

While Aubry is opening a dialogue, Manu is searching for that idol. During the search, Wendy pitches to take out Wentworth with the votes of Wendy, David, Rick, Keith and Wardog. David wants to do it but he is concerned about getting Wardog on board. I am not sure this would be a good mood for David since after Kelley is gone, he is the only returnee on the tribe. Also, Aubry and Joe might target David for this. This scene really establishes the pair of Rick and David. I am gonna pull a Nick Wilson and dub them Team News since Rick is a Reporter and David is a writer. The names are gonna get better. Jokingly, David tells Rick that he can cut him at 4. The idol hunt continues over on Kama

Kama

Gavin and Eric go searching for the idol. Julie, Julia and Victoria notice this and bring up for the second season in a row the lack of women finding idols. It is interesting that the point Angelina brought up last season came back with Julie. Julie’s confessional did result in a great moment when she did not know which sex was the gatherers. To answer her question, it was the women who were the gatherers. Everyone is struggling with finding idols. Everyone except…

Manu

Lauren, the Wentworth fangirl, finds the idol. I am fine with this because she is my winner pick I just pray she does not use it on Wentworth. First woman to find an idol without help since Cambodia. Lauren plans on not telling Kelley but I doubt it.

Immunity Challenge

It’s the Game Changers snake challenge. They have to unlock a snake in the water then drag it on the beach and play ring toss. On the show they mention that Aubry lost this challenge. CaN ShE ReVeRsE tHe CuRsE! Keith is making a curse since he sucks at everything in the challenge. Chris has to help him through so much of this challenge. The challenge is meh. unsurprisingly, Kama wins and gets a choice of spices and a cutting board or fishing gear. I would have chosen the spices since you can do so much with spices and the cutting board is a good flat surface. Manu goes to tribal. After Keith’s abysmal performance, Wardog wants to target him.

Manu

Keith is not helping the Wardog so he is a target. Wentworth is the other b=name on the board but Wardog is so adamant on Keith that the plan will not come together. Until, Chris comes out of nowhere and wants to boot Wentworth since Keith promised to work with him. Chris becomes the 5th vote. It seems like the plan to get Wentworth out is gonna happen until Chris tell Wardog and Wardog tries to persuade Chris that Kelley is a shield for them. They are in the middle tonight. Kelley senses that something is off and now only trusts Lauren.

Tribal

Tribal begins with a discussion on the assets of a returning player. They mention how they can be a shield but also an easy vote. Rick brings up the point that this vote will be a blindside since everyone thinks they have a deal going on. Wardog addresses the whole blindside as a check on a Survivor list. He says that you should not try to check a list but rather make rational moves. I agree that the resume talk is dumb. Now its time to vote. By a vote of 4 to 1 to 1

Keith is voted out and is bitter as hell. Keith bombed hard in this episode after having a good premiere. The winner of tonight was Lauren because her number one stayed and she has an idol. The loser was Wendy since she lost Keith and is probably the next target of the Wentworth group. At the sign post, Keith struggles for what seems like hours. He wanted to open a dialogue with God but he said no and we end on a cliffhanger. I hate the cliffhanger because it messes with my vote count although I assume it was unanimous since they would have shown if Kelley or Wendy got another vote. I don’t like that Keith is hesitating after fight hard to stay before tribal. We end the episode with Reem waiting for the next person.

The purple player of the week is Joe. Joe is the first returnee to get this dishonor. Julia and Ron also did not have any confessionals but Ron was involved with the idol search/ dancing and Julia was in the background with the girls and during the Aubry roast montage.

This episode suffered due to the idol search at both camps taking up the majority of the episode but there was some great content on Kama that saved the episode.

Next time, Returnees are getting targeted again.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!