Watching Reality TV

You know what’s first!  It’s the recaps!  Catch up at these lovely sites:

• Big Brother Craze
• Buddy TV
• Television without Pity
• CBS.com’s recap and full episode video

So you know what has happened since we last saw our favorite houseguests?  NOTHING.  Not a damned thing.  Okay, well, that’s a lie.  They had the veto competition.  But we saw that coming a mile away and the outcome was less than surprising.  So yeah.  Gee, maybe we could have avoided a completely boring final four if the Donatos had just kept Eric and Jessica.  Dumbasses.  Well, I guess you can’t blame them for wanting to completely cream the competition instead of winning out of merit, huh? After all, that $500,000 is looking pretty tasty right about now.

As expected, the Donatos had little shit fits over being nominated.  The Donatos are smug regarding Zach’s promise to take them down.  It’s true, because it is too late to take them down.  But their attitudes are pretty awful.  Zach is proud of finally having the guts to take them out.  Yeah, but it’s TOO LATE.  What about last week when he was HoH?  Why didn’t he put them up then?  They would have been TOAST.  But no.  Too little, way too late.  So while the smugness drives me nuts, it’s true.  And I hate that it’s true.

Jameka is happy to be “saved” but she has to know that it all hinges on Veto.  Because her butt isn’t safe yet.  I’d say the chances are 50/50, but even judging from Zach’s decent showing of late, I doubt they can outplay the Donatos.  Admiring Zach’s spirit though.  You go boy!  We’ll warm a spot in the jury house just for you!  sigh

Yay!  We get a peek in at the jury house!  I’ve been waiting for this.  We get to see the various jury members arrive, one by one starting with Dustin.  The house is NIIIIICE.  So sipping a martini, he watches Jen roll up and he laughs a good one.  Gah, it’s awful having to watch Jen again.  Luckily, it seemed like she was on good behavior.  Then Amber arrived.  Dustin was horrified to see her.  Cue the Wahmber.  Damn, haven’t missed that either.  Jessica shows up and I’m wondering where Eric is.  Did they not arrive together?  Bummer.  But wait, there’s Eric!  And everyone seems shocked as hell to see him, especially Jessica.  Daaaaang.  She’s happy to see him in the jury house though, because they get to hang out together again.  Eric shows them a little video of how he got evicted.  And he’s very excited to be able to reveal he was America’s Player, at the finale I’m supposing.   Obviously, they’re hoping Jameka is in the final two.  Right.  Don’t count on it.   Aww, that was cool, getting to see them all.

Zach and Jameka are sweating the veto.  Dick refers to them as “idiots”, which again is pretty much true, but STILL.  Meanwhile, Zach and Jameka are praying.  Which is a sure fire sign that they’ll fail.  I’ve seen this before in these shows.  Nothing against praying, mind you.  But this doesn’t bode well for our “good guys”.  The competition starts and it goes about as you’d expect it to.  Jameka had the right idea but was more focused on accuracy than doing it quickly.  Zach was clueless and had no idea what he was doing for the first few minutes.  Dick finished first but got one wrong.  Daniele had the best strategy and… she got it right.  Done.  She’s got veto.  BOO!  So yeah, writing is on the wall.  She starts screaming like a horror movie victim, I swear to you.  Jameka knows she’s gone.  GOD.

God, how lame can you get?  I guess the only thing this show has going for it now is watching the jury rip into these fools at the final two.   That should be fun.  Dick is pretty much being a… dick.  He’s basically stuffing everything Zach ever said to him back in his face.  And Zach would be golden, except that he DR’s that he’s smarter than Dick and that his mind is “like a Samurai sword.”  Oy.  Damn.  This is agony.  CBS, have mercy.

Cut to the live show, and not a moment too soon.  Blah blah blah.  Duh.  Daniele takes Dick off, since DUH she’s totally safe anyhow.  It was just ceremonious.  So Jameka is up on the block.  And we go right into eviction!  No point in delaying the inevitable.  This has been a dull, dull week already.  And guess who’s going home?  Guess!  I bet you can’t guess.  Dur.  Bye, Jameka.  You were a good person.  A bad player, as it turns out, but a good person.  She deserves, at the very least, to be delivered from the Donatos presence if nothing else.

Jameka almost looks relieved to be out of there.  She’s full of cleansing sighs and smiles.  I would be too, come to think of it.  She interviews predictably with Julie and I’m already wondering what the jury’s reaction will be when she shows up on their doorstep.  The taped “goodbyes” are… YAWN.  Do I smell jury pandering?

I have a feeling that Zach in the house is like leaving a soft, cuddly bunny rabbit among a pack of wolves.  Next up?  HoH challenge!  And it’s endurance in “round 1″, unsurprisingly.  So we fade out on the remaining houseguests clinging to their keys.  I want to wish Zach the best, but I don’t know.  I just don’t know.

(I would have spoken about “The Biggest Loser” tonight as well, but I had to record it because of “Big Brother”. Look back for my impressions and thoughts on the premiere in tomorrow’s post after I’ve had a chance to watch it.)