strange eye

The craftsman can

season 2

Episode 4

Editor’s Rating

4 stars

****

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There are a few people you should never really ask about their lifestyle habits unless you want your ear to be monopolized for the rest of the party, BBQ, or ice cream meal you’re attending. These people include CrossFitters, anti-vaccinationists, vegans, polyamorous couples, and new dog owners. But of all these groups of terrible time wasters, Burners tops the list. Yes, that’s what those who love Burning Man call themselves, and I’m sorry, they’re just the worst.

So I was shocked to meet Jason, the Altanta craftsman that this episode is about, because he wasn’t the worst. Maybe I’m wrong about Burners. I mean, he had a flamethrower, a gorgeous Leigh Bowery-style blazer made from mirrored plates, and a collection of wry vintage t-shirts that rivaled any thrift store in Williamsburg. I mean what’s not to like about this guy?

The crazy thing about Jason, who lives in the coach house behind an incredibly beautiful mansion, is that he didn’t actually need a whole new wardrobe or furniture or anything. He didn’t need Tan to dress him in better-fitting patterned shirts and skinny jeans, and Bobby to make his house look like the antechamber of a Wilkes-Barre moose cabin. He actually had a lot of cool clothes and furniture lying around his apartment. He just looked like a Haight Ashbury hamster and needed someone to clean up the mess around him.

Jason’s biggest problem is that he seems stuck in his life. Fast approaching 50, and a life of odd jobs, messy homes, and easy relationships makes him think he might want to start over. He has decided to move to Reno, Nevada to be closer to Burning Man. Objectively speaking, this plan makes absolutely no sense. As the Fab Five pointed out, he will be moving to Reno because he wants to be closer to Burning Man, although as you know he already goes from Atlanta to Burning Man every year. It’s like Santa moving to New York City just to be closer to Christmas when he’s already dropping off packages at every tower block, townhouse, and rental apartment in town.

While he does say at one point that the prize will be ousted from Atlanta, which seems a legitimate concern, starting over to be closer to his favorite festival seems foolhardy. Karamo meets up with Jason’s friends and they all don’t understand the move at all. They don’t understand why if he couldn’t get started in good old Hotlanta, where he has a huge group of friends and acquaintances, he could get it done in America’s second most popular seedy casino town in Nevada, where he knows absolutely nothing one. Jason keeps saying he doesn’t know what he wants out of life, but he certainly has an odd self-confidence. It’s the kind of aura that comes from a man who knows he absolutely needs magnum-sized condoms.

I was expecting this whole episode to be some kind of intervention where the guys are all trying to persuade Jason to stay, but I like that they respected his wishes and just set him up to move on. Jonathan had an easy task this week, just giving Jason a haircut and trimming his LSD dealer-ride-an-ice-cream truck beard. It instantly made him look a lot younger and hotter than Antoni, who is slicing avocados in a tight polo shirt and headscarf.

Speaking of Antoni, he wore a Jude, JB, Willem & Malcolm t-shirt, which he also wore in the first season. These names are characters from the famous gay and deeply depressing novel A Little Life, for which Antoni has previously expressed his love. Now, I’m glad he’s going public with his superfan base, but girls, if you want to see a gay book club self-immolate in about three minutes, ask her about her feelings on A Little Life. It’s almost as controversial as whether or not Antoni can actually cook.

This episode contained some points for both camps. Antoni wanted to show Jason how to cook Indian food as it is his favorite cuisine. So he takes it to a restaurant to have someone else show him how to make it. But then, when a Fab Five member needs help, Tan steps in and shows him how to make naan. Shouldn’t he be buying non-printed tops from bonobos? Antoni, let this man do his job and stop making him do your job. But later, Antoni shows Jason how to deep-fry some nuts, and we all love it, mostly because we can pun more about that than about the time Karamo told Antoni he couldn’t put everything in his mouth and nose put.

I loved that Bobby left the house and Jason could show something more exciting about design. He took him to the Neon Company to help Jason make some hubcaps and neon artwork that he had an idea for but was having trouble making. (That seemed to be a recurring theme.) This actually turned out really cool, and honestly I’d pay at least double the $100 that one of Jason’s friends paid for it in the silent auction at his farewell party. The antique speaker they turned into a neon colored guitar amp wasn’t really my cup of tea, but at least it looked decent and gave it the confidence that it could accomplish something.

Bobby also did a great job turning all the cool old junk Jason collected into different and sorted tableaus and living rooms in Jason’s house. It looked like the coolest Airbnb in San Francisco, which I call a huge compliment. When Bobby doesn’t have to buy all new furniture, paint rooms, and install all sorts of crap, he can actually do wonders with a room.

Tan kind of did the same. While dressing him in a pair of saggy linen blazers that are perfect for a 50-year-old who’s probably attended more than enough Grateful Dead concerts, he’s also tailored some of Jason’s thrift finds to make them hip and hip portable. A guy with a mirrored blazer in his closet must be stylish, right? The best part at the end of his visit was Jason giving all the boys one of his old, paint-splattered t-shirts to take home. I think each of the men who are transformed on this show should give these five a gift. They get a new wardrobe, a new house, a cooking lesson, a haircut and whatever Karamo gives them. The least they could do would be a token of their gratitude.

