Survivor is genuinely back! I said it last week, and I will say it again: Survivor 51 is the breath of fresh air we desperately needed after 10 seasons of repetitive and robotic game design. With two tribes, an engaging cast not constantly constrained by useless gimmicks, and even a sassy Jeff Probst appearing from time to time, this season is the gift that keeps on giving (at least for now, since we’re going back to three tribes soon).
On episode 3, we saw another roller coaster of an episode: someone quit after throwing a tantrum, a nail-biting challenge, questionable gameplay, and a blindside that I’m guessing threw a wrench in several people’s pre-season drafts, as maybe no one expected for Patt Cannaday to be leaving the game this soon.
Patt was part of the Toka tribe, where she joined the Toka Five alliance alongside Devin Way, Brady Booker, Jelly Loblack, and Matt Pinsky. These five players seemed to hold the power to decide who left next; however, several factors helped dismantle their plans.
Starting with Lewis Kelly returning from Exile, Carter Krull’s mutiny from Savu to Toka, and Thien An and Danny Kilby uniting the other Toka members, plus the swing votes, all against the Toka Five. In the end, a 6-5 vote between Patt and Kilby sent Patt out of the game and to 18th place.
Here are the five most notable tidbits Patt shared about her Survivor 51 game. For starters, Patt revealed in her interview for The Exclusive with Sharon Tharpe that she never considered playing her Shot in the Dark because there was a 60-40 chance the vote would be between Kilby and Matt, not her.
Patt also disclosed that cracks had formed within the Toka Five, mainly because Brady kept telling Toka outsiders about their alliance. Patt expressed, ‘’Brady told a bunch of people about the Five, and to everyone on the outside, of course, they were like, ‘Well, that’s a tight-knit five-person alliance in a tribe of 11,’ which is crazy. Not crazy at the time we did it, but crazy to tell people when there’s 11 people on the tribe.”
In addition, in her interview with TV Insider, Patt attributed her blindside to Thien An Nguyen and said she orchestrated the move. As to whether she thought Brady not mentioning her name was a betrayal, Patt said she didn’t see it that way, but rather as a miscalculation on Brady’s part, since he genuinely thought Thien An didn’t have the power to pull off the move.
Lastly, in her Entertainment Weekly interview with Dalton Ross, she was asked about what happened to her now-iconic missing pants, which led to her being coined “Pantless Patt.” Patt said she had to take her pants off during the marooning because they weren’t swim pants, but they got lost in the scramble and were never seen again.
As for Rob Antonson’s quit, he has kept saying in interviews and on social media that he was, according to him, medically evacuated, contrary to the evidence in the episode itself, which showed it was, in fact, a quit. In a post on Rob’s Instagram account, where he called people ‘soft’ for their response to his quit, Survivor 48 player Shauhin Davari called Rob out by writing, “Calling people soft while quitting over a paper cut is top tier trolling.”
Thinking he had won the argument and with all the sophistication of a playground comeback, Rob replied, “You triggered?’’
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