We pick up with everyone who’s left
cheering America’s joking kiss as Cory was voted out (Points for “Speak in
opening vignette” to Roberta, Jayson, Carol, Kristyn, Jen, Marissa, and Ricky!)
but she is brought to tears thinking of him in the DR (Points for “Shown on
camera crying” to Ricky!). Blue was Cory’s mortal enemy so she is enraptured or
something. Who can tell? Circe internally
debated keeping Cory (Point for “in this game” to Kristyn!) but she wound up
voting for Cory because he was the reason Jared and Izzy are gone (Points for “Shown
on camera in gray” to Jayson and me!). She does revel a bit in thinking of the
conversation Cory will have with Cam though (Points for “Shown on camera in
gray” to Marissa!)
Matt and Jag make a final four
deal with Circe and Felicia - the same final four deal they made with America
and Cory and look how that turned out. Cory put doubt into Bowie about who Matt
and Jag’s true final three is, making the Aussie paranoid. Her paranoia could easily become a self-fulfilling
prophecy here as her following conversation with Jag leaves the most dominant
player in the game seriously doubting her. The paranoid spot Cory put her in leaves
her in tears (Points for “Shown on camera crying” to Carol!) Finally playing the game and this is the spot
she’s in? Yeesh.
Previous player, and one of my
favorites, Johnny Mac introduces the Demented Dentist comp with “dental records”
of all previous winners who have cracks and missing teeth all over their
mouths.
TIL: BB winners have horrible dental habits.
This leads America to mention Rachel and
Jordan and Jag to mention the chortling dentist (Points for “Reference a
previous season’s houseguest” to Ricky and Jen!). For some reason, Felicia thinks she’ll be
good at this comp because she’s also missing teeth. YOU WON ONE COMP BY DUMB
LUCK! Felicia proves my point by saying “accuracy matters” and proceeds to get
all 5 choices wrong. As the comp
requires movement and precision, it’s right in Jag’s wheelhouse and sure enough
he takes home his fourth straight comp win (Points for “Win HOH” to Jen!).
We miss you, Johnny Mac! Come back!
America cries in her DR session,
partly at losing but also at the fact she called Jag an Aston Moron in her Eviction
Night speech. She wants to fix things
with Jag but has no power and does some quality thinking when she goes back to Dan’s
Funeral – a player who was able to influence without power (Points for “Reference
a previous season’s houseguest” to Ricky!).
Meanwhile, Matt and Jag ponder who should sit next to America and Bowie’s
paranoia has put her on their radar but when pressed by Felicia, Jag is non-committal
about putting Bowie up. In the end, Jag decides
to put Blue up “as a pawn” (Points for “Agree to go up as a pawn” to Marissa!) but
after America makes her “I won’t nominate you; I’ll use the veto on you” pitch
it’s clear that Jag’s mind is on “who can beat me in a comp” which makes Blue his
actual target. Blue and America are nominated (Points for “Nominated for
eviction” to Marissa and Ricky!)
On Tuesday, it’s Johnny Mac in the
opening vignette (Points for nobody!).
It’s officially “I have to win this veto” season. Note: I’m adding “I have to win (this comp)”
as a category next year.
They all “have
to win it”. Blue thinks America is the plan or maybe she needs a Vitamin Water
and some Advil. I can’t really tell. America thinks Blue is the plan, but she’s
still brought to tears thinking of Cory (Points for “Shown on camera crying” to
Ricky!) and (Points for “Shown on camera in gray” to Dalphyne!). They fail to
compare notes though, a violation of Greengold’s 2nd Rule: Trust, but verify!
Circe wants Blue to stay though,
as she’s been working with Ms. Kitty Kitty Purr Purr Unintelligible Noises since
Jared left (Points for “Shown on camera in gray” to me!) and she can’t keep
losing people (Points for “Reference in this game” to Kristyn!). In some
halfway decent gameplay, America wants to continue the War of the Duos – she has
no intention of honoring the deal she offered Jag, Bowie regains her senses now
that she wasn’t nominated, and Jag won’t tell Felicia about his true plan to
get rid of Blue because she can’t keep her mouth shut. Instead, he tells Circe…. who realizes “If
you can go after your best friend, what’s stopping you from going after me?” Circe’s
sharp, that’s for sure.
At the veto selection, it’s Matt,
Felicia and Bowie who are picked via random draw (Points for Roberta, Jayson
and Carol!). Matt tells us he has to win
because Jag’s back is hurting from carrying him (Points for “Reference in this
game” to Roberta!). In an effort to
blunt Jag’s plan, Circe all-but comes out and tells Felicia about Blue. Felicia
can’t believe she’d say that since they are in a final 4 with them. This is the
difference between someone IN the game and someone PLAYING the game.
