Big Brother 27-Wednesday Recap for August 13th

It was another day of campaigning, Mickey being a dictator and Keanu making more ass-itizers for the house. Vince whined about having to campaign from inside his egg and Ava continued to ignore them all.

Mickey made this face when someone said Rachel’s name:

Mickey basically held hoh meetings yesterday with most of the house. (Yes, WE know she’s not the hoh but Mickey doesn’t) To be fair to her though, in a couple of scenarios, she could be the swing vote. (This is one more thing that’s gone to her head) She’s gone from wanting to weaken Morgan by taking out either Zach or Vince to wanting to keep whoever will target Rachel for her.

Zach almost blew it yesterday by saying to Mickey and Morgan that if Rachel made it to the end, he’d vote for her because it would be impressive. I thought their heads were going to explode and Zach started backtracking immediately. It turned into another Mickey tirade about how Rachel doesn’t deserve it and said she’d even vote for Kelley over Rachel. (Go Kelley!)

Morgan had gotten Mickey on board to keep Zach over Vince. (They want Keanu out no matter what) If you remember, Morgan changed her mind and decided she wanted to keep Zach over Vince because he told her about his power. The deciding factor was telling her he didn’t use it in order to save her from going otb. (I don’t believe this is true)

Morgan knew Zack was trying to work with Rachel after Rachel told him that Mickey was the one trying to use his 10k against him during his punishment. Morgan encouraged Zach to tell this to Mickey in order to seal the deal. It kind of had the opposite effect. (Maybe) After Zach told Mickey, she realized Rachel was trying to work with Zach. She knows Rachel will target Vince so she flipped it once again and started talking about wanting to keep Vince.

Mickey has taken to using the m&m’s to demonstrate to everyone why they need to make certain moves. Unlike players in the past, she uses them to go through her entire game. It”s who needs evicted, in what order, who they should nominate week by week and so on. She’s laying out to everyone how MICKEY plans to be in the F2.

The funniest conversation was the one with Ava. You have to remember, Ava’s been asleep for a week and isn’t keeping up on all the back and forth. Mickey started showing Ava how the m&m’s worked and how they end up with evicting Keanu this week. Ava didn’t seem to care and she’s fine with taking out any of the three. Mickey was stressing to her that it could come down to a tie and she wants to make sure Ava makes Mickey’s choice. Ava agreed but after Mickey left, it was obvious Ava was still confused as to what had happened. (She’s not aware Mickey’s been changing her mind 100 times a day this week)

Rachel’s picked up on the fact that Mickey is trying to isolate her from everyone. She talked to Keanu about it and said even Ashley isn’t around her very much now. She’s noticed Mickey hovering around Ashley this week after being mean to her for days. They disagreed over whether or not Morgan and Mickey are working together. Rachel said they are and Keanu said they aren’t.

After Morgan encouraged it, Zach told Mickey about his power. For now, it may have worked. She’s back to wanting to keep Zach. Later, she told Morgan, they should put him on the block so one of them can take his 10k. (Haha)

Ballet class:

Zach made a pitch to Rylie and Katherine by saying they could put him up as a pawn if they kept him. This only seemed to annoy Rylie. He told Katherine he didn’t need Zach’s permission to put him on the block. (Well, he’s not wrong)

Mickey also pitched to Rylie and Katherine about keeping Zach. I still can’t tell what they’ll do. They’ve talked like they want to get rid of Keanu, but when Keanu told Rylie he was thinking about throwing the block buster, Rylie told him he shouldn’t. It’s only a guess, but I think they’ll keep Keanu over Zach, but possibly keep Vince over Keanu.

Ashley tried to convince Rachel that Mickey isn’t after her. I don’t know why because Ashley’s the first one who told Rachel she couldn’t trust Mickey. (Ashley doesn’t even trust Mickey) I think Ashley’s just trying to keep the peace between them for now, even if it’s fake. She also tried to convince Mickey that Rachel’s not targeting her either. (It won’t work because this train is too far down the tracks) I think she’s also putting a little distance between herself and Rachel now that Rachel’s become such a big target.

Ava and Keanu talked and they agreed if she’d saved him in a tie, he wouldn’t target her for putting him up this week. (Mickey won’t like this deal)

Rachel’s trying to plant seeds and do some work but as crazy as Mickey’s acting, she’s out working Rachel. Mickey HAS been trying to put Rachel on an island but Mickey also has a lot of one on one conversations. When she’s in the middle of one of those, there’s nothing stopping Rachel from going and trying to talk to Ava. There’s a potential for a tie and I think she’s let go of Ava too easily this week.

Most of what Mickey’s doing doesn’t make sense to me. There’s nothing wrong with her wanting to take Rachel out at some point. The problem is, Rachel’s been on Mickey’s side from the beginning of the game and that hadn’t changed. The only thing that changed was Mickey realizing that Rachel was there to play the game too.

