Kendall

How about Bridgette defaulting to the baby voice, wink and smile technique and then Michelle completely rolling over in their POV speeches? All Michelle had to say was "Corey, this is your best chance and may be your only chance to win Big Brother. You just proved that neither one of us can beat you in a physical competition, but Paulie can, take one of us down, put him up and improve your chances to win $500,000!" If he still chose to keep the nominations the same, then fine, but you had to at least put that out there! Paulie may be safe, but he looked petrified and is feeling it too. Good! But, I am glad that Bridgette is gone, even if that means Da'Vonne is stuck in the jury house with her. Sorry, Da'Vonne. I also doubt that even one teardrop has actually fallen from Michelle's eyes this season. No words about Zakiyah, I'll leave that to everyone else. I see that Julie made sure to tell us that we'll get to see all of what went on in the house, but first you have to tune in on Sunday! Please give us back our ratings!

He's a 27 year old man willingly going by the name "Paulie". You already know he thinks he some kind of goodfella. An adult man going by Paulie! Paulie is the little boy that can't find his mommy at the mall, not anyone over the age of 10! That alone should've tipped everyone off as to who and what they were about to deal with!

I'll be there. Sorry I couldn't hang in there with Spartan. I missed one episode and felt no real desire to go back and watch it later.

While this does look promising, I've been so disappointed with various things this season that I will have to actually see it on the show to believe it. But, thanks for all the recaps, everyone!

James is disgusting in recaps, I couldn't even imagine watching him play. These people are not playing on a scale, it's first place, second place, jury. I understand wanting to stay in the game, but this pervasive fear of getting evicted is just too much for me. You'll be evicted, not shot out back! Every little thing he's running to Paulie about! Even if I did think he was in love and felt betrayed, this dude has betrayed this girl since day one! Just the nerve of it all!

If neither James nor Paul are willing to vote out Paulie and are still running to him with information, then I am convinced that Zakiyah isn't the only person he is rubbing up against in the middle of the night and they just aren't showing the Feeders. There is no reason to keep talking about "numbers" when you have the numbers. James is working with Paulie and Paul is just an idiot.

I have a hard time believing that either Natalie or Bronte will be cool with Bridgette after they see how happy she was that Frank was running her HOH. She couldn't care less about her friend up on the block. Maybe DaVonne and Michelle would want to be friends with Zakiyah after seeing the tapes and Paulie's treatment of her, but they should also want nothing to do with her after seeing those tapes and Zakiyah's treatment of them. She did very little to help them with Paulie and even trashed them on her own with Paulie and Nicole. They might be better people than me though.

If Corey really doesn't want to be gay, but actually is, he probably sees a woman that could be the ideal beard.

The way Paulie has spoken about Zakiyah, yeah, Victor probably does think she's supposed to be passing it around. Paulie comes off as her pimp, not her showmance.

No, I know that normally everyone is together in the jury house. I'm asking since the show was going to have one if they separated them for that season, so the jury members wouldn't have an advantage for when they returned to the house.

Thank you very much. I don't think I've ever watched a season where a jury buy back occurred. Were the jury members around each other prior to the buy back? Were they able to exchange notes about what went on in the house before returning?

I have forgotten, if I ever knew, what the "jury buy back" entails. Can someone help me out? What would a jury member have to do to get back into the house?

Tiffany told him not to.

He believes that Zakiyah would put him up. Now she can't.

I don't know how old you are, but a 21 year age difference then is much different than it would be now, in my opinion. Just the expectations and aspirations for the genders are completely different, so that would impact how a marriage would work with that kind of age gap nowadays. It's not so much James' age, but his maturity level at his age. Also, I believe that at 26, 27, Natalie is too young to get involved with a father, especially a father from a one night stand. If he were an ex-husband, I'd cut some slack, because at least he had a plan and it just didn't work out. But, I'm a firm believer that at 27, in her firsts should be his firsts. Whoever she ends up with, his first child should be her first child. His first marriage should be her first marriage. She's too young to have to deal with somebody else's troubles. I'm sure I'll catch some flack for that, but I wouldn't want that for her if she were my relative.

Maybe she's the type that will be able to equate him "not risking his game" to purposely leading her astray and destroying her game, I don't know. I'd like to hope that she doesn't, but I have a thing against idiots. I'd be okay with someone if we agreed to work together until we could no longer work together with the notice of "you will need to start doing whatever it is that you need to do". That I can understand, but she thinks that they are working together and that he's being as honest with her as she is with him and she's trying to do things for him to keep him clean in this game, like voting for DaVonne and letting her think it was James. So, for her to see why James wouldn't vote for DaVonne and that he is willing to toss her to the wolves, among other things ... I would think she'd forget her "don't sacrifice your game for me" edict. But, we'll see.

More than any other showmance, James seems to want to know Natalie and date her after the show is over. So, I'm almost baffled as to why he's playing the way that he is. Does he really think that everyone is willing to dismiss what they see on the videos and read on Twitter and boards as just gameplay and not "you cost me $450K by subverting my every thought and you were in an alliance that you lied about and knew that they'd evict me at their earliest convenience just because I am a woman"? How does one go on to trust someone that they have video proof that they can't trust? If anyone, I would think he'd be trying to lean more towards what Natalie is trying to do gamewise because he's trying to keep her after the game is over. Not that I want this relationship to prosper outside the game because I think she's too young and too many other good things to get entangled with James, but how could possibly think he's going to talk his way out of trouble when they get out of the house?

