Australian Survivor Season 3 (review)

 WOW!

So Seasons 1 and 2 of this show have been lost in time. But from what I understand they were made back in the early 2000's and weren't that good. But fast forward to 2016 and they brought the show back, bigger and better than ever and I LOVED IT. 

THIS is Survivor on steroids. 24 survivor's 55 days and it was chalk FULL of excitement each episode. I worried that too many names and faces would get lost in the mix but I knew and remembered each player as the show went along. Amazing!

They started with 3 tribes, which merged to 2, where the winning tribe in a challenge got to break up the other teams. (really cool) 

Epic moments, where a male model tries to break the "models are stupid" stereotype but ends up forgetting who he needed to vote for and essentially gets himself voted out during the tribal. Leading his team without any strong players and getting beat down at every challenge until merger. 

The final challenge was TV GOLD! As the weak coat tail riding girl begs the dominate male for the victory while her father watches on. To "achieve a like long dream" It's gets to the guy who starts weeping too with her and he decides to go ahead and let her have it. 

It ended up costing him the win in the finals. Even though the girl was AWFUL at the final tribal, she won in a landslide because everyone held sour grapes to the male who played a flawless game. Amazing. 

This girl bragged to everyone's face that she "outsmarted" them all, when the truth was Lee (the guy) carried her all the way to the end! But the jury was bitter and you could see it in the final tribal. People would make statements about how awful they thought Lee was. Or demand on apology from him when they had no intention whatsoever of giving him the win. It was a shame. 

Such an incredible season, ruined by a bitter jury. But, this was an earlier version of the show. Mature voters didn't hit the US show until way later in the series. Perhaps we'll see more of that as the show moves along. 

Either way....I'm SO ready to watch the next season...in fact, I'm already 4 episodes in as I write this!

Will it be any good? Wait and see...