‘Survivor 49’ Has A Player Stupidity Problem

‘Survivor 49’ Has A Player Stupidity Problem

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Every season, Survivor contestants say the same thing: that playing the game is very different than watching it at home. Maybe they say it to the camera during a confessional, or maybe they say it to Jeff Probst at tribal, but the point is always the same. It’s easy to know what the right thing to do is while watching the edit from the comfort of your couch, but playing on an island while exhausted and malnourished and caught in a web of lies is much harder. I get it.

Still, though. Still. This week’s episode drove home the fact that not only do the viewers at home know where the dangers lie, but so do the players. Rizo, with his hidden immunity idol everyone knows about, and Savannah, with her b