Quick spoilers
- Head of household
- Barrett
- Nominees
- Devens, Angela, Dee
- POV players
- Taylor, Devens, Barrett, Yash, Angela, Dee (host: Melody)
- POV winner
- Yash
- Veto ceremony
- Veto not used
- Have-nots
- Melody, Dee
Two long conversations on the last full day before Thursday, and they end up describing the same problem from opposite sides of the house. In the morning Dee and Angela work out who actually votes for them and how badly Barrett has exposed himself. In the afternoon Drew sits down with a nominee and tells her he wants to blow up his own alliance’s Head of Household — then helps her write the pitch that does it.
Where the week stands: Barrett is Head of Household. Angela, Dee and Devens are all still nominated. The Blockbuster is Thursday — one of the three saves themselves, the other two face the vote, so an Icon is going home. Devens has been sick since Friday night and the cough has run all day.
Dee asks Angela for permission to throw Devens a sympathy vote, which is the exact move she watched Drew make on Monday and then called damage control to the camera. Her reason is the opposite of his: “I don’t care about jury. I care more that he doesn’t go out with nothing.” Angela is not thrilled — “that’s a risk for me.”
Angela has a theory nobody else in the house has caught up to: Devens’ only path is selling himself to the other side as the man who will help take Yash out. “That’s beneficial to them, and that’s his only move right now. So I’m sure it’s being said.” If it lands, he leaves with Drew’s vote and Melody’s.
Angela then offered to be the one who goes, on the grounds that she does not win competitions. Dee shut it down flat: keep both Icons and they come for everybody, so the other side sends one of them home regardless. Which reduces the entire week to the Blockbuster, and both of them think Dee wins it.
On the money, Angela is insulted: “Three of them are so not deserving of winning even 50, 75. Let alone 750.” Dee’s answer: stop thinking about the money and think about making it to the end.
Dee has her Head of Household already built — Angela goes up as a pawn beside a target, because “Melody can’t win s—” and Yash cannot nominate them anyway. And on Drew: “Drew thinks that I’m with him. I’m telling everybody else no, but when he lies to me, I’m like — yeah, Drew, obviously we’re good with you.”
Then Drew came to the have-not room and went further than he ever has. He wants to wreck Barrett’s week — “I wanna f— up his HOH” — he now believes the Yash bribe is real and thinks Barrett was a fool to dismiss it, and he says Taylor and Yash rank him behind Melody and Barrett. “Out of the five newbies, I’m the first one to go, because they don’t like me.”
Dee is happy the bribe got dismissed, which is the coldest line of the day: “A part of me is kind of happy that Barrett didn’t believe it. Because even if I’m not in this house, you’re still f—ed.”
He then coached her campaign. Melody is the swing and Drew says she raised it first. His script: nobody goes home sitting next to Angela, “Melody’s the most protected f—ing person in here, because she hasn’t won anything,” swear the Yash deal is real, and offer her a vote. Dee’s half of the deal: “even if you guys do go up and I’m here — I am a vote.”
He also handed her permission to make him the villain in her pitch to Yash and Taylor — “I know Drew’s ass had something to do with this. If that’s what you have to say, go ahead.” And when Dee rehearsed promising Melody she would send Drew home, he redirected her to promise Barrett instead. Thirty seconds later: “But I hope you keep my ass over her.” Then: “But that’s not what I’m gonna tell her.”
Dee is gunning for the next Head of Household and says what she would do with it: “I will go for Barrett.” Drew is fine with the house believing the opposite of all of this.
Where it leaves Thursday: Drew told her he cried in the hot tub, that they will be friends forever, and that he is rooting slightly harder for Devens in the Blockbuster because Devens has no other route. Neither of them is sure the double is even this week. And in a coincidence neither knows about, both Dee and Drew spent the day planning to ask Angela the same favor — permission to give Devens a sympathy vote.
11:25 AM — Dee and Angela (Prototype room)
Dee has come from the kitchen table, where she sat through a conversation about movies, and she has not recovered from it.
Dee: “That’s an addiction. Like, that is not normal. I get you love movies, but none of it is real.”
Dee: “And they’re not even talking about the production of it, or the scenes, or the creative. They’re just talking about, oh yeah, this actor did this and that. Bro, none of that is real.”
Dee: “Sorry, I’m being a hater. No — the three of them don’t f—ing stop talking about it.”
Angela: “They all love it. If it’s not that, sports is even harder for me. I like football, but only because I like to make semi-homemades.”
Dee: “But at least sports is more real.”
Angela: “And I like commercials sometimes.”
She stayed anyway, out of a sort of anthropological hope.
Dee: “Jesus Christ, dude. My ears were bleeding. But I stayed, because I’m like — maybe there’s hope.”
Dee: “There’s not hope when you’re sitting at that table next to those three.”
