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I think a lot of these Housguests need to learn what the word "disrespect" actually means. That's twice we heard that word on Monday's episode, and I can't recall how many times we heard it last night. And I have definitely picked up on the teens and 20-somethings who have used that word, usually against someone else (that thieving slut!!) they have a beef with. But it's not just these Houseguests; multiple people over multiple platforms have claimed they've been, at best, "disrespected," and at worst, "abused and bullied." And you know what it almost always comes down to? "She has a different opinion!" "He wants to argue his opinion!" No, you stupid fools, it's because life does not happen in Instagram-ready shots of murderous Santa Clauses, whose sole purpose is to gain more followers. Jesus Christ! Why do we have to tell people this stuff? Anyway, if I was in the house, I would have played up the whole angle of how Gino was so hurtful by calling me a lying disrespectful houseguest, followed by the tearful angle of Gino playing Jacey-Lynne. I just want Marty to stay in the house!

Truthfully, I feel that way every episode, this season and last. I've noted before how incredibly complicated the challenges were when Jeff took almost 90 seconds just to explain the goddamn rules, but what happened this episode is ridiculous and egregious. Like others have said, what will happen when all these fucking twists completely work against each other that no one is voted out? Unbelievable. Honestly, I don't think you should feel that bad. I think a lot of people, myself included, felt that way (or some type of way) about Jonathan from his pre-game interviews, and also, just based on the men who look like Jonathan who have appeared on Survivor over the years, I think we, as devoted fans, can be given a bit of leeway in our thinking. It is unfair to Jonathan that so many of us thought of him as the screeching douchebag you-will-not-speak-unless-spoken-to alpha-male, but I believe that's more down to who Survivor usually casts in that role. Jonathan is different, at least based on what we've been shown so far. He hasn't screamed and berated his teammates for being useless idiots that he's had to (quite literally in this case) carry through a challenge. As others have pointed out, he has remained calm and collected and has concentrated on getting the job done. (Also... swoon.) It's also wild how perceptions can change one's opinion in a matter of (highly-edited) episodes. I wouldn't mind if Maryanne goes soon and, while I still like her positivity, I don't think I could handle Maryanne making everything All About Maryanne. I felt this way during her ugly-scream-crying when Jackson left in the first episode, but I was still reserving judgment then. But holy shit, David, you got me rooting for players I rooted against in the beginning, due to his terrible game-play, and Hai (who I thought his tribe would get out first if they ever went to Tribal Council) stuck to his backbone and kept Lydia. Good for him! Holy shit, is this a reference to Mr. Brooks? I stumbled on that movie at 2 AM once on some movie channel, and needless to say, I was still awake at 5 when it ended (bloody commercials) in a place I was not expecting it to end! That is a mid-tier movie that you aren't expecting to unfold the way it did.

Scream was also released the same day as Beavis and Butt-Head Do America; I remember a quote from Wes saying that they (the producers) went on Christmas holidays thinking that "Beavis and Butt-Head kicked our butts, and when we came back, Scream was all anyone was talking about." There is also the fact that Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies were both scheduled for December 12; both movies (including a James Bond movie!) ended up shifting their release dates to one week later to make way for the expected juggernaut that was Scream 2. I do kind of feel sorry for Ehren Kruger for Scream 3, mainly due to the fact that he was brought in from some other movie (not too sure what that was) to flesh out Kevin Williamson's one-page treatment. And then Kruger wasn't even able to finish that, as the Weinsteins pulled him off Scream 3 and placed him on Reindeer Games. So that means two movies released in the same month where Kruger was listed as the sole screenwriter, despite him not writing either particular screenplay (and thus blamed for all the script problems). Also, it is Sidney-with-an-I, and Courteney-with-an-extra-E. I don't know how people can claim to be Scream fans and still NOT know the proper spelling of Sidney Prescott, and still NOT know that Courteney spells her name with another E. I mean, Jesus Christ, that is beyond laziness, and just downright disrespectful at this point. I'm not sure if there's something wrong with me, but I don't know if it was the maniacal grin and the crazy eyes, but he certainly did it for me. I knew there wouldn't be any male nudity, but I was grateful for Dylan Minnette lathering up in the shower. I've thought that boy was incredibly good-looking for awhile now (but not enough to watch 13 Reasons Why; I've lost several family members to suicide, so watching a show based on suicide was just not appealing, no matter how cute the boys on that show were), so him getting the Janet-Leigh-in-Psycho shower scene was worth it. I was never one who thought Dewey was particularly sexy, but damn, David Arquette brought it with his grizzled salt-and-pepper weariness. Beyond that though, his broken relationship with Dewey and Gale was terrifically-played. Who knew Dewey would become so sexy as he aged? I actually didn't mind the girl who played Sam, and it was of course great to see Courteney and (48-year-old) Neve (the lady looks great!) doing their thing. I was glad to see that Mason survived; he would have been that sexy hunk I crushed on in high school (although my Canadian high school was more ice hockey than football). Hoyever, I thought Mindy was rather obnoxious: a mean girl masquerading as a Cool Girl archetype. Did she even like her "friends"? She sure as shit didn't act like she did. But still, irritating characters aside, Scream 5 was still a fun ride.

