Big Brother 15...Double Sacrifice

So...The teaser of a big twist that Julie Chen sent out via Twitter on double eviction day amounted to nothing more than an announcement that this season's jury members may not be out of the game just because they're out of the Big Brother house. This will serve to severely limit the scope of Chen's post-eviction interviews with the remaining houseguests, four of them blatant racists. Convenient.

Like Howard Overby, Candice Stewart was never going to win Big Brother. Neither had any game, and the house was stacked against them, Robyn Kass and Allison Grodner having loaded it with bigots. Howard chose to rise above the hate by ignoring it, to no avail; but Candice got down in the gutter with the trash and fought back, only to face the same fate. Candice was evicted last night, sacrificed on the CBS altar of worship to the all mighty ratings.

Judd was the second sacrifice of the night, this time to satisfy the ego and temporarily calm the paranoia of Amanda, the obnoxious, racist harpy that has been inexplicably allowed to run the game. Judd's eviction was arranged by his own alliance, people (Amanda and her pussy whipped pizza boy, McCrae) that he had protected to the detriment of his own game.

Leaving us with nothing but the trash and the idiots that they use to further their games.

Big Brother 15...The Bigot Edition

Somebody (Robyn Kass) should lose her job for casting these disgusting people, thus giving them a forum to spew their vile racist, homophobic, and/or misogynistic views. Somebody else (Allison Grodner) should join her in the treacherous land of the unemployed for condoning the intolerance currently running rampant throughout the Big Brother house by allowing it to continue. And the powers that be at CBS should be ashamed of themselves for paying the casting director, the executive producer, and the house guests to perpetuate hate.

America...You have been tasked with awarding a special power to the house guest that you think is the most deserving. You should know what some of the house guests are so you can make an informed choice.

Male Chauvinist Pig. Jeremy routinely refers to women as "bitches", and speaks of them in a degrading manner.

Guilty By Association. Kaitlin hooks up with Male Chauvinist Pig Jeremy, and seems comfortable with racial slurs and derogatory names for homosexuals being used in her presence.

Male Chauvinist Pig and Homophobe. Spencer refers to women as "cunts", Andy as a "fruit", and has called Andy "Kermit the Fag" to his face.

Racist. GinaMarie referred to Candice and Howard as "tokens", commented that Candice is "on the dark side of the house because she is already dark", and offered to "hit Helen in the head to make her eyes straight".

Racist. David blamed "black Candice" for his foul smelling sheets, and is showmancing...

Racist Homophobe. Aaryn told a distraught Helen to "shut up and go make some rice", warned GinaMarie to "be careful what you say in the dark, you might not see the bitch (Candice)", corrected Candice's speech (in a thoroughly snotty and superior manner), and referred to Andy as a "queer".

These people are repugnant. Robyn Kass cast them, and Allison Grodner allows them to run their ignorant, offensive mouths. CBS should not sanitize them or their behavior by heavily editing them.

Everyone should see them for what they really are.

Big Brother 15...The Pizza Boy Delivers

Twists that don't involve pitting hasbeens against pitiful starstruck newbies or dragging in hasbeens disguised as "coaches"? A Julie Chen that doesn't grate on one's last nerve? And a cast of houseguests that seems diverse enough in personality to make the game interesting and keep us entertained for an entire summer? It is the Big Brother that the majority of fans have been asking for...which is why I don't trust it.

History tells us that Allison Grodner has an affinity for hasbeens that could not have been satisfied by the single intrusion of that wretched cackling hag Rachel Reilly on her sister's introduction video. I doubt that the season premiere will be the last time that she will be foisted on us.

History also tells us that the cast and the game will be manipulated by Grodner and her herd of incompetents to the detriment of both. The first "twist" that saves the sister of one of Grodner's all-time favorites from eviction will prove the repetition of history.

As for Julie, she probably only seems less irritating and almost competent to someone that witnessed the appalling horror that was Big Brother Canada's Arisa Cox. Julie's first interview with an evicted houseguest (please let it be Elissa) will likely take care of any affinity I may have felt.

It's way too early in the game to know with any degree of certainty who will kick ass and who will just be one. But I believe I've seen enough of these people to make some predictions.

If McCrae commits to this game with the same passion that he has committed to the pizza delivery job he loves, then the first HOH competition will not be the last thing that he wins.

