Big Brother S21E12-14

I would like to thank, and apologize to the people who have been reading my Big Brother posts. They have been way too long and I have to find a way to shorten them. It’s just difficult fitting three episodes of content into one post. I’ll try cutting some more things that aren’t as important to make the reading easier!

The first episode of this week was formatted a bit different as there wasn’t a HOH competition at the end of the eviction episode. They didn’t even start the episode with the competition, instead showing us the fall out from Nick being blindsided by the Cliff eviction.

Nick and Bella meet with The Six Shooters and ask why he didn’t know about the flip. They throw out all sorts of excuses. “It just happened”, “It wasn’t planned”, “We didn’t know until right before the vote”. It’s all bullshit and Nick knows it. Bella keeps going on about how disrespectful it is and Jack snaps at her. Jack points out that she can’t keep saying how disrespectful it is when she’s been making moves over and over again to break the group up.

HOH Competition

The houseguests are shown a bunch of Merit Badges on a screen and they have to answer questions about them. Like which one shows up most kinds of questions. If two people answer incorrectly, they are eliminated. Also, the last two people to answer are eliminated if everyone answers correctly.

A relatively uninteresting competition came down to an exciting end! It was down to Jack and Cliff. Cliff who just won his way back in from Camp Comeback and Jack, a powerful member of the majority alliance. Cliff pulls out the win! Such a turnaround from just being evicted to winning HOH. When Nick brings him the HOH key Cliff says right away “You’re safe, you’re good”.

Later on in the HOH room Cliff, Kathryn, Jessica, and Nicole are talking game. Cliff says the four of them should be working together against the majority. In the DR he says he doesn’t know if he can trust all of them, but they need to do something to weaken the couples (Six Shooters). The unfortunately isn’t going to work. Kathryn refuses to see herself as an “outsider” with the likes of Cliff, Nicole, and Jessica. She thinks because she is a pretty girl she is automatically included in the other pretty people alliance. 

Jackson comes and talks to Cliff one on one. He volunteers as a pawn, and putting Nick or Bella up and getting one of them out. This maintains the idea of Cliff getting back at Jackson for banishing and going after the couples. Cliff admittedly doesn’t trust Bella either so Jackson pushes getting her out for that and to get back at her for Nicole. Jackson goes another step further and grabs Christie and they tell Cliff about the Diamond Power of Veto. Jackson may be a horrible person that we have found in the feeds, but I will say he is playing the actual game pretty well. He comes on slightly strong at some points but his planning is pretty solid.

Nominations

Cliff decides against risking losing a number to the “outsiders” by putting up Nick or Bella and goes with the fan favorite nomination of Jack and Jackson! Someone has come into power to bring balance to the force! Cliff the hero of the people!

While us, the people are celebrating, there are a few people in the house not so happy. Tommy went into a bedroom and was crying. Jack and Christie come in and comfort him. I don’t really understand why the nominee has to make someone else feel better, but whatever.

Big Brother rolls out the useless Have Nots for the season. Cliff has to randomly pick 4 people to be Have Nots and he goes with Tommy, Kathryn, Christie, and Jackson. It is peculiar they showed this on the TV broadcast. In ancient Big Brother days, on the nomination episodes they would have a Have Not Competition and it was a bigger aspect of the show. It’s almost nothing at this point. Its rarely mentioned, and we don’t usually know who are the Have Nots. Live Feed fans have heard about Jackson breaking the Have Not rules by eating food in the shower and Production not doing anything. I feel like it has to come back to get him at some point, otherwise why show us this?

Veto Competition

Time for the veto draw! It is Cliff, Jack, Jackson, Sam (Cliffs choice), Holly, and Jess. BUT WAIT A MINUTE! Jack busts out his Chaos power! On the Veto redraw we have Cliff, Jack, Jackson, Kathryn, Sam, Analyse. It still is arguably 3-3 like it was the first draw. Jacks power was a joke, and thankfully it’s gone and we don’t have to think about it.

