[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 49 Episode 5, “I’m a Wolf, Baby.”]
Strategic minds made for the most interesting storylines in Survivor 49 Episode 5, an episode that won’t go down as the season’s most entertaining. Jeff Probst promised that Season 49 picks up momentum about halfway through gameplay, so expect to remain in a bit of a lull until the merge. Thankfully, two slow-burning rivalries provided some intrigue in the episode that aired on October 22.
Shannon spent most of the episode talking a big game to her Kele tribe, laying the charm on thick in every conversation she had to try and build relationships and coordinate a six-person majority alliance for after the merge that would consist of two members from each of the three original tri