Survivor: Edge of Extinction · Season 38

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Edge of Extinction unfolded, week by week.

1“It Smells Like Success”Feb 20, 2019Eighteen players land on the beaches, four of them battle-tested returnees, and Probst rolls out the season's big swing: the Edge of Extinction, a grim second island where anyone voted out can choose to suffer for a shot back in instead of going home. Manu loses the opener and walks into Tribal with nobody really running things yet. The vote lands on Reem Daly, the loud, no-filter heart of the tribe who'd grated on a few people early. Instead of grabbing her torch and leaving, she sails off to become the very first soul stranded on the Edge.
2“One of Us is Going to Win the War”Feb 27, 2019Manu can't buy a challenge win, and the losing tribe drags itself back to Tribal with a target to sort out. Keith Sowell, young and quiet, never built the bonds he needed and ends up flat on the bottom with no numbers to save him. He's voted out, and like Reem before him he picks the Edge over heading home. Up on the island, Reem has crowned herself den mother, meeting each new arrival with equal parts hugs and tough-love lectures.
3“Betrayals Are Going to Get Exposed”Mar 6, 2019Manu's losing streak turns camp into a pressure cooker, and the pre-Tribal scramble gets messy fast: lines drawn, trust gone, somebody bound to overplay. When the votes drop, it's Chris Underwood who catches the blindside, a confident athlete who'd talked a little too much game a little too early and made himself an easy threat to cut. He takes the twist and ships off to the Edge with barely any real Survivor under his belt.
4“I Need a Dance Partner”Mar 13, 2019Another Manu trip to Tribal, and the alliance does some reshuffling on the way in. Rick Devens, the fast-talking news anchor and camp favorite, ends up the odd man out of the new math and catches a quick blindside. Voted out, he refuses to sulk, marching off to the Edge and loudly promising this isn't the last anyone's seen of him. Reem, still holding court, welcomes him to her scrappy little kingdom.
5“It's Like the Worst Cocktail Party Ever”Mar 20, 2019For the first time all season, two tribes get hauled to Tribal on the same night, both staring down a rock draw if they deadlock, and the scrambling is frantic. Returnee Aubry Bracco goes first, blindsided out with a hidden idol and an extra-vote advantage still tucked away unused, a brutal misplay. Then Wendy Diaz, the soft-hearted chicken-saver, ties up her own vote and loses the revote. Both pick the Edge over home, and the island swells into a real crowd.
6“There's Always a Twist”Mar 27, 2019A tribe swap scrambles everyone into new groups and instantly redraws the lines. Joe Anglim, one of the returning comp beasts, knows a guy like him is in trouble the moment he can't win individual immunity, and the new majority is thinking the exact same thing. They move before he gets rolling and blindside Joe, who trudges off to the swelling Edge. Another big name gone before the game's even fully opened up.
7“I'm the Puppet Master”Apr 3, 2019It's merge time, and the Edge pays off for the first time: the island residents battle for one ticket back into the game, and Rick Devens powers through to win it, storming back in with a chip on his shoulder and a target already on him. The fresh merged tribe barely settles before the first big scramble. When it shakes out, Eric Hafemann is the odd man out of the numbers and gets voted off to the Edge. Devens, naturally, is working every angle the second he's back.
8“Y'all Making Me Crazy”Apr 10, 2019Merged and paranoid, the old Kama majority that looked rock-solid starts cracking under its own suspicion, and suddenly nobody's sure who's really with them. Julia Carter, sharp and sitting pretty just a week ago, watches the numbers quietly swing against her and never sees it coming. She's blindsided and shipped to the Edge, while Devens keeps stirring the pot, hunting idols and prying at every crack in the alliance.
9“Blood of a Blindside”Apr 17, 2019Another double-Tribal night, and the targets are the returnees still hanging around. At the first vote, David Wright gets caught in a plan that flips at the last second and is sent to the Edge. At the second, the Wardog cooks up a gutsy blindside on Kelley Wentworth, who heads off with a hidden idol still in her pocket, never seeing it land. With Kelley gone, all four returning players are out of the main game now, stewing together on the Edge.
10“Fasten Your Seatbelts”Apr 24, 2019The Wardog has been the loudest engine in the game all merge, running blindsides and barking orders, and a player that aggressive eventually becomes the problem everybody wants gone. The tribe decides his act has run its course and votes him off to the Edge, the schemer finally out-schemed. Devens, somehow, is still standing, real and fake idols swirling all around him.
11“Awkward”May 1, 2019Quietly, Ron Clark has turned into one of the slickest operators left, steering votes and pulling strings without ever drawing much heat. That kind of control is exactly what gets you got, and the rest of the tribe decides it's now or never. They blindside Ron to the Edge before he can lock the game down. Devens skates through another Tribal on the back of his immunity run and a bag of real and fake idols, the one guy nobody can solve.
12“Idol or Bust”May 8, 2019The idol paranoia hits a fever pitch, with Devens flashing fakes and real idols until nobody trusts a thing in anybody's hands and everyone's playing scared. Aurora McCreary, a fierce competitor who'd scrapped her way up from the bottom and deep into the game, ends up on the short side of the vote and joins the crowd on the Edge. Five are left standing now, and that island is packed with the people they sent there.
13“I See The Million Dollars”FinaleMay 15, 2019Finale night, and the Edge cashes in its final twist: the island residents race one last time for a way back, and Chris Underwood wins it, rejoining the game at five left after weeks away. He doesn't stop there. At the final four he wins immunity, then hands it up to take on Rick Devens at fire-making and beats him, sending the fan favorite to the jury. That leaves Chris at the end beside Gavin Whitson and Julie Rosenberg, and a jury packed with people he'd bonded with out on the Edge hands him the title 9-4-0. Chris becomes the first castaway ever to win after being voted out, with just 13 of the 39 days actually played.