We are Back!

Big Brother S21E1&2

Many people look forward to summer for all of the outdoor activities and great weather. I however, love summer because that means it is time for my favorite TV show! BIG BROTHER IS BACK! I can’t wait to start writing about this season and talking about all the craziness happening in the house. 

My plan is to write one post per Head of Household cycle (HOH, Nominations, Veto, Elimination). I don’t want to write about each episode individually. If I was posting that much, I’m sure I’d have no followers. Also, I should mention, I don’t watch feeds. I listen to podcasts and read the posts about what happened in the feeds so I’m generally caught up. I can’t watch the feeds because I enjoy having a girlfriend, friends, and a job. WIth my obsessed I get with TV, watching the feeds, I would neglect a lot of other parts of my life. 

Episode 1

This post is just going to be about the first couple episodes since the first HOH cycle hasn’t been shown yet. Full disclosure, I did not take notes on the first episode since I watched it at a friends place and I haven’t gotten around to rewatching. The first episodes are usually pretty lackluster anyway. We had a pretty quick intro package for everyone thankfully, I’m not really here for the fake “finding their key!” that they film every year. I don’t think we learned a lot more than we could have found out in Jeff or Ika interviews.

We are shown everyone introducing themselves blah blah blah. Shortly after this, Julie gets the game started by announcing the role of Camp Director! The whole theme of the house this season is camping, and the house is decorated with that theme in mind and it looks really nice! Anyway, Camp Director, is position where the rest of the house votes someone into this position and they get unprecedented power in the game, the only one known to the houseguests at this point is they are immune for the first week. It doesn’t appear to be a clear front runner at this point until the idea is thrown out for people who want to volunteer. 

We get 4 volunteers for Camp Director. Jackson, David, Cliff, Jessica. David fizzles out pretty quick, same with Cliff. Or I should say, we don’t see much of their campaigning. The episode mostly focuses on Jackson and Jessica campaigning. It appears that there will be a girl alliance putting Jessica in power, but that quickly fades and Jackson is ultimately the winner. The winner is revealed in a fun, messy way… everyone who didn’t win gets blasted with different color paints. Jackson is the winner, and Jessica is pissed.

Julie reveals the powers of the Camp Director, which is Jackson needs to pick 4 players to banish from the game, where 3 will come back in and one will be eliminated. Julie keeps saying throughout all of this that the 4 banished houseguests are “out of the game”. This doesn’t really make sense, because they aren’t out of the game, just in a different part of the game. I guess it just sounds more dramatic to say “out of the game”. 

That was all in the first episode where I’m going off memory, sorry if it feels like I mailed it in a bit. The rest will be more detailed!

Episode 2

A majority of this episode was dedicated to people campaigning to Jackson to not be banished. Everyone except Kemi, who said she didn’t want to suck up to him, always a smart route to take…

We see the creation of our first alliance! Jack, Jackson, and Bella. This is the start of a snowballing huge alliance that we will touch on later. In this meeting Jack pitches the idea of putting up the other people who volunteered to be Camp Director (Cliff, Jessica, David). I thought this was a pretty good idea. It’s a good way to excuse why you are calling people out right off the bat. 

Jackson has to go upstairs into the room they have been using as the “twist room” like the trending power twist from last season. He selects 4 people to be banished. Cliff, Jessica, David, and Kemi. Only 3 people, other than Jackson, had volunteered to be Camp Director. Kemi’s brilliant decision to not even talk to Jackson is what got her banished. The people who were banished were “taken” by a person in a creepy squirrel mascot. It was hilarious seeing everyone run away from the mascot as it carried a person sized bag around and put it over the banished peoples heads. Then made a quick cut to the squirrel carrying them out in the bag. It lowkey fooled me if the squirrel was really carrying the people out…it wasn’t.

The banished people are in a pitch black wilderness setting. They need to feel their way around a course to find the right hole to get back into the Big Brother house. If they go in the wrong hole they have to go through whatever that room is to get back to the main room and keep searching. The first wrong room we see is “Camp Bee Bee”. Jessica and David go in there and wade through sticky honey and fall into a pile of feathers, it was a pretty good sight. The next room is “Camp B-Ball” where Cliff enters and is pelted with basketballs and an air horn goes off in his face, poor dude.

Cliff is our first houseguest back from banishment! Some retribution for poor Glenn in BB19 for the older guys.

Kemi goes into “Camp Boo” and that is all terrifying clowns and a whole lotta Nope from me. She gets out of there quickly and she is the next to reenter the game! Jessica goes into “Camp B&B” which is all sticky syrup and pancake obstacles. Right after that room she also re enters the game! That is all of the returned houseguests and poor David is eliminated. Julie tells him that he is out of the game….for now. Leaving us all hanging. 

WE didn’t really get to know David at all, he seemed kind of emotionless for the most part but he did show us emotion in the diary room. He was upset and said he wanted to be the first black winner of Big Brother. Apparently forgetting Tamar Braxton, though she did win Celebrity Big Brother, not Big Brother proper. These first night eliminations are so fucking stupid. Nobody wants them. They aren’t fun or interesting. Let the players play the game! Regardless of recruit or not, these people up-end their lives to come do this and they don’t even get a real fighting chance.

Everyone celebrates the returnees. Jackson immediately starts trying some damage control apologize to Jessica and hugging her. We get a couple quick conversations. One between Tommy and Christie where they acknowledge how they know each other. Also the previously mentioned alliance of Jackson, Jack, Bella gets a little bigger. It grows to include Nick, Christie, and Holly. More to come on that later still…

Head of Household Competition

For the HOH comp everyone is in pairs hanging on a log that’s lifted off the ground. Last person hanging wins. As Jackson’s last act as Camp Director he has to pick the pairs sharing the log. It really ended up being of no consequence since it was still an individual HOH comp.

The competition steps up a notch after everyone is hanging for a bit. Paint starts pouring on them making holding on even harder and vision is all messed up. Overall it was a pretty enjoyable endurance comp and the winner is Christie! It really worked out well that Jack, Jackson, and Bella included Christie in their growing alliance so they all could feel safe this week.

The first 2 episodes overall weren’t that fantastic in my opinion. It would have been better if it was a 2 hour episode on one night and we could get into it. Instead dragged out over 2 nights had a lot of unnecessary stuff. I’m still ecstatic we are back and looking forward to a great summer of Big Brother!…Bye!