Word: jerri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very romantic-French-novel Week 10 episode that proved the reports - here and elsewhere - of the decline of "Survivor 2" were greatly exaggerated, the Ogakor alliance abandoned its sensible lockstep and abruptly swallowed Jerri in a delightfully shocking Tribal Council. Then it spit her out. It was just the icing on what, undoubtedly, was this "Survivor's finest hour...
...suits knew ahead of time that it was actually going to follow the Way of Drama and come down to this, the moment when four of the former members of Ogakor were going to look at Elisabeth and Rodger, and look at each other, and get rid of Jerri. For the sole purpose of making their time in the Outback a lot more pleasant...
...first they fooled her, and the editors fooled us. Jerri'd actually announced on the way to the vote that lithe, adorable Elisabeth was going to be the one to go. Tina had done the dance for the camera, telling Elisabeth with her usual whipped-up velvet-hammer sympathy that keeping Ogakor whole was "the safe way to go." And in the firelight, with the cameras in close, Elisabeth came a flicker away from breaking down in tears...
...only likely suspense of the next three weeks centering on whether one of the three remaining Kucha-ites can crack the Ogakor alliance, it would have behooved CBS to treat viewers to every available insight into the minds of not only Rodger, Elisabeth and Nick but the vulnerable Jerri and the swing vote Colby. At 99 hours a week, there had to have been more of that than what...
...happened with "Survivor 1," and it's happening in the sequel. There could hardly be any better conditions for an alliance to crack than the near-universal annoyance with Jerri, and last week the Ogakors held. The show looks set to sleepwalk through the next three weeks, because strategy so obviously dictates that the majority should hold together as long as possible before turning on each other. Immunity challenges are supposed to kink up the process, but it hasn't happened...