1 week Ago By TV Insider
[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 46 Episode 11, “My Messy, Sweet Little Friend.”] Survivor Season 46 has had one clear trend: immunity idols often go home with the week’s eliminated player. It happened with Tiffany last week and Hunter the week before that, and they’re not the only ones who took the risk of not protecting themselves to bitter results.
Every time an idol gets flushed out, one gets put back in the game, leading surviving players on idol hunts. The Survivor 46 cast has hunted for idols so often this season, but one of the wildest goose chases came in Episode 11 on May 8. Jeff Probst says that this season’s idol pattern made the production team “reevaluate” things.
The search for the idol was a long, fun sequence that involved most of the players. Kenzie was still reeling from having her blindside thunder stolen, Q and Charlie were looking for it to bolster their group alliance’s chances of success, and just about everyone (except Liz, who took a nap) wanted the beaded string for protection and a resume booster. They searched far and wide on the island, and Probst feels this fun sequence is an area in which production has improved recently.
They’ve gotten good at “showing the audience how difficult it is to find something in a jungle,” Probst said in the May 8 episode of Survivor ‘s On Fire podcast. While we only see some pieces of the hunt as viewers, Probst says that idol searches often happen “over a.
