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...that was the end of the end of "Survivor II: The Outback," the Outback part of which was, as Colby said in his best Cosell imitation, "the 17th player." The sequel to the Richard Hatch Show was a lean, mean, elementally compelling show - wrapped in a coating of ridiculous fluff, and trying...
...this: Everybody had waited all this time, weeks since "Survivor" finished taping in the Australian Outback, so CBS could do it live. Thursday night. May 3, 2001. In the studio, recreated in the image of the real Tribal Council cave, with everybody in the same exact clothes they wore that fateful last gathering all those cutting rooms ago. And Probst was there, and Colby (who had really hit the pantry in the interim), and Tina, because in the hour before (in Television Time, that is) the cowboy and the nurse had entered into some weird suicide pact...
...fact that the two turned out to be such a pair, however, was but a speck of entertainment in an endless sea of fluff. This was the most painfully obvious of the "Survivor" episodes. If Colby was going to win the immunity challenge (like we thought) and pass up the chance to walk all over Keith in the finals just because he liked Tina (like we thought), then why, exactly, had we sat through 115 minutes of the Longest Two Hours of My Life...
Novak's stunts ride the last wave of this backlash: combinations of real drama and staged venue like The Real World, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Survivor...
...Survivor to the next level," he says...