But shockingly, the best parts of the episode happened after the Fab Five had all left. They arranged for Jason a homicidal farewell party complete with the aforementioned silent auction, a fire dancer with two serious gun show tickets, and an urn of fire for Jason to burn all his regrets into. Yes, even after the makeover, he’s still a burner. What neither of them could have imagined was that Jason’s girlfriend, Beth, who nominated him to be on the show, would bring some real shine to this new Jason. Like making those magnums shine.

We get our first Queer Eye epilogue and learn that Jason decided against moving to Reno because he decided he had everything he needed in life right there in Atlanta – including his new girlfriend Beth! That actually brought a little tear to my eye. This is where I was hoping there would be an intervention, but what’s brilliant about this show is that the Fab Five didn’t have to tell him what to do with his life. They gave him the tools he needed to make his own decisions. After they left, he had the insight, confidence, and new perspective to realize that the life he led wasn’t all that terrible, he just needed to capitalize on some of the things that were already there. And I’m so glad he learned that from an Escalade full of homosexuals and not stupid Burning Man.

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I hate the Russian. We get one in every season of every iteration around the globe, and I don’t think I have ever enjoyed one of the songs, laughed at one of the jokes, or really been bowled over by any of the performances. It often seems like this franchise has a set rotation of stock challenges, some good (Snatch Game) and some that are more tired than Michelle Visage (the Rusical, make a dress out of something weird, improv, girl group). For me, the best part of every episode is when we get to see the girls walk down the runway in killer looks that they have preplanned. That’s why the ball challenge (three looks in one night!) is always my favorite. What we haven’t had in seasons is a new, exciting, iconic challenge that not only will challenge the queens in a way they can’t prepare for but also will excite the audience. Without that, we have what seems like a game show that is stuck on autopilot.

This episode starts with another iconic and beloved challenge, the reading challenge. Ru says, “The British Library is open,” and I worry which poor country will be colonized and looted to fill it up this time. Each of the queens gets up, puts on a ridiculous pair of glasses, and pokes loving fun at all of her companions. This time, the ladies seem to go a little light on one another and don’t hit the punch lines as well as in the past. The only snaps go to Pixie, who says, “Baby? No thanks, I’m pro choice.” Who doesn’t love an abortion joke? Pixie, of course, is the winner.

That means she gets the task of assigning the roles. I love that they chose the shadiest queen to dole out the parts because the process nearly always leads to bickering. Putting the nastiest queen in charge almost ensures it. But pixie is a little too, well, polite and basically lets all the girls select their own roles. Even when Cheddar and Dakota face off over the role of Rochelle, a slutty cockroach, the rest of the crew votes and gives it to Cheddar based on the quality of her French accent.

This leaves Pixie with the lead role of Lairy Poppins, Mary Poppins’s demonic twin sister who wants to get the kids drunk on bin juice. (For the Americans in the room, a “bin” is a trash can, and the juice is what leaks out of it, a very specific substance we don’t entirely have a name for in America, but anyone who has ever taken out the trash at a restaurant job knows exactly what it is and what it smells like. Pixie’s only problem is that, when learning her role, she realizes, like Michelle wriggling into Carson Kressley’s Skimms, it’s not really a good fit. Pixie goes to Danny and asks if she’s willing to switch roles and give Pixie the part of the chimney sweep. This seems to be setting up a friendship between the two but also an ongoing rivalry. Did Pixie shoot herself in the foot by taking the worse part, or even worse, did she shoot herself in the foot by giving Danny the bigger part and once again being outshone by her?

We go through the usual paces of the Russian. The girls learn to sing with Michelle Visage and then learn how to dance with Giovanni Pernice from Strictly Come Dancing. (Or Dancing With the Stars if you only speak America.) Gio is giving us Dance: 10; Hot Daddy Who Can Move His Hips Like Shakira Twerking in an Earthquake: 3 million. Danny says he hopes the Strictly Curse (a tabloid phenomenon where stars on the show cheat on their spouses with their dance partners) carries over to Drag Race. “I don’t know if Giovanni is a chubby chaser, but if he is, I’m running,” Danny says, a line a million times funnier than anything in the Russian.

Throughout this process, it’s hard to tell who’s in trouble. Cheddar can’t dance, and neither can Danny. Baby can’t sing, and Dakota, well, she can’t do either because all she can do is be the most gorgeous thing you ever saw in your life.

We get to the final performance and, uh, I’ve forgotten almost everything that happened, and I was taking notes so I could write this here recap. I loved that Pixie paints her mouth on crooked as the Cockney chimney sweep, but that’s the only memorable thing about her performance. Baby does well in a patter song as a rich mother. Dakota and Peppa are serviceable as bratty kids, but Peppa is way better than Dakota, who is channeling Meryl Streep’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds. JB (the queen formerly known as Jonbers) does a ridiculous (in a good way) pigeon prostitute or something. Not to kink-shame, but not my fetish. Cheddar is a sexy cockroach and, once again, not my fetish.

