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My guess is this is CBS' way of justifying stretching this week's episode to two hours. "It's not an extra-long episode -- it's half of a four-hour finale!" (Unless next week runs three hours. I'm afraid to look.)

Genevieve's plan of "make no friends for fun and profit" is interesting. Thinking back to the zero times that's worked on this show.

I expect Rome doesn't care much about Gabe or Caroline because neither of them are Rome.

If Sam is trying to make sure we know he sucks, he's doing a great job

Do we have an epi pen to help with Blake Moynes withdrawal? :)

So they take a year off and come back with a bunch of fresh faces we're already sick of by that point? Let me set the DVR...

At the top of my long list of complaints about this show is how hard they work to not do simple background checks on these people. I remember thinking production HATED Becca Kufrin to surround her with guys like that, but learned later all they needed was a glamor shot and proof that they're not married.

I wish they were still doing live reunions so they could ask Venus about this https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/survivor-46s-venus-vafa-is-feuding-with-the-empire-state-building/

After 25 days, I imagine Liz was happy to get back to the mother ship and open the hermetically sealed gravity pods of her friends and family.

The “Ben is a secret master strategist” argument is one I didn’t see coming. Of course Liz is buying it

Yeah, I hadn’t watched the episode at that point and my source lied to my face :) just call me Reality Phleb!

(NOTE: I posted this before actually watching and had been told by a friend who is STILL LAUGHING AT ME that Daisy won. I am surprised about Jenn, and I’m happy to see some Asian representation. Unfortunately all I remember about Jenn is that she doesn’t care about drones.) "Rules"? I think it was always going to be Daisy from the moment they knew Joey wasn't going to pick her. I'm not happy about it either. She's got a pretty smile, but isn't otherwise all that dynamic on TV. I don't want to sound overly cynical or push conspiracy theories, but they got a chance to get a woman with a disability, and one that's not all that challenging for the audience. I doubt ABC was interested in going deep into Lexi's endometriosis because that about girl parts. Maria may have been #2 on the list and may have beaten Kelsey for it if Daisy had gotten the final rose. I think Lexi falls to at least #4, maybe drops below Rachel. Or maybe I really am overly cynical and people like Maria and Lexi turned it down. Maybe Daisy wasn't their first choice. We'll probably never know. I'm going to miss having Kelsey on my TV.

Charlie has The Blessings of the Taylor upon him. Voting him out is tantamount to heresy. No one expects the Taylor Swiftquisition!

I enjoyed Charlie baptizing himself in Taylor Swift's name in the challenge. Did anyone ask her if she's forgiven his sins?

I don't think they can cook the fish yet