The Big Brother 28 finale is tonight, and it comes down to Taylor, Devens and Drew. Taylor and Devens play the last part of the final HOH, the winner picks who sits beside them, and a seven-person jury hands one of them $750,000. The 90-minute finale airs at 8/7c on CBS, on day 87. Here’s how Big Brother 28 got here.
Who won Big Brother 28?
The winner of Big Brother 28 will be decided tonight, live, at the end of the 90-minute finale. Taylor and Devens play part three of the final Head of Household, the winner evicts one of the other two, and the seven-person jury votes between the final pair for $750,000.
The jury is Lala, Angela, Barrett, Yash, Melody and Dee, plus whoever finishes third tonight.
We will update this page with the result the moment it is read out.
What happened in Big Brother 28?
Big Brother 28 opened with seventeen houseguests moving in for a time-travel season, three of them as “Icons”: Survivor’s Devens and Dee, and Big Brother 26’s Angela. Ashley went first, 14–0, and Rome followed after Devens used his veto to put him on the block.
The early game belonged to an eight-person alliance, the Toolshed. It cracked in Haley’s HOH week, when the house flipped and sent Lyric home 8–3 instead of Haley’s target. Chuk and Kamu followed. Kamu’s exit came after Devens played the Diamond Power of Veto on Dee — one of only two times all season a veto was used to save somebody else. Both were his.
Haley was the only houseguest voted out without a single vote being cast, knocked out in the medieval competition. Barrett put all three Icons on the block in his HOH, and Angela went 3–2. The double eviction took Barrett and Yash, the Pharaoh’s Curse twist removed Melody without a vote, and at final four Drew won the last veto and evicted Dee.
How did the final three get here?
Big Brother 28’s final three is Taylor, Devens and Drew, and Drew is the reason Devens is still in it. He kept Devens over Dee at final four for one reason.
For me, it was like, I forced both of you guys to take me.
Drew
Taylor won part one of the final HOH, Devens won part two, and Drew is out of it — he plays no part in tonight’s part three.
Everyone in the house can do the maths. Taylor, to Drew: “It’s whoever takes him out wins. And we both know that.” Devens told Drew which way he was leaning: “I don’t think she would ever take me, and I’m not taking her.”
Who won every competition in Big Brother 28?
Big Brother 28 ran fourteen eviction cycles. Head of Household, veto, Blockbuster and the eviction that followed, week by week.
| HOH | Veto | Blockbuster | Evicted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dee | Mallory | Yash | Ashley, 14–0 |
| Devens | Devens | Jason | Rome, 12–1 |
| Kamu | Lyric | Mallory | Jason, 12–0 |
| Haley | Taylor | Drew | Lyric, 8–3 |
| Lala | Kamu | Haley | Chuk, 9–1 |
| Yash | Yash (Devens: Diamond Power of Veto) | Angela | Kamu, 8–1 |
| Dee | Lala | Drew | Mallory, 6–2 |
| Medieval competition | — | — | Haley, no vote |
| Drew | Yash | Devens | Lala, 4–2 |
| Barrett | Yash | Devens | Angela, 3–2 |
| Yash | Drew | Melody | Barrett, 3–1 |
| Melody | Devens | — | Yash, 2–1 |
| Devens | Drew | — | Melody, Pharaoh’s Curse |
| Taylor | Drew | — | Dee, Drew’s vote |
Final HOH: part one, Taylor. Part two, Devens. Part three, Taylor against Devens, tonight.
By the numbers: ten houseguests won Head of Household, eight won the veto and eight won a Blockbuster. Drew and Yash each won the veto three times. Devens and Drew each won a Blockbuster twice.
Devens wins part 3 of the Final HOH
Devens votes to evict Drew
Latrice votes vote Taylor
Angela votes for Devens
Barrett votes for Devens
Yash Votes for Devens
Melody Votes for Devens
Dee Votes for Devens
Drew Votes for Devens
Devens wins Big Brother 28
Devens wins America’s Favorite
Big Brother renewed two more years and Big Brother Canada is coming back.
I want drew to come back…. love the middle people.
Double Dee was killin it the leopard print. Damn bubble ass was fightin to stay in that spandex. Devens may have won BB, but we won overall having Double Dee and her twins all season long.
Great send off.
If taylor wins im gonna be so pissed, shes a b****, cant stand the pod queen.
Wow. Stunned he cut Drew
Surprising but not really. Devens knows how to play the game and is the type to think through and evaluate his options. However, he wants to win. In the end he had to know he was a lock to win beside Taylor while with Drew his odds were at best 50/50 with the possibility of those odds skewing in Drew’s favor. So he took the easy win.
