Survival is key, ep. 1

The show begins with giving brief insight in the capabilities of the competitors and how they interact with their ‘blood’ or partner. It then unites the group together, and then divides them from their partner. After the separation, a trial for the firefighter on the blue team begins. He has to go against his wife. He wins, sends her away and throws one of his teammates under the bus. He’s so emotional that everyone feels for him and he becomes the popular guy in the crew. He uses his new found affection to make and form teammates. The wife of the firefighter ends up betraying the man accompanying her showing a bit of her true character. The red group aims for fire and shelter and everyone appears to be working for the same thing but the blue team has some minor tension just from clash of personalities. After a few days, they all regroup and come together and work well to succeed in the challenge. The blue team wins and the adrenaline starts to go away and at this point, Jeff Probst, the announcer, starts to pull at heart strings by reminding the victorious group that victory comes at the price of their loved one. Winning is losing and losing is winning in this twisted game to exploit how far people will go to win the prize money. The orange team is given the task to remove someone from the team and the gay gentlemen is given the swing vote to pick whomever he’d like because he’s been characterized or stereotyped as being both a man and a women. Apparently, survivor brings out primitive thinking in people. The announcer begins probing for who’ll crack and say the wrong thing that will alienate them from the rest. Answering these questions is like walking on thin ice because it doesn’t take much to push people the wrong way. In the end, the person who ended up being kicked off was the person with the biggest mouth. You typically can’t rub people the wrong way if you don’t talk as much.