![]() ![]() This was instituted in the wake of the protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, which spurned a reckoning over the checkered racial history at many American institutions, Survivor included. In November 2020, CBS announced it had mandated that all of its reality series-also including other legacy programs like The Amazing Race and Big Brother-feature casts that are 50% BIPOC, with greater representation required behind the scenes as well. By the time it returned, the entire social fabric of the show had transformed. If you look back at our early seasons, you may cringe-but that is who we were.”īefore the show shut down production during the pandemic, men had won six seasons in a row. This comes to mind as Probst tells me, 16 years later, “The show is of-the-moment every season. An openly gay man won the first season, watched by tens of millions of people race and sexuality have uneasily existed on the show’s margins ever since, most infamously in 2006’s season 13, which separated contestants in tribes-teams, essentially-by race and ethnicity. Survivor’s great appeal has long rested in its function as a social experiment-throwing 18-odd people in a remote location, from all walks of life, and forcing them to align and oppose, to connect and backstab, as they try to make it to the end and eliminate their competition.
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