The one standout is Danny Beard. She comes out as the acid-tipped Lairy Poppins with an even thicker accent than usual and just gives us Beetlejuice fractured insanity and it is absolutely amazing. When everyone takes the runway, Danny wows yet again. The category is West End Wonders (the West End is England’s Broadway), and he comes out as Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors and it is one of the best things we’ve ever seen on this stage. It looks like an actual Broadway (okay, maybe a little Off Broadway) costume complete with a plant puppet on the head. Of course, she wins, for the second week in a row. She may be this year’s Lawrence Chaney, just destined to take the trophy back to the north. (“Queen of the North!” they chant, like it’s Game of Thrones.)

I was a little confused about the judging in this episode. Pixie Polite, as an amazing Tracy Turnblad from Hairspray complete with a full-costume reveal, had a great runway, but I thought she got lost in the mix during the Rusical. The judges, however, loved her. As for Baby, who was repping for the pop musical & Juliet, I thought she was far stronger performing than they gave her credit for. The same goes for Le Fil, who I thought gave the Mary Poppins character some priggy peaks and slutty valleys. The judges thought she wasn’t that great but loved her King & I robes, complete with bedazzled abs, which were worth their own crown.

I agreed with the judges when it came to JB, who was finally in the top, but I hated how Michelle thought her outfit was poorly constructed. In an ode to Singin’ in the Rain (which is a movie musical, but let us not quibble), she had a high-end slicker with poofy cages underneath. I loved it. Dakota, naturally, was on the bottom, and she gave us Funny Girl realness. This, once again, is my problem with Dakota, who is the most beautiful queen of the season. She’s giving us something a little too close to the original; there’s no interpretation or exaggeration to turn it into drag. What we have instead is just a pretty girl. With no subversion, it’s just a good costume, not drag.

The final lip sync is between Baby and Dakota. They are evenly matched doing “No Way” from the musical Six, though it seems Baby may have an edge until Dakota leaves the stage when the singer says she’s leaving, and then pops right back around the corner. It made Ru laugh, and the key to winning this competition is always to make Ru laugh.

I was on the edge of the sofa waiting to see who would get kicked off and then Baby pipes up and self-eliminates. The whole episode Baby talks about her struggles with her mental health in the competition and how it’s giving her anxiety. She always thought she would be so good at this, and the fact that she’s struggling is giving her a sort of cognitive dissonance. I’m all for taking care of one’s mental health, but why do it after the lip sync? Why not do it on stage? If this was really about mental health, why not do it in the middle of the week? When Adore Delano needed to leave for her mental health, she didn’t wait until she was a loser on the runway; she just packed her bags and went home. BenDeLaCreme self-eliminated when she had the power to eliminate someone else — when she was on top. This is altogether different.

Instead, baby waited, and we’ll never know if she was actually going to be sent home. This spares her from the torture of being eliminated but will never let Dakota know if she won or not. Is she here because she bested Baby, or is she here because Baby quit? So, Baby says, if she had stayed, it would have been over for everyone. But would she have stayed? What Ru about to give her walking papers? This seems like a way for a very fractured ego to take a little bit of control back from the process, a way for her to say, “I was never eliminated.” Sorry baby, I don’t think that’s fair. And I still hate the Russian.

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It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was ugly.

Really ugly.

It was a good old-fashioned beat down of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the hands of a rookie, third-string quarterback, Brock Purdy, and a talented San Francisco 49ers team.

The very first drive of the game resulted in a Deebo Samuel touchdown, which if anything was a sign of things to come. Earlier on that opening drive, a fantastic safety blitz by Keanu Neal was negated for a helmet–to–helmet hit on San Francisco’s quarterback, Brock Purdy. This ended up being costly, and although Keanu Neal’s aggressiveness has been a welcome addition for a banged-up Bucs’ secondary these past couple of weeks, there was no need for Neal to go high on the play considering he had a free run at Purdy .

7-0, 49ers.

With the Bucs’ first chance to respond on offense, after a solid drive consisting of several first downs, Brady threw a 66-yard touchdown pass to Mike Evans which was called back due to a Donovan Smith holding penalty. Shortly thereafter, on third down, Bucs’ head coach, Todd Bowles, inexplicably opted to send out his accurate but light-footed kicker, Ryan Succop, to attempt a 55-yard field goal. It didn’t come anywhere close to the uprights.

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On the following possession for San Francisco, an eight play 62-yard drive by Brock Purdy resulted in the quarterback putting an exclamation mark on the drive with a rushing touchdown.

14-0, 49ers.

The Bucs responded with a drive that consisted of a predictable screen pass to Chris Godwin, a check down to White, and an incompletion on third down with the pocket collapsing before another punt by Jake Camarda.

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The man with the illustrious title of ‘Mr. Irrelevant’, Brock Purdy picked up right where he left off on the next drive, eventually connecting on a 27-yard touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey, which upon video review, revealed that McCaffrey bobbled the ball. It didn’t appear to be clear whether he was able to regain possession prior to getting both feet in bounds. It was an impressive recovery by Logan Ryan who was initially burned on the play, but managed to knock the ball loose. After the review, the officials ruled it a touchdown.

