“I was like, ‘You want to hear what a nerd I am? This is what I used to participate in.’ And half of them were like, ‘What’s that?’”
“I was talking about edgic on a Zoom call with some new-school survivors,” she says. Last week, she schooled a group of more recent contestants on the way she watches the show. Before she became a New York City public defender, Orlins appeared on the ninth and 16th seasons of Survivor ( Vanuatu and Micronesia), and she’s still an active member of the Survivor veteran commentariat. But not all of her video chatting time is devoted to fundraising or advocating for criminal justice reform. Welcome to Survivor Week, a celebration of the show’s best moments and characters.Īs a candidate for Manhattan district attorney who can’t currently campaign in person, Eliza Orlins is logging a lot of Zoom hours. As Survivor: Winners at War comes to an end and the series’ 20th anniversary (20th!) is just weeks away, there’s no better time than now to honor the revolutionary reality TV competition.
