Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 13

Tom's Take:

This season just went from being a good season to a great season! I know people are hating on this season, but seriously when was the last time there were this many real power shifts in the game?

Five Drinks Into Survivor Season 29: Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episodes 11 and 12

Tom's Take:

These two episodes were pretty meh, but they really set up a finale where I think anything can happen.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 10

Tom's Take:

Wow...

What a move.

Too bad it failed.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur

Tom's Take:

Wow...

What a move.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episodes 7 and 8

Tom's Take:

These two episodes in the merge were awesome! All season long, Jeremy and Josh were set up as the two power players of the season, and over these last two episodes this pair clashed in a furious battle that in all likelihood decided the winner. Now let's delve into why Jeremy came out on top!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 6

Tom's Take:

And we've got our last pre-merge episode out of the way. And we've got an interesting merge coming, so let's break down where we're at coming into it.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 5

Tom's Take:

We've got a tribe swap episode, which gave us a very interesting dynamic for these couple of pre-merge episodes. Some people benefited greatly from the swap, while others were put into a much weaker position.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 4

Tom's Take:

We finally got a change up this week with the Hunahpu finally going to tribal council. We got a GREAT one episode arc with Drew's downfall,

Five Drinks Into Reality TV Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Week 3

Tom's Take:

The entire John Rocker saga played out this week and it was...honestly kind of ho hum. I didn't love anything really about this episode, and I'm starting to worry that the editors are really giving the winner away, which if true means this season is going to be real boring. Here's hoping I'm wrong about that.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Week 2

Tom's Take:


Week Two ends with some gameplay going terribly, and the unlocking of the John Rocker character on the season. Spoiler alert, I give his arc two or three episodes at most. It has been hinted at too strongly that he does NOT make the merge, for him to actually make it.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur

Tom's Take:


Welcome back to Survivor! We've got another season underway, and I'm very very excited. These newbies are interesting for the most part, and I think we're going to have several future allstars on our hands, and an interesting season in the short term. I'm also very interested to see Blood v. Water play out without having returning players to twist it around.

The only weakness to this season, is that I think it is built to have way too much crying, which will get boring after a while. But until it does, let us get into the new cast!

Five Drinks Into Big Brother 16: Winner!

Tom's Take:

Congratulations to the winner of Big Brother 16.

Derrick played a flawless game, and I have compared it to a no hitter, since he was never nominated all season. He was just two jury votes and an HOH win from a perfect game in my opinion, which is closer than anyone has ever gotten. His gameplay this season is the top of any player's ever played. Even better than Dr. Will or Dan's games. This puts Derrick at #3 in my overall Big Brother Player Power Rankings, as Dan and Dr. Will are set aside due to their body of work.

Great job Derrick!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Game and Show Week 11-13

Tom's Take:

I'm going to just combine the last three weeks of boredom into one big post, because maybe that'll be exciting?

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Week 10 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

Cody was HOH so it was another snore week. No one's position has really changed, so I'm not really going to both making new summaries.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 9

Tom's Take:

And we've got our buyback! Nicole is back in the house, and while this will affect pretty much nothing in the house other than making this rather boring season go longer, it is our top story on the night.

Oh and Twitter's favorite, Zach Attack is gone. He will be missed for his antics, although he was not a particularly good player. I wish Twitter would accept the game as it is, but since I'm barely even paying attention to the show any more, I guess I can't really blame them.

Five Drinks Into Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 8

Tom's Take:

For some ungodly reason the Big Brother producers decided to keep the 2 HOH twist going. The result is that instead of there being a big power flip this week and exciting gameplay, we got the sad story of Christine being pathetic and backstabbing her friend. Big Brother has ruined my view of women as strong and confident and instead made me into a firm DISbeliever in the possibility of feminism ever working. Girls...you can't keep letting these guys roll all over you. Anyways, we lost Nicole this week and the status quo remained the status quo. Snore.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Week 6 and 7 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

We had a great week in the BB house, with a bunch of gameplay, waffling, a double eviction.

And our first big boot!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 5

Tom's Take:

The Bomb Squad is done, and the Detonators is pathetic. Team America is broken. With alliances falling left and right, there's room for a serious power house to take control.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 4

Tom's Take:

Another boring week as the status quo remained unchanged. I hate the 2 HOH twist, as it limits gameplay, and I'm ready for the house alliance to split apart. Come on people, make a move!

That said, I think Cody made the right move.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 3

Tom's Take:

Devin as HOH was fun. Devin leaving was pretty dull.