Between the first episode of the Southern Charm reunion and this episode of Big Brother tonight, I’m in reality TV heaven! Although that Southern Charm reunion recap has fried my brain.
I already have my previous laptop set up to watch the HOH competition while I recap this episode. You know it is a serious problem when you have two 17″ laptops and a big TV going all at the same time and you are still worried you might miss something.
Sam has been being pushed by producer Allison Grodner all day yesterday to use her power app. As a recruit, Sam doesn’t know that producers in the diary room try to manipulate players and plant fear and seeds of doubt in order to get them to do what they are told. She’s not handling it well.
Speaking of not handling things well, Kaitlyn is pissed about Brett’s speech at the POV ceremony. It’s funny that casuals will believe now that she has some sort of psychic ability when in reality one of the girls told her about the plan the bros had to put her up. Meanwhile, Brett is confident that he is staying. Rachel is campaigning hard for Brett to stay. Rachel has a crush on Brett but she says her vote is based on the fact that Brett will be a bigger target in the house and shield her and Tyler and other strong players from nominations from the other side. Meanwhile Bayleigh, Hayleigh and Rockstar realize that Brett needs to go. Sam and JC are swing votes. Kaitlyn will vote to evict Brett after his POV speech.
The houseguests have a rock wall in the house which is great because the backyard is closed so much. Rockstar climbed nearly all the way up and is afraid to come down. Kaitlyn tries to use her extensive life coaching abilities to help Rockstar. As you can imagine, Rockstar just wants to punch her in the throat. Hayleigh suggests she try climbing back down instead of jumping down. She eventually loses her grip and lands safely.
Later, Kaitlyn and Hayleigh paw all over Tyler as he tries to have a peaceful moment in the sun outside. The girls think Tyler is voting with them. He’s not. Tyler says Kaitlyn is horrible for his game and she needs to be evicted. I wonder if he has thought about jury house and how he needs to get her out before she is in the jury house with him? That would be a fate worse than prison. When Tyler votes with his true alliance, the girls will likely all believe that Kaitlyn flipped again.
Production continues to pressure Sam in the DR and I can tell from her session that they are telling her this is her last week where she is in control of it. As in, don’t you want to be the one who decides?Production is angry because the power app thing isn’t going as well as they had hoped. I believe the shut the power app story early for that reason. It could easily have gone for two more weeks. So why not go forward with those two power apps?
They can’t be too pissed at Sam because she is getting a hometown segment this week. I wonder if that was a bribe to force her to use the app? We meet Sam’s mom, Kitty. Kitty says Sam is a very sunny side up person who just goes with the flow. Sam’s dad says she is a chameleon who can adapt to anything. Sam is a true artist who is always creating. Sam has a brother named Joe. The whole town is watching her on the show. They have talked about this power app the entire freaking show.
It’s time for the speeches. Brett is up first. He sucks up to all the girls then he asks for Kaitlyn’s vote. He says that Rockstar came to him and said she was going to flip the vote and pin it on Kaitlyn. Rockstar looks completely confused. I’m pretty sure that Brett is lying. Winston’s vote is basically yet another declaration of love for Brett.
Kaitlyn still votes to evict Brett. JC votes with Level 6. Sam was the last to vote and in the hallway Tyler told her to vote to evict Winston. And she did. Tyler’s vote will now be exposed. Winston is evicted and the girls are all shocked. Tyler is pretending to be shocked as well. Winston storms out of the house without a hug for anyone except his boyfriend. Rockstar loses her mind on Brett for lying about her. He tells her she just needs to own it. Rockstar is screaming at him. She has not talked to him in three days. He never even bothered to campaign to her.
Winston is shocked. He tells Julie he was told at one point it was going to be unanimous to keep him. He is pissed that his entire alliance voted against him. He was blindsided and betrayed. Winston threw his friendship bracelet from Sam on the floor on the way out. Winston is pissed. Julie asks what the hell he was thinking being so upfront that Winston and Brett were a final two. Winston says if there is a battle back he would love to go back in and wreck the entire level 6 alliance. In Winston’s goodbye message from Brett, Brett says he is going to get Scottie out of the house. This is such a strange season. Usually there is a girls alliance that fails in spectacular fashion right out of the gate. This year the girls didn’t even try to fake it, but for what may be the first time in Big Brother history we sent home three guys first and the guys have the biggest targets on their backs.
