Stephen Thompson

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.

Okay.

This season treats being a member of Generation X like being a member of the greatest generation and not the generation that literally like personified the term slacker.

Essentially, the conceit of the season is like Survivor, slightly older people versus slightly younger people.

Yeah.

But they talk a lot about these generational divides that are just incredibly standard to any generational split where the older people are like the young people don't know what they're talking about with their Pokemon cards and their participation trophies.

But then the actual gameplay is excellent.

And like with Cook Island's.

The concept is weak.

The cast is terrific.

Even a lot of kind of survivor archetypes that are typically filled by not terribly nice people here are filled by nice people.

And so you have a bunch of people who are playing a hard game.