BB18 Recap "Squash The Black Widow"

       Hey friends! Welcome to another recap episode of Big Brother. It’s getting down to the wire as the season is settling down. So before I get to the recap, I want to talk about what happens on this blog after Big Brother ends. Some of you will have already read this on the Bachelor In Paradise blog, but since readership for the two shows could differ, I thought I’d mention it again. The two shows I created this blog to cover have either ended or are ending soon. Therefore, I have to decide what shows to cover during the fall. I already decided that I would do survivor. But, the thing with that is that that would mean I’d only be doing one post a week. I’m leaving the second show that I cover up to my readers. So, to the right of this article there is a poll you can vote on to see the options for coverage. The show options are Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After, The Voice, Dancing With the Stars, or other. I know mobile can’t see the poll, so feel free to just leave your comments on what you want below the article, or contact me in another way. 

                                             With that being said, let’s get to the recap!

  We start the episode off after the last nomination ceremony, with Victor making it very clear that his target for eviction is James. And in all honesty, that was the smart play for him. If Natalie stays, she’d go after Nicorey. If James stays, he’ll go after Victor and Paul. Why? I’ll get to that annoying information later. Natalie immediately goes into the diary room to explain how it “breaks her heart” to be on the block next to her “soulmate” James. Really? It breaks your heart. Is that why you literally have no negative emotions on your face whatsoever. Yeah… Sure…..  Those two just become more and more painful to watch as she becomes more and more obvious that she is not into James at all. She used him to get this far in the game, but now that’s biting her in the butt. 

    Not even an hour after the nomination ceremony, Natalie beelines up to Paul and Victor and apologizes for betraying them. Within this little spiel, she lets loose that she trusted the wrong person in the game, James, and regrets it. This flabbergasts the boys. Her immediately turning her back on a boy devoted to her does not make her look trustworthy at all. This is just one of the many seeds of her downfall. 

         The second seed, is a little more annoying. Nicole feels guilty that James is on the block and starts crying. She decides she wants to make Natalie leave. And this is the point where I will never root for a Nicole or James win. Here’s the story. These two were already friends before the season started. They had talked. Derrick, the winner of Big Brother 16, basically orchestrated a final 2 alliance between the two because he is friends with them both. Before the season started, both of them have had a final 2 alliance and an unfair advantage of knowing they could trust someone. Ever wonder why James never considered voting out Corey? I find this pre-show behavior as lacking integrity. Play the game. You aren’t supposed to already know people and have that advantage of being able to trust them. It’d be different if they had only slightly known each other, but they flat out formed alliances before the show. That’s a cowards way to play Big Brother and shouldn’t be rewarded by either of them winning the show. Not that either of them would. The jury hates both of their gameplay. Corey might even win over Nicole.

     So the veto competition starts. It’s a competition based on the new television show MacGyver coming to CBS on the fall. I hate promotional competitions like this, even though the setup was cool, so I’m going to skip covering it. Corey won the veto. 

    After this, Natalie believes she is going home. She knows that Nicorey would want to keep James and that they have the votes to do so. She is right, but her complaining about it is annoying. She also ends up alienating James because she tells him that if he works with Nicorey after she leaves, she will never speak to him again. Finally, James grows a brain in his head and realizes where this is going, and that if she really liked him that wouldn’t have been said.  Natalie also accuses him of having a final 3 with Nicorey (1/2 true) and having thrown the veto (not true, James just sucks). 

    Then the veto meeting happens with Corey keeping nominations the same. The fakest showmance of the season is now guaranteed to be split up due to their own stupid moves. 

                                                        Worst Player of the Episode

   Natalie. She came off bad throwing James under the bus and created a situation where no one really sees why they need her in the house. No one trusts her, and that’s not a good spot to be in.

                                                  Best Player of the Episode

     Maybe Corey. He wins competitions and is setting himself up well depending on who next wins HOH.

                                                       Favorite Player

               Still Victor. Also isn't this picture  of Victor as Jon Snow perfect?

     Hope you enjoyed the recap and stay tuned for the next one tomorrow!