Survivor: Season 42 Episode 12 Review

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The following contains spoilers for Episode 12 of Survivor Season 42.It feels like the season has only just begun, but somehow the game is already at Final 6. Perhaps it's a combination of the game's length being cut down by a few days, or just the accelerated pace of modern Survivor itself, but every season seems to pass by more quickly than the last. This penultimate episode of the season brings a shift in the tribe dynamic that has been long building, ending in a Tribal Council where one player finally gets to make their big mark on the game.

The episode begins with everyone discussing how well the previous Tribal went, because their plan to vote Drea out despite her Knowledge Is Power advantage succeeded. Lindsay in particular is happy because this means her amulet is the only one left, which makes it a full immunity idol. Mike reveals that he doesn't think that Omar, one of his close allies, will want to keep him around much longer because Mike's likeability in the game will be a threat in the end, and so he plans to vote Omar out at the next opportunity.

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The episode moves fairly quickly into a reward challenge that Omar manages to win (if only this could have been the Immunity Challenge, for his sake). He gets to choose the reward, either Sustenance (which would provide nourishing food like grilled chicken) or Decadence (which entails chocolate cake and cookies), and each reward comes with a different number of people he is allowed to bring with him. Omar ends up choosing Decadence because he can take more people with him and give more people opportunities to eat, and he asks Romeo, Maryanne, and Mike to come along with him.

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