Survivor 45 cast announced

Burnett thinks America wants to watch ugly geeks?

Ugh. NOTHING to look at among these men.

I’m sure they all have lovely personalities.

Did someone say S- something 45?

I did not put that effing apostrophe in the op.

Damn, absolutely no eye candy. I’m still trying to get over my Carson crush from last season, so I guess it’s okay.

They used to purposely pick hot contestants, now they purposely pick homely ones.

^ Yes, the hot community deserves some representation, too.

Nerd City.

Years ago, when Survivor was still difficult, the fat cast members would often lose a lot of weight and at least walk away looking better. In recent seasons, they don't starve them anymore, and I swear the fat cast members sometimes end up gaining weight.

Survivor: Unfuckables

Omg. When will this show finally end?

Jesus! Everyone is so homely.

Why do the wokes in charge love ugly?

I'n already annoyed by at least half of these people

Emily, with her five-head, has to be one of the most unappealing contestants (looks and personality-wise) ever.

I can't wait, like her tribe mates, for her to be voted out...

Also can't wait for the downfall of Drew "I'm the smartest contestant ever" Basile. Shut up you ugly ginger.

Emily is indeed awful, but she has close competition from weepy fatty Brandon who seems to be triggered by everything.

They fired the woman who did most of the casting several years ago (Lynne Spillman) and after the Covid hiatus it seems like they're focused on putting spergy weirdos on the show who have experienced or are experiencing some physical or emotional hardship that they feel compelled to tearfully share frequently, while the somber piano cue plays in the background.

Sadly, R16, that has become the standard formula for every reality competition series now.

Contestants can no longer be on any show because they want to compete, or God forbid, be honest and say they want to win the prize.

They have to have their "my dog molested me and burned down my trailer after I found out my brother was my father" moment.

The dog was more loyal to the brother/father? Sounds right for an abuser.

Yes, R18. That will elicit sympathy votes from the jury, so I’m sticking with that story.

What a snooze of a premiere.

I could tell Jeff wanted to hit that girl with the torch snuffer.

Is Brandon a gay?

Why do people watch this?

Brandon is a mess

The resident gay is annoying but he's ex-Morman so it kinda makes sense

I'd like to suck off Drew.

A lifelong dream and he's completely unprepared? Moron. And the stupid bitch who quit? What exactly did she think Survivor was about?

They should do a season with just lawyers, because they would all be making up cover stories about what they do, and eventually someone would figure it out.

Nobody cares if you're a lawyer. Most lawyers are not actually that smart

All the white people on the yellow tribe are certifiable.

People assume lawyers make a lot of money, which is not always the case.

Agreed, R28. The main thing I've learned about lawyers from Survivor is that they apparently all think highly of themselves.

This has to be the most obnoxious cast ever. The show needs to stop casting super fans who don't really want to play. At this point, it just feels like an ego trip for Jeff to have players in awe of him all the time.

Brandon is a worthless pussy. Hannah was a casting disaster. Emily is awful. The horoscope girl can drown.

This season has already achieved "background noise" status.

Exactly! I get all I need by reading Wikipedia summary before I watch the dvr’d show, and then basically fast forward through most of it until tribal council.

The only eye candy is Austin Li Coon

Austin does have a nice body

Thank God Jeff doesn’t say “come on in, guys”anymore, he’s so enlightened. Meanwhile, the rest of the TV world says hey guys, meaning both girls and boys.

1) she couldn't have used her torch at tribal council to melt the wax, and 2) when they take their torches back to camp, why not use them to make a fire?

This show is dire. All nerds and not one attractive person. Please fire the person who selected the cast.

[quote] she couldn't have used her torch at tribal council to melt the wax,

The first thing that came to my mind was, put it in the sun to let it melt, bitch! The instructions said it had to [bold]melt[/bold] not [bold]burn[/bold].

r39 Actually, the instructions said "You must burn away the wax"

You are correct R40. That is why I shouldn't watch the show at 6:00 a.m., when I'm not fully awake...

The longer episodes make the failures of this season's casting a lot more obvious.

Brandon is in the top 5 of worst players ever.

Is this the only thread for this season? I know interest in the show has waned over the years but it’s dead here

They don't have fire, but he steals their fishing gear?

Why did they vote Sabiyah

That fat flubby Brandon, thank God he was bored off last week. What an absolute waste of space. He had a lot of nerve even applying for this show, knowing he couldn't do a goddam thing.