21-0, 49ers.

With five minutes remaining in the first half, and the 49ers just passed midfield, Deebo Samuel took a handoff up the middle, and was folded up awkwardly when gang tackled by Rakeem Nunez-Roches and Devin White. Unfortunately, Samuel had to be carted off the field, and it appeared to be serious injury suffered by the San Francisco star.

The play resulted in a fumble, which was recovered by the Bucs, who then took over at their own 40-yard line.

With just under four minutes left in the game, Tom Brady connected on a 30+ yard pass to Chris Godwin to bring the Buccaneers into the red zone. Two plays later, on third down, Brady was furious with the officials after Godwin appeared to be dislodged from his route illegally, without a flag. On 4th and one, the Bucs stayed in shotgun to go for it from the San Francisco 9-yard line, and Brady missed a wide open Mike Evans in the endzone – firing the ball at his feet – resulting in a turnover on downs.

With San Francisco marching down the field yet again, Buccaneers’ defensive end Anthony Nelson dropped into coverage and picked off Purdy. But in a cruel twist of fate, and true to the way things have gone for the Bucs’ this season, the play was called back for a terrible defensive holding call on Carlton Davis – one that the announcers and officials expert all agreed was a bad call on the broadcast.

On the very next play, Purdy delivered a 32-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Aiyuk who was wide open after burning Jamel Dean on a double move.

28-0, 49ers.

The best way to summarize what was a first half from hell for the Buccaneers is to take a quick look at Brock Purdy’s numbers heading into the locker room.

The last pick in the 2022 NFL draft went 14/18 for 185 yards passing, with 2 passing TD’s, a rushing TD, and a quarterback rating of 146.5 against the Buccaneers’ top-5 scoring defense.

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half time.

One bright spot for the Bucs was Deven Thompkins. He was effective as a punt and kick returner for most of the game. Bringing some juice to a role that had previously been nothing but vanilla.

Thompkins started the second half off with a big return, taking the ball all the way to the San Francisco 44-yard line.

Just a few plays later, under duress in the pocket, Brady overshot Mike Evans on another poorly delivered pass attempt which resulted in an interception. To make matters worse, Brady appeared to have suffered a hand injury on the previous play.

San Francisco responded quickly, with Christian McCaffrey taking a handoff to the house from the Buccaneers’ 39-yard line.

35-0, 49ers.

On the Buccaneers’ ensuing drive, they were able to march the ball into San Francisco territory. With Scotty Miller streaking down the far sideline on third down, Brady under shot the speedy receiver, forcing a fourth down. The Bucs converted 4th down on a pass from Brady to Fournette over the middle. On the next play, Brady threw an interception to 49ers linebacker, Dre Greenlaw, in the middle of the field.

With 2:48 left in the third quarter, the Buccaneers finally found the end zone. That said, it was more of an accident than a well executed play. Godwin couldn’t secure a pass in the front of the end zone, which popped into the air, and Russell Gage found himself in the right place at the right time, plucking the ball just before it hit the turf, and rolling into the end Zone.

35-7, 49ers.

After the Buccaneers’ traded ugly possessions with a mostly second string San Francisco 49ers team for the majority of the fourth quarter, the clock eventually struck zeros. For Bucs fans, the final whistle more than likely resulted in a feeling of relief, knowing it wouldn’t be possible for their team to experience any more embarrassment at the hands of a team that is expected to be a suitor for Tom Brady’s services next season.

For the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this season has seen a lot of really poor play and execution. Their quarterback had not been a source of that poor play, by any means.

Until today.

Tom Brady was inconsistent, inaccurate, and very shaky throughout the vast majority of this football game. His two interceptions, and countless missed throws throughout the contest clearly support this claim.

That said, it’s not Tom Brady’s fault that the Buccaneers are collapsing before our very eyes. Considering what’s gone on around him, whether it be the litany of injuries, penalties, or terrible coaching decisions that have plagued this team, he’s been fighting an uphill battle all year. Although Tom Brady did not play well today, he’s played more than well enough for this Buccaneers’ team to have a lot more wins than they do.

The craziest part about all of this? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are still sitting in first place in the NFC South, and are set to host a home playoff game at Raymond James Stadium within next month or so.

If the playoffs started today, the Bucs would host the 10-3 Dallas Cowboys in that first-round wild card game.

Although it feels like the football gods want to see Tom Brady play at least one more postseason game in his illustrious career, the Bucs are going to have to correct an extensive list of issues if they have any hope of not being embarrassed in that game.

And if today’s performance in San Francisco is any indication of what is to come, then I wouldn’t put my money on the Buccaneers’ hanging onto their current spot atop the NFC South.

I guess they’ll have to take it one week at a time, and work to build some positive momentum to close out the season. Hopefully that process won’t be as ugly as what we saw today at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco.

