Uh oh. After the craziness of the Mr. Beast beware advantage, I was thinking Survivor might give us a more relaxed 90 minutes this time around, but the upcoming episode description is worrying, to put it nicely. In fact, it’s causing some Survivor fans and journalists like this one to brace themselves for a possible worst case scenario.
Before I get into the specifics, you should decide whether you want to go down this road. There’s a possible spoiler in the episode description, and earlier this season when we had a possible spoiler, it wound up being very accurate. This one is a little more vague, but there’s still an obvious takeaway that may or may not be true. Read on at your own risk.
Anyway, the next episode is entitled “Everyone Will Be Shooketh.” To hype up what’s ahead, the show put out the official three sentence description to tease everyone, and the last sentence is a potential bombshell. You can read the whole thing below…
Article continues belowCastaways find themselves on both a literal and figurative island after their return from what is regarded as ‘one of the craziest tribals of all-time.’ Castaways reflect on their letters from home and the family members that have impacted them. Then, a shocking incident takes place at this week’s immunity challenge.
Clearly, the big concern here is a medical evacuation. We unexpectedly lost Kyle, who had put himself in a great position, early in the game, and it would be emotionally devastating to lose another person. That would be the clearest example of a “shocking incident,” and it would also help explain why we still have nine people left in a spot where it feels like we should have eight.
Given the producers historically have had no issue teasing big moments in less than subtle ways in these descriptions, there’s a real chance this could be nudge nudging us that we're about to see a medical evacuation too. Whoever writes these has not earned the right to be trusted.
In fact, earlier this season, one of these descriptions told us in advance that Rick Devens was going to go for the fake idol at Tribal Council. It obviously didn’t say that directly, but the description said a player makes a “theatrical risk” at Tribal to cast doubt on a vote. Anyone who watches the show knows exactly what that’s referring to.
Thankfully, this “shocking incident” that’s being teased for next week is a little more vague. It sounds like a medical evacuation, but it could mean a big argument or a taunt that goes wrong or a twist the players don’t see coming. Some snarky fans on social are even joking the shocking moment could mean Cirie winning the immunity challenge, Sick burn.
With only three episodes left in the season, it seems like most fans are relatively positive on Survivor 50. There’s been a lot of backlash around a few of the twists, as well as the over-the-top celebrity involvement, but most of the cast members have really delivered with personality content. There have also been some fun twists that did work, as well as a few wild moments at tribal that will be remembered for a long time.
Collectively, it hasn’t been enough to displace Heroes vs Villains as the consensus all-time great returning season, but it’s been good enough that I think most fans would put it in the top half. Hopefully that means we’ll get a few more seasons with returning favorites over the next few years, as host Jeff Probst has teased.
You can catch new episodes of Survivor on Wednesday nights on CBS or you can stream on Paramount Plus.
