[G]ive "Survivor" its due. Here's a franchise that continues to rake in viewers while remaining the gold standard for entertainment. In a genre with no long-distance runners, Mark Burnett and crew are the Borstal boys gone mad in the TV industry. "Survivor" is, plain and simple, brilliantly constructed. The format has ensured that if the casting is right -- and it's been right all but once -- human behavior will bring in all the turmoil, intrigue, humor, deviousness and thrills you could ever want.
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It's too late now for newbies to hook onto all that's been great about this season, the best since the original show, but those of us who've been fortunate to follow it from sixteen castaways down to five know how special this mix of "good, bad, devious, inept and sometimes insane people" has been.
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