Survivor April 27, 2022

 It's one of those laughter and tears episodes tonight.

I thought the Immunity Challenge was hilarious, right out of some slapstick film.  Everyone had to stand on a narrow board on a floating triangle in very choppy seas. (The picture below isn't from the episode).

We've seen the choppy waters in a previous episode. These little floating devices were like bucking broncos. People were being pitched off of them left and right.  After not much more than a minute, only Jonathan and Lindsay were still on the platforms, and Jonathan barely won.  I laughed so much at this challenge.

The twist of the episode was that the players were divided into two teams for this challenge, and there would be two tribals and two people voted out.  Suddenly everyone was split up from their alliances and things got fractured fast.

On Jonathan's team, he wanted to control the vote, he thought his big moment had come.  He wanted to flush out Drea's idol, but he tells Maryann she'll be the split vote.  What his actual plans are, it's hard to discern, as he has a discussion with Lindsay laying it all out, but she tells him it makes no sense.

The first group to go to tribal votes out Rocksroy, despite his alliance with several of them.As edited, it looks like it's Omar's machinations at work, since he doesn't feel as if he can work with Rocksroy going forward, meaning he can't manipulate him, but he can manipulate the other target Romeo.

When the second group enters tribal and they see the jury of Rocksroy and Chanelle, Drea breaks down and says she's using her idol tonight because she's not going to be sitting on that jury full of people like herself.  It happens every time she says, the people of color just all of a sudden get voted out, boom boom boom.

Maryanne, also feeling targeted, says she will use her idol tonight too.  

The two were so emotional and sad, their feelings so raw.  Nothing but complete respect for them both.

The unusual tribal ended without the usual visits to the voting station. Jonathan had immunity, and he and Lindsay would vote for Tori, it was openly stated, so Tori went to try the Shot in the Dark. Tori was not safe, and is now the third member of the jury.