Jessie likely suffers from acute narcissistic personality disorder. She is not capable of anything that will make me like her.

For as long as Elissa remains in the Big Brother house, Grodner has the flimsy excuse she needs to continue to foist an irritating hasbeen on us. The houseguests need to get rid of her. Now.

David makes Jordan Lloyd look like a Rhodes scholar.


The premiere demonstrated this season's potential. Hopefully, Grodner et al. will give it the chance it deserves to succeed.

Big Brother 14...Certifiable And In Charge

     So...The lunatic is now running the asylum. She is HOH and the holder of the most critical POV of the season, and must choose between the two temporary men in her temporary life.

     Will she use the POV to take Dan off the block, let Shane take his vacated perch, and leave Dan to evict either Shane or Ian? At this point, the answer seems to be "yes". She may have been whispered into believing that Shane will be safe while Dan bloodies his hands for her, taking out Ian. Or she may actually think that she has a better chance to win against Dan than Shane, and is willing to let Dan do the dirty work, eliminating Shane. Who knows what thoughts are running amok through the tangle of crazy that passes for her mind. Regardless of whatever is going on in there, my money's on Dan to walk away from the block with the power to eliminate Shane tonight.

     Ian's best shot at surviving the block tonight is the last shred of sanity gasping for air somewhere in the darkness of obsessive unrequited love roiling inside of the nutjob in charge of his fate. He better hope that that shred of sanity hollers real loud (and often) and reminds Danielle that there's a huge pile of money at stake, otherwise her pretend future husband is going to send him to hell, where Britney, Boogie, and Frank will, no doubt, make him so miserable that no amount of rocking will calm him. Ian needs Danielle to play to win and choose Dan, and then he needs Dan to perceive Shane as the bigger threat to his victory.
     What do I need? CBS to give us the game that Big Brother used to be before Allison Grodner "fixed" it.
     Only six more days until Survivor starts.

Big Brother 14...Enough Already

     Just like that, what had been a shoddy rerun of last season became trash that required a strong stomach and impaired hearing to watch. And all it took was the adolescent narcissism braying and cackling from my television to accomplish it.

     That's right. Allison Grodner can't seem to control whatever urge it is that compels her to foist hasbeens on us. First it was the four vets that strutted in on day one posing as "coaches". Then we had to suffer another visit from that roidhead Jessie Godderz who paraded through the Big Brother house like a Magic Mike castoff desperate for work. After that atrocity, Sunday night was just too much for my already sorely tested gag reflex to take. Pandora's Box belched up a prerecorded Rachel Reilly at her most obnoxious instead of Ian's parents, and he wasn't the only one who wanted to vomit.
     If CBS can't or won't retire (terminate) Allison Grodner, can someone (anyone) please make her retire Pandora's Box? It's bad enough that the hasbeens are allowed to come in through the front door. They shouldn't be allowed to skulk in (electronically or in person) via a closet in the HOH room.

     The rest of Sunday night's episode was dedicated to showcasing the power of puppet whisperer Dan. Unfortunately for the remaining puppets, it also cast them in a pretty unflattering light, especially Jenn. She knew Dan for the double dealer that he is when he didn't renom Shane after Ian won the POV during Dan's HOH reign on Thursday night. To my knowledge, she has not used this information to try to save herself, and can't (legitimately) blame anyone but herself when she gets evicted later today.

     That will leave us with a Quack Pack final four *gags* whose members will be picked off by its leader on his way to pick up his check. Whether Dan will bloody his own hands or whisper at his puppets until they bloody theirs is the only unknown at this point.
     Only eight more days until Survivor starts.

Big Brother 14...Good Riddance To A Vile Puppet

     He began life in the Big Brother house as a puppet. He ended it as the fool who succumbed to the power of Dan. In the interim, he told a vicious lie, enjoyed salvation from certain eviction thanks to that meddling busybody Allison Grodner, cheated during competitions (and got away with it), and ultimately expedited his own transfer to the jury house by failing to become a real player, choosing instead to obey his Grodner given master, Mike Boogie.

     It took five weeks longer than it should have--I'm glaring at you again, executive producer from the land of incompetents--but Frank is FINALLY gone. Please commence celebrating in whatever way you deem appropriate.

