Millennials Vs Gen X Episode 11: Licence To Will

Carrying on the legacy

Hannah is feeling guilty that Jessica took the fall for her, as David laments wasting his idol. Zeke wants his group of five to stay loyal and is hoping to crush David's dream next. That villain edit is escalating. Ken picks up his new legacy advantage, hoping he can reap the rewards of it.

Show me love

Jeff springs a surprise on everyone at the next challenge when he decides to bring out loved ones...which makes Adam instantly cry. We see Sunday's husband, Bret's dad, Jay's sister, Hannah's mom. As Adam hugs his brother, he tells everyone he's not gonna use his advantage on this. Smart move. David's dad, Ken's brother, Will's mom and Zeke's very enthusiastic dad round out the guests. The challenge sees them attached on a rope and running through an obstacle course, starting in the water. Sunday is out of it very quickly, with Will also struggling. Ken leads until the digging part but gets stuck in his hole. Jay takes a lead in the final section as Adam gets even more stuck than Ken. Zeke makes a spirited attempt to catch up, but Jay wins reward. Getting to choose who joins him, he first takes Will and Sunday, but also takes Adam, as he was impressed that he didn't try to steal this.

Adam's brother Evan fills him in on how their mom's treatment is going. The pair then approach Jay to say thank you for picking them, and Adam decides to give him the advantage as a token of appreciation, Is that a strategic move or a personal move, or some combo of both?

Ready to join the big boys

When David points out to Will that the rest of his alliance is having an early morning meeting without him, Will seizes the opportunity to make a move. His plan is to take out Zeke, the biggest threat to win, in the hope that it'll finally get him some respect around here. This is three days after drawing a rock for him, let's not forget.

Don't let it slip through your fingers

The immunity challenge is to press their two handles against a metal bar to keep it up...if it drops, they're out. David is out immediately. Hannah, Will and Bret don't last long either. Once Zeke is gone, David starts celebrating. The last three are Ken, Jay and Adam. All three start to slip slightly, with Ken going first and Jay hanging on by a thread. Adam beats Jay to win immunity, checking another thing off the superfan's bucket list.

Looking for authenticity

David has faith that Will is going to follow through with the plan to vote out Zeke. But Zeke's side sense that David is a little too calm, and wonder what he has up his sleeve. They decide to switch the vote to Ken just in case he has another idol. Will goes for a walk with Ken to reassure him about the vote, and lets him know they're writing his name now. Ken then takes this information back to Jay, which blows up Will's spot and leaves him rightfully furious. As Will's alliance try to reel him back in, Adam and Hannah wonder if Ken has just blown it for them.

At tribal council, it's out in the open that Will is the swing vote, and he starts by denying Sunday's accusation that he was easily swayed. Will gets drunk with power and says that he's tired of being treated like a high schooler, feeling only Jay treats him like an adult. David makes the point that Will can put something on his resume by siding with them and making a move. Bret says the other side will just vote him out first chance they get. As the sides go back and forth debating their case, Jay gets the final word in and just tells him to go with his gut.

After the votes are cast, Adam pulls his idol out of his crotch and decides to use on Hannah. This effectively seals Zeke's fate, but it turns out Will voted for him anyway. Damn Adam, way to steal that thunder. In his final words, Zeke gives credit to the level of gameplay this season for making him play so hard. I'll bet there's a few more twists and turns left as well.

STAR OF THE WEEK: ADAM KLEIN

Getting to see his family and winning immunity in one episode? That must've been huge for Adam and he seems to be course correcting his earlier mistakes. He played an idol unnecessarily, but better safe than sorry, and his best move was perhaps giving away the advantage anyway.

Millennials Vs Gen X Episode 10: Trust Clusterfuck

Jay shows everyone where the rest of the food is as an act of good faith, but Adam is still really mad at him and can taste him in his mouth (ew). Chris has another target in mind: Jessica, and begins counting the votes he needs to make it happen.

Jay has an idol, pass it on

Hannah and Ken flirt a little bit, since Hannah seems to think she has a shot. Will is also trying to build a relationship with Zeke, so tells him about Jay's idol. But that information quickly spreads and through a massive game of telephone, and soon David, Chris, Hannah, Bret and Ken all know too. Zeke and Chris come up with a plan to make Jay think he is going so that he plays the idol, but then really vote out Jessica.

