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Survivor: Tocantins: The Brazilian Highlands

by Sarah Hentges

[19.Feb.09] :. In the first episode of Survivor: Tocantins, we learned that temperatures in the Brazilian Highlands are often in excess of 120 degrees.

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Survivor: China

by Amanda Ann Klein

[27.Sep.07] :. After 15 installments, the vaguely tropical, vaguely woodsy locations into which our survivors are tossed have begun to blur together.

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Survivor: Cook Islands

by Lee Wang

[21.Sep.06] :. "I saw the chicken," said Jonathan. "I grabbed the chicken because the chicken was free."

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Survivor: Guatemala

by Kevin Wong

[22.Sep.05] :. Survivor remains an addictive, morbidly entertaining affair.

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Survivor All-Stars

by Rob Horning

[2.Mar.04] :. Survivor dramatizes one of capitalism's core tenets: cooperation is a provisional strategy in the game of 'every man for himself.'

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Survivor: Thailand

by Benedetta Gennaro

[30.Sep.02] :. Ever helpful, Jeff Probst reminded everyone that, on Survivor, assumptions are always wrong.

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Survivor

by Dan French

Survivor's tone is very difficult to locate, and while this elusiveness may be more than the producers intend, it's just as possible to surmise that they know what they're doing and that teasing the audience with its own naivete is their way of undermining the medium even as they exploit it so well.