Okay, Big Brother fans, there is a lot to unpack here. The Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama surrounding Thursday night’s 1,000th episode gave us an eviction, a damaged alliance, one very angry houseguest, a massive new Big Brother twist and perhaps the one announcement guaranteed to irritate live feed watchers everywhere.
By the end of Thursday’s episode, Mallory Aurichio was gone. Drew Campbell had won the BB Blockbuster, leaving Mallory and Taylor Brown as the final two nominees. The house then voted Mallory out 6-2, with only Barrett and Melody Morris voting to evict Taylor. Was the result shocking? Not really. What happened afterward was much more interesting, and the Big Brother eviction fallout may ultimately matter far more than the vote itself.
Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama leaves Mallory with a very different attitude about Drew
Let’s start by saying Mallory seems like a fun, genuinely nice person. But we have to ask the question: Mallory, have you watched Big Brother before?
Lying, deceiving people and allowing somebody to feel comfortable before voting them out isn’t some violation of the game. It’s the game. Some of the greatest players to ever walk through those doors have done far worse than what Dee Valladares did this week and won because of it. And we’re certainly not suggesting Dee is playing some flawless game. She isn’t. Her gameplay has been sloppy at times, and some of the relationships she’s damaged could absolutely come back to hurt her.
But Mallory knew during this week there was a very real possibility she was leaving. She had won competitions this season, but she never won an HOH and never established enough power to force the rest of the house to play on her terms. Then came the part of her exit interview with Julie Chen Moonves that really made us shake our heads: Mallory admitted she intentionally slowed down and threw the HOH competition because she became nervous about whom she would nominate if she won.
Oh, Mallory. The person you allowed to win that HOH eventually put you on the block and sent you home. That’s Big Brother, and that decision is going to be a major part of how we remember the Mallory eviction.
Mallory understood Drew’s decision, but Melody absolutely did not
Here’s where the Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama gets really interesting. Mallory leaves the house seemingly understanding why Drew made his game decision. Melody stays inside and absolutely unloads on Drew for essentially the same decision.
Mallory wasn’t particularly surprised that Drew ultimately chose the Icons and voted her out. Her stronger frustration appeared to be with Dee and the decision to nominate her in the first place. Melody had a completely different reaction. Once the feeds returned following the eviction, she confronted Drew, first in the pod room and later in the storage room. She accused him of lying to her for weeks and reminded him that she had defended him to people who didn’t trust him.
Then Drew tried to hug her. Bad idea. Melody shut that down immediately, eventually telling him, “Don’t touch me.” That relationship looks shattered right now.
And while Melody believes Drew was never truly going to save Mallory, there is a little more nuance there. Drew later suggested that if he had known the numbers were securely there to evict Mallory anyway, he would have liked to cast a vote to keep her. Which basically means he might have given Mallory a sympathy vote if it didn’t cost him anything. That’s not exactly the heroic defense Melody wanted.
Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama leaves Drew facing the fallout
The post-eviction drama didn’t end with the storage room confrontation. Afterward, Drew was visibly emotional. Angela Murray and Dee found him in the gym, and he eventually talked through the fallout with Rick Devens. Drew knows Melody doesn’t trust him anymore and understands that other players may now see exactly where his loyalties have been.
He also apparently heard the studio audience react when he cast his eviction vote, which had to make an already uncomfortable decision feel even stranger. This is the problem with trying to stay attached to multiple groups for too long. Eventually somebody asks you to choose. Drew chose, and now he gets the consequences that come with it.
That may ultimately be one of the biggest pieces of Big Brother strategy coming out of this Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama. The vote itself is over, but the alliance fallout from Drew’s decision could follow him for weeks.
Oh, Barrett…
And then there’s Barrett. Oh, Barrett.
We genuinely give him credit for finally showing some guts. He saw Mallory getting targeted, became increasingly unhappy with the Icons structure and ultimately voted the way he wanted rather than simply falling in line. Good! We’ve spent plenty of time asking when Barrett was finally going to stop floating and start playing his own game. Well, congratulations. He did.
Now comes the other half: Barrett hasn’t won a competition.
He spent much of this season in a relatively comfortable position with larger targets standing in front of him. His relationships with the Icons offered him some degree of protection whether he loved the arrangement or not. Then he openly showed them he’s willing to go against them, and he’s surprised there could be consequences?
