Season Finale: Survivor Tocantins –“I Trust You but I Trust Me More”
“I Trust You but I Trust Me More” May 17th, 2009 In my time writing here at Cultural Learnings, I’ve blogged through five seasons of Survivor, although there’s a pattern: I might start out with a few...
View ArticleSurvivor: Heroes vs. Villains –“Episode Two”
“It’s Getting the Best of Me” February 18th, 2010 I don’t know if Mark Burnett and his fellow producers are really excited about the direction that Survivor’s twentieth season is heading in, or if...
View ArticleSurvivor: Heroes vs. Villains –“Episode Three”
“That Girl is Like a Virus” February 25th, 2010 Well, that’s more pleasant, at least. Yes, tonight’s episode of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains featured another brutal physical challenge, and there were...
View ArticleSurvivor: Heroes vs. Villains –“Episode Eight”
“Expectations” April 8th, 2010 After the recent exit of Boston Rob Mariano, I was convinced that Survivor’s twentieth season was headed off the rails. Rob was basically single-handedly keeping the...
View ArticleSurvivor: Heroes vs. Villains –“Episode Nine”
“Survivor History” April 15th, 2010 If you caught last week’s episode of Survivor, you could have written the basic plot of this week’s episode: the preview for “Survivor History” very clearly laid...
View ArticleSurvivor: Heroes vs. Villains –“Going Down in Flames”
“Going Down in Flames” April 22nd, 2010 When we watch reality television, we like to write our own narratives: we like to imagine scenarios where our least favourite team on The Amazing Race gets...
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