Then, having spent Monday calling Drew’s sympathy vote damage control, Dee asks Angela for permission to do exactly the same thing.
Dee: “Oh, by the way, I was going to ask you — if you’re sitting next to Devens, do you mind if I give him a pity vote?”
Angela: “It’s a game, and that’s a risk. I don’t know that you need to. Because that’s a risk for me.”
Dee: “Well, you’re getting all the votes.”
Angela: “I don’t have a lot of votes. I’d hate to go out because of it.”
Dee’s reasoning is not strategic and she does not pretend it is.
Dee: “I don’t care about jury. I care more that he doesn’t go out with nothing.”
Dee: “We’re all going to be friends after this. I’m not thinking about gameplay purposes right now. But I do understand your end.”
Angela’s read on why Devens might survive is the sharpest thing she says, and it has nothing to do with sympathy.
Angela: “That’s Devens’ biggest pitch in the house right now, if you think about it — the girls won’t help you. I’m going along with it in public, but behind closed doors, I will help you get rid of Yash.”
Angela: “That’s beneficial to them, and that’s his only move right now. So I’m sure it’s being said.”
Angela: “In which case he would have Drew’s vote and Melody’s vote. And if you don’t vote for me, then I only have two and he has three. Do you see that?”
She has a theory about Melody in all this, and it is not a generous one.
Angela: “Women in this game have done it because of a guy. They get so wrapped up in thinking it’s going to be them two going to the end, or three. That is so dumb.”
Angela: “I know you think no, but she’s very close with the two. So if they’re telling her — keep him, because he’s going to help get rid of y’all.”
Dee is not interested in gaming out Devens’ survival, because in her version it costs her everything.
Dee: “I’m not thinking about his pitch, because he’s not staying in the game unless he wins. And then if he wins, I’m gone. That’s what it is. I’ve accepted it already. It’s fine.”
Dee: “F—ing Barrett, bro. I can’t wait to come back. I cannot wait. And all these f—ers underestimating you — to watch you win. It could happen.”
Just after noon, Angela does the arithmetic on the rest of the house and comes out of it insulted.
Angela: “There’s eight people in the house right now. Then there’ll be seven. Still — three of them are so not deserving of winning even 50, 75. Let alone 750.”
Angela: “But we can’t think about money right now. We’ve got to think about how to make it to the end.”
“Three of them are so not deserving of winning even 50, 75. Let alone 750.”
— Angela
Dee has her Head of Household already built, and it involves using Angela.
Dee: “If I win HOH, what I would do is definitely put you up there. One of the ones we don’t put up, the other goes home. I wouldn’t not put you up. I will put him up.”
Dee: “I’m not going to put you up with Taylor. Melody can’t win s—. And either way, Yash can’t put us up.”
Angela: “I thought about the same thing. I would just tell Drew — hey, you’re a pawn. I need you to do this because I need you to win.”
Which is when Dee explains the state of her relationship with Drew.
Dee: “Drew thinks that I’m with him. I’m telling everybody else no — but when he lies to me, I’m like, yeah, Drew, obviously we’re good with you.”
“Drew thinks that I’m with him… when he lies to me, I’m like, yeah, Drew, obviously we’re good with you.”
— Dee
Then twenty minutes of homework. Dee could not sleep because she realized their study list had a hole in it.
Dee: “I was going to bed and I couldn’t sleep, because we forgot Kamu in the days. We didn’t mention Kamu in any of them.”
The trick is to pair each eviction day with the person who left, using how old they look as the mnemonic — which produces some fairly rude arithmetic about Lala.
Dee: “Ten is Ashley. Seventeen is Rome. Twenty-four is Jason. Thirty-one is Lyric. Thirty-eight is Chuck. Forty-five is Kamu. Fifty-two is Mallory. Then Damsel in Distress is Haley. Then fifty-nine is Lala.”
Dee: “So Lala is close to fifty-nine years old.”
Angela: “She is.”
They run the Head of Household order alongside it and Dee gets most of the way before catching herself twice: her own week, then Devens taking Rome out, Kamu, Haley, Lala, Yash, two quiet weeks, her second win, Drew, and now Barrett. “That’s super easy.”
Angela promises to picture it daily. Dee’s answer is the one every houseguest gives at this stage of a season: “It’s actually not that hard.”
In between, Angela puts in a Diary Room grocery order — refried beans, corn, sour cream, a lemon, and confirmation that there are enough avocados for guacamole — and Dee announces she is not washing her hair until noon because she is not taking another cold shower.
Angela also has a compliment for the man on the other side of the house.
Angela: “Yash is very good at adapting to their conversations.”
Dee: “Oh yeah, with anyone. He can be superficial, but he can also be very deep and intellectual.”
And a prediction: “I just know you’re going to win. I feel like it’s the ropes. I feel it.”
