Hartley Jafine

I think so.

People are much better prepared at playing the game because now they're casting people who have seen the game.

There was a time period where they were casting actors and models and players who they saw at bars and thought, you could be an entertaining character on Survivor, where now they're casting players who actually have an understanding of the game.

That doesn't mean they always play the game well, but everyone who's coming into the game presently, for the most part, have a clear...

knowledge base of how to approach the game one of my former co-workers at an old job he was just like cool guy he was in like a country western band he just seemed like too cool for school and i found out that he was a secret survivor super fan i asked him about survivor once and he would not shut up for hours what is it about this show that creates the super fan people who've got like the history of the program memorized

Two things.

One is that the core fundamentals of the show has remained consistent.

It's 16 to now 24 players who are put together on an island.

Beginning of the game, they work together, and then it becomes an individual game.

They vote each other out, and there's one winner.

So that core foundation is really compelling television, coupled with the fact that even though there is a

There are strategies that will help you win the game.

And players go into the game knowing those strategies.

The hunger, the weather, the environment, the relationships upend the best laid plans.

And that is what I think makes the show extremely compelling television.

Well, how can I get into it?

I've probably been bluffing my way through this interview.

I've never actually seen it, maybe an episode here and there.

But when I think about it, and my girlfriend really does want to start watching it, all I can think to myself of is 50 seasons.

Where do I even begin?