Jerry Greenthorne

***Jerry*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Brazil

Anyone who’s watched Season 2 live can easily say that Jerry was probably one of the most compelling castaways we’ve had. From delusional theories, to constant paranoia. Watching Jerry was a blessing, and a curse at the same time.

Starting the game off on the Samba tribe, Jerry’s bright personality got him into the main majority alliance created by Kim. But as time went on and the Samba tribe continued to effortlessly win challenges, Brandon, Adam and Tae (the other alliance members) had noticed the unneeded strategizing by Kim and Jerry, worsening their relationships right off the bat. While Jerry attempted to make social connections outside the alliance with Winter, all he did was ruin the majority alliance’s plan by telling Winter that she seemed suspicious, Winter told Kim what Jerry said and that’s the first time where Jerry legitimately didn’t think before he spoke. But despite wanting to work with her, Jerry was forced to vote her out as the alliance’s back-up plan, due to Rebecca going to Exile Island.

Once Winter had gone home, her elimination was like a green light for Jerry’s paranoia to begin. While his paranoia did help him think of good ideas to do like building relations with Lucifer in case of a swap, but it also fueled probably one of the worst things he did to himself the whole season; playing both sides. During one of his confessional sessions, Jerry began to ramble on about how he wanted his game to be ‘grey’ or ‘neutral’ which they have sounded nice during the pre-merge, but anyone who watches Survivor or even Big Brother knows that not picking a side isn’t a good look. Tae started to notice that Jerry refused to pick a side and called him out on it sarcastically. Jerry didn’t fully pick up on it regardless.

Fast forward to the unfinished Joint Tribal Council, the majority Samba alliance’s OG plan was to take out Gavin from the Janeiro tribe. Jerry compiled although he sure did rant about Tae and Brandon in private before doing so. Until Lucifer brought Jerry to the side and began to orchestrate Tae’s blindside. Of course, Jerry took the golden opportunity and sent a very emotional vote Tae’s way. And if Gavin didn’t get medevaced just minutes before the Council, Jerry’s rival Tae would’ve gone home.

Luckily for Jerry, he and Lucifer threw the next challenge in hopes of blindsiding Tae. Jerry initially was happy to do so, but once again paranoia struck and his new goal was to go to rocks and become a ‘game changer’. Even more paranoia snuck in and he changed his vote back to Tae, due to Lucifer’s scheming. By the end of Tribal, Jerry had gotten his wish and Tae was blindsided by a vote of 4-3.

Now we’re at the merge, Jerry has won first individual immunity and is extremely ecstatic about his win. The all Samba alliance set their sights on Paul. Despite that Kim and Lucifer’s rivalry had bubbled up to the point where they had just voted for each other. And Brandon was worried that an idol would be played so him and Adam threw votes on Evan. Brandon’s speculation was correct as Evan went home in a 5\*-3\*-2-1-1 vote. At the F11, Jerry wanted to work fully with Samba, because Brandon had lied to him saying that Payton was using him, Because of this the alliance set their target onto payton, but once Lucifer caught wind of it, he foiled the alliance’s plan and idoled out Kim instead.

At the F10, Jerry finally realized that Payton was telling the truth and Brandon was lying the entire time. Regardless, he and the alliance still decided to vote out Payton. Which was a bad move on Jerry’s part. At the F9 though, Jerry had gotten himself disqualified and removed from the game when he sent a screenshot of a message Lucifer sent him to an alliance chat.

Which royally sucked, because without a doubt Jerry would’ve been asked back to play in a future season.