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Count me in as surprised that John Rocker wasn't terrible this episode. I mean, I'm sure he'll say/do something awful in a future episode, but for tonight he was mostly ignorable. I almost think they'll try for some sort of redemption arc, with him befriending Val or Josh, like "Hey you guys look I'm totally not racist or homophobic anymore, see? All that stuff I said, that's all in the past, I'm cool now". Ugh. But dear lord, Nadiya. Why would you think that's okay to say. And how could she not pick up on how annoyed/upset/frustrated Josh was?? The look he gave her during tribal was amazing.

I don't understand why the colorists on this show always feel the need to bleach eyebrows to match the (awful) blond dye jobs. It rarely looks good. Poor Kari's hair looks awful, but at least with a darker brow color it wouldn't be quite so bad. Also, THAT BEARD. Why. And why didn't Denzel get chewed out at panel for his little tantrum? I totally expected a Tyra lecture and was very disappointed when it didn't happen. Maybe they thought the beard was punishment enough.

I know it's probably not a thing because this isn't the show to do this, but I almost feel like Redd is a plant. Some of the questions she asks the other girls just seem so leading, like something a producer would ask during a confessional/interview segment.

The most memorable episode for me was about a couple who faked the husband's death with a fiery car crash, complete with a body dug up from a graveyard. Soon after the husband's "passing", the wife had a new boyfriend, who turned out to just be the husband with a different name and hair color. They pretty much botched the whole thing, from an unconvincing car crash to a search history showing details on getting new identities. For some reason the picture they showed of the poor woman whose body they dug up to burn in the crash has always stuck with me. Also, there's an episode that involves a box of sex toys being stolen, and I remember the woman they were taken from stating that she wasn't embarrassed about going to the police, but just didn't think it was a big deal at first (but then once it was obvious someone had been hiding in her house, she was rightly terrified, as he turned out to be a rapist and murderer). She seemed super frank and awesome, and Keith Morrison seemed delighted by her. It was a light point in what ended up being a pretty dark and disturbing episode.