Some may criticize him for this, but “I’m here to win the money” is a constant mantra from everyone, so I don’t blame him for taking the easy way to the cash. Many are just as critical of Cody & Makensy for choosing to sit beside the better competitor and essentially handing them the win. So whatever, Devens made his choice, the smart one and is now $750K richer.
is blackmail allowed in Big Brother? Taylor said Devens would not get her vote, and she would make sure Lala didn’t vote for him either. that is blackmail.
but he still made the right decision, others like Barrett and Melody likely voted for Drew.
Believe it or not: I binged this season in 3 days and now I’m watching the finale live. What an experience.
I’m feeling that the questions for Devens is better than the questions for Taylor.
Love how Julie cut Devens off on EVERY question…Not! Biased eh??
They have a set amount of time for each answer.
It’s a live show. They can’t ramble on forever. Julie has to do that to keep the show on pace.
Julie is the Boss Lady!
For a counselor, Taylor is very bad at public speaking. Not that Devens is much better because, at least, he’s talking game and not a miracle story.
Devens won… just saw his name on two keys (Barret’s was one).
Congratulations to Devens. Totally deserved the win
He deserved it after that Q&A. Way to go Devins!
BB28 Final 3:
1. Daddy Devens finally gets the win he’s been denied since “Survivor: Edge of Extinction”. He blew up the game Week 2 going after Rome via backdoor. He won the DPOV and usurped Yash’s HOH to get Queen Temu evicted. He joined Dee in blindsiding Lyric. He picked the right two HGs who gave him so much info in the first half of the game. He won BB comps when needed. He got Veto on DE night. He betrayed his closest ally, Drew, on Finale Night. And nearly all the HGs still liked him more than Dee or Angela. Devens brought a lot of entertainment and great gameplay this season. He’s welcome back anytime to play BB again and on any other reality TV comp in the future. Well done BB Legend and BB winner!!
2. Well done Taylor! She lasted way longer than I expected. She survived Week 1 eviction just by minding her own business, made allies with LaLa and Yash, won a Veto saving herself Week 4, helped LaLa break up Red Corner on Week 5, and then secured her ticket to Finale Night with the Final 4 HOH win. She just couldn’t repeat that win for the Final 3 HOH. She’ll get $75K at least, but I will miss our Pod Princess as I don’t ever see her returning a second time.
3. Drew started out well playing the middle road, but his game fractured beyond repair beginning with the Pipe Queen, the NPC, and Yash following Queen Temu’s eviction. He didn’t do himself favors with his micro aggressions towards LaLa and Taylor about wanting them to cook and clean in the BB House. But the final nail in the coffin was taking the path of least resistance by declaring he’ll never turn on the icons and wiling to go to the end with them. And Daddy Devens made him pay for it. If I had to describe his game, he would be a “lapdog”. I expect him to compete on future reality TV comp shows, but it may take a few years until he’s wise enough to correct his behavior and truly reflect on his gameplay.
AFP Winner — Devens cleans house just like BB24 winner Taylor Hale!
Until next season, this is Team Taylor signing off!
FINALLY NOT A TYPO EPISODE
Last episode play by play review:
I tinfoil. expect tinfoil and prediction here:
PREAMBLE
Gonna say 6:1 vote final. No matter WHO Devens takes. Now we see how Devens wins the final HOH (i say 95% and i don’t do 100) when Taylor has more knowledge of house and comp events than Devens….. bet she switches cards in a round from correct to incorrect. It happened before… but if it’s blind lock in how will we tell? Last time the card was shown for about half a second going back into the box before it was switched.
Does that mean Drew will be evicted? She did talk to Devens last night after a substantial feed block. As Alwyas… I am calling Devens somehow wins Final HOH.
Shocking…I have Devens cutting Drew at 70%.
See why i just don’t care?
I decided long ago. I thought the season was over.
SEASON RECAP AND JULIE CHENBOTS ALL OVER US
The jury with Chelsie at the roundtable. Not getting into naming her winner by the end of episode one her season. But facts.
pre-jury returns. meh.
DAY 87.
Can the Velociraptor take out half the cast? Just a question.
Taylor needs to quit playing with her hair in Julie’s intro…. she’s pulling a Drew.
PART ONE OF HOH
D/R
Taylor has to win. Devens and Drew have a final 2.
Devens wants to face Drew in point three.
Drew would cut Devens at final 2. So I guess he’s going to lose first two parts foreshadow.
11 minutes.
Random shocks. they are holding wood handles.
DREW out in 15 minutes 21 seconds.
Devens locked in at 32 minutes 16 seconds.
