Friday, September 24, 2010

THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF THEM, JEFF.  MORE THAN THEY DO IN LOUISIANA: I recognize that I'm a little late on this, but I wanted to offer one thought on this week's Survivor.

There are two ways that a Survivor season can be enjoyable.  One is what we've seen recently, which is brilliant people out-strategizing each other, often by taking advantage of the one dumb person who's out there.  The other is what we saw this week, where a tribe is full of people who have never played poker or understood the wisdom of occasionally keeping one's feelings to oneself, and the prospect of a satisfying self-immolation is always near.  Fienberg spoke with the eliminated contestant yesterday, and hoo boy does this person double-down on the stupid.