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Heroes Season 4 Episode 1

Heroes Season 3 Episode 25 concluded Volume 4 with Nathan’s death and Sylar subsequently assuming the role of Nathan. Tonight, Volume 5 Redemption begins.

One of the good things to come out of the cancellation of Prison Break is that we get to see Robert Knepper (T-Bag) join the Heroes cast as Samuel. He’s the leader of a carnival clan, one gifted with extraordinary abilities. Mourning the loss of his brother Joseph, he tells his followers that there are others out there just like them.

Claire’s moving into a dorm and meets her new roommate Annie, who’s an AP student expecting somebody similar. But Claire got her GED because she was traveling and saving the world and such. Annie wants Claire to map out her future and put childish things behind. This should be oodles of fun.

Hiro and Ando believe that somebody will call Dial a Hero. Well, at least Hiro does anyway. Just look at the bar graph. Ando’s remembering a day years ago where he spilled something on Hiro’s sister. His theory is that she hates him because of that day at the carnival.

Peter’s a paramedic. He’s sitting in gridlock going nowhere, but he’s sure he can find a shortcut, by way of leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

Claire goes to class where she’s given 45 minutes to solve an equation. She’s gonna need a little longer than that. Maybe 45 months. Realizing this, she promptly bails, after having a vision that she’s been tasered by snipers.

The woman Peter saved ended up having twins. He can’t celebrate. 30 seconds more, and all three of them would have been dead. Him getting there faster than humanly possible is not good enough.

Ando and Hiro have their first client. A little girl wants to get her cat down. Are there no fireman around? As a reward for rescuing him, the cat attacks Ando and makes him fall. Lucky thing Hiro can freeze him.

Noah considers his decision to turn Sylar into Nathan an emotional one, hence, wrong. Now he doesn’t want anything to do with him.

When HRG gets into his car, it fills with water, which begins to freeze. He’s been paid a visit by Tracy Strauss. Danko can’t figure out how she survived. He put in a bullet into her himself and shattered her into a thousand pieces. Danko’s plan: kill Tracy before she kills them.

Claire meets up with Gretchen, somebody who may well be more normal than the rest of the people in the college. As they’re talking about how they’re from Texas, Gretchen recognizes the name. There was a Claire Bennet who got decapitated.

After he saves Ando from the fall, Hiro freezes.

As much as she may wish to pretend otherwise, Angela’s nightmares tell the truth. Sylar is Nathan now, and that doesn’t sit very well with her. To complicate things, Nathan’s confused. When he looks back on his life, it’s like it’s not his life he’s looking back on. Furthermore, he doesn’t feel mortal. Rather, he feels invincible. Mama suggests going out to get a big expensive sports car and a younger woman with questionable morals to get over this midlife crisis.

Angela calls Parkman with worry that Sylar’s beginning to emerge again. Her request is to apply a patch or upgrade him, but he believes he’s out and done with this whole thing.

While messing around in his office, Nathan realizes he’s got a creepy shocking power.

Noah pays Claire a visit at school. Annie’s been catching him up, telling him about how Claire needs to apply herself.

This morning when he was talking about redemption, Samuel left out the part about vengeance.

Tracy joins Noah and tells him that the reason why she’s still alive is simple. Her one cohesive thought was to kill all of them. He’s willing to help her out because he, too, is seeking redemption. It’s not quite that easy to seal a deal, though. Noah plans on getting what he wants. Danko will forget about Tracy.

Upon his return home, Danko runs into Tracy, a woman he no longer recognizes. Then he’s attacked by Edgar, Samuel’s assassin. Edgar then makes the mistake of attacking Tracy, who’s not nearly as easy a target and uses her powers to gain the upperhand and not end up all chopped up.

Ando’s wheeled the still frozen Hiro back to the office, where he manages to wake him up. Instead of freezing time, time froze him. Now his nose is bleeding. He doesn’t want to see a doctor. He’s already done that. The news is not good. He’s dying. Maybe soon. This all started the night of the carnival. He got his fortune that he would be a powerful hero. Ever since then, he’s been focused on doing just that. What if he never got that fortune? Hiro puts his foot down about going back, but that doesn’t prevent him from accidentally going back to that night at the carnival 14 years ago.