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HOLLYWOOD – Lawrence and Issa, Isaa and Nathan, who is the audience that appeared on the HBO comedy “Unsure? I can tell you who I’m defending for, and in the latest episode, Tired, Okay ?! We have seen Issa’s relationship problems unfold. Issa decided to confront his ex and his child’s mother in what may be the most uncomfortable interactions ever. Issa was the bigger person and it broke the ice in amazing ways.

In a hilarious twist, Issa tossed the baby away, kicked Condola in a trash can, and uttered a few harsh words. Of course, as the audience knows, she was daydreaming. Issa was surprised to learn that Lawrence had returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco. It was evident that Issa was wondering how things were going in her relationship with Nathan, who was causing some friction in his workplace because he was worried about things that weren’t his business.

Issa stayed around the hospital showing Molly who had some business to do with her company, but her thoughts were wrong. I enjoy laughing a little more in this episode than in the previous episodes of this season. The block has been busy with marketing, but it seems things got mad with Crenshawn for not speaking positively about Issa. Molly got to know her colleagues a little better through drinks, which led to her waking up dazed without realizing that she had slept with her boss, who she was NOT a fan of.

She thought she might have slept with him, but she didn’t and found that after those drinks she had let go. Hmm, Molly, maybe you want to slow down with these drinks. If I have to admit, Crenshawn is a bit of an ass and he hurts their company a lot, which is a big problem when I speak from the perspective when this happened in real life.

Suge and Nathan had a little friction and he decided to call his colleague and his insanity. Awkward, brutal, these were just a few of the words that came to mind after hearing this conversation. Molly was giving a presentation but unfortunately lost focus because her phone kept vibrating, but her colleague saved her cock. Molly finally told Torian what was happening to her mother and did not let the cat out of the bag.

Both seemed to be going through crazy personal situations but managed to keep things together. Another fantasy between Issa and Condola that was just as hilarious as we went over to Molly and found out her mother was awakening from her coma. Torian and Molly shared a moment, very interesting people, just as Nathan alerted Issa that he might jump out of the hair salon where he is currently working. He dropped another bomb and admitted he could leave Los Angeles.

Issa dropped the “L” word and wanted to hear what Nathan was thinking, which made him hit a little. They had an argument and Nathan put everything on the table and it was obvious that Issa was not in the mood to hear about it. Yes, talk about a bad dinner folks. Things will NOT end well, I can confirm that much. This has been one of the better episodes since the season started, in fact, so it feels like the series is headed in the right direction as we near the series finale.

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(CBS) – Survivor is back with another exciting episode! A shipwrecked person was not simply voted out – he became completely blind! Who was it? Well, that’s how it all went …

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Reward challenge
The first reward challenge of the season was tough! Four members of each tribe faced a series of obstacles to win an epic day out with a native Fijian. The victorious tribe would learn the ins and outs of rural life in Fiji – a crucial reward for winning this game! The second tribe would win a reward too, not quite a day with a local Fijian – but a big old fish instead. Still good, just not that epic.

The challenge itself involved having each tribe race through a series of physically demanding obstacles. One member of the tribe in particular could not even finish the first stage of the course with such emptying. Heather from the Luvu Tribe was unable to complete her task early on in this challenge. Although she found it difficult, she didn’t give up – and that was impressive. Her tribe thought the same thing and immediately rooted her, though she eventually abandoned the tribe. This resulted in the Ua tribe winning the main reward, followed by the Yase tribe who won the fish meal.

This is what real sportsmanship looks like. # Survivor pic.twitter.com/NfDRNYpTsu

– SURVIVORS (@survivorcbs) October 14, 2021

Ua tribe
Before the reward challenge, Genie returned from the last tribal council in complete shock when their closest ally Brad was voted out of office. She was mad. Genie then tells her tribe how she feels betrayed. While she talks about how she feels as “the mother” of the tribe and has constantly fed them all, she finally says that she is “done” with the preparation and provision of her food …

But then the reward came. The Fijian Nathan, who visited their camp, gave them all the survival skills necessary to be able to live on the land of Fiji. It was crazy to see this guy on TV – climbing trees like Spiderman and showing that he is clearly an expert in his craft. All this knowledge the tribe has acquired got Ricard thinking … maybe they don’t need genius to take care of them after all?

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Yase tribe
The Yase tribe is on the road to success! After starting the season on an embarrassing losing streak, the solid four are proving they have what it takes to go far. After thinking about how they fought, they realize that now, literally and metaphorically, there is a reward. While enjoying their big fish, they even see their metaphor in the flesh.

I have to love an animal metaphor. Yase = sea turtles. # Survivor pic.twitter.com/NzjjysQSCK

– SURVIVORS (@survivorcbs) October 14, 2021

The tribe compared themselves to the tiny baby sea turtles they saw pushing through the sand in their camp. I mean, it couldn’t possibly be survivor without a few metaphors, right ?!