Dee has noticed Devens going quiet.
Dee: “Devens has been making comments too. Maybe it’s because he feels bad, because he’s sick. He’s like — do we know if you’re in the jury? Do you find out what date the finale is?”
Dee: “I think he’s kind of checking out a little bit mentally.”
Angela admits she has been doing the same, and then offers Dee something.
Angela: “I’d be lying if I said I haven’t thought about going to jury too.”
Dee: “Angela, you are staying.”
Angela: “Maybe I’m not the best one for your game. Maybe he is. Have you thought about that? Just transparency here.”
Angela: “I’m not winning stuff, D.”
Dee: “No — because if he stayed, I’m going home. One of us is going home. Because if I was in their position, that’s what I would do. You do not keep competitors in the game.”
Dee: “Because at any point, if they keep both of us, we’re going to go against everybody. And they know that. It’s not going to happen.”
Which reduces the whole week to one competition.
Dee: “Just gotta win this Blockbuster. That’s it. Even if you win it, that’s good too. You or me.”
Angela: “You’d for sure have my vote. You’d for sure have Yash and Taylor. I cannot say the same about Melody and Drew.”
Dee: “Yeah — and I don’t care either.”
The best story of the morning is about the shrine Dee has built in her room, which Barrett came to look at last night without knowing she was in there.
Angela: “I was laughing. All I heard was — oh, so what is this? And he stood over it for a while. It was so awkward.”
Dee: “He goes, I heard there was a shrine in here. I’m like, yeah, take a look at it. Then he’s standing over it, and he doesn’t know what to say.”
Dee: “He hit the light on his way in, and he hit the light on his way out.”
Dee: “And then he’s like, so what does it mean? I go — I’m not telling anyone what it means.”
He asked one more question and got an answer he probably did not want.
Dee: “I was like — wow, you think it means something to do with you? He goes, no. And then I’m like, yeah. Don’t worry.”
Dee: “He’s like, do I need to keep guessing? I’m like, well, I’m never going to tell you what it is unless you get it right.”
“I’m never going to tell you what it is unless you get it right.”
— Dee, on the shrine
She is far enough into it to be planning the tattoo. Angela suggests the neck; Dee goes further and wants GOAT on the throat, and the two of them spend a happy minute deciding which Big Brother characters should also go on there.
Where it stands: Two things worth holding onto. Dee asked a fellow nominee for permission to throw Devens a sympathy vote — the exact move she watched Drew make on Monday and then told the camera was damage control. She is doing it for the opposite reason, and she says so: she does not want him leaving with nothing, and she is not thinking about the jury.
And Angela has a genuine theory that the rest of the house has not caught up to — that Devens’ only path is selling himself to the other side as the man who will help take out Yash, and that if that lands, he leaves with Drew’s vote and Melody’s. Angela then offered to be the one who goes, on the grounds that she does not win competitions. Dee shut it down flat: keep both Icons and they come for everybody, so one of them is going regardless. Which leaves the entire week resting on the Blockbuster, and both of them think Dee wins it.
2:30 PM — Drew and Dee (Have-not room)
Drew has stopped hedging. He spends fifteen minutes telling a nominee he wants to blow up his own alliance’s Head of Household, and then helps her write the speech that does it.
He opens by laying out the vote as he sees it.
Drew: “I think Devens would need to win the Blockbuster. Because if Devens is sitting there, he goes home. I don’t think there’s any convincing Taylor. Or Melody.”
Drew: “You’re safe against him. As of right now, you’re not safe against Angela.”
Then he says where he actually is, and it is not with the people he is supposed to be with.
Drew: “Out of the five newbies — which includes me — I’m the first one to go, because they don’t like me. And it’s between me or Yash, because out of the five, me or him are going to win, and they want to get the other one out.”
Drew: “Taylor and Yash have Melody and Barrett’s back before mine. So I need you. I need you both here.”
Drew: “And for me — I wanna f— up his HOH.”
He has also, quietly, come around on the thing Barrett threw out on Friday.
Drew: “I 100% believe you guys. I don’t want Yash here, because I know his act. I believe you guys that he can’t put you up. And it’s just stupid to me that he didn’t go.”
Dee: “F—ing dumb, bro. You know what — a part of me is kind of happy that Barrett didn’t believe it. Because even if I’m not in this house, you’re still f—ed.”
Drew: “Yeah. The thing that sucks is, I’m also f—ed.”
“A part of me is kind of happy that Barrett didn’t believe it. Because even if I’m not in this house, you’re still f—ed.”
— Dee
Dee’s diagnosis of the whole week is one sentence long and she has clearly been polishing it.
Dee: “It’s weird — because when the game starts, you want to get rid of threats. Competitive threats. Then as it gets closer, you can’t do it too f—ing soon, because then you have nobody to fight with you. And then you’re leaving.”
