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New Survivor Kinda Freaked It With This Edit


Season 47 just Usual Suspects–ed Lavo. It was awesome.

One underrated aspect of the new Survivor, though, has come on the production end of things, where the show’s editors are employing increasingly baroque tweaks and tricks in order to zhuzh up the usual formula. Up until now, the 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg had been mostly ballast in the Lavo tribe, a loyalist to the annoying, showboat-y Rome but otherwise not a factor in any of the season’s story lines. What followed was, as Parade ’s Mike Bloom put it on X, a Keyser Söze–esque series of floating-head flashbacks to things Kishan had said that might make Genevieve question going along with his plan.

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