Best season of all time. So epic. Tyson’s blindside will forever be the biggest omg moment in my book. And Sandra’s huge move is to lie to Russell about Coach which was genius and changed the game. Had she not done it, she would have most likely been a pre merge boot alongside Courtney. It’s also a season that didn’t need a swap to make it better. Just epic.

I can't believe you forgot the part where Sandra burned Russell's hat before the Final Tribal Council. That scene was SO iconic, you should've added that!

Rupert's speech to Russel at the end is some cold shit. like a Final speech in a samurai movie from the hero to the villian.

Parvati’s play was so good

I love Sandra but Parvati really deserved to win this season. I hate bitter juries.

BEST SEASON EVER

My favorite outcome of this season, aside from Sandra winning and Russel losing again, is the redemption arc of Jeri’s story. She won the fans over after being so hated in the beginning.

Just imagine how different the makeup of the Villains tribe would’ve been had Johnny FairPlay (three way power struggle between him, Boston Rob and Russell), Shii-Ann (a Black Widow Brigade 2.0 with her, Parvarti, Sandra and Danielle) or Shane (the amount of chaos that is Shane Powers in general) were on the tribe instead of Randy (who you could tell he really didn’t want to be there in retrospect)

For me, Russel’s performance this season is proof positive on the importance of the social game, not just the idol finding/challenge game. His scorched earth style of play does exceptionally well at getting to the Final Council, but absolutely falls flat when it comes to the jury who, at this point, are all inevitably betrayed and hate the shit out of Russel, who had nobody to blame but himself for this. In addition, however, a thing that goes unsaid in the edit is Parvati completely torpedoed her chances as well post-merge by attaching too closely to Russel and being a huge jerk to the Heroes, meaning she also turned a lot of the jury on her, albeit with some acknowledgements of her better strategic play. Sandra, on the other hand, played Russel like a goddamn fiddle left and right and let the bull break the proverbial china shop while keeping her hands completely clean by saying “I told you so.” to the Heroes she warned that fate was coming to them. On top of that, she allowed Russel to think she wasn’t going to simply annihilate him at the Final Jury and came out with an easy sweep by not being These Two Clowns.

Watching a FlynnMasters HvV Survivor recap on Christmas, best gift so far today

Best season of Survivor. ｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡

I love the pre merge, it’s definitely the best one in the series, but honestly, the pre merge is just kinda fine. The only boots I find fun in the merge are the JT and Danielle boots. I’m also not a big fan of Russel, which brings it down for me as the post merge is basically all about him

For Danielle’s clue I think production didn’t know what to do in that situation. Because Danielle dropped the clue on the floor it was fair game Colby being a dumbass was like Danielle it’s your clue. I would just kept the clue and said sorry you fucked up

my favourite season!

The best Season ever,keep watching this season again and again and again

More like "Survivor: Oops All Villains." Oh wait, that's just every Survivor season ever.

This IS my fave season!

Yea I was rooting for Parvati she definitely did deserve a win in my opinion but this just shows how important social game is which I think a lot of people overlook they think if they get all the “good guys” out that they’ll win but what they don’t realize with bitter Jurors is that they’ll choose the lesser evil and that’s how Sandra won, I think taking into consideration weather your jury is going to be an emotional one or strategic one is one of the key elements to winning that gets overlooked which Sandra definitely realized towards the end and capitalized on that, letting Parv and Russel do they’re “Villain” thing because she knew they were hated by everyone, which In a game called Heroes vs Villains where fan favs are brought back Parv and Russel really should’ve taken into account all the egos these people had and realized that they were going to be bitter.

Sanda is the most undeserving winner ever. In both the seasons she won she won because of spite for the people who dragged her there and not from her gameplay.

Best season ever.

Why wasn't Ozzie on this season?

Rupert is a clown. He acts holier-that-thou, and sanctimonious, when addressing Russell at Final Counsel... as though he has never lied, or tricked someone in the game to improve his own position. Every winner has lied, and tricked people. Fans that buy into this narrative probably think that Pro Wrestling is real and believe the character arcs Vince McMahon has created.

best.season.ever.

Let not forget 7 seasons later Tyson returns and wins!

Russel is great

Parvati played a great game except when she hid the inmunity idol from Russell. Russell was way too much of a looose cannon, if she would have told him beforehand he woudnt have seen how Parv was closer to Danielle than him. As soon as Danielle went home Parvati chances to win really went to the dust

Greatest Season EVER

So basically proving how bad a cast Gabon had when their two reps are the first boots of their respective teams.

I’ve still can’t fathom how Candace was placed on the heroes team, considering her mutinous actions in Cook Islands.

King Russ ❤

I wanted Amanda to so bad if she did it would’ve been by beating Candice too

where can you watch this season

If I need to summerize this season in one word: Russell !!!!

Jerri was soooo close!!!!

Russel Hantz is a true legend. This man is absolutely incredible and took idols like they were names. He played the game mercilessly. He’d be a chaotic neutral for me. I would’ve wanted him to win.

Am I the only one who thinks Sandra is over-rated? Sure she did a few smart things but she is nowhere close to the greatest player of all time in my opinion.

This could have been the crowning moment of all Survivor, if the jury had respected Pavarti’s amazing strategic game and not voting for Sandra out of spite. It was anticlimactic and left a bitter taste for what has been an amazing season. That why I rank season 16 higher.

James was such a bully this season. It was quite a disappointment compared to the James we saw in China…

Rankings: 20. Sugar 19. Stephanie 18. Randy 17. Cirie 16. James 15. Tom 14. Tyson 13. J.T. 12. Rupert 11. Coach 10. Rob 9. Candice 8. Courtney 7. Amanda 6. Colby 5. Sandra 4. Danielle 3. Jerry 2. Parvati 1. Russell

Russell played like a god this season. He manipulated the system so hard, that by the end, there barely WAS a system... I say that, but this is Survivor we're talking about. There barely was a system to begin with.

Pavarti should have won.

I recognize and respect the impact of this season...but I don't really care for it too much.

Hot take i think this is the 2nd most overrated season behind china amazing cast absolutely but to me kinda boring after the JT mishap

Sandra was such a weak winner.