This text incorporates main spoilers from the Massive Brother reside feeds (which you’ll be able to watch with a Paramount+ subscription)!
These of us who’ve been watching Massive Brother for lengthy sufficient know that the “sudden” a part of “count on the sudden” can generally be game-changing, and that is not all the time an excellent factor. Some twists work higher than others, and a few fail to entertain or flat-out flop. It is what we join each season. And but, what seems to have transpired within the Massive Brother home since Thursday’s episode goes additional than flopping. We nonetheless have to attend till Tuesday’s episode to see precisely what occurred, however I’m afraid it’d’ve ruined the season for me.
Rachel Has Been Eradicated From Massive Brother Season 27
Because of the MTV VMAs airing on CBS on Sunday evening, we’re not going to have the ability to see precisely what occurred that led to Rachel’s departure till Tuesday’s episode. What we do know is predicated on conversations on the reside feeds. And whereas the state of affairs appears to be pieced collectively in what I count on to be a fairly correct approach earlier than we see it play out on Tuesday’s episode, I’m going to deal with only a few huge issues we all know or consider to be correct:
- The feeds have been down for a full day after Thursday’s episode.
- When the feeds got here again on Friday evening, Rachel was gone.
- Conversations on the feeds counsel she was eradicated as a consequence of some type of problem (presumably associated to the White Locust twist Julie teased throughout the reside present).
- So far as we all know, she wasn’t nominated, there wasn’t a Veto to avoid wasting her, and there wasn’t a vote to ship her out.
There are different issues we have heard, and sure some issues we have not heard about, however the above issues are what I wish to deal with.
Will Rachel Reilly Return To Proceed The Recreation?
Is there an opportunity Rachel comes again? We do not know but. From the episode standpoint, we haven’t even seen her exit, so it’s potential there’s extra to this twist. If that’s the case, then it’s dangerous timing for this to play out with an particularly lengthy hole between episodes. It’s left us to take a position and be pissed off and disillusioned (to place it mildly) whereas we wait. For now, the sport inside the home has moved on to the subsequent Head of Family and deliberate eviction.
And I’m not getting my hopes up that Rachel is coming again, contemplating there are nonetheless eight individuals left in the home and the Massive Brother Season 27 finale is scheduled for Sunday, September twenty eighth, simply weeks from now.
A Twist Like This At This Level In The Recreation? Actually?
Given how huge a presence Rachel, the only BB veteran amongst newbies, was inside the sport (and the way hopeful many people have been that she’d win), in fact, her exit was going to make an enormous splash in the home and amongst viewers. However an elimination throughout the jury portion of the present would’ve been absurd to me, no matter who was despatched out.
We’ve seen houseguests eradicated by means of challenges or uncommon votes up to now (BB14’s Jodi, BB19’s Cameron, BB21’s David, and many others); nonetheless, these situations occurred early of their seasons. As a lot as I’d’ve preferred to see Jodi, David, or Cameron play of their seasons, I additionally hadn’t spent almost two months watching them put within the work to construct up their sport solely to have it abruptly finish with no vote.
The Misplaced Potential
Like many others, I used to be as shocked and disillusioned after we discovered that Rachel was gone, however the extra I give it some thought, the extra I understand what we doubtlessly missed out on. Rachel being eradicated whereas the feeds have been down, and not throughout a reside episode, means we did not get to see her be nominated, or the fallout from that. We did not get to have our hopes up for a Veto win, or marvel if another person would possibly use it to avoid wasting her. We did not get to see her marketing campaign. We did not get to see the houseguests get to see what Rachel Reilly seems like when her again is in opposition to the wall, and that’s the actual tragedy.
I feel it is secure to say all of us knew somebody was going to take a shot at Rachel in the end. And as pressured as I’d have been to see her on the block, it additionally would’ve made for nice feeds and nice TV.
We did not even get to see the fast aftermath of her exit on the feeds, as a result of they have been down till late Friday evening. We’ll presumably get to see a few of that on Tuesday’s episode, however too little, too late so far as I am involved.
All Of The Above Is Not Really Why I Suppose This Is Unfixable
Like so many different longtime BB followers, I’ve handled the excruciating disappointment that comes with investing months of my time watching reside feeds and a number of episodes per week solely to see a season flop close to or on the finish. It’s a threat we join, so I get it. Am I disillusioned if this twist means Rachel will not get to be the first-ever two-time winner of Massive Brother? Yup. And I’m disillusioned that we didn’t get to see her on the reside feeds attempting to remain throughout the conventional sport course of, however we weren’t actually assured that state of affairs anyway. She may’ve gone out throughout a double eviction in spite of everything.
What appears unfixable at this level is the influence this abrupt elimination has already had on the sport. Rachel had allies as a lot as she had individuals who have been focusing on her (heck, Keanu was just about each). Their video games at the moment are affected by her exit, and so far as we all know, not a single one in every of them voted for her to depart.
It’s onerous to think about this twist not having some influence on who makes it to the ultimate two. And if Rachel doesn’t come again and face a standard eviction state of affairs, she’ll be a juror who votes for the winner, regardless of not having technically been evicted, which is so… bizarre.
Will There be Extra Eliminations Like This?
Thursday’s episode teased a month of mayhem from the Mastermind, and there are nonetheless fairly a number of gamers remaining. Does that imply we must always count on extra competition-based eliminations this season? If that’s the case, how are the remaining houseguests presupposed to strategize round that?
Massive Brother has been structured across the houseguests voting one another out for the reason that second season of the sequence. If a Houseguest might be despatched to jury based mostly solely on how they carry out in a single competitors and never by a vote, that undermines numerous the technique that goes into establishing security. Rachel labored onerous to get so far within the sport, and in a blink, she’s gone. Her allies now not have her assist or her vote to remain in the event that they want it. Ultimately, Block Buster or not, who goes all the time comes all the way down to who doesn’t have the votes to remain. No less than, that’s the way it used to work. Assuming there are extra eliminations like this – even only one extra – I don’t see how the houseguests can map out their endgames in any type of satisfying approach. If they do not have the possibility to guard their allies or evict their enemies with a vote, what sport are they even taking part in?
Whether or not or not Rachel comes again, or whether or not or not she’s the one Season 27 houseguest to be despatched out with no vote stays to be seen. Both approach, it is onerous for me to see the result of this season not having an asterisk on it, the identical as Rachel’s legacy will, if she actually misplaced Massive Brother Season 27 on the jury stage, regardless of by no means even being nominated. And we’ll all the time be left to marvel who would’ve made it to Last 2 and received the sport, had every member of the jury been voted out.
We’ll need to see what data we get within the episodes this week. The optimistic aspect of me that sticks with each season to the (generally bitter) finish will cling on to some hope that there’s some strategy to make this case not be as dangerous because it appears proper now.