Why is Devens pulling a shenanigan in this clip it’s not a block buster… he’s pulling a block buster shenanigan like Angela and Dee did in the week the three were on the block together??? OH…
DEVENS out in 50 minutes 8 seconds.
TAYLOR WINS PART ONE.
PART TWO OF HOH 1601.To Be HOH or not to be HOH
launch slingshot at the ones that are correct answers. reset all if mistaken.
3 rounds head to head.
Devens complaining about back again.
Drew wins first Round.
Everyone that got zinged.
Drew shenaniganning. visibly. If he continues with this? why would?
Devens wins second Round.
Replacement nominees.
He didn’t shenanigan this time.
Devens wins round three.
HOH winners.
The balls reset this round
DEVENS WINS PART 2 of HOH.
Devens d/r the family card.
Drew cracked and now has no power or ability. He has to be taken (about that… now at 80% by the edit that Drew gets evicted) Never tell prodo you will cut a stuntcast in the finale idiot.
Taylor d/r needs to go through Devens.
NOTE: a couple of times people got the correct hit sound effect (added post) for the wrong shot. Just saying. A couple of times for dramatic effect people knocked over the wrong one and got the correct ding from prodo added to the photage.
Jury Visit was a few Days ago.
From Angela’s season.
The Jury thought take Devens out to win.
Well rounded game is their benchmark.
Taylor:
people liked her. pulse of the game. under radar not confrontation. What did you do/ Being a smaller target to each HOH when nominated isn’t a game plus to win.
Drew:
play middle debated. Annoying game. Total awareness of the house activity. Strategy. Validation. What did you do on your own. Always working.
Devens:
social and comp ability. Target on back says Dee. Social capitol. Power talk… oh. Breathing room due to fan vote. Only icon HOH 1… did he have to play until later or did he always have a fallback. Does powers and fan votes negate target on back when added to the First HOH thing???
HALF HOUR MARK OF 90 MINUTE EPISODE.
PART THREE HOH. BACK IN MY DAY…
Jury member interviews. old makeup. 2 truths and a lie.
1) La Trice. both say c. both correct.
2) Angela. Devens b Taylor a. Devens correct.
3) Barrett. Devens Tayoor both c. Both correct.
4) Yash. Devens a Taylor c. Devens correct.
5) Melody. Devens Taylor both c. Both correct.
Anyone else catch that she had the correct card (we saw she had the b card) and switched out to a? Yeah. I called that.
DEVENS WINS FINAL HOH. sideye.
EVICTION:
Julie says Taylor made a convincing argument. Julie doesn’t do that they show it. Okay. Drew is getting evicted 95%.
PLEAS:
Taylor think you’ll follow the plan to get the 4 votes.
Drew. I brought you, hope you keep your word. Love you.
DEVENS EVICTS DREW.
Drew thinks Devens will win. That Taylor is the easier move. Drew knew he was going.
JURY ON STAGE
Yash guesses Drew is final evicted. DEVENS CUT DREW. Barrett points out he lied to you.
LaTrice to Taylor: challenge faced and how overcome.
Being on the block 6 times. Stayed resilliant. Adverse outside of house stuff not in the edit that was mostly cut out of feeds. Persevere.
Dee to Devens: Icon advantage and Disadvantage?
Alliance day one. time capsule but half got punishments. safety one week out of 12. Alliances got us here. Relationships not Icon got him here.
Barrett to Taylor: influential move.
Vote flip is her answer. the flip Angela is shaking head. Every juror that was part of the plot to flip that vote is scratching head because she was not in control of that move.
Melody to Devens who influenced and how did it get you there.
Drew collaborated Devens did not control Drew. Kamu Chuk and Haly the vote flip was us (names most of jury) not Taylor.
Angela to Taylor: why should you beat Devens.
Elitism power and privilege. He got a leg up.
Yash to Devens. Pivot. HOW DID YOU.
Bermuda Triangle and Crossovers and Toolshed. His primary alliance was with the other 2 stunts. He had to help his primary alliance when Yash wouldn’t keep Dee off block.
Drew to Devens: when did you decide.
Last night. In essence, Taylor pulled a Devens and threatened jury votes. I have to win for family.
FINAL 2 SPEECHES
Taylor:
we made it. Humble. Vigilant. Cinderella I preveiled. God put me here faith. Subtle. Pod but praying and planning. Drew he betrayed you give me your vote.
Devens:
play hard. Big swings when had the chance. Most comps. Alliances to control the action. Voted until final 4. he is covered in blood. Gamers that attacked. Not nominated til last. final 4 was first shot at eviction.. and survived.
La Trice: Taylor love you. Love to hate you Devens. Played hardest.
Angela: love both. no reason not to give vote.
Barrett: proud of both. Devens i ate your hotdog.
