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After 82 days in the Big Brother house, there was a lot of business that needed to be handled in two hours of television. We started the night with three houseguests remaining but by the end of the night, we would be left with just one standing tall and claiming the $750,000 prize. It all came down to Monte, the personal trainer with a mechanical engineering background, Taylor, the pageant queen and personal stylist, or Turner, the rug maker and thrift store owner. A full season of play came down to one night. Here are my thoughts on the final night of Big Brother 24. The 3-Part HOH Competition and Final Eviction The tried and true three-part competition for the final HOH of the summer featured the same competitions we've come to expect from Big Brother. They opened with an endurance competition that saw the Final 3 holding onto a rotating and bucking hot dog for as long as they could. This competition was designed to benefit someone with good upper-body strength and a strong grip ...

We started the week by knowing we had one person in the Final 3 already and it would be a very slow burn with just four people in the house. We'd get a little bit of drama between the lovebirds, but it was otherwise a week-long wait to get to Eviction Night on Thursday. We did get some exciting guests in the studio for Thursday night as the Cookout returned to talk about the season and who they want to win. Though we knew around Sunday or Monday who was going to be evicted, it was still cool to see a little bit of fight left in the competitors.  Mon-Tay is Dead? The only real drama we had inside the house this week centered around Monte and Taylor. After starting a late-season romance last week during Monte's reign, it carried into this week when Taylor took power. They spent a lot of time together in the HOH room, but constant contact can lead to tension from the smallest things. The greatest source of this tension seemed to come from an incident in the HOH room when Taylor to...

After the absolutely shocking double eviction that sent Michael home last week, it was time for a slight reset in the game. The race for the top prize seemed to open up for the five remaining houseguests. The week was filled with late-night sleepovers, new romance, and a houseguest seemingly spiraling out of control. It wasn't the most exciting week in the house, but how could it be after the stressful evictions last week. We're in the endgame now and it was time for some moves to be made. While it didn't end with the most surprising eviction, the journey to it was very fun.  A House Without Michael Had Michael stayed past the Double Eviction, they probably would've just cut the $750k check for him right then and there. He was on his way to breaking the all-time single-season competitions record with at least two more cracks at it this week. Instead, Turner and Monte, though mostly the latter, took the opportunity to send him packing from the game in sixth place and cre...

The anticipation was already running wild in the Big Brother community for a classic Double Eviction episode and it delivered on all fronts. While the houseguest might not have known what was going on, everyone outside of the hoes did and we knew it was going to get spicy. Before we could get to the jamp-packed second hour of Eviction Night, we had an entire week to stew on the first person that would be evicted. We saw the returns of some popular staples in the Big Brother game and it made for some great conversation. There is a lot to unpack about this week, especially how it ended. This one might be a week for the books.  Zingbot and BB Comics Return The anticipation for Zingbot is talked about from the onset of the game. Everyone wants to be in the hoes when he arrives as he roasts the houseguests with his patented "zings". In classic Big Brother fashion, we as the audience knew he was coming, but the excitement on the houseguests' faces when Julie announced he be dro...

If we've learned anything from this season it's that there is never a dull moment. Even when you think things are going smoothly, it takes one second to change the entire trajectory of the week. This might go down as one of the most talked about weeks in the show's long history and not for the best reasons. There is a lot to unpack about one specific situation and I'll be talking a lot about it. I know that it has been talked about a lot already, but I felt this was as good a time as any to share my thoughts. This was certainly a crazy week and I'm not quite sure where we go from here.  On the Verge of History Before I talk about the serious stuff, I want to talk about something that I've touched on a little bit in previous weeks. Michael had been slipping a little bit when it came to veto wins after winning four of the first five this season. He hadn't won in the last two weeks and with his back against the wall, he decided now was as good a time as any to ...