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Survivor 41

Survivor 41 is the forty-first season of the American competition television series Survivor. The season was first broadcast on September 22, 2021, on CBS in the United States and Global in Canada.[1][2] It ended on December 15, 2021, when Erika Casupanan was voted the Sole Survivor, defeating Deshawn Radden and Xander Hastings in a 7–1–0 vote. Casupanan also became the first Canadian castaway to win the title,[note 1] the third Asian castaway to win (following Yul Kwon in season 13, Survivor: Cook Islands and Natalie Anderson in season 29, Survivor: San Juan del Sur), the first of Filipino descent to win, and the first woman to win in seven seasons, the last one being Sarah Lacina in season 34, Survivor: Game Changers.[5]

Both the 41st and 42nd seasons of Survivor were originally ordered in May 2020.[6][7] Production and broadcast of the season was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming in Fiji, the ninth consecutive season at that location, had been planned to start filming from March to May 2020, with the season scheduled to air on CBS starting in September 2020 as a part of the 2020–21 television season, but worldwide travel restrictions and Fiji's border closures forced production to postpone to a year in March 2021, and the broadcast pushed into the 2021–22 television season.[8]

Production

Development

This season was originally to be entitled Survivor: Dawn of a New Era according to Jeff Probst. Although production and filming were initially scheduled to start on March 24, 2020, and were to conclude on May 1 with a standard 39 days of gameplay, they were pushed back until 2021 due to international travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Usually the show releases two seasons per television season year—one debuting around the fall (September) and the other debuting around late winter/early spring (February or March). However, due to the pandemic, the Survivor crew was not able to produce both season 41 and the subsequent 42nd season in 2020. Production had considered filming domestically in Georgia or Hawaii, but the unpredictability of the pandemic pushed filming back to 2021.[9][10] On February 11, 2021, Faiyaz Koya, the Fijian Minister of Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, approved filming for this season with the crew required to arrive in groups and quarantine before filming.[11] On March 22, 2021, Jeff Probst announced on-location that production of this season was set to start and filming finally began on April 15.[12] The forty-first season debuted in September 2021.[13]

Unlike most Survivor seasons, it is a shortened season spanning only 26 out of the usual 39 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which required all cast and production members to quarantine for 14 days, taking up some of the short production time.[14][15] For the first time since Survivor: Borneo, the season's winner was revealed during the Final Tribal Council, as production was unsure of its ability to have a live finale due to concerns of a potential COVID-19 resurgence. The vote reveal was then followed by a Survivor After Show special with the final players and the jury instead of a live reunion.[16]

This was the first Survivor season to impose a significant change in the personal safety protocols following allegations of "inappropriate touching" against a contestant during the filming of Island of the Idols in 2019.[17]

Gameplay

This season introduced many new twists, including the "Shot in the Dark" which offered players at Tribal Council a chance for immunity in exchange for giving up one's vote, the "Beware Advantage" which restricted players' ability to vote until their immunity idols became active, and decision games which forced players to make game-altering choices. One such decision game featured players making opposing—but not necessarily different—choices to either risk or protect their votes in a manner similar to a game of Chicken.[18] Other games of decision included the "Hourglass" twist which gave one player the opportunity to reverse the outcome of a group immunity challenge at the risk of earning tribemates' ire,[19] and the "Do or Die" twist which, in one instance, made the first player to lose an Immunity Challenge perform a risky game of chance similar to the Monty Hall problem just to be able to stay in the game.[20][21]

According to Jeff Probst, a planned expansion of the Fire Tokens element featured in Winners at War was scrapped after David vs. Goliath runner-up Mike White expressed disapproval of the idea.[22]

In addition, Probst announced a new interactive element called The Game Within the Game, in which children watching at home were invited to play along with the show, solving a rebus puzzle hidden somewhere within the episode. Also, at-home viewers could solve a word-scramble puzzle online and be given a strategy discussion test in which the viewers could discuss the strategy and later compare it with what really happened during the next episode's airing.[23]

Contestants

Danny McCray

The cast was composed of 18 new players divided into three tribes: Luvu, Ua, and Yase. The tribe names come from the Fijian words for "flood", "wave", and "lightning" respectively.[24] The merged tribe was named Viakana, which comes from the Fijian phrase for "hungry", was suggested by Erika Casupanan.[25]

The cast included retired National Football League player Danny McCray.[26] Erika Casupanan became the first Canadian resident to compete on the show since the casting process was opened to Canadian residents in 2018.[27][28]

  1. ^ At the start of the individual phase of the game on Day 12, castaways had to earn their way into the merged tribe by either winning immunity or surviving the Day 14 Tribal Council.