Why is that generation so fucking SOFT??

Because they were both her targets, r45. So they teamed up to get her out. But at least she used my suggestion from last week about using the fire at tribal council to melt the wax, even if it did nothing for her.

So many players go home with an idol in their pocket, you’d think they’d never watched the show before.

She gave up her vote, which might have saved her, to use the idol later. Hah!

Caleb is one smart player. I like the power team of Caleb & Emily.

^ Kaleb.

One of the gays is gone?

Yep, another quitter this season. Don't try out and go through the casting process if you're not prepared to go all the way! There are people who actually wanted to play that got bumped for you.

Jeff looked like he wanted to murder the gay tonight who he asked everyone to vote for him so he could go home to his husband.

It’s ridiculous when you realize they’ve only been there 9 measly days. It seemed like in older seasons they would be there longer. On Australian survivor, they keep them out there for 2 months.

In future seasons, they will need to screen these quitters out in casting.

The whole season is only 26 days and that’s if you make it to the end, This guy couldn’t wait a week to see his husband?

Dude couldn't go two weeks without cock. This is why they hate us.

For once I agreed with Jeff when he said something to the effect of “so you had this big revelation - what’s the difference between day 8 and day 26?”

Seemed like a sweet guy, but what nonsense. Especially when the fraus were ready to keep him and team up with him.

I don't get what happened. It didn't seem like Sean wanted to quit on the old LuLu tribe.

The editing is always strange. I really don’t think they were expecting that though because Jeff looked truly shocked and his face barely moves at this point.

Hours before Tribal he was all gung-ho at working with the ladies to oust Sifu. I wonder what triggered his meltdown?

Probst: "I think Sean thought… that he might be in trouble, and he started to question if he was the vote. Because people tell you things, but you don't always know the truth until you see your name on the parchment. And then when I asked him, 'So, Sean, if this is it, what's this journey been about?'… I think he thought it was a giveaway, and I think he thought, 'Oh man, it is me. They're blindsiding me.' And so he starts talking about these powerful lessons that come with failure. And that's when I knew, 'Oh, he's quitting.'"

Who did Sean vote for? Who is “D”?

R62- that was Sean’s: he was voting for the big D awaiting him back in Utah.

He must have been voting for tribe member Dee. If so, does that means they cannot vote for themselves?

R64, I think that's always been the rule.

Why is the show so obsessed with Emily? She's annoying, boring and looks like an Easter Island statue.

Comic relief provided by the chubby lawyer with the cartoonish accent and bizarre laugh who keeps passing out.

R66, maybe because the editors know something the viewers do not.

[quote]Comic relief provided by the chubby lawyer with the cartoonish accent and bizarre laugh who keeps passing out.

"Cartoonish accent" - that's [bold]Boston [/bold]baby. Now fuck off you f@g

Do you think Emily was the surrogate mom for Paris Hilton’s baby?

So happy that Brando the liar is gone.

I was hoping mega-Dorky Drew was the one who was getting snuffed out last week. He's gross and over-estimates his importance.

^That Drew is Austin's ride or die is enough for me to want Drew not to go.

That little coven of 3 women-none of whose names can I can be bothered to remember-is awful

In fact, everyone this season is dreadful.

I wish they would pixelate Drew's face or at least not zoom in for those hyper close, 4k shots. The straggly hairs and white heads are horrifying.

No posts from last night’s wild show?! I’m absolutely loving this season. I love the Kaleb & Emily, & Drew & Austin alliances. I don’t understand what happened on last night’s show, though. Did Kaleb’s vote - against Jay - not count because he played the Shot in the Dark? And why was there a unanimous vote against Jay in the re-vote after, in their mad scrambling, seemed United in a vote for Emily?

I must say, this season is really good.

R76, you do sacrifice your vote when you play your Shot in the Dark.

Dalton Ross agrees: "This was a fantastic episode of Survivor."

That Napoleon Dynamite look-alike is awful.

At long last, the season has a good episode. I hope this is a sign the rest of the season gets better, because the pre-merge game was boring as hell.

I don't like anyone in the cast, but Kendra and Drew are the worst. Kendra's bizarre facial expressions are annoying, and Drew is one of those guys who greatly overestimates his importance and skill. Both can drown.