The reward challenge sees two teams needing to pull themselves through the water on boat with a rope, then get keys and use them to unlock blocks, which then need to be stacked on top of eachother until there are no repeating colors. One person has to sit out and David is happy to volunteer since he sucks at swimming. But the others give him encouragement to play, which makes him emotional. The two teams are Ken, Jessica, Chris, David and Will vs Bret, Zeke, Sunday, Hannah and Adam with Jay sitting out. Orange get to the platform first, obviously not hindered by David too much. Ken and Hannah lead the key-grabbing. Adam throws his key. The blocks all get unlocked and it's David and Chris doing the puzzle against Adam and Zeke. Purple team pull it out, and David feels the guilt.

The reward is to sit on a boat for pizza and beer. It's slightly awkward with camp so close, but Bret doesn't care. Then they get letters from home, which affects Adam the most. Ken and David talk back at camp, and they think Chris needs to go.

Take the plunge

You can do it

The immunity challenge is to keep a statue on a beam using a stick. Whoever's statue is the last to drop, wins immunity. Ken has a problem from the start when ants start crawling over him. Hannah is first out, but Ken is next. Then nobody drops for a while until Sunday, Chris, Will, Jay and Bret all go out in a row. Jessica looks steady, but then she goes, leaving it to Zeke and David. David holds on to pull off one of the most unlikely immunity victories ever.

In the crosshairs

After the immunity challenge, Jay feels in trouble since nobody is talking to him. Zeke is being pulled in two directions, with Chris wanting him to go for Jessica and David wanting him to go for Chris. Jessica gets nervous when she hears Chris is coming for her, and is unsure if she trusts Zeke.

At tribal council, David brings up voting blocs to describe the lack of fixed alliances this season, whereas Hannah evolves it to "trust clusters". A lot of people express confidence in their plans, with Jay sarcastically agreeing, knowing he's a huge target. Jessica says she burned some trust with her move to get out Paul, and despite Chris claiming otherwise, he's still holding a grudge. Both sides think they've pulled off a blindside, but it's Jessica that ends up victorious when Chris goes home.

Surprised, but still alive

Well, Jay keeping the idol paid off for him again, but Jessica wants him to go next. Zeke has other plans and tells Bret and Sunday that even though he blindsided their ally, he wants to work with them to go after David. David drops a hint to Bret that Zeke is in the best spot to win the game, which Bret takes right to him, intensifying the split. Zeke talks to Adam and Hannah, trying to get them on board...but they still want Jay and Will out.

Slitheryns in action

The reward challenge is for the castaways to slither across the sand like a snake with their hands and feet restrained, and once all three teammates have done so, there's a snake puzzle to complete. Hannah, Jessica and Adam are one team, Will, Ken and Jay are another and Sunday, Zeke and Bret are the third. David gets a lucky break when he wins the draw to go on the reward automatically without even having to play. Everybody looks ridiculous playing the challenge, although Jessica finds it the hardest. Ken's team get to the puzzle first but it proves to be anyone's game. Zeke's team get it first and win reward.

The rainbow connection is formed

Bret and Zeke share a nice moment on reward where Bret reveals he is gay, and for once it leads to a meaningful conversation about the generation gap, since they both realize it's less of a big deal for younger people. Getting back to the game talk, both of them admit they're scared of David. Hannah decides to fill in David that Zeke is targeting him and he shrinks into the ground when he realizes he messed up. Hannah tries to calm him down and assure him that Zeke will tell her the vote, thus meaning they can play the idol correctly if needed.

Jay gets out of jail

For the immunity challenge, the contestants have to move a peg through a maze without looking to be able to unlock their station. Once out there's a slide puzzle to finish. We start off, and Jeff can't tell anybody whether they're ahead or behind...truly a nightmare scenario for him. Jay is first to free himself, as Adam and Jessica hover around it without quite getting it. Jay does the slide puzzle unchallenged and now he's safe. Fun challenge, but let's be real, whoever got out first was always gonna have a huge advantage.