Dee: “He’s saying it’s me or Devens, duh, because that’s good for his game. One of us gone. But if both of us are here, we can both win s—.”
Then Drew hands her the tools. First, permission to use him.
Drew: “Whatever you need to say to Yash and Taylor — be like, I don’t f—ing trust Barrett. Hey, Drew, we were in an alliance on day two. I know Drew’s ass had something to do with this.”
Drew: “If that’s what you have to say, go ahead. Because they don’t want me here either.”
Drew: “And they fully expect me to put two of you up.”
Dee: “Yeah, that’s fine. I don’t care. You can say whatever.”
Then the actual plan, which is Melody.
Drew: “Melody’s definitely the swing this week. And I think there’s a good chance, because she brought it up to me. I didn’t bring it up.”
Drew: “Just be like — hey, listen, I don’t know where your head’s at. But I don’t think anyone goes home against Angela.”
Drew: “She doesn’t go home against almost anybody. Melody’s the most protected f—ing person in here. Because she hasn’t won anything. I’m not putting her up. I don’t think Barrett’s gonna put her up.”
Dee: “But she will go home if she’s sitting next to Taylor.”
“Melody’s the most protected f—ing person in here. Because she hasn’t won anything.”
— Drew
He tells her to swear the Yash deal is real, and then Dee tries the pitch out loud — and offers Melody his head.
Drew: “I think you should also completely swear that the deal with Yash is real.”
Dee, rehearsing: “And if you vote to keep me, I’ll make sure that Drew goes home.”
Drew: “Or you can tell her that you’ll make sure Barrett goes home. Because I’m sure she’d rather have me here than Barrett. To be honest, it’s not a lie.”
Drew: “If you threaten her that I’m going to go home, she might not vote that way. She might be like, I’ll protect you and Drew.”
Dee has her half of the offer ready, and it is the thing Melody has never been given by anybody on the other side.
Dee: “And even if you guys do go up and I’m here… I am a vote.”
Drew: “Yeah, exactly.”
Dee: “Yeah. I’ll reinforce it.”
And then, having coached her through all of it, he asks for the one thing he actually wants.
Drew: “But I hope you keep my ass over her.”
Dee: “Duh.”
Drew: “But that’s not what I’m gonna tell her.”
“But I hope you keep my ass over her.” — “Duh.” — “But that’s not what I’m gonna tell her.”
— Drew and Dee
Dee tells him she is going after the Head of Household herself, and does not soften what she would do with it.
Dee: “I will gun for the HOH.”
Drew: “Oh, you do?”
Dee: “I will. I will go for Barrett.”
Drew: “If Yash wins, I’m already on the f—ing block. If Taylor wins, I’m already on the block. If Melody wins, I’m safe. And if you two win, I’m okay.”
He is planning the same favor Dee asked Angela for this morning, and has not noticed the symmetry.
Drew: “I might even tell Angela — listen, I don’t think you’re going this week. I haven’t heard your name at all. Is it okay if I vote sympathy for Devens?”
Drew: “Or just be like — don’t get her freaking out.”
Drew: “Don’t worry about me. You have my vote. You have Devens’. And I’m shooting Angela.”
Then he tells her about the hot tub.
Drew: “We were all sitting there in the hot tub before they all walked in. I dead ass was crying. And I covered my face — you guys didn’t see me. I’m sorry. Because I’m like, damn, these are like my—”
Dee: “I don’t want you to cry, because one of us is going home and you gotta continue. And we’re gonna be friends forever.”
Dee: “Even Barrett — I love the guy. I hope he’ll be my friend. I don’t take that s— personal.”
Dee: “But I’m not gonna give him an easy week either.”
On Thursday, Drew will not tell her to throw it.
Dee: “Just know I’ll give it my all.”
Drew: “I wouldn’t say throw it to Devens. I would say you have to go for it. Just like when you were on the block and you were like, I want to win.”
Drew: “We’re all competitors. We all want to do our best.”
Neither of them knows when the double is. They are guessing, same as everybody else.
Dee: “Do you think it’s the double this upcoming Thursday? Because that’s what everybody’s saying.”
Drew: “I would say it’s likely this Thursday. But if it doesn’t happen this week, definitely next.”
Dee: “Would this be the last Blockbuster?”
Drew: “It could very well be. If it’s a double, then we’ll know it’s over.”
Although his actual rooting interest is not hers, and he admits it.
Drew: “For Devens’ sake, I think I’m rooting for him a little bit more, because I don’t think he has another option.”
Drew: “Until Melody gives me the ‘I’m for sure keeping Dee.’ Then I’m like, all right, Devens, you have to win this. But I’m also rooting for you.”
Dee has already made her peace with the version where the Blockbuster does not save her.
Dee: “I just hope that even if he wins the block, they see that just because it’s two Icons, that doesn’t mean s—. We are still competitors.”
