Live Feed Recaps, Week 8 - HOH: Turner

[Sophy]

10:30PM HT (Sat)

Michael won POV last night. It was the slip and slid one. He also won a movie. Still catching up from overnight feeds, but he and Britt plan to "out" Kyle today for his "all white alliance" idea thinking that will somehow get Turner to put him up. Huh. Anyway, I think Britt already told Alyssa about it yesterday (Michael does not know that). If he finds out, he may save Taylor from the block instead?) ... Today should be interesting to say the least.

Edited August 28, 2022 by Sophy

[Sophy]

9:30am HT

Michael just woke up Monte - wants to get Taylor, Monte, Britt, and Michael to talk in Have Naughty room before the others wake up. Terrance is the only other one up (on the bike).

$10 bucks Skippy doesn't let us hear this talk and puts 4 cams on Terrance (which they did a few minutes ago when Michael and Britt were talking in SR).

Okay that was fast - I win - so far just Michael and Britt in HN and they've cut away to Terrance both times as they whisper about how they need to explain why they didn't tell them about Kyle last week.

Taylor has joined HN room, Monte changing batteries and on his way. 4 cams on Terrance. Monte taking his sweet time going upstairs (he's still half asleep). No cams on HN room with the other 3.

Edited August 29, 2022 by Sophy

[Sophy]

9:40AM HT

Monte finally in HN room with the others - but I lose the bet because it's 4 cams on sleeping Turner in HOH (and not on Terrance) and not ONE SINGLE CAMERA on the actual game talk going on in the HN room. What the actual fuck?!!

Edited August 28, 2022 by Sophy

[Sophy]

10:35AM HT

Now 4 cams on Kyle changing his batteries (after a few "wakey wakey houseguests" from BB. Still no cams on the 4 talking game. Before this we had about an hour of sleeping/snoring Turner. Now Terrance ratting to Kyle that Monte is upstairs with the other 3 and they think Monte needs to go up as replacement nom (don't trust his allegiance to the After Party) just to be safe. This was such a poor game strategy for Michael to do this now - how could they not expect to get caught.

Now Kyle in bed with Alyssa apologizing for last night. 

ETA: They think the 4 are up there with Turner.

CBS hates us.

Edited August 28, 2022 by Sophy

[CycleRob]

3:15 PM HT

All four feeds are on WBRB.

CycleRob missed a lot of this on the feeds, but sounds like the Kyle/white alliance thing has spread through the house like wildfire. First Michael and Brittany told Taylor and Monte about it in the Have Naughty room (thanks, Sophy!). Then they told Alyssa about it. Kyle started nervousing and went up to the HOH to talk to Turner. After Michael/Brittany had filled Alyssa in, she scurried up to HOH, but when Kyle asked her what Michael/Brittany wanted, she just said they were "sharing information" and would talk to Turner.

Eventually, Michael/Brittany talked to Turner alone up in the HOH and filled him in. Kyle reached nervousing overload. Finally, Alyssa filled Kyle in on what Michael/Brittany said. Kyle angst-ed that he was being perceived as a racist and even mentioned the SE word--self-eviction. Finally, he went to the DR on the verge of tears. Somewhere along the way, Monte filled Terrance in on it all, too.

WBRB continues.

Edited August 28, 2022 by CycleRob

[CycleRob]

4:45 PM HT

For the past hour, the feeds have been going on and off. When we get brief return of feeds, it's been mostly Monte and Terrance in the kitchen doing chitchat, with an occasional additional hammie passing through--Michael, Alyssa.

Sounds like Turner is considering tossing Kyle up on the block when Michael uses veto tomorrow. Which is almost too good to be true, so CR won't get his hopes up.

[CycleRob]

6:30 PM HT

Just so HT knows, the feeds are still down and have been for nearly two hours. 

[Sophy]

7:45pm HT

Feeds came back about 20 minutes ago.

Taylor, Turner, Michael, and Alyssa all got to watch a movie (why the feeds were down) - a prize Michael won for winning POV.

They came downstairs just in time for dinner (made by Monte I think) - and Kyle made a brief appearance walking through the kitchen wrapped in a blanket, looking for Michael, so he did not DOR (yet).

BY opened up as they finished eating and Alyssa, Taylor, and Britt all went to the hammock. "This day," says Britt. "You did a lot of hard work," say Taylor.

Skippy says FU that's enough live feeds for you! WBRB.

ETA: Perfect description of nervousing by Kyle earlier by CycleRob. I rewatched the scene of him trying to get in the DR a few times over.

