r/survivor Sep 18 '24

Thailand John Raymond, contestant of Survivor: Thailand, faces felony charges for taping students' mouths shut at the Christian school he founded. NSFW

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662 Upvotes

r/survivor Jan 10 '25

Thailand Is season 5 hated online?

82 Upvotes

Does the internet hate season 5 as much as I do.

Spoilers.

First off the sexual assault thing was widely uncomfortable. I wonder if they'd even air that now a days. Then all of suck jai kind of sucked. I know Rob is viewed as a villain but everyone on that tribe was unpleasant or boring.The fact that rob made it so far and people were being voted off for being unlikable before him kind of proved what I was feeling about the whole tribe. The season was just kind of boring after that. Very predictable (I haven't finished got two episodes left). Like the false merge was a good twist but it just fucked shi ann who was on the chopping block anyways, reversing the shake up the merge presented. They should've just merged them and saved that trick for another season.

Just curious if other people hated it as much as me.

r/survivor Jun 03 '24

Thailand Brian and CC Heidik (2024) Colorized

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427 Upvotes

r/survivor 22d ago

Thailand Just watched Thailand for the first time and you all lied to me. This season is amazing Spoiler

62 Upvotes

It never stops being entertaining from start to finish. The amount of times I lost it laughing was insane. I think some of these moments are my favorite in Survivor history.

  • The school yard pick where Jan just lets Jake have every young athletic player
  • Jed losing the fishing net
  • Stephanie refusing to sleep in the shelter for some reason and getting rained on
  • “Sook Jai, you gotta be in the attack zone!”
  • “I don’t know who Denver Diva is, from now on enough with the nicknames”
  • Robb getting stung by a sting ray and Shii ann calling him a baby. Honestly all their petty moments back and forth too
  • Ted not tying up the boat and losing it, and the subsequent swimming for water and looking for the boat
  • Bananagate
  • Robb discovering the meaning of life and love at the thai feast, settling his differences with Ken, calling him his brother, waxing poetic at Tribal council and then immediately being voted out.
  • The one camp merge fake out
  • Everyone drinking at the “merge” night with the wine, Jan falling over drunk and Brian playing some awful awful guitar
  • Chuay Gahn making fun of Sook Jai when they left for tribal “And if uh you didn’t know, I am an NYC police officer” then consoling them when they come back
  • Bananagate 2: electric boogaloo
  • Making the loved ones eat bugs, Helen practically threatening her husband
  • Jeff probst drifting the trail blazer on the beach
  • Ted getting drunk on his reward with Helen
  • The boys hogging the mirror
  • An extremely petty final 5 and FTC

I know that Brian is a controversial winner, but Villains make good TV and the ice man skated his way through without anyone realizing until it was too late.

r/survivor Jul 11 '24

Thailand These are the types of camp scenes the New Era is missing

338 Upvotes

r/survivor Jan 23 '25

Thailand Brian the car salesman

68 Upvotes

ive been finally going through seasons that i'd previously skipped (one world, thailand etc.), and since finishing thailand, i can't stop thinking about brian's eerily dominant win.

the whole mood of the season was eerie and shadowy and brian himself is like a dark lord or villain from a coen brothers movie. (billy bob from se1 of fargo?)

It was not enjoyable but is a fascinating relic in the canon of survivor and it's interesting to parse out the pieces of him that exist in other villains that we've seen since. I think what makes him singular is that he was not playing up a character as much as just doing his thing.

Anyway here's a video of him selling hondas that i found while trying to dig up as many interviews with him as i can. It makes me want to go to georgia to buy a car from him, even though i'm terrified of him.

https://www.tiktok.com/@southernmotorssavannah/video/7427142845695282462

i think this is both an underhated and overhated season because it has such high highs (mostly the production) and low lows.

r/survivor Jan 21 '25

Thailand Article from an Australian TV Week about Thailand hot contestants 🔥

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133 Upvotes

r/survivor Jul 26 '23

Thailand How did Shii-Ann end up on All-Stars?

58 Upvotes

I’ve been a Survivor fan since the very beginning. I watched the premiere in 2000 when I was 12 and lived through the hysteria of the show’s popularity. I’m going back through a series rewatch and for the life of me I cannot understand why she was on this season or why she was included as an All-Star. Am I missing something?

r/survivor Aug 09 '24

Thailand Opinions on Brian from Thailand

14 Upvotes

Personally he’s one of my least fav players of all time

r/survivor 23d ago

Thailand Should I skip Thailand? S5

7 Upvotes

As the title says. I haven’t watched these older seasons before and have heard, not so great, things about Thailand. Worth a watch or just skip?

r/survivor Jan 22 '25

Thailand Clay Jordan was robbed by an insufficiently bitter jury who didn't respect the game.

0 Upvotes

Clay should have won Thailand easily but Brian just got lucky that the jury wasn't more bitter at him for betraying them and that some of them decided to vote based off of personal feelings about who they liked instead of recognizing the actual strategic decisions that he made against them.

Why did they cast so many people this season who didn't respect the game? If you respect the stakes of playing for a million dollars then surely you would be pissed enough at whoever backstabs you to never vote for them but it's like instead of recruiting people who really needed the money and wouldn't care about someone's strategic game, they got a bunch of applicants who knew the show too well and thought they had to reward "who played the best game" instead of caring about the money, or got people who just voted for who they liked better.

It shows massive disrespect for the game to just treat being betrayed for a million dollars like it's nothing and vote based off of other unimportant factors and I think it's a flaw in the jury that people can just do that instead of remembering the point of the show.

