
The traitors’ job should get more challenging as the game progresses because there are fewer places to hide. We love seeing it, which is why Cirie better win this whole damn prize pot. The empathy! The camaraderie! Two smart, Black women bonding over a stupid game. Shelbe mentions how much she misses her daughter, and Cirie tells her about when she played Survivor the first time her child was 5 and how much she missed them. Cirie comes over and tells her not to separate herself from the group. There is a great moment when Shelbe, feeling isolated from everyone, is sitting on her own, feeling sad. Everyone loves her, everyone trusts her, and the only person to have her name in their mouth (Brandi) was eliminated early on. version would never!), he says in an exit interview that Cirie is teaching future traitors how to play the game. When she places her slate with Cody’s name in its tiny easel (really, we couldn’t find a more high-tech solution?), she says, “We’ve been getting it wrong, and sometimes you need your team to steer you in the right direction.” She is telling Cody, “They’re all voting for you, and I have to if I want to keep playing the most masterful game that reality television has ever seen.”Īfter Cody’s teary elimination, where all the players hug him on the way out (the U.K. What is so genius about Cirie is that twice she tells Cody in code why she is voting for him. Maybe it was the editing between the last episode and this episode, but it looks like Cirie was the one who finally turned on him, and that sealed Cody’s vote.

The faithfuls have finally found a traitor, and it was our dearly departed Cody.
