Devin nominated Paola & Brittany, and Amber nominated Hayden & Nicole in Big Brother 16 Episode 6. Hayden & Nicole won the battle of the block, leaving Brittany and her big mouth on the block against Paola, who may or may not have thrown the challenge.
Zach, Derrick, Christine, and Cody want to prove that Devin is no longer running the house. For no other reason than to prove a point apparently, they want to get rid of Paola, the weakest person in the house. Amber has issues with Devin as well, and that means by default that Caleb will take her side.
Frankie sits by and watches Caleb and Devin attempt to have a battle of wits. Devin’s final conclusion from this battle is that there is no more alliance. Granted, it’s not as if Devin has a lot of options. His irrational behavior has alienated a lot of people. It’s a miracle his own alliance was not smart enough to dump him last week rather than take the risk.
Two more people have joined Team America: Frankie and Derrick. They have incentive for doing these idiotic potentially game ending tasks. For every mission they accomplish, each person will receive $5,000. These are interesting choices for me. I was thinking America hated the Bomb Squad (or at least enough of it) and would try to blow it up, but the team is represented by two members of that fragile alliance.
Devin chooses Zach at random for the veto competition, Brittany chooses Derrick, and Paola selects Amber.
Caleb apologizes for how their previous discussion concluded. He’s going to pretend like there is nothing wrong with Devin for now. Devin will do the same. One thing that comes out of this discussion, perhaps just because of a slip of the tongue, is that people want Devin out of this house.
So you know what that means. House meeting. Because the last one went so well. The women refuse to open their mouths. Zach acknowledges that Paola is the weakest player ever, but he likes Brittany better. Nobody cares to assist Zach with getting his foot out of his mouth, and he does not help himself by admitting that he suggested that Devin needs to go.
Before the veto competition begins, Devin tells Paola that he will pull her off the block if he wins, which would be a smart move because it would thwart his alliance’s plans and not even give them the opportunity to consider them. Of course, he needs to make a smart replacement because someone like the completely invisible Jocasta (this is the first time I have mentioned her name except during the introductions and voting) will not help him any.
Their task is to balance ten planets on their mobiles at the same time. I think we can safely count Paola out of this competition. Brittany is equally useless. Zach is doing pretty well, but Derrick and Devin seem to be the only ones with any chance. Devin wins the power of veto. I’m somewhat happy with that result just because it pisses a lot of people off who should have thought about going against this guy before he won HOH rather than after.
Zach now realizes he’s screwed because Devin makes it clear he does not trust him. Frankie can’t figure out why these idiots keep telling people the truth.
Brittany has been stupidly vocal about how evil Devin is pretty much since he won HOH, but now she finally realizes that she has to make a deal with the devil. In response, he tells her that Paola threw the competition (because she’s such a competition threat).
Devin has promised to use the veto on Paola. He has also promised to use the veto on Brittany. And he had previously promised not to nominate any of his alliance members, such as Zach. He’s about to break at least one of those promises. At least somebody in this house is lying. Not particularly well, but lying the nonetheless.
Devin uses his power of veto on Brittany, who says that Paola is her target. His reasoning is that she’s a single mom. Oh, now nobody’s going to buy that. The replacement nominee is Zach, which only sucks because he has surprisingly become likeable after making a really bad first impression.
That went about as badly as can be expected, and the teaser for tomorrow’s show warns that all hell is about to break loose. I was looking forward to Brittany’s ouster, too, because she’s just really dumb at this game, or at least she was toward the beginning of the week.
With 12 votes this week, Devin either needs to convince someone in his alliance to flip on Zach, or he needs to convince every single other person to go against him. Either that, or Zach can just keep telling the truth.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.