Thanks to Lydia, Samuel thinks he’s found somebody who can help them fix the past. He just needs to go back 14 years first.

When she returns to her room, Claire sees the windows open. Outside lies the corpse of her roommate.

Like Angela, Parkman is having nightmares about Sylar, who wants his body back.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 2 Jump, Push, Fall, which airs next on NBC.

Survivor: Thailand Episode 5

In an effort to bring peace to the tribe, Chuay Gahn voted out Ghandia in Survivor: Thailand Episode 4.

Jan voting the way she did puts her on the outside of the tribe. Add to that the fact that she’s the weakest link on the challenges, and she’d just better hope her tribe can win immunity.

Sook Jai’s decided to kill a chicken and have it for breakfast. Not waiting very long here. Shii Ann creeps out her tribe by eating neck, intestines, hearts, etc. Rather, she mostly creeps out Robb, who didn’t like her to begin with. You’d be surprised how good chicken neck tastes when you’re starving, but nobody else wants to partake.

Ted wants to make sure that Brian’s on his side. Brian agrees they’re going to the end together. He really doesn’t say very much, though. He just lets other people do the talking.

Over on Sook Jai, they hear Robb screaming. Nobody thinks much of it at first because he’s always running his mouth. Then they realize he’s bleeding. He figures he was bit by something out in the ocean.

Chuay Gahn has lost their boat. That’s a problem for two reasons. First, they have the beach with the nice shelter, which means their water trek is far. Second, that’s their fishing boat, and their net was in it. Ted gets the blame for the boat loss, but nobody vocalizes this blame to him.

The reward challenge is an auction. Before they get to that, Jeff poses a question to them, and he’ll give them 60 seconds to think about it. Does anybody want to switch tribes? Stephanie might consider getting the hell out of there, but everybody else may as well stay put. Shii Ann hates her tribe, so she’s tempted, but she is not budging either. Helen thinks that Jan should hop on the offer, but either way, she’s the next one gone. Ultimately, both tribes stay put.

Both tribes are given $1,000, and they will be bidding as a tribe. First item is a burger and fries. Sook Jai starts at $20, $60 for Chuay Gahn, $80 for Sook Jai, $100 Chuay Gahn, $120 Sook Jai. Sook Jai gets the burger and fries. Shii Ann walks away without paying, until Ted says something and Jeff remembers he was supposed to take money. A pitcher of limeade is next. Chuay Gahn bids $20 and gets it without Sook Jai putting up any resistance. A mystery item is next. $20 Chuay Gahn, $40 Sook Jai, $60 Chuay Gahn, $80 Sook Jai. For their $80, Sook Jai gets a bowl of grubs. Stephanie seems just fine with them. They taste like mushrooms and are full of protein. Spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread are the next item, starting at an expensive $120. Chuay Gahn starts things off, $140 to Sook Jai, $280 Chuay Gahn, $300 Sook Jai, $320 Chuay Gahn, $340 Sook Jai, $360 Chuay Gahn, $380 Sook Jai, $400 Chuay Gahn. Expensive meal for Chuay Gahn. The next item is another mystery. Sook Jai bids $40, $60 Chuay Gahn, $80 Sook Jai, $100 Chuay Gahn, $160 Sook Jai, $180 Chuay Gahn, $200 Sook Jai. Chuay Gahn wants to let them have it. This one’s bound to be good. For their $200, Sook Jai gets a hot fudge sundae. Nachos are next. $60 for Sook Jai, $80 for Chuay Gahn, $100 for Sook Jai, $140 for Chuay Gahn, $200 Sook Jai, $240 Chuay Gahn, $260 Sook Jai. After that bid, Jeff says that something else goes with that. Then Ted realizes the other tribe is almost out of money. $280 from Chuay Gahn, $300 Sook Jai, $320 Chuay Gahn, and they know they’ve got this item won. In addition to the nachos, they get margaritas, and the auction is over.