The competitors have to sit on a jet ski that has 3 buttons. 1 on each handle, and one where their right foot is. They need to undress to a bathing suit and jump off and hit a button to stop a clock. If they let go of the button their time goes 10 times faster. Two buttons let go is 30 times faster, three buttons let go is 60 times faster.

During Kathryn’s turn in her DR narration she says she isn’t sure if she wants to win and use the veto on Jackson and show her cards. Excuse me, Kathryn? What cards? THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU AREN’T IN THEIR ALLIANCE. She would be saving her ex hookup and get nothing out of it. Also, Analyse might be one of the worst DR presences I have ever seen in 21 seasons of Big Brother. I think a corpse would have more life than her when talking in the DR.

Unfortunately for everyone outside of the Six Shooters, Jackson wins veto. Jackson will of course use the veto, and he is completely sure he will be able to use the Diamond Power of Veto power of Christie’s. However, she isn’t sure she wants to use it. In the DR she talks about how she’s afraid of pissing Cliff off. She says she regrets telling everyone and feeling all the pressure.

Christie talks to Cliff alone. Tells him how Jackson is pushing her to use the power. Cliff says he understands her worry about trusting he won’t nominate her or Tommy. Christie proposed a deal, that’s not really a deal. Christie says she won’t use her power if Cliff agrees to nominate Bella and they backdoor her. Then he will be safe for at least two weeks. 

At the veto ceremony Jackson of course uses the veto on himself. Everyones waiting to see if the power will be used or not. Christie holds on to it! This is the chance for Cliff to finish his shot at The Six Shooters! Cliff nominates Christie and is going to take her out and get rid of the Diamond Power of Veto all together! Just kidding…….Cliff does exactly what The Six Shooters want and puts up Bella. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Why even bother trying to take the big swing and then chicken out at the end. I get wanting to guarantee safety from them, and it’s not like Bella is trustworthy by any means, but it’s just delaying the inevitable at this point.

After the veto ceremony Cliff talks with Jack and Jackson. They were really impressed that he kept his word by nominating Bella. It seems like the deal he made with them seems to be benefiting him in the short term at least. Cliff says he took his shot at them, and it didn’t work, so no one would expect if the three of them worked together from here on out. It would be a pretty interesting team up, but unlikely they would be on board in my opinion.

Bella does some pretty good campaigning to stay this week. She makes points that Jack is a better competitor and this may be their only chance to get him out. Bella clearly isn’t a comp threat and would be a good number for people to use.

Eviction

There was a package that we saw showing us Cliff’s family. It was nice and all, but not worth writing about. So we will get right into the eviction! Bella had a great speech, again pointing out Jack being a bigger threat. She also named everyone who wasn’t in the majority alliance and this was a good chance to take a shot. Alas, it was not meant to be and Bella was booted out 8-2. In the exit interview Bella says she does regret turning on Nicole and they had a conversation in the house where Bella apologized. I thought that was a nice bow to tie her story in the house.

That was the week, everyone…Cliff, who could have changed everything, did nothing. He just did the dirty work that Six Shooters wanted him to. Jack might as well have won HOH and we would have the same result. I’m going to go ahead and end this since the Nomination half way over and I need to get to watching it…bye!

Big Brother S21 E9-11

These first few weeks have been pretty brutal to write about, let alone watch. It seems like nothing is going right, the good people are getting picked off left and right and we are still left with the gross majority alliance. Thankfully, Kemi’s elimination caused a little bit of a stir right at the end of last week, putting a target on Nick and Bella. Maybe we will get lucky and things will change this week! Probably not though…

HOH Competition

Pretty simple HOH comp this week. Houseguests had to underhand throw an arrow at a target. The highest score wins. To create the effect of an “interesting twist” on the comp they had two circles, one at each side that you could hit instead. One was for $5,000, the other was for immunity this week. I say it was to “create the effect” was the targets for these were so small and far away it would be nearly impossible to intentionally hit them, which no one does. So much for hoping things would change…Nick wins!

