We’re heading into a holiday weekend. What’s on your mind? What are your weekend plans? What should I write about in the coming weeks?I’m still stewing, believe it or not, about the Survivor 50 finale and the season as a whole. I love reality TV but it has morphed into something that has very little reality to it. It’s all kind of manufactured and unpleasant and gravely lacking in charm or whimsy. I expected that this milestone season would be fun and have lots of intrigue and twists but so much of the production felt, well, like a production! You could see the ways the producers tried to manipulate the game to get their desired outcomes. And one thing that has persisted across seasons is that racism and misogyny travel to the Survivor island with the contestants. No bigotry left behind!(Cirie was robbed. Even Tiff, who I am not crazy about, was robbed. And what was Stephenie even doing during the final tribal council? )During COVID, or at the height of COVID, I should say, the show…
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