Survivor: Ghost Island is the 36th season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. Ghost Island was filmed in the summer of 2017 and premiered on February 28, 2018, on CBS with a two-hour episode. The season concluded on May 23, 2018. This season was the fifth to be filmed in Fiji.
This season marks the first time in Survivor history in which two players were tied for having the most jury votes at the Final Tribal Council. Domenick Abbate and Wendell Holland each received five votes from the jury, while Laurel Johnson received none. By extension, this is the first time since Survivor: Borneo that the votes were read at Final Tribal Council. In order to break the tie, Johnson joined the jury and used her deciding vote to reward the title of Sole Survivor to Holland.
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Ghost Island
This season introduced the titular Ghost Island, a secluded location where castaways were banished for short periods of time, similar to Exile Island. The island was decorated with mementos and props from previous seasons of Survivor, including torch snuffers and immunity idols.
With few exceptions, castaways were exiled to Ghost Island after being chosen by the winners of the reward challenge. The challenge winners were required to unanimously choose a losing castaway; if they were unable to do so, the losing castaways would draw colored rocks to determine who would be exiled. On Ghost Island, exiled castaways were instructed to smash the next in a series of urns, some of which would allow the castaway to compete in a game of chance for an advantage in the game. The advantages were taken from previous seasons of Survivor, all of which were misplayed in their original seasons. Banished castaways were given the opportunity to acquire these advantages, under the premise of learning from past castaways' mistakes.
The game of chance would require the castaway to wager their vote at their next Tribal Council in order to play. In initial games, castaways were presented with two bamboo chutes, one of which contained an advantage while the other would cost them their vote; for each lost or unplayed game, subsequent games would add another chute with an advantage, increasing subsequent castaways' odds at winning.
Extending the theme of using misplayed advantages from previous seasons, the hidden immunity idols this season were items from previous seasons.
Maps Survivor: Ghost Island
Contestants
Season summary
The 20 castaways were divided into two tribes: Malolo and Naviti. Naviti fared better in challenges but was divided by a conflict between Domenick and Chris. Through two tribe shuffles, Naviti held the majority on every tribe; some, such as Kellyn, held strong to eliminate original Malolos, while others, like Domenick and his closest ally Wendell, worked to consolidate power at the merge, forming an alliance with original Malolos Donathan and Laurel.
At the merge, Domenick led the tribe in eliminating Chris before the majority began picking off the remaining original Malolos. However, when only Donathan and Laurel were left, Domenick and Wendell betrayed the Naviti alliance. Both Domenick and Wendell had hidden immunity idols; Donathan later turned against them to try and flush their idols, but he was unable to rally enough votes against them and was eliminated.
The final four were Domenick, Laurel, Wendell and outsider Angela. Domenick won the final immunity challenge and turned on Wendell as the biggest remaining threat. He decided to bring Laurel to the end of the game, leaving Angela to face Wendell in the fire-making challenge to determine the third finalist, which Wendell won. At the final Tribal Council, the jury debated between Domenick's more aggressive strategic game and Wendell's more relaxed social game, and the ten jurors tied the vote, with five votes each on Domenick and Wendell. Laurel, as the third-place finalist with zero votes, cast the tie-breaking vote for Wendell, crowning him the Sole Survivor.
Episodes
Voting history
Reception
Survivor: Ghost Island was met with mixed to negative reception. Austin Smith of fan site "Inside Survivor" gave the season a mixed review, saying the season "delivered a stellar pre-merge full of exciting moves and memorable characters. It gave us one of the best merge episodes of all time. It sagged under the weight of predictable boots and frustrating intransigence through the later votes, but it was still punctuated by exciting new twists like the split Tribal at Final Ten. And it gave us one of the most unexpected finales of all time." Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred criticized the season's post-merge episodes and finale, saying "The finale ended up like the majority of the post-merge: grand promises, no action, rinse, repeat, zzzz." People Magazine blogger Stephen Fishbach, who played in Survivor: Tocantins and Survivor: Cambodia, praised the dominant game play of Domenick Abbate and winner Wendell Holland, but also stated that their game play made for "boring television."
Another aspect of the season that was heavily criticized was the incoherence and predictability of the edit, with many castaways who made far in the game being very poorly edited, and the viewers being left in the dark about the strategies and game-plan of many of them due to the edit focusing on a specific group of players, who also happened to be the Final Three.
References
External links
- Official CBS Survivor Website
- Metacritic
- IMDB
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