Future appearances

Outside of Survivor, Danny McCray and Shan Smith competed on the first season of The Challenge: USA.[30] In 2023, McCray competed on The Challenge: World Championship.[31] Erika Casupanan competed on the first season of The Traitors Canada.[32]

Season summary

Eighteen new castaways were divided into three tribes of six: Luvu, Ua, and Yase. Luvu went undefeated in immunity challenges, while Yase got off to a rough start, losing the first two. Dominated by a women's alliance, they made up for the numbers deficit while Ua dwindled down to just Shan and Ricard. Their strong partnership enabled them to reach the merge, where they initially aligned with Luvu against the surviving Yase members. Liana turned against her old tribe to align with Danny, Deshawn, and Shan in a final four deal. However, Danny and Deshawn aligned with the others under Ricard and Erika's lead to take out a power player in Shan, busting the game open.

When there were six players left, Deshawn tried to pit longtime allies Erika and Heather against each other, to no avail. Despite being targeted for this, he and the others voted out a big threat in Ricard when he was not immune. Xander won the final challenge and brought Erika to the end in hopes that she wouldn't get to add beating someone at fire to her resume. Deshawn narrowly beat Heather to join them in the final three. In the end, Erika's subtly strong strategic and social game earned her the victory in a 7–1–0 vote over Deshawn and Xander.

  1. ^ The winners were allowed to save an extra player and invite that player to the reward; they chose Naseer.
  2. ^ Erika was exiled after not being chosen to join the winning team's reward and share in their immunity. At Exile Island, she was given the opportunity to either keep the game moving as is, allowing the winning team to keep their immunity, or go back in time and change the outcome, in which she and the losing team would be given immunity instead. Her decision, which was not revealed until the next episode, was to change the outcome and give immunity to the losing team, a move that occurred after the original winning team had enjoyed their reward.
  3. ^ The episode ended on a cliffhanger and no one was voted out.
  4. ^ In addition to immunity, Xander won reward for his entire team for lasting the longest in the challenge.
  5. ^ For winning the final Immunity Challenge, Xander had to assign additional immunity to another player, with the remaining two competing in a fire-making challenge to determine the third finalist; he gave additional immunity to Erika.

Episodes

Voting history

Notes
  1. ^ On Day 17, a split Tribal Council was held. The castaways were divided into two groups of five; each group went to Tribal Council separately to eliminate one castaway from each.
  2. ^ a b c The vote resulted in a tie. Per the rules, a second vote was held where the castaways involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining castaways could only vote for those who tied.
  3. ^ a b c d e For winning the final Immunity Challenge, Xander had to assign additional immunity to another castaway, with the remaining two competing in a fire-making challenge to determine the third finalist; he gave additional immunity to Erika, and Deshawn defeated Heather in the fire-making challenge.
  4. ^ a b c This player used an extra vote advantage, allowing them to cast two ballots during a single vote.
  5. ^ a b Danny and Deshawn were not eligible to vote in the second round of voting.
  6. ^ a b By accepting one of the "Beware Advantages," this castaway was unable to vote until either the same advantage was found by someone on all three tribes or the tribes merged.
  7. ^ a b Heather and Naseer were not eligible to vote in the second round of voting.
  8. ^ a b Liana and Shan were not eligible to vote in the second round of voting.
  9. ^ Shan's extra vote advantage carried over into the revote, allowing her to cast two ballots once more.
  10. ^ This player played the Shot in the Dark, and as a result, had to sacrifice that night's vote.

Reception

Critical reception

The season received a mixed response, with many praising the cast and their gameplay as well as the entertaining episodes and unpredictability of the season and Erika’s win, but criticizing the overabundance of twists and advantages as well as the overall edit and new format of the season. Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly ranked this season 21st out of 41.[48] Gordon Holmes of Xfinity called it a mid-level season, saying, "I think I'll remember this season as having an awesome diverse cast, that was somewhat overshadowed by the need to cram 20 pounds of advantages into a 10-pound bag."[49] Andy Dehnart of reality blurred praised the cast but was highly critical about the overabundance of twists and advantages.[50] Outlets including TVLine, Insider, and Screen Rant expressed similar criticisms regarding the number of twists in this season.[51][52][53] Harper Lambert of TheWrap was more critical of the cast due to a "near-total lack of conflict and striking personalities."[54] Riley McAtee of The Ringer was more positive about the season due to the fewer number of twists after the merge, saying that it was "against all odds, given the changes to the format–a pretty good season of Survivor."[55]

Viewing figures

United States

Canada

Canadian ratings include 7 day playback.

Notes

  1. ^ Survivor: China winner Todd Herzog was born in the United States but had Canadian citizenship through his mother.[3][4]

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