Big Brother 27-Recap for Sunday, July 20th

It was an active weekend in the house and many of the hg’s are playing like they’re in week 5 or 6. They’re already making plans to turn on people within the alliances they just made. It’s not that surprising since most of them are loose alliances at best. I think Morgan and Mickey are loyal to each other. Ava is loyal to the Bond and Kelley is loyal to Vinny. Everyone else seems pretty fluid while making plans.

Jimmy continued to piss off what seemed to be the people in his main alliance. (at least for now) After jumping on board with Rachel last week to save Amy, Jimmy may be targeting Amy now. (Assuming Kelley comes off the block) Amy’s definitely done with Jimmy and wants him out. Morgan and Mickey may be turning on him too.

This season, I’m going to do a recap of where each player is in the game on Mondays, which will include Sunday’s game activity. I felt like the Monday recap last season included too much stuff that Steve had already covered over the weekend. (Hoping this works better but let me know)

Jimmy:

As the hoh, he’s gone from wanting to make a big move to something similar to what Vinny did. (I guess it’s Vinny now since that’s what the whole house calls him) At this point and having to work around the powers, he said he’s just trying to get the least amount of blood on his hands. Of course, I don’t know who he actually wants to work with in the game so maybe it makes sense to him. (It doesn’t to me) Rachel, Morgan and Mickey think it’s going to be a waste of his hoh.

Dance party with Jimmy and Morgan: (This was before he pissed her off)

With Keaunu winning the veto, (or Kaycee) Jimmy wants Amy to replace him on the block AND be the target if Kelley comes off too. Rachel, Morgan, Mickey, Ashley and naturally Amy, are against this move. Except for Vinny, this is the group he worked the closest with last week. They’re also upset he didn’t meet with them to discuss options. He’s asked them all who they would put up but he shoots down everything they say. He just keeps saying “it’s too soon” to whoever they suggest.

No, I don’t know why Rachel was wearing a gown Saturday. (At least it’s not covered in feathers or cotton balls or whatever was on the last one)

Jimmy and Rylie praying Keaun didn’t win veto: (I’m not sure Jesus cares who wins big brother)

After deciding Amy would go up, Jimmy talked to Kelley and made it seem like he’d put up Amy as a favor to her. This is supposed to make it up to her that he “had” to put her on the block. He did the same thing with Keanu about Will. Jimmy had already decided Will would go up if Kelley came down but he has Keanu thinking he’s putting Will up as a favor to Keanu. (That’s something I think he did well this week but it would only work on players like Keanu and Kelley)

I can sympathize with Jimmy over potentially having to nominate 5 people this week but he’s still playing sloppy. Rachel even advised him not to throw out replacement names until he knew he needed them. (So did Morgan) Its Jimmy tho and he likes to talk…alot….so everyone already knows who will go up.

Keanu:

He had to burn his power the day after he got it, mostly due to his messy game play. Without that in his pocket, I’ll be shocked if he makes jury. Keanu keeps doing this weird rinse and repeat thing. He’ll have an issue with Jimmy, they’ll make up and it lasts until the next time. The same thing is happening with Rachel. He thinks he’s working with Jimmy again because Jimmy said he would nominate Will.

Yup, in Keanu’s mind, he’s working with Jimmy….the guy who tried to target him all last week, called him out in front of the house, nominated him this week AND made it clear Keanu was his target.

He can’t read the house at all. Rachel was honest with him and wanted to work with him. Like with Jimmy, they’ve argued several times but keep making up. (rinse and repeat) He keeps having these “sincere” talks where he says he believes and trusts her. As soon as the talks are over, he says, I don’t trust her at all.

Sure, it’s Rachel so be suspicious, I get it. However, he has it in his mind that Rachel lied to him about Jimmy (and Vince) trying to target him. Jimmy DID target him last week publicly and he did it again once he was the hoh. (He doesn’t need to believe Rachel to see what she said was true)

Rachel:

She was pissed at Jimmy once he told her he may put up Amy. It’s not just because she’s working with Amy. It’s because she thought Jimmy was working with Amy too. She let him know she didn’t agree with it, but did it without being too pushy. He said he knew she may go this time otb if she’s against Adrian. Jimmy said Amy owes him for saving her last week and said she won’t win a comp to do anything to help his game. He’s okay with her going.

Rachel was upset with Keanu again yesterday after a convo about her past seasons. He mentioned seeing clips of them, she asked what he knew and he brought up moments where Ragan and Hayden were insulting her.

Keanu sitting there confused as to what he said wrong:

She got upset, left the conversation and went upstairs to vent alone. Ya, she’s overly sensitive but Keanu can’t read a room or a situation. Why laugh at moments where people were calling her unlikable and dumb? If it was once, I’d think it was innocent. Keanu either doesn’t have the best social skills or he’s poking at her. (There’s evidence to support both theories)

Rachel also had a not so great chat with Amy. Amy was upset, saying she wouldn’t be a target if she wasn’t friends with Rachel. This happened around the time Rachel was upstairs fighting to keep Amy off the block. (For the record, Amy went otb because she cried to Vinny, trying to keep Ashley off the block last week.)