Penny says that Stephanie’s slowly coming around and changing to be part of the tribe more now. Stephanie says that everybody’s being nicer now because they’re eating.

Brian and Helen have decided to swim over to the water on the day they have a challenge. They run the risk that they’ll be exhausted, but they see this as better than being dehydrated.

The challenge is to sort fish into bins. Every fish must be sorted and in the right bin. Erin and Ken sit out for Sook Jai. Not really a lot to say about this challenge. It’s anybody’s game, and there’s no clarity who is or is not winning. When it gets down to the end, it turns out Chuay Gahn has a big lead. They’ve got one incorrectly sorted fish, but once they correct that, Chuay Gahn wins immunity.

Stephanie’s wishing that she had jumped to the other tribe when she had the chance. She feels like her days are numbered. She and Shii Ann are discussing how the other tribe all seem really nice.

Now Erin’s whining about the way Shii Ann was eating. Jake doesn’t have any problem with Shii Ann because she works.

At tribal council, Jeff asks Shii Ann whether she considered switching tribes. She pretends that she likes her current tribe and really didn’t consider the move.

In his vote against Shii Ann, Robb says that she gets on his nerves and he doesn’t like being around her. But it’s nothing personal.

Votes
Stephanie
Stephanie
Shii Ann
Shii Ann
Stephanie
Stephanie

By a vote of 5-2, Stephanie has been voted off the island.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Thailand Episode
6 The Power of One.

Survivor: Thailand Episode 4

Ghandia came into the game full of emotional baggage and let it all come out in Survivor: Thailand Episode 3. Despite the tension between her and Ted, their tribe won the challenge, mostly because the other tribe lost on purpose so that they could get rid of Jed, a decision that’s probably a little too early to be making.

With Jed out of the game, Stephanie’s sourness will only get worse. Robb with two b’s will at least make an attempt to blend in.

Over on Chuay Gahn, as much as they say they’re over what happened, it ain’t gonna be over until one of them is gone. Ted has decided that Ghandia is not even on the island. He hates her guts, with good reason. It’s ending up as the women on one side and the men on another. To me it’s pretty black and white, though. Ted may or may not have done something wrong depending on how you look at it, but Ghandia’s excessive overreaction to it after accepting his apology is what’s brought them where they are now. This TV show is not the appropriate forum for someone to seek therapy, and really not something the viewers need to be subjected to.

The tribes get a dummy for their next challenge. They’ll have to dress him up and name him. Chuay Gahn decorates theirs together, while Stephanie decorates her tribe’s pretty much by herself with no desire for assistance. The challenge will be to carry that dummy, which weighs 250 pounds, around the island. Reward is bananas and a mystery to be revealed later. Shii Ann sits out for Sook Jai. Sook Jai has a slight lead early on. Crossing over to the other side of the island, they increase the gap significantly to a point where they’ve obviously got this won. Sook Jai wins reward.

When they return, the boys blame Ghandia and Jan. Helen’s name does not come up for blame, but Ghandia and Jan were clearly weak links in the challenge, so the blame is warranted. Ghandia immediately assumes they’re talking about her, so she gets all bent out of shape and blames them for blaming her. She’s not going to play their blame game. Instead, she’s going to play her own blame game.

Over on Sook Jai, when they return to camp, they find their mystery prize, chickens.

The men on Chuay Gahn go out fishing, while the women do the chores. In his sexist confessional, Brian views this as nature’s way. The women should be in the house cooking and cleaning and doing their laundry. As much as Helen doesn’t like the roles, she realizes she has to just keep her mouth shut because being loud won’t do anything but get her voted off next.