Remember last week when Jackson cast the rogue vote for Jessica? His plan was to pin it on Nick or Bella, but now that they are safe with the Nick HOH he needs to find someone else he can blame it on. He decides to convince the house it was Nicole. Jackson takes this news to Nick and he seems convinced by it. His original plan was to put Cliff and Jessica up but now he seriously needs to consider Nicole. I really like this move by Jackson. Its early enough in the game it’s hard for the accused to deny and it puts a big target on them, one more person out of the house.

Bella is talking to some people in the bedroom outside of the Diary Room. I’m not sure if production really wanted to have Kemi come do a confessional, or if they knew they could create some drama, but it sure resulted in the latter. Kemi overheard Bella running her mouth and they got in a pretty decent argument. There wasn’t a lot of substance to it, but it sure highlighted that Bella can’t fight. The highlight was when Kemi went to leave and Bella followed her, which caused Kemi to turn around and get in her face telling her not to follow after her. Bella folded pathetically saying she wasn’t following her, she was going to the kitchen (She clearly was not). Kemi tried a few times going in the DR to get away but production kept the door locked while it was going on, which was pretty great haha.

There is a Gr8ful meeting in the HOH room. Nick is voicing doubt that Nicole cast the rogue vote. He says she isn’t stupid, she knows how to play this game. Jackson starts to worry and really doubles down on blaming Nicole. He really needs to calm down on this if he wants to sell the lie. The more you push it and don’t even entertain other ideas the more clear it becomes that you’re lying. Bella proposes this to Sam after everyone else leaves the room, that Jackson cast the vote as he is trying so hard to deflect.

Wacktivity

We are finally on the last wacktivity! Its the Panic activity and Analyse, Jess, Christie, and Nick all compete. For the competition there is a large box full of cockroaches. They need to move the cockroaches to reveal picture clues to words to put together a phrase.

The most important thing we learned from this comp is that Analyse is horrifically bad at explaining things in the DR. She was the main person who explained the rules to us and talked through her entire turn. We also found out she didn’t know how to spell Julie, poor girl. Anyway, Christie wins this one and is given an actual useful power! She wins the ability to turn the Golden Power of Veto into the Diamond Power of Veto. One time over the next four weeks she can allow the veto winner to take down a nomination and choose their own nomination to replace. 

Christie plans to only tell Tommy about the power. As she is explaining the power to him, Jack walks into the room. Things got awkward and quiet for a minute. Jack shares with the two of them what his weak power he won in the wacktivity was. Christie is thankful he shared and said she wished she could give him good news like that but doesn’t have anything. So far this season it’s rare when someone says they are going to keep a secret so I was impressed!

Speaking of secrets, there were a few scenes of secrets being shared after this. Nicole tells Kemi she thinks there is a big group working together, she doesn’t seem to know who they all are yet though. Kemi has a connection with Nicole and even though Bella told her some things in confidence she is ready to spill. She tells Nicole about Cliff being overheard by Christie. This blindsides Nicole who goes right away to Cliff to let him know the news. Cliff is understandably upset by this. He apologizes a lot to Nicole for ruining their game.

Nominations

There was a small push to get Nick to turn on Gr8ful. Nick, Bella, and Sam were talking and know that Gr8ful isn’t going to last much longer. They are aware they are on the bottom and will be picked off. Sam asks why are they just accepting it and not doing anything about it. Nick of course is going to be to big of a chicken to actually make the move. Nicole later goes to NIck and Bella and tells them how they were going to be the target if Nick hadn’t won HOH. They are pretty shook by this but ultimately it didn’t matter. Nick still went the easy route of nominating Cliff and Jessica.

Right after the nomination ceremony Nick is still pissed that his alliance was going after him. Him, Bella, Tommy are in the HOH room. They tell Tommy what they find out and he starts trying to do damage control. He quickly gets the rest of Gr8ful (and Sam) to come in and convince Nick and Bella she was lying.

