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But according to Reynold, it’s a shame because “he was playing to beat the favorites”, but now with he has this “pocketful of kryptonite” he’ll play the idol tonight and be done with it. So good work guys. Going into the merge there won’t be an idol party.

Shamar sticks the knife in by claiming that Reynold deserves an Academy Award! Not for his “I’m going to play the idol” speech, that’s for sure. Shamar says the pretty alliance have tried to villainize him from Day 1 - which is a pretty brave card from the guy whose strategy is “antagonize everyone while laying down in the shelter” - but the people who “know his heart” will vote the right way.

Anyway, Probst asks Sherri if anything has changed, so she announces she will be voting the way she is supposed to be voting, and that’s that. Time to vote!

Eddie votes for Shamar, with a big “Thank you for serving in our military. I appreciate it. Out here, not so much.” Sherri is voting for Allie like she promised, because “four is way too powerful."

Probst goes to “tally” the votes, but does anyone have a hidden immunity idol they would like to play tonight? Nope. Reynold puts it in his pocket. The first four votes are for Shamar. And the next four are all for Allie. So are the next two, and Allie has to bring Probst her torch. He snuffs it and then tells the remaining “fans” to “get it together”.

Well, that was some expectedly poor Survivor play from the pretty alliance. Not only did Reyold announce that Shamar was the obvious boot before making sure he had the votes, but we didn’t really see them do anything to get them afterwards. Laura’s “I thought we were voting as a family” comment suggests that everyone was all “Yeah, I’m voting Shamar. Everyone is!”. It was well-engineered by Sherri, but the foursome shouldn’t have been so trusting that the other six would vote for the loud annoying guy over the tight alliance that doesn't want them.

I’m curious why Mike and Matt – who seemed particularly down with getting rid of Shamar – decided to stick with the normals. I expect they thought those four would stick closer together, while there’d be more division between Sherri, Shamar, Julia and Laura that Mike and Matt (who am I kidding? Mike) could exploit. I suppose too, Mike thought Matt might be in more with Eddie and Reynold than Mike.

Next time on Survivor, Shamar shouts at everyone and the Gollum side of Brandon’s personality is saying “I’ll pee in the rice, I’ll pee in the beans, I want to burn the shelter down” while making the scary eyes. But we’ll probably end up seeing more of the Sméagol side. “Mister Phillip trusts us! We’re middle-management!”

Allie’s post-boot interview is about how frustrated she is because she has wanted to be on the show since she was 11. She says she is “mortified” and mimes shooting herself in the head. Can’t say I blame her, because being voted out because you’re the least obvious one in your alliance must be a downer. But the way to avoid that is “don’t join an alliance that cannot count beyond four." And the good news is that there are now just two interchangeable blondes, and I can tell them apart.

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