Not to mention, Paulie would try to throw the veto if Paul and Corey were up as to not have to reveal that he is okay with either one of them going home. The only way he'd try to win is if he suspected someone was trying to backdoor him.

Sorry, but most people, whether they are abusive or not, maintain a certain appearance in front of others as to not let people see how cold and low you can go in regards to their significant other. If Paulie can treat Zakiyah this poorly in public and feel no shame, then for me, it's not hard to believe how much further he could go in private, when there is no one to stop him or contradict what he did. All of those crazy, jealous, violent boyfriends that are "misunderstood" are never crazy, jealous or violent in front of a woman's brothers or fathers or the police! They always manage to never curse, belittle or hit those people. He is emotionally abusive right now. I wouldn't be surprised at all of one of his former fiancees reveal that he was physically abusive to them. Put it this way, do you really think that the guy you see, this Paulie, would let a woman walk away with a ring if she didn't have something that he didn't want revealed to his friends and family? And, I understand not wanting to wrap your mind around such a thought about Paulie, but please understand that is what guys like Paulie hide behind. They know that people are more willing to not believe they are friends with an abusive person than they are willing to admit that they are friends with a dude that is incredibly abusive, it's not their business, they weren't there, "she's a handful herself, ya' know!" "He's not like that with me!"

It really has been the worst possible script for Grease 3. The absolute, most horrific bunch of T-Birds and Pink Ladies to ever grace a screen.

Yeah, I know they won't step in on the show, but I also know that people watching are like, "somebody help her!" That's what I meant. As a viewer, I don't think anyone is sitting on a high horse, but in shock. There are a lot of people that hear about the middle to end result of an abusive relationship, but have never seen it build and take shape. They are seeing it now between Paulie and Zakiyah and also seeing how an abuser's family stands by him and his actions because they don't want acknowledge that something has gone very wrong from what they they thought they raised and what he is. I think that's part of the dismay with this entire situation: everyone can see what this is and what is happening, but everyone is trying to pretend that it's not and it will just work itself out. I liked your whole post, but since this is what is unseen by some and clear as day to others, I wanted to highlight it. If this were just about gameplay, I don't think anyone would have a problem with DaVonne going home because she did make mistakes and made them way too early. What I and others have noticed is that her mistakes that rival others' are being described as mortal sins and what kind of person would even think of doing something like that! I mean who would dare to play both sides of the house?!? You know, other than Frank, Nicole and James, the other three vets! Her trash talk isn't trash talk, it's a woman viciously attacking two young kids that only wanted to play the game, but she's stripped them of all of their dignity in addition to their hopes and dreams of playing Big Brother!!! Will she ever show them some mercy? How will they ever sleep again? Game play, she's leaving for the same reason why they wanted to get Frank out, they think she could beat them given the chance. However, they won't leave it at that. As you said, they are making it seem like she has been this incredible threat to their personal safety and for 50+ days, they've been living on the razor's edge being forced to sleep next to this danger to society. Oh and by the way, all of this coded language and fear for their lives just cropped up now that they have positioned her to be evicted, but let them tell it, this is a long overdue relief from her reign of diabolical terror.

I don't think you have to be on a moral high horse or even a hobby horse to be stunned at watching a man verbally and emotionally abuse a woman to her face and talk about her like a dog behind her back, in the name of a game or even his twisted version of courting. If people were harassing Frank's parents over slapping DaVonne on the butt, an act that he apologized for and did not repeat, that would be one thing. If people harassed Victor's mom over him badgering Natalie over her food intake, something that we saw bothered her, but I don't recall her bringing up to him, that would be another thing. But, Paulie's behavior has been both repetitive and escalating, so much so that even his mother could no longer come up with the rationalizations that she was attempting to spin in the beginning. There is high and mighty and there's somebody needs to step in and stop this. If Paulie isn't a textbook case for an emotional and possibly physical abuser, then he's at least a walking Lifetime movie antagonist.

And you conveniently skipped over the whole point of my post, twice. And as long as people choose to ignore what was being discussed and dismiss it as something else, that type of behavior will continue on Big Brother because that type of behavior exists in the real world and in this exchange. Nicole has been exposed, repeatedly. They don't care because they are able to find a common ground with Nicole that they won't allow themselves to find with DaVonne because she makes them uncomfortable.

Yeah, I want her to do well because she wants to do well and actually wants to play the game of Big Brother, but there are too many other games that she is having to play in order to do it and since jumping through hoops isn't for the HOH or POV, I'm ready to stop seeing her jump.

That is just an example of the double standard that DaVonne is subjected to. Both Tiffany and Frank had "nasty" farewell speeches, but they are treated like victims because of DaVonne's scathing verbal attacks. If DaVonne had said even half as much as they did, she'd have to stay in that house forever because she'd be stoned upon exit. But, in addition to that, Nicole's exaggerations of how DaVonne spoke to her with neck waving that didn't happen in the exchange, but was tossed in during Nicole's retelling of the story. Corey's sudden fear of DaVonne just sitting in a corner by herself. Nicole's "discomfort" with DaVonne looking at her and making her walk on eggshells are to make an easy narrative that DaVonne is some angry black woman that may snap at anytime. Even the suggestion that no one can tell her that she's being evicted like they did Frank because, "oooh, what will she do to us?" Shivers! If she goes off, then that will be the justification for why they had to get rid of her. She stays calm and they are still afraid, but keep an eye on her because she's so sketchy and shady. And no one has been a bigger snake and called out for being that snake repeatedly than Nicole, but somehow she's still in with the cool kids and she's just playing the game.