David tells Ken and Jessica to vote for Zeke, and they agree to do that. Zeke has a conversation with Hannah, but her reluctance to give a straight answer makes him realize he can no longer trust her. So now he's telling his side to write down her name instead. David wonders if this is going to be a 5-5 deadlock, and what that means for the end result.

David tells Jeff he's expecting a crazy tribal council, as Adam and Hannah are already whispering. Bret snaps at David when he doesn't like his answers, leading to both Bret and Zeke openly mocking him. Wow, this is getting heated. Sunday encourages her side to stick to the plan, but when Hannah asks what that is, she says Ken. A fed-up Bret calls for the vote to start, and that it does.

It's up to the Survivor Gods now

As we wait to see what craziness is about to unfold, Taylor is attacked by a giant bug - damn, not even the jury are safe. David plays his idol and Adam encourages him to use it on Ken, which he does. Let's see if they're right. The vote ties between Zeke and Hannah...oof, that's a miss. On the revote, Zeke tries to get Jessica to flip, and she almost does, but stays strong and takes it to rocks. Will encourages everyone to just come to a consensus so that none of them go home, but they are unable to do so. The six vulnerable people nervously draw a rock, and it's Jessica who picks black. Understandably, she's devastated. Jeff even changes his words for her as she gets the snuff, saying "the game has spoken". As for her legacy advantage, that now moves on to Ken.

Wow...either half of that would've made a fantastic episode on its own, but doubling up makes it almost an overload. The tribe has been redivided, and now we see if team David can make a comeback.

STAR OF THE WEEK: ZEKE SMITH

Zeke was the big winner tonight across both votes, going from powerful swing vote, to victorious in the battle between him and David once his name came up. He hustles hard and has proved to be a cutthroat bastard, so let's see if he can justify being talked up as the biggest threat.

Millennials Vs Gen X Episode 9: Foodgate

A midnight snack

A pissed-off Jay is openly criticizing the Millennial flippers for being on the bottom of Gen X...hang on, weren't you trying to vote out a Millennial too? Adam and Taylor agree to keep eachother's secrets, almost as mutually-assured destruction. Taylor knows his dirt on Adam is better though. Hannah justifies the move to Jay by saying she wanted to play independently.

A little tangled

The reward challenge is an obstacle course that involves grabbing a key, unlocking a box, pulling it under a net, opening it and finishing with a bolo toss. The contestants are divided into Hannah's team (all Millennials except Jessica) and Chris' team (all Gen X except Taylor). Adam is slow at taking down the key, putting Chris' team ahead. Orange team then get stuck under the net. Taylor dominates the bolo toss and wins it for purple before the other team even get out of the net crawl. Hannah's feeling pretty dumb about her picks now.

The winning team enjoy the reward, with Bret getting drunk off margaritas. Sunday's mind is on the game and is hinting at making a move though. Back at camp, Adam is almost taunting Jay that he's on the bottom. Jay vents to Will, Hannah and Zeke that Adam is an asshole...and they all seem to agree. Yikes, he might be in even deeper water than he thinks.

Sunday shares her concerns with Bret that there's still friction between her and Jessica, ever since she wrote her name down. Wanting to strike first, Sunday approaches Jay about working together, and now he has new hope.

Watching from the sidelines

The immunity challenge is to keep a ball balanced on top of an arch. Before they get started, Jeff offers them the option to sit out for food, which Will and Zeke both take. Big risk for Will! Hannah and Bret are soon out, with Bret regretting his choice to not take the food. Jessica, David, Sunday and Chris don't survive the transition to the lower foothold. Once Adam and Jay drop, it's down to Taylor and Ken. Will Taylor's extra energy from his secret stash help him? Obviously not, because Ken wins.

Hammering out the details

David organizes a split vote between Taylor and Jay. If Will was trying to look like less of a threat, it worked! Sunday tells Jay the move is off, and now he only has his idol to fall back on. Taylor and Jay decide to share the rest of the food, and Taylor lets Jay know about the ammo he has on Adam. He's got nothing to lose, so he might as well use it, right?