Except for Austin, I am actively rooting against the Red Tribe of 4 alliance.

I’m rooting for Austin to lose his shorts

Double elimination last night?

That is correct R84, and the SJWs' heads are going to explode when they see whose torches were snuffed out last night...

It’s so fucked up how they messed with the formula of this show. Shortening the seasons, dividing up the group nonstop, so many stupid advantages.

Just stick them on the island for 37 days. Two tribes. A merge. And watch them go at it. We don’t need all this nonsense.

“So crazy we’ve been out here 13 days!”

Please.

Remember when they used to have to do gross challenges like eating worms and insects? And they caught and cooked rats because they had no food? Those were the days...

No, not Kaleb! I never saw someone take the news so reluctantly. At least, unlike Sifu, he makes the jury. With Sifu’s confessional about how heartbreaking it would be not to make the jury & Bruce’s decision not to use his idol, I was thinking that Bruce was about to be blindsided.

I would love a women's alliance. Of course whenever they tease such thing, they are deliberately misleading us hapless viewers.

A women's alliance? Groundbreaking.

Mama Julie and Dee get on my nerves. I hope they're next.

Julie looks inbred.

Dee's toes being a plot point of this season is a sign the series has hit rock bottom.

^i can’t stand Dee, she’s just so smug and self righteous.

It's amazing that Emily, who would've been the first one out but for Hannah's self-eviction, is the last of the Lulu tribe.

R94, I don't like her either. A princess masquerading as someone who's had a hard life. Sure, Jan.

Has there ever been a more unlikeable cast?

Another terrible season.

I've enjoyed a few of this season's tribal council surprises. I keep wondering if the two women lawyers are ever going to be found out by the lawyer who revealed himself in the beginning. But Austin is the only semi-cute guy left.

Austin was the only semi-cute guy to begin with.

What's Jake's story? I know he lost a lot of weight before coming on the show. Sometimes I get a gay vibe but maybe it's just insecure former fat guy vibe.

I think Bruce is quite handsome in a daddy sort of way. He has great eyes.

They should rename this season as "Nerds On The Loose".

[quote] Another terrible season.

Couldn't disagree more. An other great episode in a great season. Could anyone make out the comments between Kelli & the others, particularly Jake, when Kelli was reeling with the news that she was voted out?

Dalton Ross is calling this last episode the best of this great season.

OP, ALL of us citizens of the USA should be considered survivors of 45!

I figured Kelli was on thin ice when they played that clip of her again explaining that voting Bruce out would be a big move for her and deciding on when she would want to do it.

When people assume they will make it far into the game and start vacillating on what order people should be voted out, they usually get kicked in the pussy like Kelli.

I just loved the look on Jake O'Kane's face when he realized he wasn't getting voted off the island.

Why isn’t anyone considering the fact that no one on the jury will like Bruce enough to vote for him?! Shouldn’t they think about making a three-way alliance with him? I would.

R108 I think Bruce is probably safe for a while now because of that reason.

I guess Kellee won't be the first openly lesbian "Survivor" winner.

Speaking of lesbians, Parvati has apparently shacked up with a woman after dumping her husband. Natalie Bolton should be interested in this news.

Does Emily's pussy stink?

After this many days I would imagine all the women's pussies stink, same with the men's junk and everyone's asses. Except of course Jeff's which is pristine.

Are you kidding, R111? Of course it does.

It's the real reason those two people on her tribe quit.

That tall goofy fucker with glasses needs to go. I’m tired if looking at his ugly ass

Bye, Kendra

Emily is so annoying and I hate her jaw. Now, Austin is hot but I can't forget how stinky and filthy they are.

It’s amazing that the two oldest cast members are the strongest and have the most endurance. Twenty somethings are weak!

That near-unanimity vote for Kendra helped Austin’s game, by not potentially outing him as the 7th vote.

By the time they get to the jury & are well-fed & lubricated, the jurors are generally in good humor when they get to Tribal. Not so with Kellie.

No, Kendra, Kellie was blindsided, you were not. You knew it was between you & Jake.

I don't get why the other players aren't picking off the Reba 4?

I hope the edit isn't working overtime to make Bruce compelling because he wins. I don't give a shit about his kids and don't need anymore piano backed confessionals.

Tomorrow I will be watching the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and $100,000 Pyramid instead of Survivor and Amazing Race.

My dvr can only record two at a time and something had to give...