The endurance is called out on a limb. It’s the basic stand on a ledge while they get rained on, and the incline constantly changes. This is a good challenge for JC, Rachel and Angela. Guys don’t typically win these unless they are small.
Rockstar fell first shortly after the episode ended. Fessie was next. Rachel is struggling. JC is looking like a good choice to win this. That is terrifying. Brett falls, Bayleigh falls. JC is not even holding on with both hands. He’s definitely going to win this. Sam has been in this weird awkward position the entire night. One shoulder is super high and the other is super low. And she is frozen like a statue the whole time. No one is cheering for her. She finally asks for love after JC does. She gets a lot of love. Angela falls. Then Rachel falls. Hayleigh falls. FALL KAITLYN FALL! JC FELL SOMEHOW! I thing his hands just slipped. He so had this challenge. It’s down to Sam (yes please!), Tyler, Kaitlyn and Kaycee. Two level six, one FOUTTE and Sam playing all alone. I hope Sam wins this, and America’s favorite player.
Sam lets people know she has been taking cold showers everyday even though she is not a have not. I think if it comes down to Sam and Tyler, Tyler will drop so as not to show his hand, plus he knows he is safe. Kaitlyn falls. now everyone will. Kaycee drops right after. Sam says that Tyler needs to jump off he is safe and he has already been HOH. She is promising safety. And he jumps. SAM WINS! SAM WINS! SAM WINS! Brett is one of the first people to hug her and suddenly, Sam has friends. Sam immediately asks if she can smoke a cigarette. That’s my girl!
Okay at some point Sam just has to tell the people on the block that they will have a chance to return. Unless she isn’t allowed to say that. It will also be interesting to see who tries to sleep upstairs with Sam. Tyler really should not do that.
I can’t even explain what is happening now. Kaitlyn is too stupid to know Tyler was not voting with her. They still haven’t told her that her boyfriend dumped her. Kaitlyn is throwing other girls under the bus. Now it is Bayleigh and Rockstar. Kaitlyn is devoted to Tyler AND FUCKING BRETT WHO HAS BEEN SHITTING ON HER ALL WEEK.
KAITLYN IS SO FUCKING GOING ON THE BLOCK. But who else?
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Kaitlyn doesn’t know how much Tyler and Brett are playing each other. Fessie and Bayleigh are so over it. Brett has successfully made everyone hate RockStar. He is such a piece of shit.
I’m going to leave it here so you guys have a place to talk. It’s been a long recap night for me.
The FOUTTE alliance isIMPLODING.
The girls are abandoning Fessie.
Thanks for the recap! I’m so excited! I usually kid myself into believing I won’t get caught up in BB each season but I’m always lured in, and this time I actually like some of them. I’m not sure if I cringe more about Kaitlyn than I did about Raven last year, but I really, really want her to get out before jury. I just don’t want her to be in that house anymore.
I’m SO HAPPY for Sam winning HOH! But it’s ironic that whoever she nominates will have a chance to stay because of her power app. It sets up some interesting choices for who she should nominate.
Sam says she will stay on slop until Tuesday even though she is HOH. Tyler tells her that wining HOH nullifies being a have not but she won’t hear it.
She also told everyone she is tired and needs sleep and will not be having one on one discussions but will decide who to nominate. Someone asked if she will tell them and she said yes. Tyler pointed out that HOH is not allowed to tell people.
Rockstar was so over the top about the whole night. JC finally told her to stop carrying on and crying , that she doesn’t want her kids to see her like this.
Later she talked of quitting.
Is what Tyler said true? Why couldn’t she.
There is a rule and one HOH one season had to change nominations.
I assume Sam asked in the DR.
She has named so many as safe, I don’t know who is left.
Even Rockstar, after her meltdown last night…
Tim, yes, if you are a have not, and win HOH your have not status ends. For some dumb reason, Sam thinks she is earning some moral high ground but staying on slop til it ends.
Sam said she learned Big Brother from watching u tube top 20 mistakes, top 20 best plays, top 20 this or that. Total of eight videos.
Again, Sam talked for hours yesterday and really got to know she is so above Kaitlyn about life, people, it’s fascinating.