Gr8ful+Sam go real gross in this episode. It turned into a mob mentality and straight up bullying. Multiple people outside of the alliance try coming into the room to talk and are booted out. FIrst was David, he was told they were talking game and to come back later. See, King Jack made a rule that people in camp comeback weren’t allowed to talk game or be around people talking game. So they are continuously ostracized by the group. Cliff tried to come in, but he was kicked out as well, Nicole shortly later tries and is kicked out.

Bella tells everyone what Nicole said about them being targeted if Nick didn’t win HOH, also that they were calling NIck and Bella bullies. They all act outraged that Nicole would play both sides of the house like this, and that she was the one calling them bullies. Analyse says how pissed she is and threatens to go down there and yell at her. Production was amazing and cut to a scene where Analyse and Holly are talking to Nicole and talking about how Nick and Bella are bullying her and Nicole didn’t agree or anything. Bella IMMEDIATELY believes everything she is being sold, with no actual proof.

When Nicole was kicked out she came downstairs and was upset. She regrets talking to Bella since she can’t keep her mouth shut. That house doesn’t deserve someone as good as Ovi. Ovi, knowing he was going to be attacked, goes upstairs to scold them for treating Nicole like that. They yell at him to go and to wait a bit. He says he just doesn’t think it was cool what they did. Bella says it’s not really your say. He just says it’s not cool and walks away. Bella is such an idiot, what does it mean its not his place to say them treating Nicole like that is not cool? Because he is in Camp Comeback he isn’t allowed to have an opinion. I can’t want for her reality check.

Everyone starts screaming and jumping around in the HOH room. They all became manic and it was honestly frightening. I was almost expecting them to leave the room and start burning people at the stake or some shit. They out of nowhere decided to solidify themselves as an alliance! Sam isn’t supposed to know about Gr8ful so now they have this brand new perfect timing “Unde9able”. Sam is so good though; it cut to him in the diary room with a straight face where he said “I should be Gr8ful for this opportunity …it’s unde9able”

Later on after the bully party Nicole is in one of the bedrooms. Bella and TOmmy walk in and asks if she wants to talk. Nicole says she was upset because she had a heart to heart with them and they announced it to the entire house. Bella said she went to them because some of it didn’t make sense. What Bella means by this is Nicole is only 1 person, and 3 people told her it wasn’t true so that makes more sense to her. Bella bulldozed Nicole the conversation. It was for Bella to talk AT Nicole and accuse her. Not to have an actual adult conversation. When Bella finished her talk, instead of letting Nicole respond, she said she was tired and wanted to go to bed. 

The next day Kathryn and Bella are in the bedroom and Nicole comes in asking to talk. Nicole says she loves and respects Bella and apologizes if anything she said offended her. However, because Bella is a petulant child, she just wants to hear more apologizes from Nicole and won’t listen to a word Nicole has to say defending herself. Nick and Tommy come in and Nick joins in with Bella. Both of them are so offended that Nicole supposedly called them bullies, they bully her in defending herself against the lie. Nicole finally snaps, and it’s beautiful. Tells Bella that this is all her. That she constantly misconstrues what people tell her and is always running her mouth. Nicole tells Nick that she respects him and hopes he does well in the game but Bella will drag him down. 

Veto

The contestants in the veto were Nick, Jessica, Cliff, Jackson, Kat, and Christie (Picked by Jessica). Two weeks in a row now Jessica got houseguest choice and picks almost the worst possible person to play. She’s willingly picking people to play she know aren’t playing the game with her.

Kaitlyn from season 20 is hosting the comp! The contestants enter the maze search for their color puzzle pieces and put together a Kaitlyn puzzle. It was the same puzzle that Kaitlyn was able to try to put together last season to stay in the house. Kaitlyn does a really good job at poking fun of herself, and ive really turned around on her from my dislike of her last season.