I was fine with Summer until this episode. (I was gone all weekend and just got around to Thursday's.) But the way she greeted Arisa and just being ON all the time (plus that ridiculous shower cap she wears) would test even my patience. Tone it down, girl! I guess we'll be getting these stupid alliance gang signs every vote now? That seems like something 12-year-olds who are trying desperately to be cool would do, so seeing people in their 20s and 30s doing it is just embarrassing. Well, I guess it's marginally better than: "MOMDADGRAMMAGRAMPATOMMYLEEANNELISASARAHJESSICARACHELRAYFONZIEPOOCHIEROBBIEDALEDENISE ILOVEYOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!" from every Houseguest like last season on BBUS. Christ, that was painful! I stopped watching eviction episodes altogether because it was so obnoxious, especially when they started yelling out Instagram handles. Jesus. I know it sucks to be nominated, but Betty was really putting me off with acting like a child, especially with Kevin in the washroom. And I am not a Kevin fan. Josh is incredibly handsome, even though he has yet to do anything of note. Kyle won HOH... great. So we get to witness gang signs being thrown down every time from that alliance now, I imagine.

So I'm guessing we're won't be having anymore opening credits, huh? That sucks, since it really is helpful in remembering who's who. I can still name all the Houseguests from the first five seasons, but the rest in the seasons since are just a blur. At least with Survivor, there are three tribes, so it's somewhat easier to remember, but here? It's difficult to tell one dark-haired girl from another dark-haired girl. I suppose I should stop bitching about that LOL. If Gino's head-to-toe tattoos wasn't enough for you, well here's a lovely scene with him sitting on the toilet while his alliance meets. Swoon! Wonder if Jaycee-Lynne will still feel the way she does about Gino after seeing him on the toilet? I'd be embarrassed to have that broadcast on TV for all of Canada to see. Yikes! It brought up awful memories of Season 3, when some Houseguests were meeting in the HOH room and the toilet was behind a curtain, and Graig pulled it back and proceeded to have a conversation with everyone, none of whom seemed the least bit bothered by it. That's twice in one show where people don't seem put off having face-to-face conversations with people on toilets. Jay is supremely obnoxious and I hope he leaves tonight. I was glad when Jacey-Lynne won the POV, which I would not have been able to do without throwing pieces like Jay did. That house really is lit up like the sun, isn't it? I like Marty the most so far, but looking at the cast list, there's a Moose? And a Hermon? Is Hermon the one who won the first HOH?

I know for a fact that Adam Klein was not on this season, but there were several instances at the beginning of the episode, before the first break, where I glimpsed Zach and thought, "Go Adam!" They look remarkably similar, even having the same wavy hair. Of course, Zach was a helluva skinnier than Adam (and Adam's much better-looking). The blood and mud was stupid and pointless, especially with no follow-up beyond a few instances of "Are you bleeding?" I thought Maryanne would be irritating with her perky over-the-top sunniness, but she quickly won me over with her positivity. Although her scream-crying at Jackson leaving was a bit much. Jonathan has quite the impressive body, but what was even more impressive was there was no tattoo in sight. Usually young men who look like Jonathan have jumped on the tattoo bandwagon, so it was refreshing to see none. (Especially with the currently airing season of Big Brother Canada, where all the hideous tattoos will burn retinas.) Not looking forward to 692 twists, advantages, idols and needlessly complicated challenges. There was an immunity challenge last season where Jeff was explaining the rules of the challenge, and it took him 88 seconds to do so! That didn't include the pre-amble, that was just explaining the rules! I know it was 88 since he was explaining, explaining, still explaining, so I rewound and timed it. Bloody ridiculous. There's no way in hell I would have gotten 51 triangles. 16 at most. So far I'm liking Daniel, Jenny, Hai, Jonathan, Maryanne and Jackson before he left. The others still haven't made much impression yet.

I was thinking the same thing. I thought, "Well, one of them could go by Chris K., and the other – oh shit, never mind."

You know, your guess is as good as mine. I have no bloody clue what exactly that was referring to. Also, that was six whole days ago!