Yash: love both. who earned it the most.
Melody: playing with you loved. Voting for shark.
Dee: heart and soul into game most deserving.
Drew: not mad just disappointed
75 minute mark of the episode.
Pre-Jurors. Jason comes out as SALINA.
Not a proposal. Moving in together is the big announcement.
Devens took the 10k. Mallory career reveal.
VOTE REVEAL:
La Trice: Taylor
Angela: Devens
Barrett: Devens
Yash: Devens
Melody: Devens.
Gee the Stuntcast with the d/r voice of the season won Big Brother. I’m shocked. Eyeroll.
DEVENS WINS BB28.
Devens won 6:1. Called it.
AFP: Drew, Devens, Yash. Devens also wins AFP.
810k won by Devens.
Big Brother will continue for at least 2 more years.
Side eye 100 percent. My tinfoil hat is hot!
I don’t have it in me to ever say 100% in a prediction because i am always hoping to be wrong. I know that’s weird. I’m weird. Any time i make a prediction and i’m almost certain and i turn out to be wrong… I celebrate. Seriously. Those are the most fun times I have with this show.
The predictions for tonight? I dreamed that the finale happened a couple days ago. I even dreamed i wrote a play by play recap. So the predictions tonight were based on what I dreamt. Devens won final HOH, and he cut Drew (the part of the dream i didn’t quite believe because in dream there was no Drew talk of cutting Devens in the episode so it made less sense, it was just Devens doing it because he didn’t want to fall into the trap of thinking friend instead of thinking win like in his first survivor season as he mentioned on feed last week). It got more gasps in my dream. The vote was 6/1. So i thought the dream was real… and totally disappeared until i say a commercial for the finale earlier today. knock me over with a feather. oops.
They should have given America’s favorite to Drew or Yash.. CBS and their stunt casts BOOOO.
kraken season through and through. See you all for Big Brother Canada.
Where can I watch Big Brother Canada here in the states?
We’ll post it once we find out what sort of show it will be. It’s picked up by a different production company. Didn’t have feeds during it’s last season so we’re not sure.
I thought it was being picked up by Crave.
Exactly what I was thinking. Thanks for all the great coverage to you and Dawg
Devens devastated Drew! But it was the right thing to do. Taylor’s pitch was correct and she had to do it to give herself a chance (and get $75k!) – smart move on her part. In the end, the right person won. Devens may have came in with a built in advantage, but he was the hardest working player in the house. He took that advantage, made the most of it, didn’t coast his way through anything and successfully made it to the end. Well done Devens!
Without the advantages, D&D would have been out pre-jury. I just can’t say he earned it any more than Taylor did. Taylor made more moves/wins than Dee. Just sucks with stunts. Wish it was all newbies. Even Drew had been on other game shows. Give somebody else a chance who has never been on tv, related to someone famous (looking at you lyric), ect.
Yet the ‘others’ had chance to evict them and didn’t. Don’t like the stunts but it’s what we got and the reality is no way taylor deserved anything.
Would love if we could just get normal people that don’t have TV experience (as you point out even drew was does other gameshows), not known on the internet, or anything like that. Just pick from the regular people that apply.
How about a vote, thumbs up if you want a season of regular people, thumbs down if you love the ‘twists’ with returning guests and crossover guests.
Meh, it was more than just a built in advantage he had. Devens, along with the other icons, had a lot of stuff handed to/rigged for them thanks to production.
There were times where Dee or Devens would be out earlier if it weren’t for what production did for them.
But at the same time he was playing in a house of idiots. They had more than one chance to take a shot at the Dee or Devens earlier in the game, but decided not to. Including Taylor who talked for weeks about getting them out. But when all three icons were on the block, she, among others, voted for Angela to leave?
Anyway, compared to other houseguests, Devens didn’t have nearly a rough time as other houseguests. Taylor had alliance after alliance fall apart, friend after friend leave and had to pivot constantly to survive. Yash had to accept the bride just to avoid Dee nomination. Which later he regretted. Relative to others, he had an easier path to the finals. Devens didnt even touch the block, until he had to voluteer to be nominated. Who the heck volunteers to be on the block?!
Every week him or an alliance member had hoh, some power, curse, Intel, nudge from prodcution, or connection to the other side that gave them an advantage.
There’s only so hard you have to work when you have so many advantages/alliances members still in the house late game.
Wow, Devens won AFP too… the only other winner I recall taking both was Taylor.
I guess he was really beloved by the audience (as a non-Survivor watcher I’d never be able to know).