Kathryn wins! Much to everyone’s surprise. It wasn’t even close either!

At this point in the veto episode it seemed like we weren’t going to have time for anything else aside the veto ceremony but BIg Brother crammed one more, amazing segment in. Christie had a full blown meltdown thinking she was getting backdoored for literally not a single reason. She kept taking random things he was saying in general as attacks at her. Christie breaks down talking to Kathryn about how she for sure is going up. 

Veto ceremony comes around. Kathryn uses the veto on Jessica and Nicole is the replacement nominee, it looks like the back door is in place for her. Christie in the DR says “The risk I just took not using the diamond power of veto is so huge!” Except it wasn’t, because she wasn’t at risk whatsoever.

We find out early in the eviction episode Christie spoke with Nick and Bella about her worries she was on the outs with the group. Which really surprised them, rightfully so, because it was a crazy thought. To try and ensure her safety, Christie told them about the diamond power of veto. So much for keeping it a secret with only Tommy. Also funny when she told them not to tell anyone, and Bella is part of the conversation, which means everyone is going to find out.

As I have been saying from the beginning, an eight person alliance is impossible and the majority alliance whittles itself down. Now instead of Gr8ful, they are “The Six Shooters”, keeping most of the same group as before, less Nick and Bella. Also, no Sam, sorry buddy!

Christie was all over the place in this episode. She has stopped melting down about being on the outs with her group now that Veto has passed. Instead she leads the vote flip from targeting Nicole to booting Cliff. She knows Nicole has motivation to take a shot at Nick and Bella now, meaning SIx Shooters wouldn’t have to if Nicole can win HOH. She is also still mad that Cliff said her name and recognized the majority alliance.

They showed a package from the Camp Comeback members about what they have been doing to stay in the game, and just different things that have happened to them. David is making good relationships, Ovi makes a lot of cookies, and Kemi kind of hangs out. In this package, though they show a scene where Jack has a disgusting, offensive conversation with Kemi scolding her for putting her shaker bottle in the refrigerator. Jack has been shown being an asshole a bit on the show, and he definitely is a piece of shit on the feeds, but this was the first time showing how bad he is on the show. He is a cocky fuck who I can’t wait to watch his downfall. 

Elimination

Time for us to see the fourth and final spot at comeback be filled. It’s the seasons first split vote. At 6-4 Cliff is voted out. Nick and Bellas reactions were priceless. They were furious and I can’t wait for the next episode so we can see how those conversations go. 

Camp Comeback

For the Camp Comeback competition, the four contestants have to roll 6 balls down a winding board maze and drop them into a container. Whoever gets either 6 balls, or the most in the time period wins their way back into the house.

This was no contest. Cliff completely dominated this game. He didn’t have a ball of his drop off a single time. It was like he did this for fun at home and was a pro. He was winning 4-0 before anyone else even got one. Cliff showed some awesome confidence with his celebration. He threw his hat and flexing on everyone! 

While I’m happy that Cliff got back in because he seems like a great guy and will do some cool things in the game there are a couple negatives. First, the coolest nightmare power went out of the house with Ovi. That really would have been fun to see. Two, the visual of David, Ovi, and Kemi all sitting with Julie for an exit interview was really striking and awful. Almost all of the diversity in the house being kicked out in one go. 

I’m happy that Camp Comeback is over. I was glad that we got to see David, Ovi, and Kemi some extra weeks. It just leads to the same issue that Edge of Extinction had in Survivor this season. There are only so many minutes in an episode and when we are splitting screen time with people who aren’t in the game,and not even talking game (not by their choice to be fair). It takes away from other, more meaningful moments in the game.

We had a really fun drama packed week, it didn’t end in any great results with changing things up, but we were able to keep Nicole and Cliff so hopefully we can see some revolution and attack on the majority alliance. Shake things up, make the powerful fearful. Talk to everyone later…bye!