That's exactly it. When Kyland won his second HOH, useless crybaby Azah was there whinging, and Kyland told her to chill out. The thing is, Ky used about 35+ words in one LONG run-on sentence. 35 words in a single sentence, just to tell someone else to chill out. He is one of those people who talk in circles and take for-fuckin'-ever to get to the point. I've seen it mentioned elsewhere that Kyland is so bloody rambling and long-winded, people on the receiving end forget what the conversation was even about. People can take a power-nap or a nice hot bath, and he would still trying to get to his point (likely because he's simply forgotten what his own point was). It's exhausting dealing with this type at work; I could not imagine 53 days listening to Kyland.

Oh my God, what you described is the seventh circle of hell.

Oh man, "Clear" is an all-time terrific episode. Although I think I had bailed by the time Negan got a redemption episode. But wow, Ryan Robbins in the guest stars? Yes, please, anything Ryan Robbins wants, Ryan Robbins gets. That man is not only a Canadian treasure, but he is also a serious hottie. (/shallow)

"Keeping the Cookout together is is one of the toughest jobs I've ever had in my damn life-UH!" Xavier is dead to me now after that. I had to listen to that all bloody season on Big Brother Canada: "This is so messed up-UH!" "Shut up-UH!" "You shut up-UH!" Xavier may be hot, but that doesn't make it any less obnoxious.

What they need to do is start muting the microphones as soon as they're finished voting to evict so-and-so, and more importantly, don't tell the hamsters. They'll continue blathering their shout-outs uselessly, completely unaware that they are mute, a fact they wouldn't know until watching the season afterwards. Hopefully future wannabe-HouseGuests will take note, and maybe by 2024, future casts will have finally learned to stop doing shout-outs during eviction votes. But we can only hope.

I can do you one better! Although I don't think they give out prizes. I went through the pandemic without a single person from my family bothering to check in on me for 20 weeks. I had to sit here, reading very passionate pleas between family members, all over the Internet. No one in my family would have known if I had died from COVID. I would have just been another statistic, another number. No phonecalls, no emails, no texts, nothing. It was like I had simply ceased to exist for them, from just after Mother's Day to (Canadian) Thanksgiving. I can tell you now, that really does a number on your psyche.

I know, right? I find it hard to believe that I'm four years older than him. Then again, I don't feel 38, but I'm still taken aback sometimes by the ages of some people. I just found out during Wimbledon that Roger Federer is a mere 18 months older than me!

@Callaphera, my tattoo aversion was never meant to cast doubt or aspersions on anyone else who is covered with tattoos. Just an observation, that multiple tattoos will cause people to change the channel.

Oh, you and me both, brother. Every day, I hope and I pray... that hideous tattoos will be forever banished from TV. Alas, I don't think so. I think horrendous tattoos covering every available limb is the way to go. (I've had to skip entire episodes of certain cooking shows because the tattooed everything was too distracting.)

Yes! Love Kym, and am totally rooting for them. My dislike of tattoos aside, I love that Kym has They / Them tattooed on their fingers. Normally I can't stand it (for me it just ruins the effect of watching pretty plates of food being prepared), but Kym's whole life story should be celebrated.

I know! I will miss her, despite my dislike of tattoos everywhere, she was an absolute knockout. Enough for this gay to consider maybe... (Not that I think any chefs, male or female, should get by just on looks, but Siobhan was gorgeous, full traffic-stop with the long hair. Wow, this parenthesis (?) is running forever, isn't it? Check back in June, my parenthesis will still be running.) One of the (many) things I love about this site is that I can post rambling shit and people will still respond, but kindly, like Canadians are just wont to do.

Oh man, some of these people should be arrested for assaulting my eyes with their hideous tattoos. I can't stand seeing a chef's horribly-tattooed hands entering the frame. Tattooed hands always look nasty; I have basically stopped watching The Food Network now, since everyone who appears there now is covered in horrid and hideous hand tattoos, and they always look so dirty I would never want to eat any of the food they prepared. I hope we don't have to be reminded every goddamn time that Josh and Erica are married. I know it's not their fault, but I wish the producers would quit bringing it up. I know Andrea! I met her in 2008 when we worked at Urban Fare together. We were supposed to see Sex and the City together with some friends but we were too late for the showing. She and I were not really fans of the show but we were both caught up in the hype of that movie. I hope she does well.