The immunity challenge involves tangrams, pieces of wood cut into 7 pieces used to form various shapes. They’ll have to match the shapes with the examples they are shown. Stephanie will sit out for Sook Jai. Sook Jai manages to solve the first puzzle because Shii Ann proves to be good at puzzles as she indicated last time. They also finish the second puzzle. Sook Jai wins immunity.

It’s obvious what has to happen now. Either Ted has to go or Ghandia has to go. The tribe will not be united with them both still there.

Strangely, Ghandia says that she’s got a toss up between Clay and Ted. When she and Jan talk, they decide Clay’s anti-female views don’t bode well for them. Helen is surprised by the move to get rid of Clay instead of Ted, and she’s assuming that if she goes into this deadlocked, it will come down to a purple rock.

At tribal council, Jeff asks whether everybody is pulling their own weight. Ghandia doesn’t hesitate to answer nope. Jan and Clay attempt to be somewhat more diplomatic about this question.

Votes
Ghandia
Clay
Ghandia
Clay
Ghandia (aka Denver Diva, the first time Jeff’s ever seen a vote that he doesn’t know who it’s for)
Ghandia

By a vote of 4-2, Ghandia has been voted off the island. Good riddance. At least she realizes in her closing speech that it was a big mistake to use the event that happened as game strategy to pit both sides against each other.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Thailand Episode
5 The Ocean’s Surprise.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 2

The Vampire Diaries premiered last week as the largest launch ever by The CW, hopefully proving to the network that they don’t need pink shows (or Fox remakes from the 90s) to be successful. It also gave me a reason to watch The CW again, which I’d thought I lost when they cancelled Reaper. Episode 1 introduced us to the main likely to be on again off again love interests Stefan and Elena. At the end of the episode, we also met Stefan’s less than good brother Damon, who attacked (but failed to kill) Vicki.

A couple are out in the woods camping. She’s worried about it raining and him staying dry. It’s raining alright. Blood.

Things are changing for Stefan and Elena. They’re happy to wake up and greet the day so they can see each other. Awww.

Bonnie’s found out that she’s technically a witch. I knew it, and I await the British librarian.

Matt reveals that a vampire attacked Vicki, although he thinks that she was just drunk. Wait for it, dude. You’ll be a believer soon enough.

It’s the third day of school, and Jeremy’s already skipped six classes. That story about his parents having died four months ago isn’t going to cut it any more. The fact that he’s on drugs isn’t exactly a secret to the faculty of the school either.

Matt goes to visit Vicki in the hospital. What he didn’t anticipate is that Stefan overheard the whole vampire story and now wants to keep things quiet, so he uses mind control on both of them. Matt knows somebody was in that room. He just doesn’t know who.

Elena and Stefan just talked last night. Caroline just wants him to jump his bones already.

When Vicki wakes up, she doesn’t remember any screaming fit that she had because it never happened except in Matt’s mind. What she does remember is that she was attacked by an animal, a thought planted in her mind by Stefan.

Taking Caroline’s advice and going after the boy, Elena heads to Stefan’s house. That’s where she meets up with Damon. He warns her about “the last one,” Katherine. Stefan interrupts to thank her for stopping by and to tell her good riddance.

That whole animal attack story may not last very long, as Vicki’s now starting to have nightmares about the vampire who tried to kill her.

Elena’s realizing that Stefan is a complicated guy who likes to apologize a lot. Maybe she won’t be shacking up with him after all.

When she returns to the bar, Vicki knows that she knows Damon. She doesn’t know how, but she does know him. She’ll probably be more clear about how she knows him when he takes her up to the roof. He doesn’t need her to be dead, but his brother might. That animal attack story is now completely gone. The vampire one is back, but not the right one. Stefan is getting the blame for the attack. Damon’s plan is to see if he can get his brother to kill again, but it’s not working. With that in mind, Damon makes her forget everything that just happened. She just assumes that her being a druggie is what caused her current confused state.

Upon handing Elena’s cell phone number and e-mail address to Stefan, Bonnie wigs out, asks what happened to him, and walks away.

Aunt Jenna has decided she’s now an authority figure, so she’s ready to bust Jeremy for being a dealer, although she’s still worried that he’s going to get worse.