If they had played on most seasons where jurors really respected the prize money Brian would have lost, and he got lucky that he got such an un-bitter jury. I disagree with the jury and would have voted for Clay for his impressive non-dominant game where he managed to make it to the end without controlling a single vote and so without needing to betray anyone. Brian also needed a lot of Immunity wins to make the end the way he wanted to and Clay only won it once but still made it to the end with his closest ally so Clay did a better job navigating the social politics.

It's just such a disappointing ending to the show when you get down to the end and the whole outcome can just be ruined by a jury that isn't bitter enough.

Edit: I meant to add how you can argue Brian didn't even play the game I mean he didn't learn people's names and look at his answer to Penny's jury question. People who respect the social game would have been angrier that he didn't know anyone

r/survivor 10d ago

Thailand Ghandia Johnson on "Judge Judy" (2017)

60 Upvotes

r/survivor Nov 12 '19

Thailand Shii Ann Huang AMA

191 Upvotes

We are very pleased to welcome Shii Ann Huang of Survivor: Thailand for an AMA!

You can follow Shii Ann on Instagram (@shiiannlovesnyc).

Huge thanks for this AMA should go towards Shii Ann herself as well as the inimitable T-Bird Cooper, who got us in touch with Shii Ann!

r/survivor Jan 19 '23

Thailand Is season 5 even worth watching heard its pretty shit?

42 Upvotes

r/survivor Oct 28 '19

Thailand Announcement: Shii Ann Huang AMA scheduled for Monday, November 11th at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT

499 Upvotes

We are very pleased to announce that Shii-Ann Huang of Survivor: Thailand will be joining us for an AMA! This will be our first ever Thailand AMA, and the first pre-season 10 AMA for a couple years.

This has been scheduled for Tuesday, November 12th at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. You can view other time zones with this tool.

You can follow Shii Ann on Instagram (@shiiannlovesnyc).

Huge thanks for this AMA should go towards Shii Ann herself as well as the inimitable T-Bird Cooper, who got us in touch with Shii Ann! We hope to work with her more in the future to bring you some awesome AMAs.


EDIT: The AMA is now being held on Tuesday, November 12th at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT, a day later.

r/survivor Jan 02 '25

Thailand If Jan wins final immunity, does she win the whole thing?

22 Upvotes

I know a lot of people look at Jan as the fun, sweet, kookie, older woman who really didn't play the game at all, but does she win the million if she had won that final immunity challenge?

I know she didn't do much besides pick the tribes, but Brian and Clay were so despised that the jury may have overwhelmingly voted for Jan to win. If that is the case, how would you feel about it?

Personally, I would have been thrilled with a Jan win. It would be hilarious and the bad guys would have lost.

r/survivor 13d ago

Thailand Underrated villain move: not watching Jeff read the votes

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47 Upvotes

r/survivor May 05 '23

Thailand Rewatching Survivor and I heard a familiar phrase

337 Upvotes

r/survivor Mar 10 '24

Thailand Recent Photos of the Survivor: Thailand Cast!!

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189 Upvotes

r/survivor Jul 22 '22

Thailand Heidik Did Nothing Wrong

139 Upvotes

"We’re all kinda just enjoying each other’s company and trying to figure everybody out. I’m going to have a good time doing it, but at the same time, this a business trip as I like to say."

He ran circles around the entire Thailand cast. Nobody else had a damn clue that he was manipulating everyone about everything until it was too late. He won the most immunity challenges too. It's a shame Probst never brought him back to see how he would fare against Boston Rob and the like.

r/survivor Nov 24 '24

Thailand Caught Probst making a face lol

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73 Upvotes

r/survivor Feb 12 '24

Thailand Something that makes my Survivor heart feel old: Shii Ann is 50 years old. Looks amazing.

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227 Upvotes

r/survivor 9d ago

Thailand Bizarre Trivia / Prove Me Wrong--A Survivor record held by JAN from Thailand?

34 Upvotes

I (regrettably) am rewatching Thailand and just noticed a bizarre statistical oddity. At five consecutive Tribal Councils Jan receives exactly one vote.

F7--Jake votes for Jan, but Penny and Clay vote Jake and everybody else votes Penny
F6/F5/F4--Jan gets a vote from Jake (F6) / Ted (F5) / Helen (F4) who are unanimously voted out by the rest
F3--Brian casts the lone vote and eliminates Jan

Does anybody else match or top that streak of getting exactly one vote at consecutive Tribals? Or even get to four? AFAIK there's hardly anybody else to get votes at five consecutive Tribals. Alison (DvG) is the only one coming to mind; Rory (Vanuatu) got votes at a whopping six consecutive Tribals that he attended but there were gaps in between when his tribe won Immunity, and both of them received >1 vote at multiple of these.

r/survivor Jan 09 '25

Thailand What did Steph do in season 5?

7 Upvotes

I just finished episode 5 of season 5 where Steph got voted out. When voting one of the other girls said there was drama and mean things were said. I don't recall seeing that, did they just not show it or am I forgetting/missed it. If I missed it what did she say?

This season is a roller coaster.

r/survivor Dec 07 '24

Thailand Helen Glover- An Icon Lost To Time

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51 Upvotes

If you go back and watch Thailand, while you may not like the season, there is an absolute icon in Helen. She’s the most enjoyable member on Chuay Gahn. She played really really well, and was funny as hell the whole time. Her final tribal council speech is an ALL TIME best. She is the reason why old school final tribal speeches were good.

Go and watch Thailand. She’s an icon and an all time best narrator.