Overall, I enjoyed this season. It had been a while since I watched a season where people would cry and scream because they didn’t want to be taken out of the game. I felt that everyone wanted it so much and that makes the difference. That’s the type of player I wanna see in BB, not the people who come into it having watched only the last two seasons because they were invited to participate by chance, I want the opportunity to aim at a career as an influencer instead of having the game as #1 priority.
Thank you Simon and Dawg for keeping this great site alive. I didn’t watch BB last year, I had to take a pause. But few months back, even before season 28 started, I needed to recall some particular dialogue from one of the previous seasons and your site, once again, saved me (no other BB site can compare to the treasure trove that is OBB).
See you all next year!
Congratulations Rick Devens on winning Suviv….err…umm the Devens show…. Big Brother? Whatever we just watched.
Poor Drew, he deserved at least 2nd place after all the work he put in. Taylor did not deserve to win $75,000 for sleeping all day!
“Don’t Hate The Game” – Julie Chen Moonves
Lala gave her vote “to the one who played the hardest”….Taylor? Wow
And she played the hardest after Lala left!
we all know why she voted for Taylor.
Final D/R Count:
TOP TIER 200+
Devens 284
Drew 256
SECOND TIER 150-199
Taylor 164.
Mkay.
Tell me the season long edit would have made sense with a Taylor win.
She had at least 4 episodes with ZERO d/r. She had the least D/R of anyone in the house on weeks where she was a nominee (that is kiss of death in terms of winner edit quotient)
Think on that. How are we as viewers supposed to look back on the season to see how the winner won…. when the houseguest in question was background noise during weeks where she was a fricken nominee to be evicted. This is a big part of why I kept saying Taylor got the edit of a pre-juror until the other stuff she mentioned in her answer to La Trice that I believe caused Grod to blink. Not blink to a win… but blink to longevity.
No. she did not play a winner game. Sorry. In the edited episodes we saw… she was not getting a winner’s edit. Her plea to the audience in the season long recap show included the financial need angle… while the other 2 were talking about why they should win on a game level. That in episode edit speak is ‘she is not winning.’
Drew made it to finale and never caught Dee in d/r inclusion. He’s top tier but… yeesh.
As soon as a plotpoint was Drew would cut Devens (and especially as soon as it was canon in episode d/r) the crinkly tinfoil brain said now mr nice guy Devens has the justification to cut Drew and he (so we think) doesn’t even know it. Oh come on. We’ve heard Drew SAY on feeds that he gets what D/R is trying to get him to say, and he plays along giving it to them (and now we know why he played SO flippy floppy, because he not only gave it to them but played after he left d/r based on that as the story they wanted).
Drew was NOT a collaborator with Devens. That part of Devens answer was drek. We know that. Drew was a collaborator with production because he did what they told him every time. Could Drew have won?
Only against Taylor. And with the amount of bash he was pulling in the final days of feeds… oh come on.
When they announced Survivor Stuntcasts we all rolled out eyes and said what is the point, we already know who is winning the season. Well. Tonight out eyes stopped rolling and look. A Survivor stuntcast won the season. All it took was… putting in the fix in the first 2 HOH comps, a fan vote with the Matthew effect clearly being utilized by production…and then we have a couple block busters. I predict winner of those by episode edit 15 5o 20 minutes before they play them. With a 100% success rate for the season (I think I’ve been wrong 2x since they started the block buster). So… what’s the danger there. Think about it. If the edit is clearly indicating who will be saved by blockbuster a full episode section before they play it…. how real we talking here?
The season began with a broveal… and the guy that didn’t remember some of the female houseguests names as of week 8 that was a member of every all guy alliance won. Shocking. eyeroll head desk. Gee how is aaanyone surprised.
what SHOULD have killed Devens in a regular season final 2 sppech q and a?
Glad nobody asked.
The answer Devens gave to Yash SHOULD have been a negative reception answer in a normal season.
Asked how did you pivot.
Answer Here was my primary alliance of 3 that i was 100% loyal to (lie), but i pivoted by being in list of alliances.
That doesn’t answer pivot. That answers I was in 5 different alliances with the entire house… so i played a loyal game.
That should have been a negative return answer.
So if you ever go on bb…. don’t do THAT. Don’t answer a question by saying I played a loyal game while listing all of the alliances you were in that equal every member of the cast. Cus that isn’t loyalty.
But stuntcast season we knew was going to be Dee or Devens from episode one.
What-cha-gonnado?
Of note. y’know how final 2 don’t get their stipend they get their winnings? I have massive questions about Devens and Dee and Angela contracts. Did they have signing bonus? Did that signing bonus and contractual demands by chance bring Devens up to the full million?
Shush. Again. The stuntcasts on a bbcan season laughed at the cast for playing for 100k canadian when they were paid much more just for appearing on the show in their signing fee. So it is a legit question to ask.
