Julie announced a bunch of stupid twists in Big Brother 17 Episode 1. Then James won HOH. Tonight, we get to talk about more stupid twists as six additional houseguests enter the house.
Liz is stubborn and has no filter and doesn’t like “jealous girls”. Jason wants to live in the Big Brother house so he can get out of his mother’s basement. My very first reaction to Clay was that he must be this season’s gay guy, but no, that would be Jason. So is Vanessa, or at least she’s bi, though in her case I don’t think that’s one of the main reasons for her casting. Vanessa is a pro poker player in Vegas, having won over $4 million after apparently studying how to play poker (technically, game theory) in college. John is a dentist who just wants money and to rock. Becky is an outdoorsy hippy, though she doesn’t look the part, at least not the hippy bit. Steve is a socially awkward engineer who’s terrible at holding a conversation.
Da’Vonne assumes John is lying about being a dentist. Why would he do that? Liz dumped her boyfriend before coming into the house, so now she’s single and can pursue Clay, who makes a very good first impression, though I’m not sure there’s much there beyond being, as someone put it yesterday, pretty. Speaking of Clay, he compares Steve to Ian, the lackluster winner of season 14 who beat Dan thanks to a whiny jury that needed to be slapped. Vanessa pretends to be a DJ.
I thought the people involved in these lame twists were going to be previous houseguests, and many of them probably will be. This week we get Phil Keoghan of The Amazing Race, which is actually a nice surprise. And then we get to watch videos of Jeff & Jordan and Brendon & Rachel. Oh, that took almost two whole episodes to get to them. Since he keeps taking people from other shows, perhaps he should offer her some people from his show.
Last season, there was a twist not even worthy of Big Brother, the blind date season, which was the worst idea the show has ever had, family edition notwithstanding. So what’s he going to offer us from this terrible season? Jeff & Jackie. Ho hum. They show that clip from when she was a raving lunatic for no reason, though for the most part she seemed normal, but I imagine there will be more of that hot headedness in this environment. They describe themselves as close, but they’re not dating, obviously.
It’s now time for the second HOH competition from the eight houseguests who just joined, minus one person who must sit out. In this case, Vanessa volunteers, and unlike Da’Vonne, she doesn’t even have to ask for them not to nominate her. Rather, someone makes that suggestion on her behalf.
They have to hold on to stakes and not get sucked into the mother ship to which they are tethered. Steve doesn’t want to be blatant, but he also doesn’t want to be an idiot and win. Jason hopes to win so he can perhaps get alpha males to ally with him, and Jackie knows she’s a target based on her pre-existing alliance. Steve is the first one eliminated. He didn’t even need to try to throw it because he had no chance anyway. Unlike Jackie, Jeff is completely fine with being eliminated, hoping that it will make him less of a target. John is the next one out. Then Becky. Jackie looks like she’s about out of it, and then Liz starts to follow her lead. Liz is out next. Jason’s apparently not even struggling, but he makes an offer to Jackie to drop out and not nominate her, which may save her from Jason but doesn’t help her with the other HOH. Jackie is eliminated, having increased the target on her back in the process. Jason wins HOH.
Phil is not done. He tells Vanessa and Da’Vonne that with risk comes reward. And that’s about all he has to say about that.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.