Luvu tribe
The Luvu tribe is now unbeatable. This tribe has yet to go to the tribal council! After strengthening six castaways, things are finally starting to crack on day 8 …

Erika, who we don’t even know this season, gets urgently needed screen time. She explains her approach to the game and even says she is a “lion disguised as a lamb”. She is ready to pounce and begin this game. Your first prey is Sydney. Erika wants to get her out because she thinks she is emotionally unstable, which could cause problems later in the game. Erika shares this plan with her closest ally, Deshawn. Now, while Deshawn is listening to her master plan, he gets a little worried about Erika himself. He even calls her “sus”. He thinks she’s playing hard – because she is. He’s nervous about her deceit and now wants to cut the “head off the snake” (or should I say lion?) And get her out next instead.

While trying to come up with a plan to vote Erika out, Deshawn approaches Danny with a scenario we’ve all seen earlier in the game of Survivor – the Immunity Challenge. Yes. Deshawn is ready to throw it. He suggests to Danny how deliberately losing could work in their favor because Erika is too sneaky and needs to leave as soon as possible. As an ex-NFL player, Danny feels that all of this is against his values ​​of athleticism, but he decides to pursue the idea and move on to the next Immunity Challenge anyway.

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Immunity challenge
Immunity is the order of the day! The first two tribes to overcome their strenuous water-based obstacles gain immunity and are safe from the tribal council. The three trunks began in the sea and had to make their way to the shore while loosening bags of tree trunks along the way. As always, these challenges are tough. But let’s not forget how Deshawn and Danny want to milk every busy moment as they try to lose on purpose.

While the rest of Luvu pushed hard through the water, Deshawn took her time. As they battle the Ua and Yase tribe, they discover that Yase is still slower than them! It was pretty weird. Deshawn recounted this immunity challenge and explained how he used every moment to throw it, but the Yase tribe still stayed behind.

It took until the last section of the challenge, where every tribe was tied with everyone (yes, Yase finally caught up). To complete this challenge, each tribe had to throw three rings at their pegs. While Deshawn threw his rings terribly as he threw the challenge (terribly), it was Naseer who stepped in. Naseer just didn’t want his tribe to lose for the first time. And in the end, it didn’t matter that Deshawn and Danny were moving slowly. That’s because Naseer won it for her! After the Yase tribe had won a sweet victory with first place, it was (surprisingly ?!) between Luvu and Ua in second place. JD from the Ua tribe failed to overcome the final obstacle and lost it for his tribe.

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Tribal council
At this point, with only four people left in the Ua tribe, Genie is certain that she will be the next to leave. She even teases the fact that she’s ready to give the new Survivor a “shot in the dark” twist. The shot in the dark would allow her to risk her vote but have a one in four chance of gaining immunity on the tribal council. The question for her was, does she want to risk losing her voice?

Meanwhile, Shan is still running the show on this tribe. She plays her cards well. Ricard, her closest ally, has proven that he will vote with her while he’s in this game. However, JD was questionable. He was keeping an important secret from her last week when she finally caught him lying. JD withheld his advantage of the “secret voice” from her and Ricard, which has made her skeptical of him ever since. Now JD knows that her trust in him is somewhat broken. Though he raises Genius working with her, JD knows he owes his loyalty to Shan and Ricard. Shan feels this is the perfect opportunity to manipulate him. She knows how to play this game – and to be honest, Survivor is all about being sneaky and manipulative to get ahead.

And that’s exactly what it was. Shan played opposite JD. She acts “paranoid” and tells JD that she is afraid that he will vote against her. JD, who is young and in this case a bit naive, then (once again) consolidates his trust and gives her his extra vote advantage! He did this once and now he’s doing it again! But this time the risk didn’t pay off. JD was completely blind when Genie, Shan and Ricard voted him out. And now Shan is sitting with his advantage in her pocket!

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Impressive. While we didn’t see too many groundbreaking twists and turns in this episode, this week has been just as wild, with an even wilder and unexpected tribal council! What do you think of this week’s episode?

Personally, I’m glad Genie is still in this game – she’s pretty cool and also my castaway in my family’s survivor pool! Tweet me @mick_cloudy and let’s talk about Survivor!

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I will say this for CAOS: It is always really trying to do the MOST. I think most shows would be good with having a big bad bring havoc and destruction to one main character’s wedding. But CAOS will never have just ONE wedding when there could be TWO weddings and a whole lot of bopping about among dimensions, one of which is untethered from space and time.

That said, one of my perennial issues with this show (and Netflix shows in general) is that these episodes are all so, so, so long. It’s not just me, right? They really drag around that 38th minute — and yet critical character developments and plot progressions just whoosh by and/or take place largely offscreen. For instance: Sabrina Morningstar has been down in hell for some indeterminate length of time, and during this stretch, Caliban, who once tried to entomb her in a stone wall in a cold circle of hell like some Cask of Amontillado nightmare, has not just earned back her trust but won her over so completely that she loves him and wants to marry him. This is pretty major, and we see exactly none of it. Also why does this 16-year-old need to be married? Isn’t she the same Sabrina as before, just cloned? IS THIS SHOW SET IN THE PRESENT DAY OR WHAT.