Dee: “There’s a double eviction coming up. That’s the perfect time to get rid of me. Because if somebody’s sitting next to me, I am going home. And I’m okay with it too.”
Drew: “For good reason. You’ve played the game very well. You are a threat because you’re good. You should go home if you’re on the block.”
Drew: “But I don’t want you to go home. Because I need you.”
He also has a read on Melody’s day, which is that it has not been a good one: in her head since she woke up, listening to music, short with people, a nap in the afternoon. “She’s been off today.” Dee’s diagnosis is hunger, which in a house of have-nots is not a joke.
Then Dee starts packing, because it is Wednesday and she is not taking chances. The zipper on her suitcase gives out while she is stuffing dresses into it, and she says the only sentimental thing in fifteen minutes of strategy.
Dee: “But I still love Angela. I love everybody in this damn house. Even the people that have already left.”
Where it stands: This is the furthest Drew has gone. He told a nominee he wants to wreck Barrett’s Head of Household, that he believes the Yash bribe is real and Barrett was a fool to dismiss it, that Taylor and Yash rank him behind Melody and Barrett, and that he is the first newbie out if either of them wins. Then he gave Dee permission to name him as the villain in her pitch to those same two people. Nothing he said upstairs on Saturday survives this conversation.
The tell is what he does when Dee rehearses her Melody pitch. She offers to promise Melody she will send Drew home; he redirects her to promise Barrett instead — not because it is safer for him, but because he thinks Melody would rather keep Drew. And then, thirty seconds later: “I hope you keep my ass over her.” He is running the swing vote’s boyfriend act and the nominee’s campaign manager at the same time, and only one of those people knows it.
Underneath the sentiment, the arithmetic points the same way, which is what makes this durable rather than a bad afternoon. Two surviving Icons are two people the other side has to spend competitions on, and two votes that are not Taylor’s or Yash’s. Drew cried in the hot tub and he is also doing the math — keeping Dee and Devens alive is the only version of the next three weeks where he is not the first newbie out. Both things are true at once, and he says both out loud inside fifteen minutes.
Meanwhile both sides are now planning the identical courtesy: Dee asked Angela this morning for permission to throw Devens a sympathy vote, and Drew spent this afternoon planning to ask Angela the same thing. Neither of them knows the other did it.
3:00 pm
4:20 pm
5:40 pm
6:19 PM — Yash and Devens
The night before the Blockbuster, Devens makes his closing argument. It is not about friendship and he does not pretend it is.
He starts with Angela, because the whole case rests on her.
Devens: “I see why you would. And it’s a great idea until you end up next to her.”
Devens: “Dee can only win one HOH every two weeks, just like you and I. Whereas Angela — there’s nothing keeping her from slipping through the whole time.”
Devens: “What scenario can you picture where Angela goes home? Honestly, from here on out. Up against them, she’s not going home. Up against you, she’s not going home.”
Devens: “Angela, in a weird way, is more dangerous than anybody.”
He does the same arithmetic on the other side of the house and it comes out worse.
Devens: “Taylor and Melody haven’t really shown that they win. I would pick Taylor over Melody any day. But not over Drew or Barrett. So that puts you in a tough spot.”
Devens: “I want Taylor’s vote, and I won’t put Taylor up. But you’re never going to sit against Taylor and stay.”
Devens: “If those two decide they’re going to put Melody up against you because they run out of options, you’re going. And you can only win one HOH at a time.”
Yash: “I need people that can win.”
Devens’ count: the other side is a three, Yash and Taylor are a two, and whoever comes back off the block makes a three again. Yash sees the same board — “whoever sits next to those three goes. In any one-on-one” — and Devens has the endgame version ready: get to a final three with two of them and “you’d crush it. Write your ticket to the final and you’ll win the game.”
Then he makes the strangest and best pitch of the season, which is that he is worth keeping because everybody hates him.
Devens: “I think I’m real good for you, because we have similar skill sets and you beat me head to head every time. Every single time. So the times I’m going to win are the times you can’t compete. I’m really not that big of a threat to you comp-wise.”
Devens: “But I could step up on those times you can’t play.”
Devens: “And then sitting next to me — I’ve made myself such a pariah, and such a threat. The perfect mixture of ‘we’re tired of him’ and ‘we think he’s a threat.’ They might still send your ass home. But it’s probably the best shot you have, would be sitting next to me.”
“I’ve made myself such a pariah, and such a threat… It’s probably the best shot you have, would be sitting next to me.”
— Devens
Yash tells him exactly where he is, and it is split down the middle.
Yash: “You staying, in my head, is fire — because we are capable of winning. And my heart believes you would put them up.”
Yash: “But I think you know how I am too. Where a part of my brain is going to think — can I trust him?”
