Gummo

TAR is back! The premiere was great! I am happy! That is all.

I see a lot of mixed opinions, but I enjoyed it. Yes, the casting of young superfans who grew up watching the game was novel and fresh a few seasons ago; it's fast becoming the latest Survivor casting cliche. Been a long time since I disliked anyone as immediately and heartily as Emily. Jebus, could you BE any more negative, pessimistic and paranoid? And she's an investment advisor?? What's her advice? "Buy gold and bury it in your backyard, the world's a shithole and society's gonna collapse any second"? We've had players like her before, who don't understand that the first half of the season is a TEAM game. Play strictly for yourself right off the bat and you're probably going before you ever get to the merge. Seeing Emily gone soon would make me happy, I feel for her teammates -- being around her corrosive personality 24/7 sounds awful.

Not letting Cory play after denying him a real HOH reign - no HOH room, no privileges, no nuthin' - would be a personal Fuck You to Cory from Production - has he done anything in particular to piss them off? Or is it just part of making sure there's no one else starring in The Fields Show?

The way Jared talked to Blue was disgusting. I got so angry on her behalf. He's a manipulator and a bully (much like his mother, but she's much smoother at it).

A question for those on social media: Are non-feed watchers enjoying this season? I know they generally have a very different impression of both the season and the individual contestants. Are they as fed up as we are or is it business as usual as far as they're concerned? Because their opinions seem to carry a lot more weight than feed watchers (you know, the people who actually care).

Both Cam & Jared are creepy bullies. Both treat women abominably. That said, if Prodution, in their infinite wisdom, has decreed that one of them has to be inflicted on us AGAIN, I prefer the creepy bully with no pre-existing built-in alliances.

Pure speculation here, but I do wonder if this isn't why Cirie looks so blue so much of the time and has talked about getting out -- she's bored. On Survivor and even The Traitor, the contestants always had stuff to do, especially on Survivor, where you always have chores to do between challenges -- repair the shelter, gather wood & water, cook, tend the fire, etc. 90% of Big Brother, on the other hand, is literally just sitting around. Cirie isn't the couch potato she proclaimed herself to be on her first Survivor appearance anymore. I imagine Big Brother is driving her crazy.

If it's good enough for San Francisco....

I can't see Cam putting his fate in Jared's hands. I think he'd elect to do the puzzle.

There's a Meme?

*sigh* They really don't, do they. Otherwise, this show would be classified as a game show and not entertainment. But I'd think they'd care about making a good show. That's probably horribly naive of me.

l like DGAF Blue. I wish she'd stick with that persona.

Doing a battle-back on top of a double elim makes no sense, either as game or drama. Basically, it's two wasted weeks. If you've got that much time to throw away, maybe expanding your show to 100 days was stupid?

Re a Battle Back between Cam and Jared: It's amazing. Grodner keeps finding new ways to make me root for Cam.

Ack, don't mention kittens! I just got MAULED by our sweet little 1 1/2 year female kitten when we tried to get her into her carrier for a vet trip. We've had cats for decades, know all the tricks to deal with getting them to the vet. Nothing worked. She lost her fucking mind. I now have giant slashes on both wrists and my hands. We have a call into the vet asking if she'd recommend kitty downers before our re-scheduled visit. (And that's the EASY cat to deal with. We didn't even get to the other one!) Sorry for being off-topic. just had to vent.

Except that C&J are now outed as completely untrustworthy.

At this point, I think Bowie is desperate to belong to any alliance that will have her.

Am I bad person if that makes me happy? 😊

I'm so glad people are finally comparing notes. it sure took them long enough.

It was 10.45 Eastern. They did show a condensed version of the Jared-Cory fight, so that was good.

The mistake was letting them compete in secret. If the cast had known from the beginning that Cirie and Jared were mother-son and could make their plans with that in mind, it would have been a lot more fair. Maybe more interesting, too.

Oh, I agree, Jared would have been a raging, raving loon without mommy to keep him in check, but that woulda been a lot more fun to watch. Cirie, OTOH, could have used the full panoply of her super-social powers for herself, instead oof wasting all that energy protecting and shepherding her asshole son.

The sad thing is, both Cerie and Jared would have been more interesting players without the other.

Hey, inandout, how about Cory & America for The Amazing Race? But CBS, in their wisdom, would probably give us Red and Cam.

IOW, Cerie took the place of someone who might've really wanted to be there, and now that every single thing isn't going her way, she wants to take her ball & go home? Boo effing hoo.