If we’re sitting inside the Icons, Barrett suddenly becomes one of the people we’re looking at very closely. Not because he committed some terrible betrayal, but because he just demonstrated that he’s willing to organize numbers against us. That’s somebody you consider removing before he gets power.
We’ll give Barrett credit for showing guts, but once you make the move, you have to back it up. Of course, our running joke was that Barrett would probably win HOH immediately after we criticized him for having no competition power and make us look completely ridiculous.
Well, Big Brother found another way to make us look ridiculous. There isn’t going to be an HOH competition. Thanks, guys.
Big Brother celebrates 1,000 episodes and then blows up the game
Thursday was also a legitimate milestone. Big Brother reached its 1,000th episode, with Julie Chen Moonves looking back at memorable moments from the show’s 26-year history. Whatever anybody thinks about a particular season or twist, that’s an impressive accomplishment.
And we don’t envy the people producing this thing. Think about what goes into making Big Brother every summer. It’s essentially a television production operating around the clock. There are competitions to design and build, live episodes to produce, stories developing constantly and cameras capturing these people 24 hours a day. It’s got to be exhausting.
So congratulations on 1,000 episodes.
Now about what you did immediately afterward…
New Big Brother twist means no HOH, no Veto and no BB Blockbuster
The next phase of Big Brother 28 is going medieval. Four former players are coming back into the picture: Britney Haynes, Tiffany Mitchell, Cody Calafiore and Keanu Soto. And apparently we’re temporarily throwing the regular Big Brother rulebook into a moat.
There will be no HOH competition, no nominations, no Power of Veto and no BB Blockbuster during the upcoming twist. Someone’s game will still end before the next regular live eviction, but exactly how that elimination happens remains one of the things the show is keeping secret until Sunday.
That’s a huge change, and these Big Brother 28 spoilers completely reshape what we thought the next week would look like. We’d probably be even more excited to spend the next few days watching everybody try to figure out what the heck is happening.
Except…
Big Brother live feeds blackout brings the backlash
Yeah. Here’s where we’re going to complain.
Julie announced the Big Brother live feeds blackout would last for the next three days and that the feeds wouldn’t return until after Sunday’s episode. The studio audience wasn’t exactly thrilled either. When people started reacting to the announcement, Julie playfully told them to quiet down before joking that everyone should put their screens away, go outside and “smell the flowers.”
Funny line. We’re guessing plenty of live feed watchers weren’t laughing quite as much.
We understand why production is doing this. They have a massive twist. They don’t want everything spoiled before Sunday’s television episode. From a production standpoint, CBS obviously wants people wondering what’s going to happen and tuning in to find out.
We get it.
We still don’t like it.
There are fans who live and breathe Big Brother through the live feeds. The feeds are one of the biggest things separating this show from practically every other reality competition on television. You’re not just watching three edited episodes every week. You’re seeing the conversations, Big Brother strategy, lies, fights, shifting Big Brother alliances and ridiculous late-night decisions as they happen.
And now, during one of the biggest twists of the season, we’re going to miss three days? That’s crappy for those fans. Sorry. That’s how we see it.
The Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama had barely finished exploding when the feeds disappeared, which makes the timing even more frustrating. Melody and Drew had just blown up their relationship, Barrett had openly shown where he stood, and the entire house was dealing with the Mallory eviction fallout. Those are exactly the moments live feed viewers want to watch develop.
Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama ends with the joke probably on us
Here’s the annoying part. The producers are somewhere working their tails off trying to pull this whole medieval twist together. We’re sitting here complaining because we desperately want to know what they’re doing.
And when Sunday night arrives? Of course we’re watching.
So congratulations, Big Brother. You win. We’re annoyed, we’re curious, and we’re already wondering what the heck happens next.
Mission accomplished.
The Big Brother 28 Eviction Drama may have started with Mallory’s departure, but between Drew’s damaged relationships, Barrett’s newly exposed position, the new Big Brother twist and the live feeds blackout backlash, Thursday’s eviction may have opened the door to something much bigger.
Big Brother returns Sunday night, when viewers will learn much more about the medieval twist and the live feeds are expected to return following the episode.
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