Devens: “Why would you not? Exactly. Why would you not? That’s the thing where it’s heart versus brain a little bit. And listen — that’s on me. That’s on me.”
Yash: “That is very much how the cookie crumbled. But I do believe we would be putting up the same people.”
“My heart believes you would put them up. But a part of my brain is going to think — can I trust him?”
— Yash
He also asks the question that matters most for Thursday, and gets a yes.
Yash: “If you win, you’re voting Dee to stay? No matter what?”
Devens: “That would be what I would plan on doing.”
Yash: “I’m just trying to know, because that makes a big difference.”
On Drew, they are in complete agreement, which is not good news for Drew.
Devens: “Drew’s still trying to play like he was so surprised by what Barrett did. I’ve heard from you. I’ve heard from Taylor. I see it on his face.”
Yash: “You could read him like a book, bro.”
Yash: “I think that’s also why he’s clearly with them two now. Because they’re probably the only two in this house who will give him the time of day.”
Yash: “They are just fully a trio now. Fully a trio. It’s not even trying to hide it. And with Drew especially, you could tell in his eyes. His eyes tell you everything.”
Devens: “He’s finally just like — okay, I’ll sell these guys out totally.”
Yash: “But he’s still coming to us. Still coming to us trying to pitch like he knows things.”
Devens’ summary of where that leaves Drew is one sentence and it is fatal.
Devens: “I love him. I love them all. Personally, yes. But bro — you’ve given me all the permission in the world to vote your ass out.”
Then Devens explains something about the veto ceremony that nobody watching would have known.
Devens: “Those three — they’ve cut me off. I’ve cut them off. That’s why I tried to do it in front of the whole house. On the veto speech.”
Devens: “I knew you had already told me you’re not going to use the veto. So that whole thing was to show you.”
Devens: “It was a public declaration.”
Devens: “And if there’s something else you can think of that would prove it, I’m all ears. I’ll think of something.”
They also go back to the week Kamu left, and Devens claims it.
Devens: “We had the alliance of the five people, and we brought in Mallory and Melody as a little add-on.”
Devens: “Part of that was me going and saying — who’s the one biggest threat in this game? And they all said Kamu. And I said, all right. Watch. Watch what I’m going to do to bring this together.”
Devens: “And then they tried the whole next day to not send Kamu home. And I’m going — wait, what the hell?”
Yash: “That was your idea?”
His understanding — hedged, and he says so — is that Mallory and Melody were preparing to swing their votes to keep Kamu, and that Angela winning is what stopped it. Yash works out the rest himself: a different winner that week would have made a fifth vote and the whole thing tips.
Which reframes the season for Yash in a way he seems genuinely glad about.
Yash: “I look at all that stuff in retrospect and it makes sense for you operating as a unit of five. It actually gives it more merit, from my perspective.”
Yash: “I’ve always been honest. The only time I lied was when I had to. And that’s not on you — that’s on me.”
They shake on the version where Devens survives.
Yash: “Regardless of however I think about this tonight and however it goes — if you stay, let’s f—ing light them up.”
Devens: “I hope you keep me if it comes to that. But you’re right. I’m going to win the Blockbuster, and we will light them up. The first thing I’m going to do is come to you and say, let’s go.”
Yash: “Because you know I’ve been trying to work with your ass.”
Devens: “Because you know you can’t get me up. And I definitely won’t get you up.”
Devens: “And I fully intend on coming back.”
Devens even has a plan for the version where he does not: Yash has Taylor, and if Dee wins she brings Yash in, “because I think she wants the same thing we want.”
Yash: “At the end of the day, if it helps you with getting your s— right before tomorrow and you want to talk, I’m happy to talk. Because you know here, it can always actually be real.”
Yash: “I love you, dude.”
Devens: “I love you, dude.”
Devens leaves. Yash sits there for a while and then says three things to nobody.
Yash: “Fascinating.”
Yash: “But business is business.”
Yash: “Come on, man.”
“Fascinating… But business is business.”
— Yash, alone, thirty seconds after “I love you, dude”
Where it stands: Devens spent the last night before the Blockbuster making an argument that does not depend on anybody liking him, which is the smartest possible read of his position. Angela is the one nobody can beat and nobody will nominate. Dee will aim at the trio and not at Yash. And he himself is the ideal person for Yash to sit beside at an eviction, because he is simultaneously hated and feared — the two things that split a vote. He is asking to be kept as a weapon, not as a friend.
He also gave away the one thing that reframes the ceremony: Yash had told him privately in advance that the veto was staying in his pocket, so Devens used his speech to break with Barrett, Drew and Melody in front of the whole house — aimed at an audience of one. It was a demonstration, and Yash was the person meant to see it.
And Yash was honest with him about the split, which is the part Devens should worry about. Heart yes, brain not yet. “I love you, dude.” Then, alone, thirty seconds later: “Business is business.”
