Millennials vs. Gen X

Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X · Season 33

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X unfolded, week by week.

  1. 1“May the Best Generation Win”Sep 21, 2016Twenty players are split by age into the Millennials (Vanua) and Gen X (Takali) for a generational showdown. Gen X stumbles out of the gate, bogged down in indecision, and Rachel Ako is voted out first, 5-3-1-1, in a scattered, disorganized Takali vote.
  2. 2“Love Goggles”Sep 28, 2016A tropical cyclone slams the island, forcing the castaways to ride out the storm in shelter, and it rattles both camps. When the weather clears, the Millennials head to Tribal, where a bloc built around the Figgy-and-Taylor showmance blindsides the well-connected Mari Takahashi, 7-3.
  3. 3“Your Job is Recon”Oct 5, 2016Over on Gen X, the anxious screenwriter David Wright is quietly finding his footing, and the abrasive Paul Wachter, who'd appointed himself leader, makes the mistake of underestimating him. Paul is voted out 6-3.
  4. 4“Who's the Sucker at the Table?”Oct 12, 2016David keeps growing into a real strategist, and Gen X trims another. Lucy Huang, who'd been trying to run the tribe her own way, is voted out 5-2-1 as David's influence quietly spreads.
  5. 5“Idol Search Party”Oct 19, 2016A swap scatters the generations into three tribes, and the reshuffle leaves CeCe Taylor short on numbers wherever she lands. She's voted out 4-1 as the new lines take shape.
  6. 6“The Truth Works Well”Oct 26, 2016The showmance that had been steering the Millennials finally costs someone. Figgy, half of the season's 'Figtails' romance, is voted out 3-2 once the bloom comes off the alliance.
  7. 7“I Will Destroy You”Nov 2, 2016In a stunner, the strong, fiery Michaela Bradshaw, who looked like a lock to reach the merge, is blindsided 4-2, one of the last pre-merge cuts and a move that shocks the players.
  8. 8“I'm the Kingpin”Nov 9, 2016The tribes merge into Vinaka at thirteen, and the first big merge vote is a blindside: Michelle Schubert, a savvy Millennial quietly building bridges, is voted out 9-4 as the first member of the jury.
  9. 9“Still Throwin' Punches”Nov 16, 2016Taylor Stocker, the other half of the old showmance, makes a desperate play, even raiding the camp's food stash to fuel a bluff, but it backfires. Taylor is voted out 7-4-1 to the jury.
  10. 10“Million Dollar Gamble”Nov 23, 2016A wild night delivers one of the rarest moments in the game. First Chris Hammons, the Gen X attorney anchoring his bloc, is voted out 7-4. Then a second vote deadlocks, the revote can't break it either, and the game goes to a rock draw, where Jessica Lewis draws the odd rock and is eliminated, a brutal exit decided by pure chance.
  11. 11“About to Have a Rumble”Nov 30, 2016The season's central rivalry comes to a head as David Wright finally gets the better of Zeke Smith, his strategic equal. Zeke is blindsided 5-4, voted out to the jury in the move that cements David as a real force.
  12. 12“Slayed the Survivor Dragon”Dec 7, 2016A double-elimination night. Will Wahl, the eighteen-year-old who'd pulled off a bold move of his own earlier in the merge, is voted out 6-2, and then Sunday Burquest follows, voted out 4-2-1, both sent to the jury as the alliances reshuffle one last time.
  13. 13“I'm Going for a Million Bucks”FinaleDec 14, 2016Finale night, and the field falls fast: Jay Starrett, the charming, scrappy Millennial, is voted out 5-1; Bret LaBelle, the Gen X cop, goes 3-2; and finally David Wright, the anxious underdog turned master strategist, is cut 3-1 just short of the end. That leaves Adam Klein, Hannah Shapiro, and Ken McNickle at Final Tribal. The jury rewards Adam, a lifelong superfan who'd quietly played a complete game while privately carrying the weight of his mother's terminal illness, in a clean 10-0-0 sweep. At the reunion, an emotional Probst reveals Adam's mother had passed away just after filming ended.