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“The Penultimate Step of the War” – Ben Driebergen, Denise Stapley, Sarah Lacina and Nick Wilson on the two-hour Thirteenth episode of SURVIVOR: WINNERS AT WAR, airing Wednesday, May 6th (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Screen Grab/CBS Entertainment ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The all-winners season of Survivor has reached its final two episodes with “The Penultimate Step of the War.” Can Tony Vlachos be defeated at this point? Not only has he won three immunity challenges in a row, but the show is giving him a great edit, which makes it seem likely that he will win the whole thing.
In the episode description for the May 6 episode, CBS teases, “In a crucial immunity challenge, the remaining seven castaways make their final push towards the $2 million prize, on the penultimate two-hour episode of Survivor: Winners at War.”
That’s right — Survivor is two hours tonight, so buckle up, because we are going to get two eliminations tonight.
Follow along here with our live recap but be warned of spoilers. Don’t keep reading if you don’t want to be spoiled. All times Eastern.
8:03 — Back from Tribal Council, Michele Fitzgerald feels like she really got skunked by Jeremy Collins choosing not to use the 50/50 advantage she gave him but also letting everyone know he had it because now everyone knows Michele gave it to him and that they are aligned. Yeah, that’s not great. It really does seem like Michele brought a butter knife to a gunfight, as she says, so hopefully, she can figure out some moves.
8:06 — The next morning, Denise Stapley wants to make it clear to fans that she’s not “done” with the game, but she is done with getting so twisted up in knots about the game. She sketches out some tattoos she wants to get that say “endure” and “let go.”
Meanwhile, Tony and Jeremy are having an argument about whether 10 days or 14 days constitute two weeks. Tony sounds kind of insane here, not gonna lie. There are nine days left and that is closer to one week than two weeks.
8:10 — Then Tony and Sarah Lacina have to try to figure out what to do next. They think they should keep Jeremy around as long as possible because he’s a bigger target then they are, but honestly? If Sarah wants to win, she needs to get Tony out. Yes, that’s doing your alliance-mate dirty, but 1) he did that to you previously, and 2) Tony is the biggest threat to win right now by a country mile.
The big question is whether Sarah will see that. But right now, she’s working on Ben Driebergen about blindsiding Nick Wilson and keeping Jeremy in the game. Ben seems to be on board.
8:15 — Challenge time. They have to race out to a track where they throw a ball into the track, then run through the obstacles to catch the ball on the other side. Wow. Once they’ve done that twice, they have to dig under a log lodged in the sand, then they have to solve a slide puzzle. The winner gets two fire tokens in addition to immunity.
8:20 — Right out of the gate, it seems like Jeremy should kill this challenge, as a former semi-professional football player. He’s just a straight-up athlete. Lo and behold, he’s ahead going into the sand-digging portion, but Nick, Ben, Tony, and Sarah are right on his tail. Denise also manages to catch up enough to have a shot at it. Poor Michele… does not. And then Nick wins it! Afterward, Michele is crying because she’s frustrated and embarrassed about her performance and everyone is very sweet in consoling her. Also, this puts quite the wrench in the whole “vote out Nick” plan.
8:30 — Back at camp, everyone congratulates Nick, but really, everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do. Sarah, Jeremy, Nick, Ben, and Tony seem set on Denise, but… wow, that seems foolhardy. The biggest resume in the game right now is for Tony. Why would you not vote him out? Nobody can beat him.
Survivor: Winners at War airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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