7:00 PM — Dee and Angela
We come into this one mid-thought, and Dee is laying out the terms of her post-show availability. They are not generous.
Dee: “Don’t call me for no therapy session. Unless you’re like my people. Because I’m not answering.”
Angela: “I may text or call you here and there about your DRs and stuff.”
Dee: “No, but that’s different. They’re gonna be funny and I might be laughing at your ass.”
Dee: “But I mean like someone that I guess I wasn’t that close to, you know? Like you can’t hold that weight for — no, no, no, no. That’s why we have psychologists. So go use them.”
A pause, and then, to nobody in particular: “I can’t wait to watch and laugh.”
Angela has a confession, and to her credit she does not dress it up. She promised Melody last night she would drop the running joke. This morning the whole room was doing it and she joined in anyway.
Angela: “Melody is mad at me because last night I said I wouldn’t talk about it anymore. And then what did I do? First thing this morning when everybody’s laughing about it, I talked about it too.”
Angela: “She wasn’t there though, but she was in here.”
Angela: “Probably wasn’t the best thing for me to do. And saying sorry again for doing it again is probably not going to fly.”
Dee does the apology for her, in full, in one breath.
“I’m sorry again for doing the thing I said I was sorry about in the first place that I said I wasn’t going to do. But I did it again.”
— Dee, on Angela’s behalf
Dee: “Gotcha, bro. I did it again.”
Angela: “That’s crazy.”
Dee: “Why would you do it again? You don’t know? I was bored. Sometimes you get bored and you don’t think about anything in here.”
Angela: “No, I was bored. I just was, like, going with it. Everybody else was doing it, so I was like, hell yeah. Let’s go.”
Angela then spreads the blame around a little — Devens said the part about the drinking, and everybody saw that too. Dee’s reminder is the one every houseguest gets around Day 60 and forgets by Day 61.
Angela: “People just might be whatever. Say whatever is on their mind.”
Dee: “You know you’re still on a TV show, right?”
And then the grievance she has clearly been holding all day.
Dee: “Bro, Barrett saved a house wine for me. Red. They f—ing drank it.”
Angela: “Who did?”
Dee: “I don’t know who it was. Last night it was probably Melody. You know, she started like drinking quick.”
The reconstruction that follows is done with the care of a woman who has been over it several times in her head. Melody had claimed the earlier bottle — “oh my God, this is my favorite wine, this wine I buy at home” — and Dee had made her position clear then: “I don’t care if this is your favorite wine, I’m drinking from it too.” Later the house wine arrived and Taylor put the bottles in the fridge to keep them cold. Dee finished her glass, went back for the red, and the fridge was empty.
She went straight outside — and straight past the one person she has ruled out.
Dee: “So I go outside, and I don’t ask Taylor. I ask Melody, because Taylor wouldn’t do that.”
Dee: “I ask Melody, hey, Melody, where’d you put the house wine that was mine? And she, like, comes back and says, oh — like, acting stupid.”
Dee: “Meanwhile, she’s holding the white one, that she hasn’t been drinking this entire time, because she already finished that super quick and then got the second one.”
Dee: “I mean, I’m thinking that she’s the one that did it. Obviously, I don’t know for a fact.”
Angela, without missing a beat, finds the only possible use for this information.
“Well, now you know what to say in the goodbye message.”
— Angela
Dee: “Yeah, right. Oh, that’s funny. That’s a good one.”
Where it stands: No strategy in this one, and that is the point. Dee has spent the day building a Head of Household plan, a Melody deal and a case for the Blockbuster, and what she is actually angry about at seven o’clock is a missing bottle of red. It is also the clearest picture yet of where Melody sits with her — Dee will not even entertain Taylor as a suspect, and assumes Melody by default. If Dee does go Thursday, Angela has already told her what the last forty seconds of her goodbye message are for.
This Week’s Veto: BB Comics
The house becomes a comic book shop for a day. Everyone is drawn as a hero or a villain, ziplines past a wall of their own covers, then rebuilds the display from memory — spotting the real ones among near-identical fakes, in order, against the clock. It has decided the veto eleven of the twelve times it has run. Every BB Comics competition since BB16 →
They really did Barrett dirty with his comic…
With this new format of Big Brother Final 8 feels like Final 3
You’re not the only one who feels that way
At this rate it should be final season. This is my least favorite season since ever.
I am so beyond sick of Drew. So sick of her that my new preferred eviction order is:
1) her, 2) Dee, 3) Mrs. Murray & 4)Rick.
Dee can go this week. Her performance theatre on Barrett at the Veto ceremony makes me want to see her get bounced on Thursday. Hopefully she chokes at the Blockbuster.
Except I think Production was worse with the way they did Barrett dirty with his comic
IF Grod doesn’t RIG it for her.