Rachel’s always talked some game with Morgan and Mickey but she did it more this weekend. None of them agree with Jimmy’s noms this week and they think he’s on a power trip. I think she’d be smarter to work with these two over Amy and Ashley, personally.

Morgan walking the imaginary runway:

Morgan:

She has good game instincts, but this situation with Zach could get her into trouble. She and Zach have good game talks and are working together but she’s too worried about if he likes her romantically. Morgan flirts with him, he flirts back, but not enough to let her know he’s interested.

Moran upset by how dirty the house is and I guess Kaycee told them they were dirty too. She found a lemon in the bathroom:

She seemed to trust Jimmy and Mickey the most since they have the Triple Threat alliance but thats changing. Morgan wants both Katherine and Lauren gone but Jimmy appears to be getting closer to them. She doesn’t like that and doesn”t like Jimmy wants to target someone in their group. She suggested Rylie but Jimmy shot it down.

She’s been working with Zach to make a new alliance that doesn’t include Jimmy. I think it would be the two of them plus Mickey, Rachel, Ava, Will and maybe Vinny. (It doesn’t matter. It will be over as soon as it starts. Probably)

Mickey and Morgan dancing when she told her about the power:

Mickey:

She has the last power that no one knows about, except for Morgan. She shouldn’t have told anyone but if she was going to, Morgan was a good choice.

Mickey farted and they both fell on the floor laughing:

Mickey’s playing a good game so far and like Morgan, she’s becoming skeptical of Jimmy. I think her only real mistake so far may be trusting Will and Ashley too much. (Rachel’s problem too)

Kelley attacking Vinny for no reason:

Kelley:

What can I say about Kelley? Rachel approached her about the two of them secretly working together and it was a pretty awkward conversation. They both agreed but neither meant it. Kelley will still be targeting Rachel. I think Rachel only did it because she got paranoid Kelley’s veto might allow her to change one of the noms, too.

Kelley was upset with Ashley for saying she threw the veto comp. (Who isn’t upset with Ashley tho?) Ashley apologized and that was another awkward conversation. Ashley told her she wasn’t the one saying it. She said she was only repeating what other people were saying.

Kelley told Adrian she may take him off the block if she wins the 2nd veto. Adrian told her not to and said it would be stupid. (I wouldn’t discourage it if I were Adrian) Kelley wants to be the next Tucker. I know this because she says it at least 25 times a day. She thinks her closest allies are Vinny and Keanu. I think she also thinks she’s now working with Jimmy. (You know, Jimmy, the guy who put her on the block. Vinny is also letting everyone know he’s okay if he has to lose Kelley his week. (Great allies!)

If she wins her veto this week, I honestly have no idea what she’ll do with it. She also told Jimmy if she stays and wins hoh, she’d put up Rachel, Amy and Ashley. I believe it’s true because she said the same thing to Vinny.

Adrian:

As the third nom, who is supposed to be a pawn, he may be turning into a target. Rachel, Morgan and Mickey have already started working on how to get him out over both Amy or Will. He’s a nice guy but he’s way too quiet. He talks mostly to Will and Ava about the game. He broke down for a minute after being nominated and was promising his family he wouldn’t let them down.

I know he can’t really campaign yet because he doesn’t know who he’s going to to be against. Still, he’s got to get out there more and socialize with people. I think everyone viewed him as a pawn initially but he’s got to give people a reason to want to keep him.

I don’t know if it’s stress, lack of sleep or hanging out with Kelley too much, but he had some weird ideas last night. He’s talking like maybe he should throw the blockbuster comp to Will so they could both be safe. I guess he thinks he’s got more votes to stay than Will might have. Hopefully, he gets up today thinking more clearly. I do think Adrian would be safe against a bigger target. The problem is, most of the house doesn’t agree on who the big targets are at the moment.

Vinny:

Even with an unsuccessful hoh week, Vinny’s in a good spot. Rachel talks like she doesn’t trust him but that’s about it. Most people confide in him and even Morgan vented to him about Jimmy. (That could come back to bite her)

So far, he’s the only one playing a true floater game and doing it well. He has Keanu and Kelley thinking he’s with them and has the Jimmy and Morgan group thinking the same.

Will:

Will hurt his knee or his leg during the veto comp. He also hurt his game a little bit when he voted against Mickey and Ava to keep Zae. He had told both of them, he was voting to keep Amy but didn’t. Mickey still wants to work with him but doesn’t fully trust him anymore. She and Morgan still agrees they’d keep him over Amy tho. (They seem pretty aligned with Rachel’s thinking in the game but this is where they differ)

He has Adrian and Ava with Mickey and Morgan on the side but thats not enough. I think he still has Zach but otherwise, the burger boys are done. He could be in real trouble this week, if he ends up on the block.

Zach:

Everyone wants to work with Zach! He seems to be the consensus to keep for that 1 big physical threat to use as a shield. Personally, I think he’s the biggest threat in the house to everyones game. He’s working with Adrian, Ava, Vince and Will.

He’s also with Vince, Jimmy and the heavy hitters. He and Morgan also talked about a new alliance with Rachel but still include people like Vinny and Ava. (There’s just too many overlapping alliances!)