Rather than closing out the night by writing in her diary, Elena has decided that she’d better just go say all that stuff to Stefan. The talking doesn’t last very long.

As for Damon, he’s found his next victim.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 3 Friday Nights, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor: Samoa Episode 1

Survivor is back for season 19, and the larger than normal Survivor: Samoa cast consists of 20 contestants.

The contestants have been divided into two tribes.

Galu (Purple): Brett, Dave, Erik, John, Kelly, Laura, Monica, Russell S, Shannon, Yasmin
Foa Foa (Yellow): Ashley, Ben, Betsy, Elizabeth, Jaison, Marisa, Mick, Mike, Natalie, Russell H

Their first decision is to elect tribe leaders, despite the fact that they haven’t said anything to anyone yet. Mick believes he has leadership qualities, something he may want to keep to himself. Shannon’s lame nickname is Shambo.

Galu gives Russell S half their votes, with the runner up being Shambo with 3. With 4 votes, Mick gets his wish and is elected by Foa Foa over Jaison, who received 3 votes.

Now that they’ve been elected, it’s time to make a decision. Who will participate in the opening challenge? First, their best swimmer. Mick picks Jaison, who it turns out played water polo, while Russell picks John. For the strongest person, Russell H and Erik are chosen. The most agile people are Marisa and Yasmin, who was dumb enough to wear high heels. The smartest people are Elizabeth and Shambo, who wants God’s help to be smart.

The swimmer will swim out and get a key. The strong person will free up bundles of logs and bring them back to the mat. The most agile person will cross a balance beam. The smart person will solve a puzzle. First tribe to solve the puzzle wins reward. Game has barely started, and they’re already playing for fire. Jaison proves to be a strong swimmer as expected and takes the lead. Russell moves the first bundle of logs easily, but he struggles with the second one. Erik appears like he may have narrowed the gap some, but in either case he showed he’s going to push. Marisa’s already having a wardrobe malfunction even though she hasn’t lost any weight yet. Shambo comes pretty close to pulling the come from behind victory off, but ultimately Foa Foa wins reward.

Ben steps up to take some control, since he’s a hillbilly who’s done all this before.

Russell H didn’t come here to work. He came here to play. His plan is to have a secret alliance with each one of these dumb girls, as well as the not so dumb older lady, Betsy, who doesn’t trust him because he approached her too quickly.

Unlike Foa Foa, where Mick is happy to let Ben take charge, Russell S is would like to continue his leadership role when they get to camp. Except John keeps talking, so getting him under control may be Russell’s biggest challenge. Shambo, who was close to being the leader but not quite, doesn’t appreciate Russell’s leadership style. She wants him to whip these people into shape.

Russell H is telling a story. The only part of this story that’s true is, well, none of it. He’s never lived in New Orleans, was not there during Katrina, is not a fireman, and never even had a German shepherd.

Afterward, he empties all the water out of all the canteens and burns someone’s sock in the fire in an attempt to make everybody miserable.

It turns out that the burnt socks were Jaison’s. He’s getting blisters and has cold feet. As for everybody’s missing water, that’s a problem because it’s creating the potential for bickering amongst the tribe. What Russell needs to be careful of here, though, is his smirking. It may give it away.

For the immunity challenge, six members of each tribe will race while carrying three coils of rope. They will then use that rope to pull a heavy crate to the finish platform, where the four remaining members will disassemble the crate and solve a puzzle. Galu’s off to a sizeable lead. Yasmin, who luckily also packed some sneakers, slows down on the second platform, but they still retain their lead. With Russell’s strength, Foa Foa is able to close the gap some on the crate. Galu performs strongly in the puzzle portion of the challenge to win immunity.

The men are discussing the need to vote based on strength. That means one of the women, with Ashley being the name that Mike brings up.

Russell’s already overplaying. Marisa tells him that she does not like that he’s talking to everybody else individually when he’s supposedly in an alliance with her. He has now decided that Marisa is going first.