As the ex-Survivor champion, it’s obvious Grod prefers to market Dee as the crossover CBS winner,since Rick has never won anything.
And, whatever AG wants, AG gets.
Word has it from an insider that spilled that Angela is getting double a regular cast member in weekly pay, meaning she gets 3k a week. The survivors are getting more. Devens is getting around 5k and Dee is getting more than 5k (because she won a season of Survivor and therefore goes for a higher base rate). So ask yourself… if you have to keep paying one that rate even though they will not be appearing on episodes anymore…. which one are you okay with paying if you are production.
Since the nomination ceremony this has been my running theory on what pro survivor plot is being pushed in d/r to houseguests. And if you note how opinions on Dee shifted after 3 d/r calls… I wouldn’t say you were necessarily incorrect.
What the pay scale means to me: a reg houseguest that has made it to week 8 has made roughly 10.5k before tax. Angela has made roughly 24k before tax and Devens has made about 40k while Dee is estimated to have made 45k before tax just for making it to week 8. We all know there is a bonus added for making top 6.
In terms of cash cowing, now we know why stunts agree (we haven’t even talked signing bonus or guaranteed minimum yet).
I bring this up because of a bbcan incident. season…4? The one with the Brit and Au bb ‘stars’ that joined the cast. They bluntly told the houseguests their guarantee was higher than the first place winner money. Now can was only 100k… but it tells you something about what a production is willing to pay and guarantees made to stuntcasts.
This has made me believe that Dee will stay since noms. This has also had me wondering when / if keeping BOTH survivors will be pushed. Probably has been already. I missed most of the day.
Even tho you missed most of the day, you’re absolutely right.
Surviving both survivors has come out of of the mouths of several newbies so far today. ALL post-d/r, of course.
Planning to vote Mrs. Murray out on this Thursday has been discussed by Drew, Melody, Yash, Taylor, Dee, Devens AND Angela. Angela(after the obligatory d/r)actually VOLUNTEERED to Dee to be the one to be voted out.
In fact, I’ve heard it said by ALL EXCEPT Barrett.
So, you are right, sir.
The promise of Barrett’s HOH is being destroyed by everyone EXCEPT HIM.
Unfortunately, we could all see that coming from a mile away.
Especially after the cast pay scale that you just revealed!
Hopefully.
Dee shitting on Drew and Mel for their love of film. She says, it’s not real.
Dee, film is a form of art and literature when done well. Did you ever like to read quality fiction?
She really outdid herself on this last episode. The way she went up so close to Barrett to tell him he’ll regret this for the rest of his life. Dee, you’re not the center of the universe. People have so many much more important things to worry about and regret over a lifetime, long after a game is over.
This will sound harsh and I fully own it. Dee acting the boss as a latina made me imagine a hair pulling wrestle match if she had come up to me in that manner in my youth. Although I wasn’t a street fighter, it was only with my sister. But, I had skills. Latina, meet Mediterranean boil with a native NYC twist. She’s a lightweight.
I woulda bought a ticket to that.
You vs the millionairess.
It’s not too late.
P.S. Dee doesn’t strike me as a reader.
I’ve NEVER heard her make a single reference to a piece of fiction, neither pulp nor film, on any of her tv seasons. Neither survivor season. Not the challenge. And not yet on bb.
The 3 dorkons just suck. They talk so f’n tough. I hope all 3 go in the next 3 votes. I really hope none of the 3 win. This season stinks of BB19 with pissant paul.
Don’t it though?
It was so disgusting the way Dee got on Barret’s face like that, so classless.
She’s proof that wealth doesn’t bring class.
Dee proved herself to be a piece of sh*t.
Whenever I see Barrett, only one word comes to mind. Dirty!
Drew is an idiot. He can not win with his current strategy helping icons out. The icons are acting like BIG BABIES. Hurts don’t it not being in control for once?
Out of this mean bunch my hope is Devens stays. If he goes the game is over for me. I don’t like any of the other HG.. I’ll keep watching. Be entertaining the fake-icky-ness, backstabbing and lies.
After watching Wednesday’s show my thoughts are as follows. Dee thinks she’s some tough ass bitch, when in reality she’s a major P.O.S bitch, I pray she goes SOON. Angela is her usual obnoxious unwatchable self. Devens is a decent guy just trying to play BB.
Devens has an entitled attitude as well. If you listen to how he speaks on the live feeds you’ll see. At some point Drew will not be able to save him. Hopefully tonight is the time. I agree with everything else.
Devens is as you say, but he doesn’t talk to the other houseguests like shit….unlike Angela & Dee —- nasty ass women.
What you said.
I agree with your characterization of all 3 stunts. However, even Rick can become an obnoxious bully when he doesn’t get his way. Less obnoxious than the other 2.
But, still obnoxious IMHO.
Ok, true that.