“you can’t turn it off in here, I just can’t. in the final 2 and then like.. being attacked like I was the first time”

Enzo could save the season if he self evicts.

Yes Enzo, 3rd place & unlike before you have nobody else to blame but yourself. You had not One but TWO golden f**k it Platinum Opportunities to take a winner out. You’re dumbass chose to keep a noob over a winner. You let a pregame alliance beat you & you had clues all season about Nicole & Cody playing the house. His only hail mary is Cody decides to make the first & only big move of the season this late in game & take Nicole out. IMHO that would be hilarious.

Episode Review:
It’s crap.
There’s so much that doesn’t match what we saw.
I’m disgusted listening to these three assholes try to justify their games according to the television edit, not what we saw on feeds. Listen to them. Their actual games on feeds are non-existent, it’s all about the bullcrap tv edit.

Some uncomfortable truths:

1. Enzo, the slick six was created as a fake alliance in order to keep Bayleigh and Da’vonne on a string. Remember the idea of having the fake 6 alliance fronting the fake 4 alliance including Dani, and then the real final 3 with Cody and Tyler? Btw… you forgot your big move to get rid of Kaysar did nothing for yourself, it helped Cody and Tyler, not you, really. Pushing the Slick Six in any way as a real alliance was a production thing for a weeks worth of episodes before switching back to the Committee… nothing more, even to you.
2. Cody, remember how many final 2 deals you actually had by the beginning of day 2? I do. You missed a couple. You forgot Dani. You forgot Tyler. The committee meant nothing to you. The Core 4, and Triple Thr3at were the alliances you called real until end of week 5 when you discussed with Dani how Production didn’t give a damn about any alliance but the Committee, so that’s when you talked about it more. The Committee was a backup alliance. Nothing more. The only time the committee became real in terms of game between week 3 and week 6 was when Da won the veto during Dani’s HOH. Then there were alliance meetings and plans. Before that… nothing. After that HOH, again, nothing.
3. Nicf… so many discrepancies. I can’t even begin. Dani was a final 2, not just an ally. A final 2 you spent a week backstabbing before the triple. remember? The Ian edit and clips skipped the feeds version where you practiced crying and acting sad when voting him out (even practicing what you would say). There’s more, but i’m shuddering.

ALL THREE d/r explanations of game were bullshit that followed the episode storyline not the feed house story. It Really Really Really annoyed the hell out of me because it makes me aware of just how much of the tv edit choices the houseguests are clued into. I hate that aspect.

Even bringing back the first five evicted to discuss the final 3 felt… very edited for content. and very much fed line by production on dm while they were on chat. Nica playing devil’s advocate annoyed me. I’m still hyper-annoyed by her. Funny how on a season of uber-asshats and ultradouchecanoes like 21… she comes across as the one that you can at least sympathize with… until you see her on 22 and realize she’s just a paranoid apologist and annoying af.

First part of HOH, they are done up like zombies. Not much of a change. it’s like they’ve just forgotten to take off the facial masks we see for too much on feeds.
Let’s remember, they changed the rules for this comp. Your feet are allowed to come off the disc now, unlike previous seasons. Kept Cody in the comp after the first two minutes as far as they discussed on feeds. Okay, takes a lot longer, but we do see it. Cody’s feet come off, but he is allowed to continue. Later, Enzo slips and his ass lands on the disc and he gets the buzzer. I don’t get it… was he not given the opportunity to climb back up and reposition like Cody was given? So feet can come off as long as backside doesn’t hit the disc?? Is that the new rule??? And another feet come off Cody inclusion. This seems to be odd. Look at Cody lean back to hit things he would miss… oh. this will be fuel for his complaining later. Got it. Remember his feed complaints about getting hit harder than she did? that tends to happen when you lean back to hit things. Felt manufactured.

The entire HOH part one thing had so much oddness to it. There is something going off in my head watching it. My internal bullshit detector (like spidey sense for crap) is pinging, and even the edit isn’t saving this comp…. it’s feeling staged by bad actors. Like not even understudy for community theatre level bad acting.
And we’re hearing the complaining in the final look into the house… Cody is already whining he got it harder. HE LEANED BACK INTO IT three times, so that he hit the house. It was visible. What is that?

Honestly, I did it to myself. I knew nothing good would come from watching this episode after watching the Friday Crapapalooza season recap. Both sucked, this one was worse.

Manifesting Nicole winning pt3 and cutting Cody

End of Season Assessment. Part One.
Comparison of My Initial Feelings About this Season to How I Feel Now.

I’m starting this early today, so that I don’t write a huuuuge novel tomorrow. Two Short stories instead of an anthology is about all I can muster enthusiasm for in regard to my feeling about this Big Brother 22: The Returning Houseguests we could get during a pandemic but most of them sure as shit would never be confused for All-Stars Season.
In the past I’ve read about people longing for an All-Star or All returning cast second chance season. I’ve always been the devil’s advocate saying NOOOOOO, don’t do it. My logic was akin to that nostalgic feeling you may have had for a movie you saw at the drive in as a kid, that you thought was your favorite childhood movie of all time, but when you see it on tv really late at night and stay up to watch it…. you realize it was a piece of b-movie crap that doesn’t stand the test of time. That’s what we’ve witnessed this season: we’ve all been slapped across the face with a huge ‘be careful what you wish for’ moment.

Now, I’m not going to say there was no production interference in old school bb. That would be asinine. Anyone that watched Season 5’s final 4 veto knows that there was some shenanigans in old school. But. New school has become so manufactured, that it can’t even be called manipulation anymore. Since the ruling that the show is reality entertainment programming, and not a game show required to meet the rules and regulations governing gameshows… it’s gotten worse, and far more in your face. This is the issue I have. It’s not that preconceived storylines and predicatability are now the benchmark: it’s that it is so absolutely obvious. Production in recent big brother asks us to suspend disbelief to such a level that it’s impossible to comply. They don’t even try to hide it anymore. I find this insulting to our collective intelligence, but I still watch, hoping for a surprise. I’m not surprised really. I haven’t been truly surprised (at least pleasantly) in a couple seasons. I don’t feel that any outcome for this season will be a surprise. Just go back and watch episode one again. tell me if you are surprised knowing what you know now. The writing was on the wall. In Neon paint. Admittedly, Enzo is… surprise isn’t the word, shocking certainly doesn’t fit… not 100% expected as the third, but it fits given episode edits in the first 5 weeks.

My worst fears have borne fruit. As soon as rumors began that there was pre-season alliance building going on, with full knowledge that Production would buy into it and encourage it, just like they did in season 18… I knew the end of the season was going to be like all the fingernails on the chalkboard. Does it matter to me who wins: no. Did it ever? Actually, no. I knew from week one that I was watching not to see who would win, but to watch others lose. In my head this season is an exercise in Schadenfreude.
Does it matter to any of them who actually wins? For ego, perhaps it does, but financially it depends on whether or not they have a prize sharing deal in place. Again: Anyone that listened to them on feeds in Season 18 discussing having prize sharing deals with a wink wink and a nudge nudge, knows that it is completely in the realm of reasonable suspicion that it could exist again. Especially if the architect of BOTH preseason alliance rigging schemes was Derrick.

So this completes my first short story about season assessment. Part Two Tomorrow will be the actual gut reaction I have while watching the finale, with Part One Informing you of the mindspace I will be starting from, and general attitude I expect to have.