Board Thread:Season Rankings/@comment-24899664-20141222121159/@comment-27391152-20170305113206


 * steps out of grave* HELLO EVERYBODY!

So in chat today, I got into a somewhat heated (although friendly) discussion on the most recent season of Millennials vs. Gen X and whether or not it was a good season. I really enjoyed discussing it's pros and cons, and it ultimately inspired me to go through and rank every season of Survivor to ever air. So, without further ado, please enjoy my personal (and likely #contorverchele) ranking of EVERY SEASON OF SURVIVOR. EVER. (in the US)

Disclaimer: As a general rule, I tend to favour entertainment over strategy so even if a season is filled with a bunch of flipping and blindsides, doesn't necessarily make it amazing.

#33 - Survivor: Redemption Island The Life of Boston Rob

Is Rob Mariano a good player? Heck yeah! He's certainly overrated in some regards but I think he's a phenomenal player of the game and just as good of a character. So why do I have the season he won so low? Simple. HE WON THE SECOND HE STEPPED ON THE ISLAND. If you couldn't tell he won from the merge episode, then you must not have been paying attention (much like his competitors).

After Russell cried his way of Redemption Island, the show became nothing but centered around Rob parading his sheep to the slaughter house and Phillip yelling at everyone in his pink panties. There were ZERO interesting characters, ZERO interesting gameplay and ZERO people that challenged Boston Rob until it was too late. The first three episodes, I will admit, were dynamite, but after that it was an absolute BORE to watch and I feel it has truly earned its spot at the bottom of the list.

Speaking of a boring season with a winner who had no competition...

#32- Survivor: Thailand

You know, I would go on and on about how terrible this season is, but to be perfectly honest, I don't think I remember it well enough to tell you what even happened. Shii-Ann had some great confessionals and was a HILARIOUS character but after she left (by getting absolutely FUCKED over by the producers might I add), this season was yet another boring, drawn-out pagonging with an extremely unlikeable winner, Brian Heidik, leading the way to an obvious win.

The only reason this season is higher than Redemption Island is because it at least had SOME good moments. Ghandia and Ted's whatever you want to call it was actually HILARIOUS (I am 150 to 200 percent have with the wife that I have) and Ghandia's crazy screech was iconic. But other than that, this season was simply slow, boring and had nobody to root for when it came down to it.

#31- Survivor: BOREneo

Tozza? Surely not! You put Borneo, the ORIGINAL season, at number 31?! No, SURELY there must be some kind of mistake, right?

Yes, I know that this picks going to seem exceptionally low, maybe even for those of you who don't think it's as great as it's meant to be, but in my perfectly honest opinion there is not much to like about this season. It literally gave birth to the term "pagoinging" beyond the extremely simplistic gameplay, I wasn't even all that invested with the characters. I do think the editors did a good job of giving everyone a storyline, but I