     Which reminds me...What possessed Julie Chen to conduct her post eviction interview with Frank in the hushed tones of someone consoling the grievously wronged? What she should have been doing is calling him to account for his many sins (including his shameless, and a little bit creepy, hijacking of Boogie's clothes from storage) with a disdain equal to his vileness. Add that sham of an interview to the rather long list of the ways that this season has failed to live up to its own standards.

     The perpetual thrower of competitions actually managed an HOH win last night, killing my wish to see his butt parked on Julie's couch right after Frank. Dan's short reign was not a total loss, however. I will never again have to listen to that obnoxious troublemaker Joe hollering at me from my television. I can live with that.

     What I can't live with is Ian allowing his HOH reign to be commandeered by puppet whisperer Dan. Ian should be masterminding Dan's demise, not renegading around with him and planning to nominate Jenn and Shane according to Dan's manipulations. *sighs* Add Ian to the short list of puppets (Shane and Frank) who became real players, only to revert to their original puppet state.

     Although it galls me to admit it, this game is Dan's to lose. He's running the house and has alliances to cover all contingencies. And no one left in the game seems to be aware of it, or care enough to do anything about it.
     The good news? There are only twelve more days until Survivor starts.

Big Brother 14...ChillTown 2.0 Can't Come To The Phone Right Now

     I am STILL laughing.

     Love her or hate her, Britney gave most of us (ChillTown 2.0 and their two or three fans can just continue to suck it) the biggest laugh we've had all summer with the best good-bye message to an evicted house guest that we've had in a long time, perhaps ever. It was the perfect send-off (flip-off?) to the instigating force behind the poorly resurrected ChillTown, and, with any luck, that will be the last time an imaginary phone rings in the DR.

     For those of us keeping track...Two down. Two to go.

     The second best moment of Thursday night's show was delivered to us by the puppet that became the mole that revealed himself to be a real player in his good-bye message to his mentor, Boogie. It even earned him a rare show of respect from the player who prides himself on being the smartest person in the Big Brother house. *snickers* The bitter irony? Boogie and Frank embarked on a childish (and futile) mission to make the wrong player (Dan) miserable this week for blabbing their plans to target Shane and Britney. I wonder if Boogie is feeling foolish yet. He should be.

                                         Every time I see this, I think that we've all been played.

     

     As for Ian's short reign as HOH during the second eviction...I have to give him credit for trying to finish what he started. He nominated the remaining member of the ChillTown 2.0 alliance and his plus one. After Frank won the POV, I would have liked to see Dan go up on the block to bring us a step closer to that vet-free game I've been wanting. But I can see why Ian might not have wanted to turn on his new alliance so soon after "scumbagging" the last one, and (in theory) evicting Frank's plus one should make Frank easier to evict in the near future.

    The teller of the most vicious lie in the history of Big Brother is currently ensconced in the HOH room AGAIN, even though he should have been evicted three weeks ago. One of my hard and fast rules is to not hate people. Allison Grodner and her stupid "reset" have already sorely tested my resolve in this regard, but the longer I have to tolerate her pet, Frank the perpetual adolescent, the more likely it becomes that I will lose that particular battle.

     As far as twists go, Pandora's Box is not the worst, but it does seem to conveniently appear whenever one of the popular player's fan base needs appeasing, like last season when Rachel was practically out the door until Pandora's Box opened and magically restored the twist that saved her. I would prefer to see a game played out that relied on strategy and competition, rather than gifts ("twists") bestowed upon certain players by Allison Grodner and her team of lackeys. But that's not the game I get to see anymore. *sighs and reminisces about the early seasons of Big Brother, before somebody decided to fix something that wasn't broken*

     So Pandora's Box was opened yesterday and the Quack Pack *smirks* caught a break. Ian won a special POV (a golden ball) from the crane game in the Arcade Room, and the prevailing theory was that he would use it to save Dan, whom Frank has targeted for eviction. I rolled my eyes upon hearing this, knowing that all Frank had to do to render Ian's special power useless would be to stick Ian on the block and make him save himself.