He might be going down, but he's taking his opponent with him

At tribal council, Jay and Adam are bitching almost immediately when Adam points out Jay is far from the first to get blindsided. Taylor full-on throws Adam under the bus by confessing to hiding food and saying Adam helped him, before also forcing him to reveal his advantage. Adam denies eating the food and finds Jay's attacks even more hypocritical when Jay admits he did eat some. The rest of the tribe awkwardly try to process all this info, as David hints it could be the nail in the coffin for one of them.

Well, no idol is played after the vote, which turns out to be a dangerous move for Jay when he picks up several votes. But Taylor gets the majority, and is out...can't imagine many people will be sad to see him go. So, how mad are people gonna be at Adam, and can he dig himself out of this hole? Guess we'll see.

STAR OF THE WEEK: ADAM KLEIN

This wasn't a perfect week for Adam by any means, but I'm giving it to him anyway as he faced a huge onslaught and weathered the storm. There might be some damage control for him left to do, but if all else fails, he still has an idol.

Millennials Vs Gen X Episode 8: Instant Gratification

Yay, we get to leave this hellhole!

We pick up on Ikabula, where Hannah is hoping for some revenge in the aftermath of Michaela's blindside. They see a boat pull up and are surprisingly unfazed, but the celebrations start once they read the note that tells them to start packing for the merge. Bret is stoked that he went from being on the verge of voted out to having brand new life in the game, and is still unsure if he's going to stay with Jay or see what Chris has going. Adam is also excited for the merge, since the gameplay standard rises.

The merge brings together new people, but also reunites old bonds. Chris and Bret touch base and worry about the Millennials being closer than they expected. Zeke, Adam and Hannah are also back together and now Zeke is worried about Jay being a power player. I knew this would happen! Should've kept Michaela as a shield, bro.

The Jay charm doesn't sway Zeke

Know who your friends are

Since they have a new tribe, Adam decides to look around to see if he can find a new idol. He finds something tucked away in treemail at least - an advantage that gives him the ability to steal somebody's reward. That's a pretty crappy advantage. At night, Taylor decides to steal some food and put it in a jar, and is caught by Bret. Adam slinks off to talk with him privately about voting out Will, since that would help him get Jay back. Adam wants to make an ally of Taylor and even tells him about his advantage. Taylor is not interested in that though and still has it out for Adam for voting out Figgy.

News of Taylor's hoarding is making it around camp, and Bret is pushing to vote him out next. Taylor lets Jay know that Adam is going after Will, which makes Jay realize he needs to go after him. Luckily Zeke hears it, and is able to form a counter plan.

He sure schooled them

The immunity challenge is to hold both hands (yep, both) in the air, fastened to a bar. If the bar drops, a bucket of water gets tipped on you. Sunday is out first, then Chris and Bret shortly after. Jay and Zeke also drop...well, it feels like anyone can win this. Hannah puts in an impressive effort but she goes out as well, and David somehow makes it to the last four. With Adam gone, Jessica and Will are the last two, and both of them hang in there for a while. The spectators notice Jessica struggling first, and she does indeed give way to give Will the win. A hard-fought victory that makes both of them overcome with emotion.

When even Hannah is telling you to calm down...

Will is deadset on taking Adam out, even though Michelle thinks it would be smarter to do some Gen X'ers first. Zeke fills in Adam that his name is out there, but promises to rally a majority that can get him to stay. But David and Ken can't agree on who to vote out either, with Ken wanting Taylor and David wanting Michelle. Then David and Hannah get a little nervous when they see Adam going back to Taylor. What are you doing, dude?

It's not long into tribal council before David and Bret decide to call out Taylor for stealing food, but Taylor's defence is that it was a "medical emergency". Taylor clearly doesn't seem worried about getting voted out, but Adam knows better, and gets even more nervous when Taylor looks at him whilst answering a question about the target.

The big question after the vote is whether Adam will play the idol or not, and he decides to chance it. He starts getting tense when he sees 4 votes for himself and 4 votes for Michelle, but the rest of the votes send the missionary out. I thought she was playing an underrated UTR game, but maybe it was too good.

Well, Taylor's revenge is gonna have to wait, as Will and Jay realize they're not the kingpins any more. They've got to do some work to re-draw the lines, but with 12 people still in the game and an idol on their hands, there's plenty of time for that to happen.

