Linda Holmes

All right, welcome back.

It is time for Stephen to reveal what he considers to be the best ever season of Survivor.

Stephen, drumroll, what did you pick?

Yeah, you know, it's interesting.

I mix this season up always with Fans vs. Favorites, which is a season with a bunch of the same personnel and kind of a similar feeling, although obviously... And a similar reputation as an all-time great season.

Yeah.

One of the things I realize as I listen to you say this is that some of these seasons are populated by people who...

in retrospect, and sometimes they have been on Survivor or other reality shows so much now, even after these seasons, that when I look back at this season, I look at some of these people and I'm like, oh, God, Parvati.

I'm so sick of looking at Parvati.

But that's partly because of things she's done since this season, right?

Like, I can understand how if you just took this season in isolation, although I did not enjoy her at the time, I will say that.

But

With some of these people, it's like, I can't watch this person again.

I've watched this person a million times.

They keep shoving this person in my face.

That is how I feel about somebody like Russell Hance.

That is how I feel about somebody like even Boston Robb, who I did used to enjoy in his early iterations.

I think that's right, but I've also had enough.

Yeah.

Right?