Survivor All-Snores

Last week's Survivor was, frankly, a waste of time. At the risk of being insensitive, Sue's pity party over Richard's admittedly thoughtless and tasteless act in the previous episode did not make for engaging television, and the producers handled the situation poorly, at least from the vantage point of my couch. The only drama they could manage to eke out of the episode was to let Sue shoot off her mouth and depart grumpily. After all that, she gives up her shot at a million bucks because she's pissed off? Hardly the stuff that makes one think of her as a "survivor."

What amazed me even further was that, after being robbed of an immunity challenge by Sue's walkout, host Jeff Probst then offered the tribes a chance to share the reward without competing for it. Wow, Jeff, you want to eliminate everything that makes this show worth watching? Fortunately the competitors realized what the show was all about and voted to hold the challenge anyway. All in all, though, a pretty lame episode.

Hopefully things will be back on track tonight.