But let’s go back to the start of this episode, when a rotting person is denied entry into a woman’s home, only to respond to this polite rejection by literally ripping her heart out of her chest. This baddie, we eventually learn, is the Uninvited, one of the Eldritch Terrors, whose very on-the-nose thing is to render literally heartless those too heartless to provide its troubled soul with warmth, food, and shelter.

Speaking of hearts: Sabrina’s back-to-back dates don’t really go as she hoped. Neither Carl nor Melvin is all that impressive to Sabrina, even though the latter quite boldly asks if he can be Sabrina’s plus-one to her Aunt Hilda’s wedding. She demurs. It’s a long, hard night for our bachelorette, who unwinds in the yellow-wallpaper room of that dollhouse from last season, which once housed Blackwood’s twins. What happened to those twins? I’m going to level with you: I don’t remember and I’m not going to find out. I feel like it’s not that important … hopefully I am right about this!

Sabrina and Sabrina keep referring to each other as “Sabrina” and talk about themselves in the first-person plural (“when we were dating Nick”), which I really don’t think they would do, but I’ve never used a time loop to create my own clone, so. Morningstar tells Spellman that she and Caliban are getting hitched. How does her dad feel about this? Like it’s a strategic match that would provide some healthy “competition” for a child he’ll have with Lillith.

Meanwhile, Roz and Harvey’s romantic life is going along swimmingly. Roz is wearing very cute jeans and engaging in some PG-13 hookuppery with her boyfriend when the Uninvited comes knocking. Thanks to her cunning, she gets a ~vibe~ and invites in this spooky stranger, preserving both her and Harvey’s hearts. Then because these are teens in a TV show and no one has any adult supervision in their lives, Roz just sleeps over at Harvey’s place. Harvey is shirtless and it is the first of several moments in this episode that reminds me of this series’ valiant commitment to male shirtlessness. (Later, Nick will dramatically offer his chest to the Eldritch Terror just in case it was wondering where his heart was hiding.) In the morning she finds that he has been sleep-drawing some crude pictures that look like what she saw when she touched the creepy stranger from the night before.

Hilda only wants a nice, quiet family wedding in the parlor where everybody dresses up as their favorite movie monsters, but Zelda says it is her job as high priestess to officiate the wedding which … doesn’t really rule out Hilda’s vision, but Zelda isn’t having it. Hilda asks Sabrina to be the flower girl and give a toast. Isn’t Sabrina a little old to be a flower girl? Wouldn’t she be the witch of honor or something to that effect? Hilda also asks if Harvey’s band would like to play at the reception. Oh and one last thing: Can Nick and Melvin please exorcise Dr. C’s sex demon before the wedding? Why this critical task has been left in the hands of two teenage boys is not entirely clear, and of course they botch it and the incubus takes over the next boy it can find, which is Theo.

Lilith swings by the Spellman residence and quickly susses out that the Sabrina who answers the door couldn’t also be the Sabrina she left in hell. (For something that was supposed to be so secret, the Sabrinas did very little to ensure that their elders, who are all smarter and more powerful than they are, wouldn’t find out about this!) To me, what matters most about this scene is that Lillith looks fabulous. She reminds Sabrina that she’s risking a temporal paradox, which is information Sabrina does not appear to absorb. They bond over their shared dislike of the whole Caliban marriage situation. Lilith says they could kill him, but Sabrina thinks she can force a breakup, presumably by pretending to be other Sabrina. I write in my notes OBVIOUSLY AS SOON AS HE TALKS TO SABRINA MORNINGSTAR HE WILL PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER YOU DUMB-DUMB THIS IS BARELY A PLAN AT ALL. But Netflix insists on making these episodes 60 minutes long, so we need at least one dead-end plot per hour just to fill the time.  

So Sabrina Spellman tells Caliban all about how she needs him to do 10 billion things he doesn’t want to do in order for them to be married, including cutting off his balls, for some reason. She also roped Prudence into this, though again, if she’s trying to keep the fact that she created a second Sabrina a secret I’m not sure why she would tell Prudence any of this — are she and Prudence even friends? I’m grateful for the Prudence fashion moment; a tiered, black chiffon dress is always a sharp look when you’re pretending that someone needs to be castrated in order to join the cult of Hecate.

Back at the ranch/mortuary, Ambrose uses some light necromancy — it involves popping the eyeballs out of five dead bodies — to determine who removed the hearts of the five corpses that just landed on his doorstep. It’s all very CSI: EW. Sabrina arrives with Roz and Harvey, who told Sabrina all about their mystery guest, and Ambrose recognizes that Harvey’s drawings are the Eldritch terrors. The most hilarious part of all of this is when Ambrose points to one of the drawings, which is just a giant black circle, and goes “could this represent darkness?!!?”

Ambrose says it’s time to CANCEL the wedding. I do find the accidental COVID parallels very intriguing here! In order to keep your guests safe, everybody just stay home … extremely 2020. But Zelda insists the wedding must go on, even though there is (1) an incubus loose in Greendale, and (2) an Eldritch Terror ripping out hearts left and right. In order to combat these two dangers, Zelda says that whoever is manning the door at the wedding should ONLY turn away people who look normal but do not have invitations, but DEFINITELY let in someone who looks like a haunted chimney sweep.

