When Sunflower has to choose between flipping on her alliance or voting out their intended target, her friend Eli, Eli tells her that he won't be mad at her if she votes for him, because he wouldn't want her to throw her game away just for a shot at saving him. To put this in context, Eli is pretty much the biggest Survivor fanboy ever, and had been waiting his entire life to get a chance to play, and yet he was willing to give up his game so Sunflower could stay in her alliance's good graces. All because she was his friend. Fortunately, Eli is saved that night thanks to Sunflower pulling a Moment of Awesome with the Hidden Immunity Idol.
The Orwell and Sasha relationship, especially when Sasha gets voted out after Orwell tried to give up his immunity to save her. Orwell tries to apologize, but Sasha kisses him instead.
Ky's horrible past and his outlook on life despite all that happened to him.
Thorne finally reveals how much she cares for Sierra, and that she is actually playing for her sister to win, not for herself.
After two consecutive seasons of constant abuse from various characters, especially Bonnie, Starr FINALLY gets to earn her happy ending on her third season in season 20, and gets to have an amazing experience. Outside of winning, Starr finally gets everything she ever could've wanted in a Survivor experience. She becomes incredibly well-respected and the biggest social threat of the game, makes it all the way to the final four, doesn't have to deal with any Bonnie-like forces, makes a ton of friends, gets all the way to the family visit and gets to bring her sister to the island with her, and even meets her true love for real this time in Montana. She's not even upset she's voted off in the end because of how much fun she finally got to have.
by the "producers".