Getting hooked to a TV show

Survivor is a popular American TV show that came to Serbia in 2008/2009. At the time I really loved shows of that type, like Ninja warriors, Wipeout, Fort Boyard and similar. These are shows where individuals or teams compete in interesting sport and mind games. Even though Survivor classifies as a reality TV show, it was far different from all other reality TV shows here. But at the time even others weren't so bad like they are now, full of fights, explicitly, curses, immorality, vulgarity and uncultured people. Survivor had a very different concept and all drama was in sport spirit and to win.

In survivor there are two tribes taken to some exotic seaside place (like the Philippines, Panama,...) without basically anything to help them live there, and they compete in teams or as individuals presenting teams for rewards like rice (oh yeah, this is a big reward for them), fire, fish,... or immunity, so they don't have to expel one of their teammates. With time things changes and two tribes becomes one, or they mix... it depends on season and rules at the time. I am competitive, and I like sports, and this is why I like this type of show, where the main thing is competing and surviving in the wild and not drama. It's also different from other reality TV shows because we see one episode per day and not live streams all day with cameras all around them. They do show some fights, but being apart from family and friends and in such hard conditions, while competing, is hard enough, so it's expected not everyone will get along and be happy all time, but focus is not on drama but games.

After 4 seasons, Survivor stopped broadcasting here and making new seasons. Now it's back after 10 years, it's back with a new season. After so long, I am watching something on TV live (not live like it's broadcasting at real time, but waiting for each episode day by day), and not just streaming shows. I have to say I stared to enjoy it a lot, and even have little ritual and make rice pudding to enjoy the show. It's not the best show in the world, but as someone who like sports I like to watch people compete, specially when it requires a lot of virtues, like good physical fitness, good handling in the wild, good communication, and good mental strength (because you are away from everyone beside teammates and competes, in the wild, with no communication to anyone else).

Previous seasons had unknown people from the Balkans or VIPs also mixed from few countries, but this time they decided to split teams to Serbia and Croatia, even though I am guessing later on they will be all mixed anyway. I have favorites from both teams, and usually I support the one that is losing, so it becomes more interesting :D, But in general, for now, I have to cheer for red team :D

All in all, this is something that I am currently watching at night before bed, and I have to say I am getting hooked and having some favorites already. I am interested to see will my prediction be good, or someone completely else wins it, because it is still early to say, and in this type of shows it's hard to tell, you never know.

Thanks for reading my post, good night :)

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