The American version of the survival reality show, Survivor is in the middle of airing its forty-fifth season and it still has not lost the thrill and excitement it had during its early seasons. The show is a successful franchise with spinoffs and international versions being put on constantly.
Created by Charlie Parsons, the series has been airing since the year 2000 and is presently being hosted by Jeff Probst. The format of the show is simple to understand, the producers of the show find participants willing to abandon their lives who happen to be passionate about living on isolated islands.
The challenge is to fend for themselves, get food, and win challenges and contests held over different episodes which usually include a test for the contestants’ physical capabilities like swimming or running around, and their endurance levels which gets them immunity, saving them from getting eliminated from the show.
Whoever manages to bear the isolation to the end eventually gets to win the show and take home the winning title along with $1,000,000. The season airing right now was filmed on the Mamanuca Islands and is the thirteenth one to be filmed there.
We started the series off with a total of eighteen cast mates divided into three tribes all set to take over the islands. The producers of the show announced the return of Bruce Perreault, a former contestant who had been on the show in the forty-fourth but had to drop out due to some medical emergency.
Recap
In the last episode, we saw two participants, Austin and Dee get even closer while Emily announced to the group that she had convinced Bruce, who had been voted out, not to play his his idol, thus increasing her threat level among them.
The next challenge given to the tribemates was to select just one member to send on a solo journey and that member turned out to be Emily. She was given a chance to get immunity from getting voted out if she could solve the puzzle from the first day, but she decided to turn the offer down, thus protecting her vote.
Back at the camp, Julie revealed that she had been holding onto Austin’s idol which Drew suggested that she make a big move with that later. The immunity challenge had a task where the participants were required to untangle a rope from one point to carry it to a sandbag throwing station, which they had to use to knock over a letter block to spell a word.
Whichever team managed to spell the word first and correctly would get the immunity along with a barbeque reward. The task was won by Drew who shared the rewards further with Jake and Austin. After a lot of conversations, increased tensions between Austin and Dee, and strategic placement of votes, it was Julie who ended up with six votes against her.
But she was quick to play Austin’s idol she had been holding on to which nullified all of the votes against her but ended up sending Emily Flippen to be voted out of the show.
Release Date & Where to Watch
The twelfth episode of this survival show is all set for release on Wednesday, December 13th, 2023. The episodes usually run for no longer than an hour and will follow a weekly schedule of release. The episode will air at 8:00 PM (EST), though we have also mentioned other time zones for you to check out below.
- Canada: 8:00 PM, Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
- United Kingdom: 1:00 AM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- Philippines: 9:00 AM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- Australia: 10:30 AM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- India: 6:30 PM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
While the total number of episodes for this season has still not been announced, you should be able to catch the twelfth episode along with the upcoming episodes on the release time and date mentioned above on CBS. The episode will also be available on FuboTV, Prime Videos, and Paramount+, too.