Edited August 29, 2022 by Sophy

[CycleRob]

4:50 AM HT

While hammies slumber, a quick update on what happened late last night when the feeds finally returned.

Well, not all that much happened! Most of the hammies were outside enjoying the BY, except for Kyle, who stayed inside and stewed in his shame and avoided the happy-go-lucky crowd. Even his Lady Fair is no balm for him now! The BB karma has snapped back at him with a vengeance. 

Turner confirmed with Monte that he's putting up Kyle as the replacement nominee, and the house seems united (at the moment) to boot Kyle. Turner also told Kyle that he would be the replacement nomination. Apparently, at some point during the numerous times the feeds were down, the After Party alliance got exposed. Turner speculated with Monte about Terrance and Alyssa going next and a F5 of Turner/Monte/Michael/Brittany/Taylor. So an all-Leftover F5? Will Michael go for that when he knows Turner tried to backdoor him this week?

This is another week where Taylor became the target (after Michael won veto) and then fate intervened and offered a reprieve. Taylor Karma is real! 

[CycleRob]

10:35 AM HT

The feeds are up, which means nothing much of interest is happening. Whenever something good is going on, the feeds shut down.

Terrance, Alyssa, and Michael lounge outside on the Couches of Skank or whatever it is we used to call them. Monte is working out and Kyle is working out, but they are not working out together, even though they're near each other.

A chopper overhead. Monte cracks a couple of unfunny jokes about them.

"Oooo, a dog!" exclaims Alyssa.

Where, where? CR strains his eyes. Has a random dog wandered onto the BB set? But no, CR guesses that Alyssa heard a dog barking somewhere.

Taylor lounging, sans Lays, in the hammock.

Alyssa chats prettily with Michael and Terrance, as if her man isn't Dead Beau Walking. Kyle is sitting off alone in serious defeated posture, head bowed, awaiting the next crack of the karmic whip. How quickly the BB kingdoms crumble! 

When Alyssa isn't chatting with Terrance and Michael, she stares off with a touch of melancholy and regret. She strains to pay attention to Terrance's detailed instructions about how he makes mashed potatoes.

Edited August 29, 2022 by CycleRob

[CycleRob]

11:10 AM HT

Kyle and Taylor in the bathroom. Taylor chats amicably with him. Then she works on her lashes and brows while Kyle brushes his teeth white.

Now Kyle is telling a story about how he had to learn a cheer at one point and botched it miserably. Taylor laughs, perhaps trying to help cheer up the gloomy lug. Now Kyle is lathering up for a shave, though his face already looks pretty hairless to CR.

Cut to the BY couches. Alyssa sharing a story to Terrance and Monte about how she was a drama queen when she was little and fell off her bike. Now she shares that her knees are all scarred up from when she'd fall as a child, a most unwieldy child, apparently, and even as a flight attendant, she was a clumsy beauty, and would trip all the time. "One time I spilled red wine all over someone's iPad!" she confides. The guy was a wealthy businessman and Alyssa was deeply humiliated and traumatized. Her trainer has worked with her on ways to improve her balance.

Taylor strolls out regally to the BY with perfect balance and posture to join them. 

Kitties.

Edited August 29, 2022 by CycleRob

[Sophy]

12:30pm HT

Veto used - Kyle on the block with Taylor, Michael took Britt down.

Now Terrence is of course trying to convince Monte to keep Kyle this week and evict Taylor, so he can "learn" more from them and "do better" in the future. Hates for him to go out and not have a chance to "redeem" himself in the house before he has to go out and face the world. Monte is gently rejecting this idea, reminding Terrance that Kyle won't be going to jail, he'll be going to the jury house. And if they let him off the hook and keep him, he won't learn about facing the consequences of his actions. (This is me paraphrasing a very stupid convo - figures after all of this that of course Terrance wants to get rid of Taylor.)

Monte points out they have until Thursday to help Kyle, and for him to rally and change his perspective before he leaves the house. They can all be kind to him between now and then - and help him learn. Apparently during the house meeting we all missed, Kyle admitted his statements were rooted in race, and has been talking to the BB therapist, so they see some growth already from Kyle. BB keeps cutting away to Kyle and Alyssa whenever race specifically comes up for some idiotic reason. Oh wait - it looks like they are cutting away when they mention therapy. My bad. Whatever the case I'd rather have WBRB than Alyssa and Kyle being smoochy and whiney and gross.

Edited August 29, 2022 by Sophy

[CycleRob]

4:50 PM HT

Kyle seems to be going on an apology tour around the house. Earlier he had a conversation with Taylor where he got quite weepy, and now he and Monte are talking and crying and wiping away their manly tears with bandanas and towels. Kyle is deeply remorseful and apologizes for what he said to Monte in the Have Naughty room, and he offers to let Monte punch him because "it will make me feel something other than what I'm feeling." Monte is a better man than CycleRob because he declines the offer.

