11/1 - Survivor 45 Show Discussion

It may have taken five seasons, but this week's Tribal Council on Survivor finally played out exactly as Jeff Probst had dreamed it.

As part of a bevy of new twists and changes implemented back in 2021 with the first post-Covid Survivor season (Survivor 41), the show introduced a new wrinkle called the Shot in the Dark. The Shot in the Dark consisted of a cube that each player was given at the beginning of the game, and if a contestant ever felt they were in danger of being voted out at Tribal Council, they could sacrifice their own vote and give up the cube for a 1-in-6 chance at safety via a bag of scrolls, one of which read "Safe" while the others all read "Not Safe."

In the four seasons since, eight different players (Sydney, Zach, Mayra, Swati, Tori, Sami, Matthew, and Claire) all pulled the Not Safe scroll, while the only person who ever pulled Safe (Jami) didn't need it since no votes were even put on her. The Shot in the Dark had never actually saved a player who would have otherwise been voted out. But all that changed on this week's episode of Survivor 45 when Kaleb Gebrewold was saved from a unanimous vote when his 1-in-6 shot paid off. That gave Kaleb immunity from the vote, and J Maya was then unanimously ousted in a revote.