Betsy’s intuition is still telling her that Russell can’t be trusted.

When asked at tribal council who the weakest link is, Betsy openly acknowledges that it’s Ashley. When Marisa is given the same question, she dodges it, so Ben makes it as if this a bad thing. After Russell berates her, she apologizes if she did anything to put a mark on her back when she supposedly targeted him.

Votes
Marisa
Marisa
Ashley
Ashley
Marisa
Ashley
Marisa
Marisa
Marisa

With 6 votes, Marisa has been voted out. Russell’s proved he’s in charge, but he’s playing a stupidly aggressive game that in the long run should bite him in the butt. The Ashley votes came from Betsy, Marisa, and Mick.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Samoa Episode 2, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 2

So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 1 turned out to be a pretty eventful opening night, as we saw performances from Mollee Gray, Ryan Kasprzak, Bianca Revels, Amber Williams, and Phillip Attmore.

Tonight we head to Phoenix, AZ, which some have said is less than a mile from the sun.

Brandon “Shorty” Smallwood (a little guy who may well be Urkel) and Demitrio “Biggie” Bargas (a white guy who should consider applying for The Biggest Loser instead) will apparently be dancing together. Nigel doesn’t know anybody who watched that but didn’t enjoy it. That’s not to stay it was good. Nonetheless, he wants them to go to choreography.

Sasha Mallory auditioned in season 4 but was cut in Vegas. Mia thought that was a really strong solo. Mary felt it was so beautiful. Nigel knows her family is very proud because the judges are, too.

Katie Muth and Ellie Soto will be joining her in Vegas.

Allison Becker was diagnosed with spinal meningitis at 16 months and is deaf. It’ll be interesting to see how she can perform without being able to hear the music or instruction. Nigel thought her movement and face were beautiful, though her technique is not as good as he would like it yet. Mary sees her as an inspriration because she didn’t give up. Allison will be going through to choreography.

Willem de Vries and Jacob Jason are same sex dancers, something we know from last season that Nigel does not like. To be real men, they need to be able to spit and belch and watch monster trucks. Mary is really proud having just seen a lot of emotion, passion, and great technique. Mia celebrates their courage. Nigel thanks them for showing him that same sex dancing can be very good.

Jonathan Noronha comes on stage with two sticks in his hand. This will be bad. Nigel had fun, but it’s not right for this show. So what show is it right for then?

Demetrio calls it quits in the middle of the choreography round. His buddy Brandon has been rejected. However, Allison, Jacob, and Willem will be going to Vegas.

Jarvis Johnson is so excited, and he just can’t hide it. Dude, it’s called decaf. Nigel calls him a dancing fool. There are worse kinds of fools he could be. Mia can just say one thing. Wow. For whatever reason, Mary and Nigel let him go through to choreography. Nigel wants a nap now.

As the day goes by, things get more and more strange. It’s not the heat; it’s the stupidity.

Kelsey White will see if she can break the trend by actually being normal. Nigel runs away out of fear that there are aliens in the vicinity, but from off stage he gives his okay for choreography. Mia thought it was just okay. Mary sees potential.

Jonathan “Legacy” Perez is a breakdancer closing out the day. Nigel thinks he’s tremendous but is not sure how he’ll do in other styles. Mary calls him one of the most exciting B-boys she’s seen. Mia calls him stupid, which is apparently a compliment.

During choreography, Jarvis collapses. The judges should have seen this coming. Kelsey has been cut but is told she was really close.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 3, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

America’s Got Talent Season 4 Winner

The top 10 performed in America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 25. Tonight, after much filler, we will find out who the America’s Got Talent Season 4 winner is.

Nick will be bringing down the acts two at a time. One will stay in the competition, and the other will be out.

Hairo Torres gets the bad news without a word needing to be said: he’s up against Barbara Padilla. Hairo has been eliminated. Barbara is the first to join the top 5.