Man, the subject matter of this episode was really heavy and hit pretty hard for me. I am not the youngest in my family, I had a little brother who died in 1999 at age 11. He was able to donate his organs and blood, something that, by law, I am unable to do. You keep hearing about those with underlying health conditions, well, I am also one of them. People contract things all the time, but to know that what you have contracted has no cure? That is tough. That is not something that you ever hope to hear. I got my diagnosis over the phone, after going to the hospital for swollen lymph nodes. That was May 2005. I remember what broke my heart most of all was not being able to do what my little brother did, donating anything from my body to help people. I fully 100% understand why... but it's always been my nature to help people. And to keep a secret like that for so long: how does one sit their parents down and inform them, just a few years after they've lost their youngest? I finally told them in 2019; I carried that for 14 years before a freak accidental tumble down the stairs on my part alerted them to that fact. And, despite all the advances made, they are still going to lose their 2nd-youngest son to something that has no cure. How are any parents supposed to handle that kind of news? Especially after already losing their youngest? There is nothing to be said, just that I hope my parents are gone before me. I'm 38 now, they are both in their 60s, and there have been so many advances in care. But I just hope that they are gone before me; I would hate for them to have to plan another son's funeral. It's difficult to state how it feels to not be able to help people after your death, to feel so helpless.

Absolutely. Especially when you consider that-- The Sunsetters died in Week 3, when a defection and an eviction made them a trio +1, and it was a major unforced error on their part that resulted in it: the week 2 vote-flip stupidity, where it takes six votes to flip the vote. How many Sunsetters were there? Six. But they tried to get cute with the vote and it got out because, with six members in the alliance and six votes in the secret vote to flip... they suddenly needed eight people, so two could vote with the other side... in a secret vote. Also, my previous comments about a Jed/Ty showmance aside, I am getting sick and tired of seeing those two, Jed especially, half-naked all the damn time. At least Ty isn't confronting people with his pants open and yanked down anymore like he did with Beth after Latoya's eviction. Seriously, what was the point of keeping Screech? What the hell happened that caused Breydon especially to keep her? Most of the decisions made this season have been truly baffling, but even if you cut out the confusion, there's still no logic. It makes zero sense. Then again, the producers have made such a concerted effort to present Beth in a very different light than what is being shown on the broadcast episodes. The spin-doctoring on her this season has been pointed out by a number of feed-watchers as perhaps the most irritating of all the ways they've interfered. I'm thinking that Kiefer doesn't need to win BBCAN 9, since he's famous enough already for all of his legendary moves. His smugness is off the charts, and I can't stand it when people pull the "I need the money more than you" crap, just as I'm wary of people continually and repeatedly swearing on the lives of people not even playing the game. At least no one has sworn on dead relatives... yet.

Brit-tanny deserved to go, just for those horrid tattoos and the extra 'n' in her name. I know it shouldn't, but I get really annoyed with people who throw random letters into very common names. Who knew there were nineteen different ways to spell names like Brittany or Michael or Braden or Karen? (An exaggeration, but still.) THIS. It drives me nuts! Last episode, when Shota and Avishar presented their dish in the Quickfire, the glamour shot of their finished dish was onscreen for all of two seconds. And during the EC this episode, there was a black gentleman who was commenting on a dish, and his name (Eldridge Broussard) flashed by in one bloody second. It makes you wonder why go to the effort of creating a graphic to identify a customer and their profession, if the editors are just going to cut to the next shot after one second? At least on Top Chef Canada, the names of the chefs, their titles, the restaurant(s) they work at (or own), and the glamour shots with the all ingredients listed, last longer than 1-2 seconds. I'm guessing that those types of comments are likely because people are tired of being preached to, especially on shows like Top Chef or The Amazing Race or Project Runway or Big Brother or Top Chef Canada, which premiered last night. On that show, everyone was asked "What's your brand?" and had to present a dish, and unsurprisingly, a lot of it leaned political. I used to be really big on award shows (the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, etc.), but definitely soured on them in the last decade when every single person who won an award had to stand up and make some grandstanding political speech about the injustices of the world. (It made me long for the days when people would just thank their agents and publicists.) Sometimes, people just want an escape, to forget the world, to watch pretty food being served, or pretty garments being made, or pretty people squawking about getting blood on their hands. Just a guess, though. Or, it very well could be the likeliest answer: that Facebook is nothing more than the cesspool of human filth that it always was. ;)

Surprisingly enough, I don't mind them either, and I think the reason for me is: they're not filled in. I wouldn't feel the same if they were filled with gaudy colours, I'm sure. Plus, no colours to fade and bleed into each other as one ages. Victoria and Beth are both playing the Christmas game: neither really seems to care who does it or how it's done, but they both are determined to get rid of all of those pesky females so they can be Last Bitch Standing.

I was going to mention this too, but I forgot. I have come around on Austin after finding her a big BLAH during the first few episodes and I hope she goes far, but she and Breydon been referred to as a Package Deal, and, while it is great to have your ride-or-die, being referred to as a Package Deal from the outset is not good. I am curious though to see how Breydon plays without Austin though (if Austin is the one to be targeted first from that duo, that is). Jed calls Austin "sketch"; I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that Jed laid his flirt game on thick with Austin on Day 2 and, unlike Beth, she batted it away. I'm sure both of those are completely unrelated.