One person who really got screwed by the "storyline" of the season

Eric from Edge of Extinction. Every single interview, his social media, literally everything the guy is super hilarious, sweet, and great! Literally every single interview I've seen post show with the contestants when asked about Eric they respond by saying "he was perfect." He was the leader of the opposing alliance of the "protagonists" of the season though so unless he acted villainous he wasn't going to get any meaningful content. So therefore all he ever got was filler confessionals, he must hold the record for number of filler confessionals in a season. They didn't want you to get attached to him at all in a likeable way because he was in the "antagonist" alliance of that season.

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I think this also shows to the fact that the edit is a lot more "accurate" than people think in terms of they can only show what a person did out there. In Eric's case, he quite literally could not be edited as a villain (even though I'm sure they'd be very glad to have done that) because nothing he did out there was remotely villainous.