No one is talking about targeting Zach. He’s still having his flirt mance with Lauren but Morgan’s keeping him busy too.

Ava:

Similar to Zach, everyone loves Ava. Hell, I even love Ava! I was worried the first week because she didn’t seem to be fitting in quickly. Maybe she was a slow starter because she hangs out with everyone now.

She’s very vocal, she’s not afraid to talk game and she’s very social too. She’s definitely more loyal to her Bond alliance than most of the other people in it, and that’s probably going to hurt her game. For now, she’s doing great and she isn’t on anyone’s radar.

Everything she does is funny, everything she says is funny and everyone agrees it’s funny. She hates both Keanu and Kelley and everyone also thinks that’s funny. With Kelley, it feels like manufactured quirk. Ava is just simply quirky and it works.

Amy:

Amy’s started complaining about Rachel to some of the others. She’s on slop, which probably affects her mood but she’s been whinier than usual. She was justifiably pissed to find out Jimmy wants to put her on the block but it was a mistake to blame Rachel…to Rachel.

She already doesn’t have the best game instincts and spending a lot of time with Ashley is making it worse. I saw a lot of complaining but I never saw any campaigning to jimmy to try to keep herself off the block. It’s ironic that she thinks she’s in this position because of Rachel. So far, she seems content to let Rachel do all the work for her. Let’s face it if she goes up, he’s not a pawn. She almost went home last week.

Ashley:

The only person who reads a room worse than Keanu, is probably Ashley. She insults people all the time and like keanu, I can’t tell if it’s on purpose or by accident. She spreads way too much info and talk shit to way too many people.

Several people already want her back on the block. Morgan and Mickey keep going to bat for her because they trust her. What they don’t know is that Ashley wants to target both of them. If there’s a strategy in there somewhere, I don’t claim to have it figured out yet. Amy and Ashley talked about getting rid of Rachel too.

Katherine:

Katherine was mostly alone last week except for having Lauren. She helped herself by connecting with Jimmy and voting with him. Mickey and Morgan have suggested taking her out but Jimmy keeps shutting it down.

She also has Rylie in love with her now so that’s a little more back up to her game. She’s the most vocal about wanting to target Ashley. Since we didn’t have feeds the first few days, we have no idea what got these two off on the wrong foot.

Lauren:

last week, the Jimmy, Rachel, Mickey group seemed to want to work with Lauren, but not Katherine, except for Jimmy. I don’t think any of those people are actually targeting Lauren, (except for Morgan) but I could see her being used as a pawn. She may have voted with the big group of women last week but she’s not really in with them. Like Adrian and Katherine, she’s way too quiet.

She’s in the Bond alliance with Ava and she really likes her. I just don’t know if a friendship with Ava and Zach crushing on her would be enough to keep her in the house.

Rylie:

He’s the reason Will got on Keanu’s bad side. Keanu believes Will flipped on the guys and voted to keep Amy last week. Will didn’t flip, it was Rylie. The guys still trust him but the women wouldn’t mind him going. They aren’t going after him, they’re just okay with him leaving.

There’s been a bit of talk from a few people about not liking the way he’s playing. It’s dawning on some of them that having someone in your alliance who openly says they don’t want to win anything or have to make any decisions could be a problem. He’s spending most of his time telling Katherine how beautiful she is, and asking if he’s doing too much. That’s about it for Rylie. (Except for Katherine, I don’t think he’s loyal to anyone)

Other things to mention:

As I said above, most everyone is hoping Kelley can’t get the veto so she can go this week. If it’s a comp similar to Leah’s during Jankie week last season, it will be an easy comp to do.

I think Morgan’s talking too much, especially to Vinny, about being sick of Jimmy. I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t get back to Jimmy as soon as today.

Rachel talked to Amy again and said she should be okay if she’s sitting against Kelley or Adrian. She said the biggest concern will be if Amy is sitting beside Will on Thursday.

Rachel and Keanu made up once again after yesterday’s drama but it won’t last.

Jimmy planned a sleepover in the hoh room last night with Katherine and Lauren. I’m sure Morgan wasn’t thrilled about that! Jimmy also talked to them about switching to target to Adrian. (That would sure make it easier for Morgan and Rachel)

Katherine didn’t like the idea and said she was more concerned with Amy. Katherine really wants Ashley on the block, but Jimmy won’t do it. Jimmy also told Katherine and Lauren he doesn”t trust Morgan. (No idea if he means it or not)

They got a bit of alcohol and Ava spilled her wine on Katherine’s white pants. They laughed, and she said she hoped it didn’t get her put on the block this week.

Another family dinner:

So far, this is a very messy cast so yeah for us! Most of them have no loyalty to anyone and I like that. I wonder if Jimmy is going to stay on this power trip after today, when he has no more power.

I know he was telling everyone they were going to block city if they lied to him. Think that’s anywhere near Jenn City from BB14?

This is Ava faking a work out when Keanu came in and she and Zach were talking game:

Is this Adrian watching us?

We’ll get the replacement noms today and have a somewhat better idea of where this week is heading. Have a great Monday!

Mel