Stephen Thompson

The effect of it is you have one of the most diverse casts in the history of survivor and because survivor producers don't want viewers at home to be like, Ooh, I hate that Asian tribe.

They don't stack the cast with unlikable people.

So you have, it's not that everybody on the season is super likable as I'm sure you would agree with me there, but you just have a lot of people who are fun, who are interesting.

whose stories haven't been told on Survivor before, and this season happens to launch the kind of career Survivor arcs of some all-time famous, in some cases great, Survivor players.

It's your introduction to Parvati Shallow.

It is your introduction to Ozzy, who is in Survivor 50.

It is the introduction of Jonathan Penner, who, Linda, you and I, I think, agree that he is one of the all-time most enjoyable Survivor players ever.

There are like weird boots kind of throughout this season.

This has one of the most memorable second boots in the history of Survivor.

And so it's not that every single player on this season is super memorable, but there are a bunch scattered throughout.

And it also introduces Yul Kwon, who is another one of my favorite Survivor players.

Somebody who's kind of calm, strategic approach to the game demonstrated another path to success in Survivor that I think has been really good for the game.

I know you like this season.

And you're definitely a Jonathan person.

And I think Penner is kind of a historically significant survivor player in that there are certainly other fairly early seasons where this happens.

But where a player is able to become kind of a fulcrum of the season in realizing that he's not necessarily in a great position in the game, but that he can decide to kind of throw the game in favor of people he enjoys more.

Right.

And honestly, what a favor that is.

Well, my number three pick is it's somewhat similar to Cook Islands in that I think the core concept of the show is somewhat unfortunate, but also doesn't particularly matter to the outcome of the game.

I'm talking about season 33, Survivor Millennials versus Gen X. And when I tell you, Linda, I don't know if you've seen this season.