Which jury member will come back? Who will win Head of Household? It all depends on who can hang on a rope swing the longest. Add in some giant silver hands to make the houseguests spin and what you get is a pretty quick endurance competition. Swing and smack. Swing and smack. Julia was out during Thursday’s show. Steve isn’t far behind her. Hey Meg, you’re not the worst! And there goes Meg. James decides to crouch down. It’s worked for him before. Except this time everyone follows his lead. Surprisingly, James falls next. And there goes Liz. Vanessa looks like the ghosts of her murder victims are chasing her. Oh, wait. They are! One by one the jurors fall. It’s all down to Vanessa and Johnny Mack. Vanessa promises John safety but he’s not willing to jump. We get a sneaky flashback showing John and Vanessa agreeing to work together if he comes back. So his unwillingness is just a front to hide his alliance with Vanessa? Very tricky, Dr McGuire! Finally, John drops. Vanessa wins Head of Household! Finally she’ll have a stress-free week…
The AusTwins publicly celebrate while Johnny Mack saves his excitement for the diary room. The twins are furious that Johnny Mack is back. Like, throwing a fit furious. Which amuses me, of course. They realize that aligning with John right before sending him packing maybe wasn’t such a wise move. So they sit around and shit talk him. Very mature. They’re relying on Vanessa to get him out right away and save their asses.
Vanessa knows this is her chance to make new alliances with everyone. Oh good. I hope she names them all. She checks in on John and he confirms that he threw the competition to her. So she’s got John. Then she goes to Austin and bitches about John. She still has Austin. Somehow, Vanessa and Steve are good again? I just can’t with these houseguests anymore. Why are they determined to let Vanessa win? Whatever. She has Steve. She wants to go after James instead of John so she starts misting the twins. It works very quickly. Because they’re idiots. She has the twins.
I refuse to write about Austin asking Liz to be his girlfriend. It was painful enough to watch it.
Never one to let an alliance slip by, Vanessa tries to get Meg and James to spill Austin gossip. All she gets is crickets. Then Vanessa tries to get Meg and James to confirm she was the backdoor target last week. More crickets. How can they not understand what’s going on here? James is slipping. Vanessa asks how they’d feel about being pawns. Meg and James fall all over each other offering to go up instead of the other. Which just makes Vanessa want to put them up even more. James is really slipping. Is he on slop? His brain isn’t working right. Bye bye, goblins. James is on slop! Even so, he remembers that Vanessa promised him and another person safety until final seven. He’s not sure if he should remind her because then she’d think he doesn’t trust her. James needs someone other than Meg to discuss things with. They decide to keep their mouths shut. Yeah, they’re toast.
It’s time for nominations. Vanessa nominates Meg and James. Shocking, I know. She claims it’s not personal, just a game move. “If anyone has played chess with me, they know I won’t hesitate to put a King in check. And a King isn’t worth much without his Queen.” Deep thoughts from Vanessa.
Next Episode: The Veto Competition.
I couldn’t BELIEVE James didn’t remind Vanessa about the deal she’d made with him. She has deals with everyone in the house and maybe didn’t even remember it. She would have been bound by it because she never lies, is loyal to a fault, is the most altruistic person that ever walked, and is horrified by thinking she might get any blood on her hands (I’ve grown to hate that ‘blood on your hands’ BS). He really effed up by at least not reminding her of it. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I’m not pro Vanessa , in all honesty I don’t like any of them as people so I have no choice but to judge them solely on gameplay.
If James had brought up that deal Vanessa had two outs; James made a deal with Shelli that he wouldn’t front or backdoor either her or Clay and immediately nominated them both together. In Vanessa’s deal with James she promised him safety until they were down to 7 people and they were down to 7 before JMac came back.Vanessa went to law school and knows how to manipulate situations and specific wording.
And an added reason why she went back on her deal with James? It’s Big Brother, the game is all about lying and deceit.
I’m probably the only person who is happy that Meg is finally leaving. But she’s useless ; she can’t win a comp, she has no clue of the dynamics of the house and is ruining James’ game by influencing him with her hair brained ideas. The only thing she is goid at is wearing lipstick 24/7 (even when she’s in the shower, wtf?) For someone who has not played the game at all I would hate to see her being drug to the f2 and win $50k just so a someone could ensure a win. I don’t feel that laying in bed and applying lipstick deserves $50k, in fact I don’t feel like she even deserves her stipend unless she is a saboteur, there to sabotage the Goblins game.
P.S. Tamara, if you see this I love your new “Come for the tea. Stay for the shade.” slogan.
I’m a 90’s girl, all about the red lipstick. I think Meg’s lipstick deserves $50K.
Don’t really care if Meg stays or goes but I do love me some James and I’m afraid if she goes it’s gonna be hard for him. To many people after him. I don’t wanna see JonhnyMack go either though so looks bad.
If Vanessa wins BB, I may never watch again. Or Austin, or Liz, or Julia……see, this is why I am so disappointed in this season. The person I want to win is James….but he has gone and lost his damn mind. God-ah!!
And…Thanks Lady C for not reminding us about the two and their stupid love story. Can’t wait for him to watch and see how she talked shit about him and the fact that he does smell bad. I feel sorry for the girl at home. I hope she realizes how lucky she is that he has set his sights on someone else. Lucky, lucky, LUCKY!
Jeebus…my earlier comments have been deleted….crossing fingers, toes & ovaries that I haven’t been demoted to the WSL.
Tamare, if I’m banished, can I be prayed out of TT Purgatory?
(And I just remembered I only have 1 ovary, so I need something else to cross STAT)
Clay/Judass and the twins have to go! They have deals with everyone in the house!
What happened to James? His mind must be on his pranks and not on the game. I’m glad j Johnnie mack is back. Would love to see Liz or Julia backdoored…hate them. At this point they should just hand Vanessa the win. She controls the house.
I don’t think it is all that easy to deal with Vanessa. If they admitted she was the backdoor target, then she runs to the other side and puts up Meg and James anyway for agreeing with it. They are in a kind of no win situation.
Thank god James won the Veto!!! He often comes through when his back is against the wall.
If Vanessa were smart(er) she would put Liz as her replacement nom (as a pawn) then have the guys (Jonny, Steve, James) vote her out. Then Vanessa can say OMG! I had no idea…no blood on her hands. With Liz gone Austin immediately crumbles, he goes next in double eviction night, then if they are lucky out with Vanessa as well. Vanessa is too emotional of a player to do it though.
What the f**k is going on with this cast? The worst in BB history, bar none. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but even Gina Marie was better than this nonsense. Come on CBS, get it together, no one likes this wreck of a show anymore but many want it to go back to its original format. Please listen to the fans, we want our BB!
SPOILER: James took himself off the block and Vanessa convinced Julia to take a turn being nominated, with many assurances that Meg is going out the door. Meanwhile, Austin is making noises to Vanessa about getting rid of both twins and going to Final Two with her. It is still questionable whether it will be Meg or Liz who is voted out, with Vanessa still claiming it will be Meg, instead of weakening the voting numbers of the Austwins, whom she appears to be unwilling to alienate, as yet. Also, Thursday is double eviction, but everyone in the house assumes that it’s not til the following week! This little surprise will be a fun scramble and anything can happen , in terms of who goes. We can look forward to surprises, changes, I am hoping- uh.