     Apparently, Frank was Boogie's bitch a week too long because his training has impaired his ability to think. Frank nominated Dan and Danielle last night. This makes me smile because I never wanted the vets in the house to start with, but Frank could not afford to be this stupid. He might as well have put up the last two floaters in the house. *frowns and shakes head in confusion*

     So now we wait. We wait for the outcome of the POV Competition, which Dan needs to win to guarantee his safety, and then for Monday's POV Ceremony, which will probably reveal where loyalties really lie in the house. Alliances seem to be shuffling right now, but it may turn out to be merely for the sake of appearances, to outplay the remaining dregs of ChillTown 2.0 one final time.

     Please leave a message for ChillTown 2.0...

Big Brother 14...The Consequences of Adolescent Mentality

     A brief summary of last night's episode.

     The real player did not take a real stand or real responsibility for his nominations when confronted by Boogie and Frank, opting instead to shove Britney under the bus and let it mash her at maximum speed, then back over her.

     This season's biggest whiner berated Shane in much the same manner (like the bitchiest teenage girl you've ever encountered) that she did Willie for making her a "huge target" in the house. Shane made a good argument for being weary of having to do all his alliance's dirty work which she ignored. In an obvious attempt to cover her own ass, Britney denied any responsibility for their nominations to Boogie and Frank. Big Brother's resident "mastermind" then inadvertently and obliviously cast suspicion on Dan.

     When confronted by Boogie and Frank, Dan covered for Ian, who is the actual blabber of ChillTown 2.0's secrets, and took the heat with class when Boogie and Frank proceeded to behave like a couple of adolescents, resorting to emotional intimidation in an attempt to get what they want.

     Cheating scandal? What cheating scandal? The POV Competition was edited into what passed for an ordinary, incident-free competition that cast no suspicion on the legitimacy of Frank's victory. What Allison Grodner couldn't edit? Ashley's shameless throwing of the competition to Frank, "folding" in the final round against him.

     Who? Shane's renom got dragged into a game that she had managed to avoid. Until now.

     Only a last-minute "twist" courtesy of Allison Grodner can save him now.
     So give us your take on last night's episode. Based on what you saw, is Big Brother starting to resemble the hormonally challenged train wreck that you would get if you took a random sample from the teenage population of your local high school? Or is it just me, a little overcome by the close proximity of my own hormonally challenged people, imagining grown-ups behaving like adolescents? You've seen it. It's fair game. Let's talk about it.

Big Brother 14...ChillTown 2.0 Still Sucking It

     The unthinkable has happened. Frank won the POV on Saturday and has used it to take himself off the block today. *briefly contemplates the consequences of a shot of Baileys Irish Cream in coffee on an empty stomach*
     I learned about Frank's victory Saturday night, after a seven hour blackout of the feeds by Big Brother's crack production team led by the increasingly incompetent and duplicitous Allison Grodner. The reason for the blackout? A cheating scandal that said incompetent seems desperate to cover up.

     Apparently, Frank and Boogie cheated during the POV Competition, and production ruled that the cheating did not affect the result because Frank would have won anyway. I don't know what school of fair play Allison Grodner graduated from, but where I come from cheating gets your ass disqualified, not safe from eviction.
     So, in a poorly disguised (and executed) attempt to keep the feeders from learning the lengths that production will go to to keep Frank in the game, feeders get fish every time a house guest alludes to Frank cheating. It seems that "live and uncensored" is actually code for "limited footage and corresponding information that Allison Grodner wants released". I can't wait to see CBS's self-serving edit of what occurred during the blackout. My advice to them...pretending it didn't happen won't make it go away, or us forget about it.

     The upside of this travesty? The end of ChillTown 2.0. Shane continues to be a real player (despite that cowardly Nomination Ceremony speech), and refused to renom Dan in Frank's place, choosing to pit Boogie against Jenn instead. Boogie's eviction is almost certainly a lock.
     I say "almost" because I have not forgotten the threat of Pandora's Box, a tool that Allison Grodner has a habit of using to save her favorites, and, she for some inexplicable reason, wants ChillTown 2.0 defiling the Big Brother house. With half the team allowed to save himself by cheating, will Pandora's Box enter the game to save the other half by Thursday night? History tells us that the possibility is real and we can't rule it out. *sighs and reaches for the Baileys*
     So tell us your views on cheating. Should Frank have been disqualified? Or is it okay that Allison Grodner gave him a pass on the cheating and the POV? And what about Pandora's Box? Wouldn't it be great if we never saw it again? You've seen it. It's fair game. Let's talk about it.