I cried (real tears, not Real Housewife tears) when Sam read the letter from her mom in the HOH room. I like to think I’m pretty stoic, but this got to me. I hope they show it on Sunday night.
I love that Sam won HOH but I love even more that she told everyone that the HOH room is hers and no one will be allowed in there unless she invites them in & she’s in the room!!
That’s the first time I remember where the HOH put their room off limits. I’ve often wondered why they allowed people to bug them day and night, eat their goodies and hog the bed. Good for Sam – she’ll be able to kick back and regroup mentally without a bunch of housemates trying to influence her constantly. She’s really grown on me, but I hope she withstands the pressure to use her power app. Glad Winston is gone and hope Brett goes soon too, but really want phony Kaitlyn out of there next.
When BB first started the HOH room wasn’t an open door policy. I’m not sure when it changed to anyone being in there anytime they wanted to. I can’t wait to see who Sam puts up and who goes home next.
I love Sam. First she finally has the balls to tell all these fuckers not to bug her about staying in her room and eating all her crap after ignoring her for three weeks.
BUT NOW SHE HAS NOMINATED Hayleigh and Kaitlyn and said it was because of their game play of hanging all over the guys in the house for votes is not empowering women. You know that sent Kaitlyn into a tizzy and she immediately starting crying to Tyler and Fessie. Then she says she is all about female empowerment.
PLEASE GOD LET KAITLYN GO HOME. But since the power is going to be played, no one will probably actually go home. The chance to get back in the house is allegedly a game that is easy because production wants someone to return because of the numbers and the schedule.
Wow! Just got home from a long lunch and this!
There is pov.. Most will throw that!
One final thing Kaitlyn and Haleigh were happy Kaitlyn said their eviction photos when put up, “they looked really pretty” Gawd!!
What happened to all night HOH challenges? I miss them. People drop so quickly now.
Will Fessy ever get a clue?
After hunching up with Tyler, Fessie and BRETT!! Kaitlyn through many crying fits. Eventually, hours later she decided to meditate and last ALMOST three whole minutes before taking to her bed. Sadly this is a noneviction week most likely.
Right now Fessie is telling Kaitlyn that she can pick him for veto and he will take her off. She’s talking in her little girl voice because, you know, WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT.
I hope the she goes home to her boyfriend…oh wait…
Earlier she was blubbering because she is puttingFessie in the position of taking her off, when Haleigh is up there.
So she felt sorry for him picking her, how difficult for him, lol.
Then she brought up Tyler and did her thing for that.
Apparently, Sam said something about Kaitlyn’s constant dependency on the guys giving her compliments is disrespectful to men. She keeps talking about her father having to see that. Does she think her father wants to see her hunching and rubbing on most of the males in the house? He must be mortified.
She went for it during evictions and said Hayleigh and Kaitlyn are disrespecting themselves and the men.
Haleigh was crying that her grandpa will see, Kaitlyn had her crying and histrionics and asked Tyler to play Veto for her. Then crawled in bed with Fessie. Whole thing was hilarious and fantastic.
Sam is very interesting, she talks A lot.
P.s. she wanted some privacy in her HOH to “do some things she isn’t proud of” lol love her. She is super smart and may just win this.?
Can’t believe I know who Sam put up. Don’t know if I agree with the picks yet. One I do and I’ll leave it at that.
My dream scenario for Kaitlyn is she is voted out unanimously before revealing the vote count ahe is informed that her boyfriend has dumped her, then she gets the battleback win, smugly victorious she is returning to the house o my to find out that every single one of the players voted her out! Can you imagine the histrionic fit. Heehee but I’m pretty.
Congratulations to Sam on HOH and handling it like a boss! I can’t imagine living in that house without needing some alone time.
Sam also said something interesting to Rock star who needs to calm down.
Sam told her how she never works out, she took her frustrations and won that HOH.
She told Rock star to chill and save it for comps.
(Sam really talks ALOT, so she said many things to many people, everyone was surrounding her all day)
I keep wondering if the bonus life chance to get back in the house will be open only to the person evicted next Thursday, or whether previous evictees (Steve, Swaggy, Winston) might be able to play for it as well. It sounds like only next week’s evictee, but it would be interesting if all 4 evictees could compete for it.
The otherv evictees are home.