Monte now sharing his background and talking about his experience with race in America. He also talks about his friendship with Joseph and how he, Monte, was hurt by Kyle wanting to form an alliance that excluded people based on race. He tells Kyle that he doesn't hate him or even dislike him, he just didn't like his thought process about the Cookout 2.0 fears. Monte says that he "loves" Kyle as a person/human because he's solid and fun to be around and has relationships with everyone in the house, and these were all formed because of who Kyle is. It had nothing to do with skin color. Monte also mentions that he forgives Kyle for what he said in the Have Naughty room. (CR wishes he knew what Kyle said.) Monte is being very kind and genuine with Kyle.

While Monte talks, Kyles fluctuates between acute listening and bowing his head in pariah shame. 

All in all, Kyle's apology tour is becoming like a Very Special Episode of Big Brother, or like an afterschool special focused on how to heal racial divisions.

Edited August 31, 2022 by CycleRob

[CycleRob]

8:00 PM HT

What? No one is recapping Kyle's final night in the house? Okay, CR will step up to the plate.

Alyssa just went upstairs to the sofa outside the HOH to cuddle with her Dead Beau Walking. Except he's not exactly her beau anymore, since she supposedly broke up with him yesterday. But then after they broke up, they still did the unmentionable, apparently, perhaps as a "one more for the road" sort of thing?

Now the doomed and spent lovers cuddle and giggle. They clasp each other in their arms, on the brink of romantic oblivion. "You're out of breath," Kyle informs her.

More clasping. More sighing. They breathe together as one cringe-y entity. "Yeah, that sounded like fun," Kyle grunts, seemingly referring to something Alyssa was playing downstairs with Michael and Turner. 

"You missed out," Alyssa observes and then swings her hair back from her face to accommodate her ex-man in case he swoops in for any last night schmoopycakes. 

Finally, it's time for the ex-lovers to dig deep and reflect upon their experience together in this simulated environment that is BB. Kyle will start first. "How much gray is in my hair?" he queries.

Alyssa mumbles something that sounds maybe like "kind of." She holds his face and neck in her hands in a way that looks like she's half ready to kiss him and half ready to choke him. "Wake up!" she insists to a groggy Kyle. 

"I'm an old man," he wisecracks to his Ex-Lady Fair. 

Now they're hiding behind their yellow bankie so they can (maybe) do some schmoopy away from CR's intrusive gaze. Behind the bankie, Kyle is talking about feeling frustrated and tired and Alyssa is so far away, even though she's right there under the bankie with him. "I wish we could have done our grilled cheese competition," Kyle sweet-talks Alyssa from behind the yellow bankie.

This is CR's life, recapping this crud before bed on the east coast. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by CycleRob

[CycleRob]

8:20-ish PM HT

Let's leap a few minutes ahead and eavesdrop again on the ex-lovers, shall we? It's either that or trying to recap Monte snoozing in one of the bedrooms. 

Kyle and Alyssa are now talking about jobs. Kyle says he might be okay (CR assumes he means financially) when he leaves the BB house because he's frugal and had a very high-paying job for four years.

"What does frugal mean?" questions our rather dim beauty. "It means when you don't spend a lot of money," Kyle explains, perhaps feeling rather professorial at this moment. Kyle says he only spends about $500 a month, which CR guesses is doable when you still live with mommy in Utah. But try living here in NYC on $500 a month, bitch! 

Alyssa confesses she spends more than that a month. Kyle projects that once he's banished from the house, he will continue to do Tik-Tok videos for all of his tween followers (okay, maybe Kyle didn't say the part about tween followers). "What about you?" Kyle asks expansively. "What are your big plans?"

Alyssa ponders. The world yawns before her, ripe with possibility. "I want to be alone for awhile," she decides.

"Yeah," Kyle says, deflated. 

She clarifies that she might only want to be alone for a few days. "I might want to get my own apartment in Tampa," she hints to her mommy-bound ex-love, but all he says is, "Really?" An apartment of one's own? This seems beyond Kyle's frugal imagination. "Who would you live with?" Kyle asks.

"Myself," asserts Alyssa, feeling all Mary Tyler Moore. She might just make it after all, except in Tampa.

"Do you have friends in Tampa?" questions Kyle, completely missing Alyssa's independent/modern girl theme. Alyssa says she doesn't, but she knows people in Orlando so it wouldn't be that long of a drive. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by CycleRob