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Yes she has been a strong competitor, in terms of the actual challenge activities, but she hasn't done well at the social game at all. The flirting (and subsequent involvement) with Thomas was about aligning herself with someone to try and stay protected from the elimination rounds. And, honestly, until Abe showed up and blew it all up, it was a smart move. She had to pick someone outside of John's alliance, because she knows that, even if she did suck it up and agree to join in with him (which, given how few allies he had this time around, he would have welcomed), she would always be fodder for him to get rid of once he ran out of non-alliance cast members to throw in. Since this was the first season where there were a credible number of non-Bananas groupies to counter him, latching on to one of the rookies was a smart move.

I agree about Thomas. I noticed that he deferred to her for questions and would nod and back up her answers. Even having acknowledged that it's far more likely Abe will lay a hand on him than on CM, he was willing to sit back and let her decide how things played out, to some extent. Oh, God, the host. What the actual hell, woman? When she thought it would be a great idea to ask Thomas and CM "if you were both single, would you get together?" (or something to that effect), CM's reaction pretty much said it all. Yes, she kind of laughed with her "are you trying to get him killed?" but I think it was a laugh that was more disbelief at how surreal it was that you have this clearly angry, raging man wandering the set, one whose rage is entirely based on the Thomas/CM involvement and the fallout, and she decides it would be a great idea to poke the bear and ask Thomas and CM if they would be a couple if only it wasn't for Abe and that pesky girlfriend Thomas has back home? How did she (or the production people in her ear) envision that question going? It's hard to buy that the show doesn't want Abe to go all rage-y when they seem to have scripted an entire After Show designed to push every single button he has with regard to his relationship with CM. They may as well have just gone for it and asked her something like "now, Cara Maria, we hear that Thomas has a much bigger dick than Abe. Can you confirm? And, follow-up, do you think he likely wields it better? Care to find out? We have a bedroom prepared backstage if you want to give it a go. And the room has a viewing window, so Abe can watch and see if you seem to enjoy it more than sex with him. When we get back from the break, we'll have raw footage of Abe watching Cara Maria and Thomas do the deed!"

I'd just like to point out that there are more ways to be abusive than physical abuse. Yes, CM was in the wrong in a couple ways, but the behavior we saw from Abe seemed pretty emotionally abusive to me. I have a request for production - please re-stage those rooms, put Abe in one, CT in another, and let's see who gets it done first. That Pit was the most entertaining elimination since Johnny Bananas Backpack (which will forever remain the best). Abe's brother going to town while Abe gets so hyped up his nose starts bleeding was exactly the kind of thing I watch this show for. Add in all the reaction shots (I'm always amused when you can see that TJ is clearly into it), and it was great. As was Thomas narrating his brother's comparatively inept sledgehammer style. John is, as always, a douchebag. But I'll take the small victory that at least Nany wasn't there when the shit went down, so she didn't get to do her victory lap. (Yes, I think I might actually hate Nany more than John). It wouldn't surprise me if she was more angry at John for waiting to stir shit up until after she left than she was that he said her name for elimination last week. You know she loves to trash other girls for their sex lives while playing victim when anyone says a word about hers. While I typically enjoy a good TJ expressing his disappointment routine, I loved Aneesa's no fucks to give "go ahead and call me a quitter," exchange with him. (But, yeah, Aneesa, how many of these have you done? This heights shit can no longer be a surprise.)

Can someone please tweet that "10 Worst" article to BryDog or Thighbolt? I could really use an entertaining distraction tonight.

Between RM and HT, JMW was doomed by her onscreen genetics. Poor girl.

Watching that clip makes me want to find Ron and punch him in the face for ruining Liz/AJ. Stupid fucker.

Whenever I see a real life couple refer to one another as "my ride or die," I can't take them seriously as a grown up (not that I could take BryDog or Thighbolt seriously as grown ups in the first place, mind you).

