It’s too early in the game to start talking about who is likely to win Survivor 50 based on the edit. We’ve had a grand total of two episodes, and there are still twenty-one players remaining on the season. A lot can and will happen over the next few months, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t notice castaways getting particularly good edits or castaways getting zero confessionals. The former is definitely a far better sign, and powerhouse Jonathan Young falls into that camp.
The only cast member from the first four seasons of the New Era to make 50, Jonathan is widely praised as the greatest challenge performer in the history of the show, but he wasn’t considered much of a winner threat coming into the season because his strategic game was only middling and his occasional grumpiness as he got hangrier on his original season rubbed many the wrong way. The general assumption was he’d be an early merge boot after giving us some fun challenge performances. Maybe that’ll still be the case, but there are reasons to believe we could be watching something more.