STAR OF THE WEEK: HANNAH SHAPIRO

I'm giving it to Hannah this week because she benefitted the most from the merge, getting back into the majority and getting one over on the people who blindsided her. She also did well to reign in Adam and managed to finally make it though a tribal council without hyperventilating.

Millennials Vs Gen X Episode 7: When Winners Lose

Adam has a lot of explaining to do following tribal council, and fully admits to Taylor he screwed him over. Taylor knows he's in a bad spot and plans to "destroy" Adam when he gets the chance. David feels safe on his tribe, but wants to build his relationship with Zeke a bit more, who he already trusts more than Chris. He decides to tell Zeke about his idol, saying nobody else knows about it. Risky move!

Bad poker face

Despite preaching Millennial loyalty at the last challenge, Michaela smiles at seeing Figgy gone, and gives her a "bye Felicia". The reward challenge is to race from the water to retrieve balls, then throw the balls through a hoop, take them out of a net, and get them on top of a beam. Zeke, Jay and Adam are the ones tasked to unwrap the balls. Zeke struggles so David takes over, but he's not much better. Jay, Ken and Chris do the shooting but it's Zeke and Michelle getting the balls out of the net that really makes the difference. Chris is a good thrower and ends up winning the challenge for Vanua. Ikabula finally get their last ball, and Michaela tries to make up time against Ken. Michaela pulls out another great performance, and gets them second place.

David wants to leave a 5-star Yelp review

Vanua get a chef in camp for their reward, and the guys on the tribe all scarf down the food as fast as they can. Michelle just shakes her head in disapproval. She's worried that as the only girl left on the tribe, she's the obvious next boot. Meanwhile, we see Taylor pledging his loyalty to Jessica and Ken, who wonder if he's a better option to go with than the more overtly strategic Adam.

Bret is telling his tribemates that he's a funeral director...but Hannah isn't buying it, and is pretty sure he's a cop. Jay agrees, and because of that, it's looking like Bret's game is gonna be six feet under if they ever lose a challenge.

You'd think this would be the easy part

The immunity challenge is to throw coconuts into a basket until it releases numbers that have to be put into a combination lock. Then we finish with some target practice. Takali are first to get their basket down and Adam cracks the combination in two tries. Taylor is first up on the slingshot, but switches out for Ken. Bret, Michaela and Jay all take turns on the slingshot but nobody can seem to get it. Michelle gets stuck at the combination lock for a long time, but once they get Chris on the sling shot, he's able to overtake Ikabula. Takali win the challenge thanks to Ken, and Vanua eke out a second place by one target. Ikabula taste defeat for the first time.

Seashell strategy

Ikabula sit in silence back at camp. Bret and Sunday know it will be one of them and they're forced to vote for eachother. Michaela uses rocks to demonstrate to their group that it doesn't matter who they vote out since the Millennials have the numbers. But now Jay starts talking to Will about potentially getting Michaela out instead, and not telling Hannah, since they both think she's super smart. This would be a huge move, if it goes through!

At tribal council, Jeff asks Michaela if the other tribes both having flips means this one will too, but she seems to think her tribe is trustworthy. She says that everybody likes eachother and that they could've gone far together if it wasn't for that darned slingshot. Sunday says she's obviously on the outs though. Will and Jay both say the tribe will be stronger after the vote.

Ice cold

Jeff starts by reading the Bret votes, and Michaela is then surprised by seeing her name. By the third vote, she turns around to Jay and asks if he did it, to which he calmly replies "yeah". She yells at Jay, grabs her torch, gets snuffed, goes back for her shoes to yell at Jay some more, and then exits tribal council punching a bush. Hannah is freaking out, and I must admit, I was too.

Well, that was a hell of an exit and a hell of a blindside. I don't think Ikabula got that strong 5 they wanted, but it's really cranked this season up to another level at the perfect time.

STAR OF THE WEEK: JAY STARRETT

Jay was like a mafia boss this week, looking Michaela in the eye right after ordering her execution. It remains to be seen whether it was too early to make that move, but you can't say he isn't playing.