Thanks for letting us know R123

You must not have Hulu, R123,

A Bruce win would make this one of the worst seasons ever.

No, R126, it would be disappointing but this will still have been a very good season.

R123. So am l. That motley, unlikable Survivor cast cannot begin to compete with Chee snd the fabulous Darlene Love.

I can't even imagine watching this or anything like it.

Yet, R129, you decided to click on this thread? I can't imagine why you would do that.

I am almost as glad to see Bruce gone as the people on the show.

I think Emily is going to pull out the win. Who would have guessed, especially how badly she was playing the first few weeks.

R129, go back to your "Murder She Wrote" reruns...

[quote] I think Emily is going to pull out the win. Who would have guessed, especially how badly she was playing the first few weeks.

And to think she would've been the first one out had Hannah not quit.

That episode was thrilling ! Wow. Emily rocks.

The pre-merge eps were less than inspired, but the post-merge stuff has been very, very compelling. One of the best seasons in a long time.

[quote] the post-merge stuff has been very, very compelling. One of the best seasons in a long time.

Agreed.

Poor Jake is like a battered young Irish-American boy. The dear DepAHHTed

I finally remembered who Emily reminds me of!

Emily is a horrifying person, which means she's likely to win this mess.

[quote] Emily is a horrifying person, which means she's likely to win this mess.

Perhaps a bit harsh for someone you know only from a(n) (edited) reality show.

Sure Jan. It’s always the editing

No, but, after a rough start, she sure does seem liked by the others.

I don't get what Katurah and Emily are thinking? They have to realize they're on the outs, so why is Bruce their #1 target?

What a backstory Katurah has. I didn’t know she was gay.

Austin giving Julie an idol might go down as one of the more idiotic moves ever. Julie not returning the idol is just shady.

I’m reasonably certain that Katurah was raised in the United Nation of Islam based in Kansas City, MO. Katurah was the second concubine of Abraham and some belive that her children merged with Hagar’s children to form the Arabic people.

Really terrible child labor abuses.

What a wild episode. There was a cinematic quality to all the chaos. Terrible gameplay, a confederacy of dunces.

Jake's high-up facial hair and the largest pores I've ever seen...make me want him voted out next!!!

If the final two are smaht, they'll take Jake to the final three, because he'll get no votes...

I still want that ugly, red haired guy out. The sight of that skinny, pasty white body without a shirt and in those skimpy shorts was nauseating

I was surprised that Austin didn't play his idol. How could he be that certain that Julie wasn't going to vote for him?

r150 Because he's an idiot.

Given what happened with Dee and Julie, it will be interesting to see how Austin reacts. However, Austin did say, earlier in the episode, that he wanted to flush out Julie's idol so that happened. Julie will go scorched earth on everyone but Dee next week. She's going to back to camp with all but one person who wrote down her name.

[quote] I was surprised that Austin didn't play his idol. How could he be that certain that Julie wasn't going to vote for him?

Yeah I an guessing that were some things that happened that they didn't show us, Austin was warned that Julie was going to write down his name, yet he seemed to be very confident about not playing his idol. Something like Drew and Dee both telling Julie that if she voted out Austin they were both coming for her next week and her agreeing to vote Emily instead.

They need to get out Dee and her freak toes. Did anyone else think it sounded like she was saying Ebony when discussing Emily?

After Dee saved Julie, with Austin’s unwitting help, how could Julie turn against Dee by voting out Austin?

I know it’s not going to happen - maybe never again - but I do wish they would return to the live finale. Not only do we get to see everyone cleaned up, for or better or worse, we also get to see the now forgotten pre-jury cast, and we get updates on these people, e.g., are Dee and Austin an item?

[quote] She's (Julie) going to back to camp with all but one person who wrote down her name.

The person who didn't write down Julie's name is Julie.

Julie knew Dee was voting for her. And beseeching her to use her idol.

After Julie used her/his idol, did Austin’s pained look at FT mean that he thought he might be going? Or was he just discovering that Dee had spilled the beans to Julie?

I don't want any of them to win. This season sucks balls.

Nah, one of the better seasons in many a year.

It would have been hilarious if Julie voted out Austin.

It would have served him right for being a total dweeb and blabbing to Dee.

I'm 99% certain Dee's giant toe has entered Austin's butthole.

R149, Napoleon Dynamite!