Not a fun season to watch, but for a change, the person sitting in the final two chairs that deserved to win based on game play, actually won, despite lala’s attempt otherwise–no integrity from her.
La Trice kept Kamu off the block for religious reasons. She didn’t want to put Chuk on the block for cause reasons, and didn’t want him evicted on her HOH.
In terms of finalists.
Whose game did she know most about? The person that told her how to vote and who to talk to and what to say…. or the guy that didn’t remember her name for the first 4 weeks in the house.
If anyone was going to vote for Taylor it was her final 2.
I’m choosing to think that shows a form of integrity.
To add, Lala’s face during Deven’s speech said it all. Devens with his icons had elitism advantage as Taylor said, that invalidates the core of his game trajectory in many ways, week by week. She truly doesn’t believe he played harder. He sat on privilege for most of the game.
One of the most disappointing aspects of this season for me is that I think Devens had the potential to play a really good game on his own without all the production help. It robbed him of being considered one of the greats and robbed us of a fun season.
still better than 23,24,26, and 27 by many miles.
Grodner took what she learned from BB19 and stacked the deck. Thanks Dawg and Simon for helping us deal with this slanted season.
It was weird that Julie told us Taylor pitched a deal to Devens for final two. Why not just run the tape. The whole thing felt off somehow. It was a bad season with a bad ending.
Who cares? What a useless comment.
well of the final 2 it was a good ending. and a meh season
Imagine how different the season would have played out if the three stunts hadn’t been added to the newbies. I can see a power alliance of Kamu – Chuk – Yash – Haley – Rome – Lyric dominating. Drew – Mallory – Melody – Ashley and Barrett with their sort of alliance playing the middle. Taylor, Latrice and Jason the outcasts getting picked off first. Rome and Lyric’s showmance would eventually doom them. The ‘sort of alliance ‘ would get crushed under all that testosterone. Except for Drew who would survive several attempts to evict him and wind up in a final three with Kamu and Yash. The AFP would be everyone’s favorite rocket scientist. Zing.
Grod got what she wanted
Yuck!
have you not seen winners from the last 5 seasons? she did not get what she wanted this time.
The one bit of satisfaction I can muster for this obvious outcome that we saw coming yet still held onto our shreds of hope, is the look on Dee and Drew’s faces when talk of their advantages came up.
Dee in jury round table looked flabbergasted, then tried that lame pivot as if they were ever obvious targets from the get-go in a season of flashy meat shield big players like Kamu, Hayley, Rome and Jason. Chuk also was part of that comp power perception although I’m not sure how much he’d have won. He was embarrassingly dumb.
I can give the icons a bit of credit for using Red Corner. If I’m being objective. Yet that happened in large part bc Red Corner type of egos are easily star struck about ‘icons’.
Deven’s face when Taylor brought up the elitism was pure insecurity to that ego of his who thought he had mastered a game to redeem that Survivor loss that he internalized as traumatic. As if carrying that tragic arc in his head for years now is a sign of a healthy ego, LMAO.
Devens trying to minimize even one week of fully being immune from the block, and then bringing the punishments as if the odds were not stacked in their favor, even if jury didn’t suspect that those are not random spin draws.
It was nice thinking about how the ‘icons’ are about to see all the talk on social media esp from feeder superfans, that they were given prodo help from the start and preordained to win. I can just see the 3 of them sitting and scoffing about it, blah blah blah no one can understand how hard it was for them, how hard they played, blah blah.
It puts a bit of kink on Deven’s win, and I hope it gnaws at him in the dark, lol. He has the money and should just step back on the ego stuff and enjoy taking care of his family. So that’s on him to find his own peace, and I doubt he can bc his ego is false and built on silly superficial stuff to boost himself. This is just a reality show, he didn’t train as an Olympian or to canvass and build up a campaign to help society. Or, even to have a life arc like Taylor who is really good and smart soul who has worked hard to rise above the ‘isms of life and help others do the same with real, on the ground work.
I have no respect for him, and none for Dee or Angela, either. Let them feel the social burn of it from BB fan base. For people like the icons who thrive on their media personality perceptions, the BB superfans are an important piece of that. Le them read it and feel those twinges.
I think Dee is pretty well equipped mentally and emotionally to not take it too seriously, fine, at least she didn’t make it to F2. She looked more annoyed than stripped down when Lala was talking. Whereas Devens had existential death fears in his eyes when Taylor made her comments.
I must add, that Dee’s outfit was ugly and tacky, and that head band made it even worse. Just goes to show, you can’t buy taste or class. It’s not even cheap cute trendy. It’s trying too hard, like a preteen.