Can you imagine how epic (and public) the break-up would be?

As Liam was heading to the plane's bathroom, I was saying "oh, please, Jesus, let him knock himself unconscious in the crapper!" If this show is going to insist on being crap, then, please, be the kind of crap I can cackle at.

That's what I was thinking initially - that she's had so much work done that she can't properly move her mouth to make words.

They absolutely believe we're stupid. Pretty much every episode of this show over the past several months has been a testimony to how stupid they think we are.

Kiki: I don't know what all these things are that my Dad left behind here. There are shelves full of them.

If she's in scenes over more than one commercial break, that's probably her 2017 allotment, too.

Ah, maybe that was it. It seemed like, overall, she was enunciating everything really oddly today, maybe her accent slips in when she's doing "emotional" stuff.

The main thing I got out of today's show is that JMW pronounces "fault" really oddly. And she kept saying it over and over and over (and over and over) again.

I can definitely see the need for a Lucky recast at this point, but I'd be so annoyed if it was Jeff Branson. Aside from the knee jerk negative reaction I have to just thinking about his character on AMC, I really don't think he's as good of an actor as advertised. I'd still vastly prefer Mark Lawson. (I love Josh Kelly, but he doesn't feel like Lucky to me.)

And, to give him some credit, JPL could step up when in scenes with a strong partner, like the Rex/Bo scenes. So, at least, he'd probably be decent opposite Tracy.

I'm convinced she has some deal where she gets to handle her hair, makeup, and wardrobe. I could be entirely wrong, but if I am, then she is the only woman alive who could consistently, day after day, manage to make the hair, makeup, and wardrobe departments of this show look so good.

I admire her so much for sharing all of that. Having been through similar issues, I know that it helps so much to be open about them, because otherwise you start getting into this mentality that it's your shameful secret. And that is so not the case. I hope she goes on to have a successful pregnancy, when she's ready to try again, and that the tumor remains as innocuous as possible. Side note: Kim looked adorable pregnant in that picture she shared. I think it just shows, once again, that TIIC of this show cannot dress a woman who doesn't have Kelly or Becky's body. (And they even mess up those two some times.) They should just let Kim wear her own clothes whenever she pops in to film.

Wish I could say it was mine. Just a cute picture I found online to use.

They were inside a series of a few glass boxes (I can't remember the exact number). It was an elimination game, and, to win, you had to completely break through all the panes of glass in each box. Timmy actually got done first, but, when he went to break one of the top panels, the whole panel popped out intact instead of breaking into pieces, so his escape didn't count. And, in the process of breaking through those glass boxes, he pretty much shredded his legs and ended up with pieces of glass embedded in them. (I think I got the general gist of it, it's been a while.)

I agree that Nina could have potential, if the writing and the way MS is being directed to play her would take advantage of that potential. Ever since they decided to reel her back in from the scheming woman she was when she first hit town and the woman who forced Ava into labor and stole her baby, they've been playing her and her "love story" with Franco as some weird melding of OLTL's Jessica thinking she's a 17 year old virgin again and AMC's teenage autistic Lily falling in love with the brain damaged "they cut the bad out" Jonathon.

Happy New Year, everyone. If you're going out tonight, stay safe!

T-shirt?

I love how Liz is somehow responsible for all things at all times. If her lie cost Patrick his "great love" with Sam, then theoretically, if she hadn't lied, Patrick would still be with Sam? So then, Robin would still be rotting in captivity. Yet, somehow, Liz's lie is responsible for extending the length of Robin's captivity? OK... But, wait, Liz's lie is responsible for Patrick becoming more attached to Sam. But, her lie cost him his relationship with Sam. It's like she's an evil time lord who has managed to cross every constraint of time and space to make every situation the worst case scenario. Is she also responsible for the success of Trump's campaign? Did her lies lead to Bill Cosby raping 50 some women over the span of a few decades? Did she order the HGH delivered to Peyton Manning's address?