Swaggy is tweeting foolish things.. Still bitter.
Sam’s power automatically kicks in for the 4th evictee to have a chance to return.
The reliable tweeter says it will be a puzzle.
The schedule says that production wants a returning HG so they can have two double evictions.
Veto players were Sam, Hay, Kaitlyn, JC, Angie, and Fessie. Rachel is hosting.
FESSIE WON! If he takes someone down, Rockstar will go up apparently. And she will be voted out but will come right back in.
Hayleigh chose Fessie as her house guest choice.
Sam is really grumpy tonight. Angela (the sofa) & Kaycee (the loveseat) are Sam’s shadows.
If I had a penny for every time the girls used the word “like” I’d be a millionaire.
Tyler reminds me of a blond Carrot Top. His game is going to implode eventually.
It makes my ears hurt every time one of the girls, and some of the guys, says the word “like.” In some of their conversations they say “like” every third word. I agree with you about Tyler looking like Carrot Top. Tyler’s better looking, but there’s definitely a resemblance there.
Lol about Carrot Top, I thought I’d be burned at the stake for saying anything negative about CBS’s Golden Surfer. Everyone loves him, I did for about 30 minutes, then I saw the evil genius working everyone. The girls seem like stepford wives around him. Both sides can’t make a decision without asking him first or getting his approval. If they don’t take him out soon, he’s going to go to finals with Sam or Kaitlin
For a hot minute Scottie and a few of the others seemed to be catching on to Tyler playing both sides of the house. Even if they snap out of their trance Tyler’s is still safe for several more weeks because of the Ap that he got. I think he’s the person CBS wants as the winner.
Agreed. Grodner definately has plans for Carrot Top to win. I have only seen a bit of the feeds. Kathryn was acting like she was going to DOR because Fessie won the POV.
Anyone know what Fessie is going to do?
I was in awe yesterday for hours just watching Kaitlyn and her almost abusive, well actually abusive way of treating Fessie for hours. It was like a lifetime movie PSYCHO BIG BROTHER PRE POV CHICK!!
He wanted to leave, probably scared shitless. After Rachel told Kaitlyn to tell Fessie she is not going to discuss it with him, its okay, Kaitlyn of course is telling people that she decided to do that as if on her own. Hope Rachel says that she told Kaitlyn to say that, we shall see.
Last night Fessie told Hayleigh that he would save her.
If he actually goes through with that I wonder if Sam will put Rock Star up in her place since that’s what she’s being pressured to do. If Kaitlyn ends up getting evicted I truly hope she doesn’t manage to battle her way back in. She has gotten on my last never the past couple of nights and I want her out as quickly as possible.
Last thing I read is that she probably won’t put Rockstar up as Tyler and JC want her to do but might out up Bayleigh.
She wants Kaitlyn gone.
But… Sam has also said she might let Fessy choose the replacement nominee!
This after assuring safety for Tyler and friends.
She is extremely judgemental and talkative..
After that big pep talk she gave Bayleigh she may put her up? Wow. I can’t figure out these players this year.
From since wake up this morning, Sam is oddly like house mom. A few people are asking her what to do like they are children, odd.
Anyhoo, she asked Angela who she wants up, Angela said she doesn’t like bullies, so rock star.
And, RS won’t win and unfair for her to get to jury for five weeks when she should go home to her family.
Sam also said to Kaycee, she needs to win next HOH, then Sam again, then Tyler.
At least I finally heard Angela talk, lol.
Now I hope that Scottie or Fessie wins next HOH.
This is probably a dumb question, but is Tyler legit into Kaitlyn?
I keep trying to figure out and just can’t.
I don’t think so, not in a romantic way. He’s “playing” her/playing the game. That said, he is really confusing when he stares back at her, facesTHISclose, making googly eyes at each other.
Thanks, amisteree, I felt so silly, I’m glad you understand, lol.
Tyler is playing Kaitlyn. We know this from his diary rooms and his statements to Level 6 about how easily manipulated she is. I don’t think he can stand Kaitlyn most of the time.
I don’t think whoever is evicted this week will actually go. Production wants to do two double evictions and need to keep someone to do that. The puzzle is going to be something super easy.
Kaitlyn will probably blow it since she will be so dramatic about being evicted, lol.