Felicia, of course, immediately tells Jag that
Circe dished about Blue. He trusted her and protected her for Matt (Points for “Reference in this game” to Jen!) but now Jag doesn’t care how close Matt is to Circe– he doesn’t
trust her. Like Cam and Cory
learned, that’s a bad spot to be in against the person winning all the comps!
“Arrange these pictures in
chronological order” is the veto comp this week. With the way things are edited, it’s always
tough to tell who’s truly fastest but America and Jag sound like they finished
quickly. At the reveal, it’s Jag who wins Veto, his 5th consecutive
comp win which must be a record. (Points for “Win Veto” to Jen!). In her frustration, America tells us she’ll
take out Jag even if it’s the last thing she does (Points for “Reference in
this game” to Ricky!)
On Thursday it’s DOUBLE EVICTION
NIGHT BABY! Everyone believes Jag has their best interest at heart except
America who promises an American Revolution if she wins HOH. She hasn’t won anything all season so, I wouldn’t
take a midnight ride shouting “The HOH is coming! The HOH is coming!” just yet.
Circe considers keeping Blue as
she can compete with Jag and if she can split the vote, it’ll make him cast the
deciding vote but she can’t get Felicia onboard – she sees Circe setting up an
endgame and puts a stop to it. In an
effort to setup her own endgame, Felicia tells Jag that Circe and Matt are
plotting against him. Matt’s shown saying
eventually he knows he’d have to go after Jag and that he’s got a better chance
at winning vs. Circe than the current HOH.
He’s right, but he’s also spineless. He talks a good game but there’s virtually
no chance he’s nominating or backdooring Jag if he wins HOH.
At the speeches, America implores
the houseguests to keep her as Jag is a halitotic menace who’s always
asking for lap dances. I presume that’s
an inside joke I don’t get. Blue says
something. I think it’s English but again, I can’t tell. It must have been funny because the rest of
the houseguests are cracking up. Maybe
she’s like Groot where people must be around her a lot before they can
understand her speech? It would be
something to ponder but at the vote, Ms. Incomprehensible is evicted 4-0
(Points for “Received vote against” and “jury member” to Marissa!) but (Points deducted
for “Evicted” and “Evicted after agreeing to go up as a pawn” against Marissa!). America has successfully made it through! The
War of the Duos continues! Blue’s clearly
got a “stage look” and her post-eviction interview with Julie is so fake it
hurts my eyes and ears.
I’m quickly saved from further punishment because IT’S STILL DOUBLE EVICTION NIGHT BABY meaning we have to move along. The HOH comp is “look at these pictures and
answer a question about the details” and these questions are HARD. Normally in this type of comp, the winner has
6 or 7 right. In tonight’s comp, it’s a
tie between Matt and Bowie with 4 but it’s Bowie who’s closest on the tiebreaker
estimation (Points for “Win HOH” to Carol!).
With 6 people left, an America + Bowie + Felicia + Circe final four, gives
Bowie’s an honest chance to win. She should nominate Matt and Jag, ensuring one
goes home. Instead, she breaks Greengold's 3rd rule: Play to win. She plays for 3rd
place and nominates Felicia and America (Points for “Nominated for eviction” to
Jayson and Ricky!)
The veto is “find the things in the
ball pit” with a twist of “drop them from a height into a tube”. Matt absolutely destroyed this comp at the
last double eviction and the Deaflympian quickly does so again (Points for “Win Veto” to Roberta!).
Jag is 100000% the leader in the
game. If he were on the block now, he’d be gone leaving Bowie to contend with
Matt, which she might be able to do.
Instead, Matt chooses not to use the veto and America is evicted by a
3-0 vote (Points deducted for “Evicted” against Ricky!) (Points for “Received
vote against” and “Jury member” to Ricky!). Bowie ensures herself of either 3rd or 5th as The War of the Duos ends in complete devastation.
Now we see why Jag needed Cam
gone. The Cowboy Cult Leader was the only one who could consistently beat him
in a challenge. It’s 100% his show at
this point and every time they don’t take a shot at him just solidifies their 2nd-at-best
place finish. It sure shows in the
scoring as Jen takes a huge jump, gaining 18 points and pulling into striking
distance of Marissa who joins me, Ricky and Dalphyne in the “our game is all-but-over”
club. Carol and Roberta each took good
leaps forward too but this close to the end, they’ll need a number of comp wins
to catch the leaders in the current scores:
- Marissa: 136
- Jen: 119
- Jayson: 102
- Scott: 96
- Roberta: 67
- Carol: 66
- Ricky: 65
- Kristyn: 49
- Dalphyne: 48
View the scoresheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mXap3OUHPaSisrAyLjTTofjYISgINTw_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103598532985683889571&rtpof=true&sd=true
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