Elsewhere, Blackwood’s tent church has moved into a building. He learns that Sabrina is Wardwell’s student, and then “the vagrant of the void” (great band name!) shows up. Blackwood (again, hilariously, though I’m not sure that is the intent) introduces himself to the Eldritch terror. “Uh … I’m your priest, you have to talk to me!” It’s Wardwell who realizes the obvious: The terror has no tongue. Agatha fetches one from a congregant she finds annoying (resourceful!) and soon he’s just chatting away. Blackwood wants to be blessed by the schmutzmonster so they can hold hands and ruin reality together or whatever, so the vagrant tears out a piece of his heart and feeds it to Blackwood. Gross! Using some magic (hygiene), they make the void-vagrant look like a regular person.

Morningstar, having been given a box of (clay) balls from her betrothed, swings by her sister/clone’s place for a talking-to. She’s not even mad, just full of pity for her pathetic single other-self. She is inviting her sister/clone to her wedding with a plus-one, which is the correct thing to do when you invite a single person to your wedding. In exchange for this kindness, Spellman gives Morningstar the dollhouse. Morningstar has no good explanation for why she needs to be married at 16. These scenes between Sabrinas are extremely stilted and awkward. I have to say that between this stretch of Sabrina episodes and my experience with the psychological thriller that is The Princess Switch 2: Switched Again, I have developed an even deeper appreciation for the talents of Tatiana Maslany.

It’s the big day! For reasons unclear, Hilda and Morningstar are getting married on the same day, but not at the same time. Hilda finds Sabrina crying over her loneliness and wisely assures her that her time will come, be patient. Sabrina is not really soothed. She works the door at the wedding alongside Nick, who turns away the cleaned-up void-vagrant because he was under strict instructions only to allow in a person who is just covered in filth. He abandons Sabrina to make out with Prudence, who is wearing sequins and looking fantastic, while Sabrina looks like a very juvenile bridal-party member in lavender.

At the reception, Sabrina gets sloshed and gives an absolutely mortifying and rambling toast that starts with her introducing herself as the “spinster niece” and does not improve from there. It’s all quite painful and takes forever. Then for some reason we watch Harvey’s band cover “Radio Ga Ga” almost in its entirety. WHY NETFLIX WHY. This episode is already ten thousand hours long, and really could’ve done without this Teenz Bop cover of Queen.

Anyway, you may recall that Theo is still possessed by the incubus, though so far it’s been a pretty harmless affair — just like, extra-horniness, which Robin doesn’t seem to mind. The incubus kind of reveals itself and Nick keeps exorcizing it and it keeps possessing other people, like hello did anyone bring a box for an incubus or did no one prepare for this inevitability? Then it goes into the Eldritch Terror which just … swallows it? The good news here is that Sabrina’s awful toast is now only the third-worst thing to happen to this wedding.

Zelda does a quick “stranger, reveal thyself” spell, which, if that’s a tool they had in the arsenal this whole time, why wasn’t she just at the door doing that to all the people without invitations? The vagrant responds to being outed by tearing out Dorian’s heart. His portrait starts to ooze blood so maybe he’s really dead, even though in this show most everyone who dies comes back before long. Before the vagrant can kill Nick and/or Sabrina, Sabrina offers to bring him as her plus-one to a wedding in hell. Again: Does EVERYONE in hell know there are two Sabrinas? How would it not be conspicuous and very problematic for her to attend this event?? Does anything in this show have stakes or consequences???

Onward to hell! Morningstar’s wedding dress is this very dramatic see-through, red-mesh situation. Lucifer walks in while the Sabrinas are catching up, and sputters about being kept in the dark on this matter. But the Sabrinas are focused on the Eldritch Terror and their solution for dealing with him: They can trap him in the dollhouse. The plan is for Spellman to pretend she is suddenly, totally smitten with the void-vagrant, to trick him into marrying her so she can lure him into the dollhouse. It’s some Carrie-at-the-prom shit, but the vagrant buys it, and Morningstar allows her wedding to Caliban to be a fake double wedding in order to pull off this gambit, which they do.

With the vagrant safely stashed in the dollhouse, Lucifer forbids the Sabrinas from ever seeing each other again. He also bans Sabrina Spellman from hell, plus she has to take the dollhouse with her. Morningstar’s parting words to her sister are: “I make my own happiness, and I hope you can, too.” Sabrina takes this to mean she should use those magic candles to create a new boyfriend who is the perfect mix of Nick and Harvey. Can’t imagine how that could backfire!

Back at home, Hilda gets her dream scary-movie-theme wedding. I love that she says she walked into Dr. C’s store “a few weeks ago or months ago or whatever it was.” Thank you for acknowledging that we have no sense of time here in Greendale!

Ongoing mysteries: So will there ever be any consequences for the fact that there are two Sabrinas? That can’t be the last we actually see of Ms. Morningstar, right? Will Dr. C move into the Spellman house or is it time for Hilda to make her own way in the world? Is Dorian going to come back to life or is he really dead?

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