Taylor is all class and intellect while also being down to earth. Love, love, love her.
I like Taylor too.
Dee is a full mess from what she wears to what she says.
they both suck.
Taylor lost me with her systemic response. She had the same advantage as each player. Taylor, I love you, you can’t ride on systemic racism in this game.
worked for some other recent winners.
I am not going to lie…I was emotional when Drew was not selected. It was the right choice.
I would have liked to see Drew win, but Devens is surely better than Taylor.
I do find it amusing that Lala was the only vote for Taylor. not only were they tight all season, it was said Lala was confused this season.
People can say what they want but Devens advantages were he got safety the first week and he got the diamond power of veto that he did not even use on himself. Those were in the beginning weeks and could have been taken out at any time. He won when he needed to, saved his alliance members when he could, and got rid of them when he needed to, he won comps, and had good relationships with everyone. He always said nice things to not just the contestants but to the contestants’ families. If he was a jerk, he apologized. He was way more of a threat than Taylor, yet somehow stayed either through winning comps or using his persuasion. He played hard. I don’t get how people do not think he deserves to win just because he was on Survivor before and they gave him a little bit of help at the beginning. He did the rest on his own! He is exactly who should win!
I’m not having much of the usual end of season difficulty breaking away from the full obsessive endorphin/adrenaline addiction to feeds and updates and episodes. It seems my parasocial attachment was not as strong as I thought.
Earlier season on a couple of weeks I had stopped watching non-live episodes while minimally following updates, but by mid-game I did feel invested and enjoying a number of HGs and their interactions. Some hope sparking and maintaining, even if just for a week of proper vengeance and justice that nearly happened on Barrett’s HOH. Or Devens looking like he’s about to be evicted. Mixed in with pure rage seeing the icons behaving more and more poorly over time.
I thought that was all a sign that I’d just needed more time and a different expectation this season bc of the icons, but had pretty fully attached to the season itself as usual.
Yet right now I am actually feeling a good measure of relief, which has never happened on any post-season for me.
It’s like access to the craved but sorta sickening foods was finally taken away and I am about to feel much better and not have my brain further clouded by those nauseating entitled icons mixing with evil production greed to create this horrific no-fun finale and awful jury segments as recent leads to this end point. Knowing all along that my continued consumption would end in an extended final hurl, yet I could not stop until the sources took it away. Hurl should be done pretty soon.
Because last year’s winner was so deserving and awesome…I would rather have someone who played hard won then someone who was a floater and slept all day.
Even seasons of undeserving winners have been non-nauseating to watch. Not to mention, lack of level playing field means that Devens didn’t actually win on game merit. He was given 40-50% of the exam answers already written out on his answer sheet. You can choose to ignore that but at least be aware you’re not proving anything by your simple declarative.
online shit.
I usually look for exit interviews.
I don’t want to.
So instead i am just looking at things said online that i missed.
first.
A woman pointed out that one of the questions in final HOH was a question only Devens would know for sure.
In Angela’s 2 truths and a lie.
her first response was about costumes in time capsule.
Now. Devens knew how time capsule worked. he was in it. Taylor? guess she was supposed to guess.
second:
when Devens answers question referencing the time capsule and how he could have gotten a punishment.
Somebody brain that oaf. Like. No really. we sat through weeks of watching that blatant riggery just for this dickwad to say ‘oh it was totally real i had a 50/50 shot it wasn’t a leg up given by production.’
AS IF, like we all live in clown cars and sniff glue.
third:
anybody notice the post leaving the house brodown? check when afp was announced. all the men around Julie like it was no stinking females allowed.
I have changed wording but these are the little things being posted.
What I am reading:
We all knew from cast announcement that a Survivor would be final 2 and would almost definitely win.
We all watched to see WHICH survivor would be in finals. Week one d/r indicated Devens but Week 1-5 edit favored Dee.
The entire season was NOT big Brother as we know it. It was how can production get two more years when the network hates the costs… tie it to survivor and make a survivor a winner. And we watched.
So… we’ve got that morning after a one night stand walk of shame hitting us in the face because we didn’t even get dinner first. But we watched.
The statement was….all of the punishment costumes were revealed before I won the BB blockbuster. This has nothing to do with inside information. It just was saying that everyone who had a punishment costume had that happen BEFORE Angela played in the Blockbuster. So your first statement is inaccurate
As i said… I am pulling out comments from 2 different platforms that are being raised as topics. I figured it would get an answer because i did not feel good about rabbitholing today. So… thanks.