Lawrence Beaman and the Voices of Glory are next. I don’t see either winning, but Voices of Glory advance.

The Texas Tenors and Fab Five are next. Based on the votes for the blonde in the middle, I’m assuming it will be the cowboys, and it is.

Kevin Skinner will be going up against Drew Stevyns. Although I think Kevin may have lost some of his original steam, he’s still got enough to keep going, and he’s in the top 5.

Recycled Percussion and Grandma Lee go next. Grandma Lee got old after a while (no pun intended), so it’s not a surprise to see Recycled Percussion join the top 5.

So now it’s time to start narrowing down the field from the top 5: Voices of Glory, Kevin Skinner, Barbara Padilla, Texas Tenors, and Recycled Percussion.

The act finishing in fifth place is Voices of Glory.

In fourth place is the Texas Tenors.

Finishing in third place is Recycled Percussion.

That leaves us with the showdown many have been expecting for weeks: Barbara Padilla vs. Kevin Skinner.

The America’s Got Talent season 4 winner is Kevin Skinner.

NBC has confirmed that America’s Got Talent will be back for season 5, and auditions are currently being held. There is some speculation that it may move to the fall lineup, but at this time we can assume it will be in the summer.

Big Brother 11 Winner

Big Brother 11 Episode 28 was pretty much just filler. We found out that Kevin won the first part of the HOH competition and then Jordan won the second part of the HOH competition. Tonight we will find out who actually wins the final HOH, and from there the Big Brother 11 winner will be revealed.

Natalie just hopes Kevin sticks to his deal, but she tells him she thinks he’s going to take Jordan.

Kevin and Jordan both tell each other that they’re going to take each other, but she doesn’t think he’s going to pick her either. However, her actual plan is to take Natalie because she hasn’t won anything either.

Jordan tells Natalie that Kevin’s playing both sides. They both give their word that, if Kevin kicks either of them out, they’ll give the other one their vote. Natalie then warns Kevin that some people will vote personally, and she will be one of those people. If true, Natalie could quite easily tilt the jury to a tie, thereby putting it in America’s hands.

Jordan thinks she’s all growed up now that she’s spent this summer away from home (under the close watchful eye of Big Brother and 60 cameras).

Now it’s Michele’s turn to make her way to the jury house. Jeff’s shirtless as usual, and Russell’s facial hair continues to get more unfortunate (and Jessie is apparently trying to take after him). Jeff mostly just doesn’t want to see Jordan walk through that door. Russell hopes Michele is safe, since he became really close with her when he called her insane and suggested medication. The jury continues to bash Natalie, although it’s still not entirely clear why they’ve flipped on her, except that they probably didn’t like her in the first place (granted, there are a lot of sore losers in that house as well). Oh, and by the way, Natalie’s not really 18. Yeah, that’s what Michele thought. Oh, we believe you.

Now the jurors get together to debate the merits of the final three. Jessie never talked to Jordan. Jeff never talked to Kevin. So both of them should be able to make an informed decision. Lydia respects people who win. Guess what. You’re sitting next to those people. People who are stupid enough to win a lot in this house get voted out as threats. Jeff would like Lydia to get in her spaceship and leave. Jessie thinks that Kevin and Natalie outplayed Jordan. Jeff’s argument is that nobody ever voted Jordan out (because nobody ever viewed her as a threat). Russell views Jordan’s best move as attaching herself to Jeff. Other than that, she didn’t really do anything. Jeff refuses to say anything negative about Jordan; Lydia refuses to say anything negative about Kevin. Their votes are already made up. Russell thinks Natalie accidentally stumbled into her strategy of losing everything. Michele says Kevin was always working. Jeff apparently still thinks he should have won the game himself because he got a power handed to him by America.

It’s time for the third part of the final HOH competition, typically a guessing game about what jury members have said. Kevin and Jordan will compete for the power to decide their own fate.

Jessie said the best thing about being in the house was “The ladies. Oh yeah.” I don’t know. Not really a lot of hot girls to go around this season.
Kevin gets a point.

