“I don’t want to work with Haley I don’t f*****ng like her as a person”

Quick Big Brother Spoilers Week 2

Head of Household: Rick Devens
Nominees: Lyric, ROME, Melody and Jason
POV Players: Angela, Barrett, Jason, Melody, Devens, Lyric
POV Winner: Devens
Veto Ceremony: Devens uses the Veto on Lyric and replaces her with ROME
Havenots: Lyric, Barrett, Rome, Kamu, Jason

12:11 am Melody and Drew

Melody – I don’t want to work with Haley I don’t f***ing like her as a person”
Melody: “It does look true, too, because I want to stay in good relations with him, obviously.”
Melody – I think we can get kamu over here But I don’t know he’s very tight with haley they are like their own thing.

Drew – Yeah I’m trying to figure out what the plan is.
Melody: “I like the Jason idea. I just don’t want to work with anyone on the block.”
Drew: “That’s fine.”
Melody: “No — anyone on the block.”
Melody – I told Mallorey today I want you to stay over anybody else.

Melody tells Drew she told Mallory she’d give her a vote “over anybody.”
Drew: “Over anybody.”
Drew – no taht’s ok that’s fine

Melody says that if it came down to Mallory and Lyric, she’d be campaigning to keep Mallory — but she knows Kamu wants to keep Lyric no matter what. She read Kamu as having tried to get her to turn on Mallory, so she knows the house wants Mallory gone. Her own sense is that Mallory has a decent shot, and she raises the veto math: if Jason wins it, who does he even take down, with three of them up there.

*Where it stands

Melody is quietly out of step with the plan she’s been read into. Kamu has her down as a locked vote and someone who’d use a veto however he wants, but here she tells Drew she’d campaign to keep Mallory over Lyric — the exact inverse of what Kamu wants, and she knows it. She’s also clocked that the pressure Kamu put on her overnight to distance from Mallory was the house softening her up for a Mallory eviction. Drew, who’s supposed to be Kamu’s other half, just lets it ride with a flat “that’s fine.” It’s the first sign that the Kamu/Drew/Melody/Yash side-trust Kamu was sketching at 3:28 has a member whose loyalties, if a Mallory-Lyric vote ever lands, run the other way.

12:20 am Jason – Taylor

Jason: “Either it’s you, me, Mallory, Lyric or Melody.”
Taylor: “This week?”
Jason: “The renom will be me, I think.”

On Yash.
Taylor: “He’s very messy.”
Taylor: “Even Haley was like, he’s too messy, don’t play game with him.”

Jason: “I already — you know, Drew’s on board if the time is right. Let’s f***ing flip.”
Jason: “That’s why I’m like, is Lyric the one? Mallory can win comps and is willing to take them off.”
Taylor: “We have to keep Mallory.”
Jason: “We have to keep you.”

Taylor: “But Lala’s also loud.”
Jason: “So maybe we give them what they want and they get loud.”
Taylor: “I don’t want them to be loud.”
Jason: “Of course, but we make it look like a majority vote, so we’re on the right side of the house.”
Taylor: “But it’ll kind of quiet things down. So we have to pick between Lala and Lyric. Because Lyric can flirt. And that’s what she’s doing right now. That’s the only reason why Lyric came up — because Lala was like, look at her.”
Taylor: “She can play both sides too, since she has Chuk in her pocket.”

*Where it stands

Jason has read the week almost exactly right — he’s calling himself the renom before the nomination ceremony has even happened — and he’s already building the counter. The plan he pitches Taylor: keep Mallory because she can win comps and is willing to take shots at the other side, sacrifice Lala or Lyric instead, and dress it up as a majority vote so their hands stay clean. His claimed ace is Drew, “on board if the time is right.” Taylor is the reluctant partner — she wants Mallory kept but won’t relish losing Lala, and her case against Lyric is that the flirting is working, with Chuk in her pocket as proof she plays both sides. Put next to the rest of the night, Drew is now being claimed by both poles of the house at once: Kamu’s secret final two upstairs, Jason’s flip vote downstairs. At least one side is wrong about him.

1:30 am zzzzz