I’d agree with you to an extent
There was a question that was literally the same as one in final hoh part 2 in which devens participated (I think barrett’s segment)
Deven’s and Taylor’s Q and A answers and final speech sounded immaculately rehearsed and flawlessly delivered. However, Taylor presenting herself as a civil rights warrior fell flat. Chelsea, Ashley (last year) and Taylor (five years ago) already broke down that door. Devens continual mention of his wife kids gave him the heartstrings advantage and easy debate winner. The vote was predictable. Taylor got a vote from the only person she even tried to connect with. Devens got everyone else. No surprises.
yep she was looking for the same treatment the other Taylor got. Fortunately the jury got it right this time.
I’d agree with you to an extent
There was a question that was literally the same as one in final hoh part 2 in which devens participated (I think barrett’s segment)
We knew from the moment he walked into the house that he was going to win the whole thing. Hopefully next year they have non influencers and no icons and just get back to the original BB
I agree I prefer no returnees unless all returnees. But he did play well at least.
Tin foil time.
How did Taylor win 2nd place?
The non relevant player made a deal with production. (Bye Haley)
In exchange for voting out Angela over Dee she negotiated a 2nd place finish.
A smart move for her to get to final 2 knowing she’d lose anyway.
So prodo leaned into the Father/Son thing to set up the Devens betrayal of Drew at finale for the big finish of the season. So many script changes this season.
This was the best season in about 5 years. The best player won for a change and it was exciting at the end. Ive seen every big brother season and would consider myself a super fan. Most of the cast was boring but thats pretty par for the course when you get wanna be actors and social media influencers as contestants. I think the hate for this season was unwarranted. It wasnt the best season but the best for a while. I almost stopped watching big brother because it was so bad the last few seasons. This one got me interested again. Now Devens should give Drew some money.
fully agree. it has been a very rough modern era. this season has give us a glimmer of hope that political phase of where we are at in this world is slowly wearing off.
The edits, long conversations talking to the camera, and family seating were production clues for Devens winning. I thought the final HOH comp was usually questions about the jury. Was the format changed to questions about the competitions because questions about the jury favored Taylor?
It has been two truths and a lie for a few years now
It’s been two truths one lie since s22 all stars
I am recording BB19 and watching it a bit on the side.. That season was hot garbage to the max. holy shit BB28 was wicked compared to BB19
yep bb19 was very hard to watch. only good thing about it was AFP.
I remember losing braincells every single week when a new newbie glazed Paul
Oh and Matt’s constant cereal eating
I remember arguing that week one’s failed tyrant (the guy that ended up winning afp) was no better than the mob that tyrannized him because those same people were originally HIS mob. While we didn’t SEE most of week one on feeds, week one sets the tone… and to have someone quit due to the environment triggering that houseguests ptsd? Doesn’t make that leader of the mob any more supportable than the mob behavior when his own mob chose a new tyrant and turned on him.
I don’t think anyone ever really agreed at the time because Paul and his mob were SEEN… while the activity of the same mob under HIS leadership was unseen but had a similar effect.
Why are you punishing yourself?
I was for Devens from the start. Very happy for him and his family….. They should have given favorite player money to Drew or Yash rather than the winner. .. Looking forward to another two seasons, plus a new season of BB Canada.. Thanks Simon & Dawg for running this site.
Faith restored in BB. While Icons did have game changing advantages as that Diamond veto was a real turning point that drastically changed the game forward in Devens favor. He still played extremely well in all aspects and earned his victory. Really would of preferred him and Drew final 2 as I think Drew was more more deserving of 2nd than Taylor. Overall just nice to see a good result. As every season after Allstars 2 has been quite bad aside from 25. I really to think America nailed it with top 3 for fave houseguests. Says a lot about Drew and Yash considering Angela and Dee were already so well known and confirmed a ton of votes. I think Kamu had the most potential to be the actual best player of the season. Would like to see Him, Drew, and Yash get the chance to play again. Barrett grew on me late season as well. Anyway thank you Devens for snapping a predictable forced winner streak for the last 5 seasons. Hopefully we can slowly get back to the good days of BB. I hope this happens with Survivor too.
You nailed it aside from the predictable forced winner part. Devens was always going to be the winner.
That’s great for BB and fans I guess since it guaranteed ratings and interest went up.
It’s stinks for everyone that played against him or Dee. None of them had a snowballs chance in hell in this rigged season.
D&D 100% MADE the season better. BB is entertaining which is why we watch but the FACT that BB rigs the game at will really makes me reconsider OFTEN my time investment.
It kills me that I wasted my time to watch a game with a predetermined outcome.
to say devens was a guaranteed winner from the start is just not true in my view. advantages without a doubt. but dude won when he needed to. the diamond veto was a game changer that helped a lot. but didnt mean he would make it as dee would of likely cut him if the opportunity presented itself for her.