Sometimes when I’m watching an episode of Survivor, I wonder if there will be a good topic or anything particularly notable to write about. Between medical evacuations and nonsense from producers, that has not been a problem this season, and it certainly wasn’t a problem with last night’s episode. Round 4 of Survivor 44 was wall-to-wall madness, and there are a handful of topics I could easily write two thousand words on. Like why do women keep getting voted off premerge? That’s four consecutive tribal councils. Or why did the producers yank three people off their tribes and hand each a temporary idol? Can they just chill out and let people play Survivor?
There are so many places to go, but if you look on social media, there’s one topic people want to talk about more than any other: Carolyn. The thirty-five-year-old drug counselor from Minnesota is one of the strangest and most vibrant players in the history of Survivor. She is fantastic television and seems like a great person. And this week, she started playing really, really hard, much to the delight of fans.