Lydia said the moment in the house that irritated her the most was “when Jeff got the coup d’etat.”
Jordan gets a point to tie it at 1-1.

Russell said if he could go back in time, he would change “How much I told Michele.”
Jordan is correct to take the lead 2-1.

Jeff said the fatal error he made in the house was “not winning my last POV.”
Kevin gets a point to tie it at 2.

With two fewer jury members, we’re already down to the final question. Michele said the houseguest who needs a reality check the most is Jessie.
Both are correct. Still tied.

Including tiebreaker votes, how many total votes to evict have been cast so far this season? A math question, sorta. And Jordan comes closest? That was. Uh. Unexpected. Jordan wins the final HOH.

Now Jordan has a choice to make. Does she take Natalie or Kevin to the final two with her? Jordan says that no matter what she’ll come in second place. She has chosen to evict Kevin.

So that leaves us with Natalie against Jordan. The jury has a tough choice here. It’s going to be tough to justify a vote for either of them. Between the two, I’d have to go with Natalie. She actually made a strategic effort, whereas Jordan mostly seemed to be along for the ride with Jeff.

As a group, the jury has come up with three questions each for Natalie and Jordan. Kevin will also be able to pick his own question since he had no involvement in that process.

Russell asks Jordan what her strategy was before and during the game. She wanted to lay low and not trust anyone. Then she found out she really couldn’t trust anybody, so she just decided to be herself (goofy, funny, and clueless).

Lydia asks Natalie who her biggest threat was, and what role she played in the eviction. Her answer is Lydia, who served as a potential wedge between her and Jessie.

Jeff asks Jordan what her best move was other than aligning with him. Getting rid of Kevin.

Michele asks why it was critical that she tell the jury Natalie’s engaged. Natalie’s answer: more than half the jury are her friends. Yeah, wait until you get out and find out what backstabbers they’ve been.

Jessie asks Jordan why she deserves to beat Natalie. Because she proved she could do it herself by winning the final hOH.

Russell asks Jordan why she deserves to win. Her strategy and allies worked hand in hand to ensure she stayed in the game without winning competitions.

Kevin gets to ask his own question. He asks Jordan what she did better than Natalie. Jordan pretty much just rambles.

Braden, Casey, Laura, and Ronnie return to discuss their thoughts about the season. As for Chima, she will be forgotten forever more, despite being one of the key catalysts to this season’s ratings boost.

Ronnie bows down to Natalie for her lying. She did a lot better being a rat than he did. Yeah, Natalie’s really 24, not 18. To which Kevin yells that he knew it, which he indeed did question on night one. Ronnie says that he’s bitter that he was the odd man out with Natalie.

Casey considers Jeff to have made the biggest mistake, getting rid of Russell and believing Kevin and Natalie’s lie. I don’t know. It wasn’t a complete lie (because it had some truth to it, even though it was made up), and if Jeff got rid of Kevin instead, Russell would have been stupid not to target Jeff the next week.

Braden calls Jessie the man, as if he needs an ego boost.

Julie takes the opportunity to let people stage an attack on Chima. Nobody will defend Chima’s actions, as planned.

Ronnie apologizes for calling Michele the worst person he’s ever met in his life.

Where does the Jeff and Jordan relationship go from here? I don’t know that it necessarily even started in the first place, but Jeff would like to see what happens on the outside. Jordan agrees.

Votes
America: Jordan
Jessie: Jordan
Lydia: Jordan
Russell: Natalie
Jeff: Jordan
Michele: Jordan
Kevin: Natalie

By a vote of 5-2, the Big Brother 11 winner is Jordan Lloyd. I gotta go with worst winner ever award here, possibly runner up to season 8. Certainly a likeable girl, but it takes a hell of a bitter jury to award the game to someone who didn’t do anything.

The last prize to award tonight is obviously going to Jeff. He’s the winner of America’s Choice favorite jury member for $25,000.

Following this season’s success, it has been confirmed that there will be a Big Brother 12.