Rachel, Mickey and Morgan having an awkward work out together:

Sure, you need to get rid of anyone thats working against you, but how can you immediately take out everyone who would like to win over you? It’s literally everyone living in the house! As an example, Mickey sits with Will, Ashley and Morgan at different times and openly discusses who she should take to the final 2. She’s acting like everyone is only there to help her win and she gets angry when she finds out someone might be there for themselves. To put it in Mickey’s language, “it’s really weird.”

Zach sneaking in some Lauren time:

Here’s some random tidbits and conversations from the week. Its things I found funny, informative or just absurd:

Mickey told Morgan that Morgan was playing a good game. Mickey said “as long as you’re not sitting against me in the final two, you can win.”

Someone who agrees with my take on the cast:

Vince in his pajama egg:

They think the wall comp may be tonight. (It is) This was Mickey’s face when she was told Rachel is known for winning endurance comps:

Rachel’s been both a cop and a robber:

More ballet class:

Mickey said as a winner, Rachel should be happy to sit in the jury and help choose the winner. She also added “she’s so weird.”

Mickey and Morgan discussed who they’ll be taking to the final 3 with them.

I think this was the only shot of Lauren on the epiaode last night:

There was a brief discussion on how some of them “style” their pubic hair so there’s that.

Katherine with her Veto:

I liked the veto costumes:

Vince was worrying about the vote to Kelley. She told him not to worry and said he was running things. He asked “how the f*ck am I running things sitting on the block, inside an egg?”

Here he is running, just not the things:

Vince also told Kelley people were talking but they weren’t talking to him. Kelly said “that’s part of being on the block, babe.”

Rylie told Mickey it was weird that Katherine left him to go talk to Morgan.

(This guy has major issues)

Kelley asked Morgan, “what’s up?” Morgan said she was trying to get through the week. Kelley said, “you’re not on the block.” Haha

Something you don’t see everyday:

Ashley quote-“I feel like they cast a bunch of unpopular kids who are trying to relive high school.” (True)

In a game talk, Morgan told Keanu she was targeting Ava in week 1 because she thought Ava was playing the game too hard. (Ava was a have not and had safety in week 1) Half the time, I don’t even think Morgan is aware of what she’s saying.

When Mickey found out about the Bond alliance, she said “it’s sick Lauren would put up someone from her own alliance.” (Jimmy says hi)

Rachel and Zach’s short lived bonding:

Some of them trying to get their steps in while on house lockdown:

So many people worried about having to sit through another Paul and BB19 situation. (I was one of them) If anything, it’s the opposite. Paul had a cult following and

I would think a smart player would find a middle ground. Don’t worship a returning player, but why not work with them for a while and see what you can learn from them? She’s also a previous winner so wouldn’t she have some good information? (Sure, we know the way she won BB13 but they don’t) For all they know, Rachel could be full of strategies that they haven’t thought about. (Okay, I made myself laugh over that one)

I think these players not being familiar with her has alot to do with it. Paul has just played BB18 when he came back. Even people not very familiar with the show knew who Paul was and because it was so recent, they were starstruck. It’s been a little fascinating to watch 2 different casts, with only 1 returning player, have such different reactions to the situation.

Yesterday, Mickey was trying to manipulate Ashley by talking about the way Rachel played in the past. None of what she said was true and she doesn’t know anything about Rachel’s past seasons. She’s one of the players who’s admitted she did her research for BB on reddit and chat gpt. I think Rachel could’ve been an asset that Mickey is willingly throwing away. If she’d done more than read Reddit comments she’d know, Rachel is loyal to the bone. She’s never ran anything and always played the game as an underdog.

Look, I’ve not made it a secret, I’ve never been a Rachel fan. I decided to go into this season with an open mind anyway. What I’ve seen so far is an older Rachel who’s been extremely kind to Ashley, Mickey, Ava, Will and Morgan. (She hasn’t been unkind to the rest of the cast) Mickey says Rachel doesn’t deserve jury. In my opinion, what Rachel doesn’t deserve is the personal negative treatment and comments from Mickey and Morgan.

You can target someone in the game without completely treating them like shit. (Mickey even made dinner for everyone yesterday except for Rachel) She can’t use immaturity as an excuse since she’s 35, only 5 yrs younger than Rachel. Rachel’s not winning the game but I’d actually like to see her outlast both Mickey and Morgan. I don’t think it’s going to happen since over half the house is targeting Rachel but a girl can dream.

I have no ideas who has the votes or who doesn’t. All I can say is, it’s one of these three:

Here’s a cast photo for The Amazing Race:

Have a great Thursday!

Mel