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By
Brian Moylan,
who writes Vulture's Housewives Institute Bulletin
Photo: CBS
Nobody likes being near out — whether that’s from a coveted Applebee’s Bourbon Burger oregon a coordinated blindside. This week, Kenzie is dealing with the second betrayal aft being 1 of the fewer near retired of the palmy program to ballot retired Tiff. In a sense, she, too, was blindsided, but successful an even more real sense, not truly since she’s inactive there. Nonetheless, her archetypal time being left in the acheronian shakes her up and makes her question however steadfast of a grip she has connected the crippled playing astir her. If it’s immoderate consolation, Charlie assures her helium had thing to bash with excluding her. A phenomenal show of playing some sides, Charlie.
But let’s look guardant due to the fact that present that Tiff suffered a destiny worse than decease (leaving the crippled with a perfectly bully idol successful your pocket), that idol has been released back into the wild. So overmuch similar Simon, Paula, and Randy, the players each statesman their hunt for an idol — but Liz, who’s sleeping soundly successful her rainbow glasses, apt dreaming beauteous dreams of eatin’ bully successful the neighborhood. When Venus yet finds it, she wisely plays it cool, pretending to proceed her hunt — she’s determined not to fto anybody cognize she has the idol … for now, astatine least.
Meanwhile, Charlie catches up with Maria connected her large determination successful a mode that feels similar a post-game interrogation with a Super Bowl MVP. I’m fractional expecting her to say she’s going to go to Disneyland. But contempt reveling successful her success, she’s not unaware that it’ll surely travel with consequences. It’s a much-needed resume slug constituent to bring up astatine the last tribal council … so agelong arsenic it doesn’t support her from getting there. Because large moves are double-edged swords, and she knows it. You request them to win, but they besides marque you a major target, and there’s inactive plentifulness of clip near successful the crippled to take aim at targets. Sure, she’s acknowledging the repercussions of this determination — but what is she doing astir it?
She should fig retired thing soon due to the fact that the different players are rapidly organizing. Kenzie, Liz, and Venus each spot that arsenic a game-winning determination that would beryllium intolerable to vie with at final tribal, truthful they know that they person to take Maria out. Much similar the nuns in The Sound of Music, they wonderment however to lick a occupation similar Maria. They would request 1 much ballot to get the numbers connected their broadside — but they’re assured they tin get Charlie. He’s been Maria’s small jester this full game, according to Kenzie, but he’s besides too smart of a subordinate to instrumentality either Maria oregon Q to the end … right?
But Survivor players marque plans, and Jeff Probst laughs. As we know, the immunity situation tin propulsion a wrench successful adjacent the astir airtight strategies, truthful this week’s is key. And conscionable arsenic importantly, they’re besides playing for reward. “Pizza delivery!” Jeff proclaims. Somehow, I unrecorded extracurricular of Domino’s transportation radius, but somehow they’re able to order retired to this island? When Jeff announces that there’s a gluten-free pizza, Liz astir collapses retired of joy. In the crippled itself, during which they person to equilibrium a shot connected a pole, everybody quite literally drops the shot capable that it ends up being anyone’s game. Ultimately, it ends up coming down to Venus oregon Maria, and aft Venus narrowly misses victory, Maria scores immunity. As somebody who hates to see a perfectly good scheme get derailed, this is simply a immense blow.
When it comes clip for Maria to take her pizza pals, she says she’ll make her decision based solely connected whose assemblage physically needs the sustenance the most. She archetypal selects Ben — and after Charlie and Kenzie instrumentality themselves retired of the running — makes Q, Liz, and Venus authorities their case. “I mean, I inactive haven’t pooped successful 3 weeks, truthful I’d similar thing to get moving,” Liz says … an statement that you simply can’t vie with. And yet, contempt Liz’s constipation and Maria’s erstwhile committedness to marque her determination based connected who needs nutrient the most, she can’t decide. Instead, successful an enactment of sick cruelty, she makes them play rock, paper, scissors for the reward. It’s wide she wants to instrumentality Q but doesn’t privation to look the repercussions of making that prime — so, similar a coward, she refuses to marque the determination herself, keeping her hands clean. She gets her mode erstwhile Q wins, but it’s still incredibly hilarious to spot Liz’s look erstwhile she gets unopen retired from yet different reward.
It was a dumb determination from Maria, who perchance cemented the absorption against her by leaving Kenzie, Venus, Liz, and Charlie unsocial to conspire. Of course, they, unfortunately, can’t bash thing astir Maria this week, but they tin laic the groundwork by shit-talking that idiotic move. There’s nary amended mode to physique camaraderie. “She went from being a leader to a villain existent quick,” Venus says. And since they can’t spell for her, the adjacent evident prime is her right-hand man, Q. But however volition our pizza pals vote? Thinking they person Charlie connected their side, they acceptable their sights connected Venus, who they’re assured doesn’t person an idol.
Back astatine the campy and afloat of pizza, Maria has to look the music, and Liz — America’s Sweetheart — says she doesn’t recognize wherefore she would ever privation to marque Q blessed since he’s an “ass.” What’s amazing is that she embarks connected this tirade with Q close down her, and erstwhile this is pointed out, she doubles down. She’s done with suppressing her feelings; successful fact, she blames that wont for wherefore she has truthful galore allergies. I don’t cognize a amended person, and I’m obsessed with her.
It seems that the line successful the sand is relatively clear, truthful agelong arsenic Charlie stays with the women. But naturally, due to the fact that this is Survivor, everything starts to unravel and becomes overmuch much fluid as tribal council approaches. Maria tries to marque bid with Liz, during which they enslaved implicit not liking however chaotic Venus is. Kenzie and Charlie explicit a akin ailment aft helium tells her astir Venus propositioning him with the committedness of a mysterious instrumentality up her sleeve. It’s a bold effort to unafraid his ballot truthful she won’t person to play her idol. Despite knowing that her name’s successful the mix, she’s reluctant to instrumentality the casual mode retired and thinks negotiating her information volition beryllium much awesome connected her resume than buying it with her idol. But arsenic I said with Maria, an impressive resume lone counts if you get the accidental to present it.
Tribal assembly (which prop comedian Jeff Probst watches with a licorice snack) covers the expected — past week’s blindside, a relitigation of the pizza debacle, and Charlie’s musings astir decisions having consequences. But the existent item for maine was Liz hamming it up portion Venus and Q bickered backmost and distant beside her — making goofy faces, pulling her buff implicit her eyes, and trying to get Jeff’s licorice retired of her teeth. In fact, I deliberation each tribal councils should person a Liz Cam successful the bottommost country of the screen, wherever we can just watch her reactions the full time. And speaking of reactions — let’s speech astir the votes. Nobody’s names came up successful this occurrence for elimination isolated from Q and Venus, truthful ideate my surprise to spot that someone voted for Kenzie. When Jeff revealed it, my brow furrowed successful sync with Kenzie’s own. Huh? But that’s the slightest of my worries due to the fact that arsenic the votes continued to rotation in, it became wide that Venus’s torch was being snuffed.
These implicit idiots. We’ll find out more astir however this ballot shook retired adjacent week, but whoever fto this hap arguably handed Maria and/or Q their triumph connected a metallic platter. Or, astatine the precise least, it conscionable became monumentally harder for anybody but 1 of them to win. I, for one, volition beryllium pulling for a starving and constipated Liz to yet win, connected the information that her expansive prize be in the signifier of a $1,000,000 Applebee’s acquisition card.
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