Survivor Season 42

It's time to crown the champion of “Survivor” season 42 on tonight's finale, May 25, at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS. The final episode is titled “It Comes Down to ...

Paramount+ offers a free 7-day trial to new subscribers. FuboTV has a free trial for new subscribers. After returning to camp, Omar celebrated his blindside of Drea and looked for his next target while Mike tried to put the target on Omar’s back.

'Survivor 42' finale: Who became the series' latest Sole Survivor and how did it all go down? Find out in our recap.

She then says she kept the season’s only secret, and pulls out the merge idol for all to see, which seems to impress the jury. Mike is, indeed, the target, and Romeo makes it official: Maryanne is in the Final 3, and Mike and Jonathan are battling it out in fire. From there, she reeled it in and was able to make more strategic plays like the one to boot Omar. The challenge begins, and Mike is first to get a flame. Jonathan and Lindsay both retrieve all of their bags, and are the first two to start the puzzle. I don’t love to pout, but this semi-recent change to Survivor irks me beyond belief.) The general consensus: Maryanne and Romeo do not want Mike sitting in the finals with them. He drops his second ball and becomes the first person out of this challenge. Lindsay then makes a heartfelt plea to Mike, who once said he’d love to see her get to the end. She rips the package open and it says she’ll have a “slight advantage” in the immunity challenge. Lindsay is the only person to crack the code: “Good fortune is tucked in the toes of the sleeping giant.” She treks all over the island until she finally figures out what the “toes” are and finds the game’s final goodie. The next morning, Mike tells Romeo they need Lindsay out, only to then tell Lindsay that he’d be willing to use his idol on her. Lindsay demands to know why she was left out of the vote, but since she voted for Jonathan, he wants no part of their “alliance” anymore.

Wait, did that just happen? Is this real? Did we seriously just etch the name Maryanne Oketch into the Survivor history books as the champion of season 42?

Look, if you are going to get shut out in a Survivor final Tribal Council, getting shut out with a statement like that after also winning the final immunity challenge is a pretty good way to get shut out. Of course, leave it to the enigma wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside a question mark that is Rocksroy to deliver the best line of the entire season: "Romeo's strength was the fact that he was weak." Thankfully, Romeo picked Jonathan to take on Mike, and it was the better call for viewers in terms of an epic match-up of the two best fire-starters on the island. The intrigue here was whether Romeo would put Maryanne or Jonathan against Mike. My guess is that Romeo probably had a sense he wasn't going to beat any of them at the end anyway, so that maybe took the pressure off of him blowing it with a bad decision. Individual post-merge competitions are a different thing all together, and when all was said and done, Jonathan won only two immunity necklaces, and he only had to beat one other person to win the second one thanks to the Do or Die twist. And at least Maryanne made it to her second ball in this Survivor classic in which players have to drop balls in chutes and catch them with the one hand that is not tied behind their back. First off, it didn't look half bad for a guy that failed arts and crafts, but I guess now that I think about it, it's not really the fake idol I want to talk about, but rather the jury's reaction to said fake idol. At this point I was screaming at the TV, and what I was screaming was… I've said before that the enjoyment of Survivor is often based on a feeling it evokes, and the feeling I got watching Maryanne was a lot of joy. Maryanne told us how she wanted Lindsay to find the advantage and win the challenge, and also talked about the possibility of making a second big move of blindsiding Jonathan to impress the jury. In the end, it came down to Mike and Lindsay, with Mike winning by a single piece while also scoring "Hoboken points" with a bloody knee. I don't quite understand why she was so mad at Jonathan for not bringing her in on the plan even as she had been trying to get rid of him forever, but we've seen a lot of that double-standard logic this season.

John Powell - GlobalTV.com The conclusion of Survivor 42 is tonight and this year we have a very contrasting group of finalists who for the most part.

The only reason Romeo is in the finals is because he poses no threat at all to the other players when it comes to delivering a resume to the jury. Not only is he a challenge threat but he has solid allies in Mike and Maryanne which may also carry him into the final tribal council even though his strategic game was a disappointment. He may have stumbled and bumbled a bit at the beginning of the game and was sometimes easily influenced by others but once Mike got his footing he was the one at the wheel and also the one making wide-ranging relationships with the majority of the other players.

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 42, Episode 13 finale, “It Comes Down to This.”] After 26 days and 13 episodes, ...

As for Romeo, Mike, and Maryanne, they look back on their game and look forward to the future. And he made it all the way to the end with pride. The first vote goes to Mike, the second two to Maryanne. The rest of the votes go to… And she says the merge made her realize her mistakes and changed everything. “Goliath” says the famous elimination line as Jeff snuffs out his flame, and then tells Mike, Romeo, and Maryanne it’s all love. As Romeo basks in his glory, Mike asks him to chat about the fire challenge. Maryanne is out next, and the mental exhaustion on her and Mike’s faces are clear. To begin, the players run over the net and make the round to their bags. Earlier in the finale, Mike implied he may use it for Lindsay in conversation with her, but he also tells Jonathan he’ll protect him. Through tears, he says, “My kids are gonna be proud.” Mike chooses Jonathan to join him in the food reward, and Jeff says no when he asks to bring one more. While Mike and Jonathan enjoy their meal, Maryanne, Lindsay, and Romeo talk about the offers Mike has made with his idol. Lindsay and Jonathan immediately get into it, with Lindsay telling Jonathan she feels betrayed because he didn’t tell her to vote for Omar. Meanwhile, Lindsay voted for Jonathan, and he calls her out for that.

When the season finale of “Survivor” kicked off, there were just five castaways standing: Jonathon Young, Mike Turner, Romeo Escobar, Maryanne Oketch and ...

I would play another season again with them right now,” said Probst in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Every one of them. “I loved every second of every day with this group. Spoiler Alert: The winner of the 42nd season of “Survivor” will be revealed by reading further.

In Survivor's season 42 finale, Lindsay Dolashewich, Romeo Escobar, Maryanne Oketch, Mike Turner and Jonathan Young competed for the title of Sole Survivor.

"I feel as if the clincher was when I whipped out that hidden immunity idol and then people were like, 'Oh my gosh! "I really could feel the momentum swinging," she continued. After revealing she had a secret immunity idol, Maryanne secured a vote of 7-1-0, beating out runners up Mike Turner and Romeo Escobar. Lindsay Dolashewich and Jonathan Young were also in the final five.

With seven votes, 24-year-old seminary student Maryanne Oketch was crowned the winner, beating out firefighter Mike Turner and pageant coach Romeo Escobar, who ...