Today’s Recapist Highlight: Survivor

Whoa! Forget those microbial villains that took out James and Jonathan; invisible predators are so last season. Looks like this season’s biggest threats could be a whole bunch of Animals That Can Fuck You Up. Gabon, the lush, coast-hugging African country hosting this season of questionably sociable misfits, is home to hippos, elephants, tigers, gorillas, alligators, and a variety of other things that have bigger teeth than you or I. “Earth’s Last Eden” is also home for the next thirty-nine days for eighteen new Survivors, who’ve been dropped off in their street clothes and are making their way across a vast sea of grassland to meet Emmy-winning Jeff Probst. Jeff, buddy, you’d better sleep with one eye open and keep a well-honed machete at the ready; disappointed fans of The Amazing Race’s Phil Keoghan lie in wait behind every tree. There might even be one or two lurking behind that hippo!

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