Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for episode eighteen of Big Brother 19 after the jump! Everything down below are my personal opinions. I am in no way affiliated with any corporation, especially CBS and Big Brother. Thank you to CBS for the images.
Pre-VETO CEREMONY
My home girl Jessica goes storming through the house in sunglasses she doesn't clearly need because she's inside.. When she gets down stairs she asks Matt to talk with her, asking him what he said to him. You can see a bit of air puff out of the side of his ears. Matt has to be the biggest moron if he actually thought that telling Jessica he didn't "really want to get there" was going to yield a positive result. That's basically saying, without saying, that Jessica is right and Cody did say something alarming about her. The fact that he didn't want her to know what they were talking about made it look every suspicious. Jessica is very calm, wanting to skip over the bull crap and tells him to tell her something or stop wasting her time (in much kinder terms). He doesn't tell her and she rolls down the river to confront Cody. Without flinching (well, he honestly just seems to have a tick when he's talking so he kind of did flinch), he debunks the rumor and swears he never had a conversation about keeping an alliance with Jason and Alex for the sole purpose of having them be the ones to take out Raven and Jessica. I don't know if Cody left those memories behind in the drying machine too long so they shrunk and disappeared or if he's just trying to pretend it never happened but he's just making a bad situation worse in the long run. It was a smart game move but I can see why Jessica is so hung up on it, considering she was just riding along thinking he wanted her to get to the end with her. In Cody's defense, he's offered to throw himself on a grenade for her.(in Jessica's face and the diary room). He's loyal now. Very loyal. Annoyingly loyal.
VETO CEREMONY
Paul tells everyone else in the house about Jessica's demands if she doesn't use the hex this week. Her first request is to stay off the block for two extra weeks and if the next HoH targets Alex to get her out of the house. He tells Jason, Kevin, Josh, Alex, Christian, Raven and Matt (confirming that he's going to double cross Jessica) the entire story. H tells Mark and Elena but leaves the part out that they're on Alex's side because they're targets after Jody. Mark is so desperate to get back with Elena that he agrees to the plan. Jessica's pimp, Paul, waits for her in the shadows and tells her that he can make all of her dreams come true. She takes the sunglasses off (because she's inside) and jumps in bed with Cody. Cody Cloud is going through it. He's all up in his feelings, curled up in bed because he doesn't feel like she completely trusts him. She still has no idea whether or not she's taking Paul's deal. Paul orchestrates a meeting with Jessica, full of people he's already told about the plan, recites it out loud (making her believe he's telling them for the first time. When she leaves, they're all in awe that she fell for it. Paul isn't sure whether or not to use the veto on Jason or on Jessica. He wants to use it on Jason but if he uses it on Jessica she might be a little more inclined to keep their deal. When he offers them the chance to plead their case with him, Jason recites a monologue written by Paul stating that he will be one more vote against the real target in the house: Cody. Jessica begs for world peace and Cody says no comment. Not thinking they're taking him seriously, or that they're just trying to imply that she's not taking the deal, he uses the power on Jason.
Post-VETO CEREMONY
Raven, Kevin and Jason are placing bets on whether or not Jessica will use her hex. Jason she's Jessica and make a signal with his hands for them to stop speaking, which Jessica sees. Raven tries to run damage control in her mind quickly and starts tugging at Jason's veto necklace. Jessica takes Raven away and confronts her about what was going on. Raven claims that they weren't talking about her (lie) but Jessica is absolutely ticked off. She's not sure what's going on but she knows the Kool-Aid isn't tasting as sweet as it should. Later when Raven asks to speak to Jody, Jessica angrily stares at her for a solid ten seconds before silently agreeing to go off and talk to her. She pretends they weren't having the conversation about the hex and spins weighing Jason's veto necklace into the topic that they were discussion when Jessica "didn't walk into anything". Cody's eyes start to sparkle and he asks her why she's against him. Raven says she loves him but she has to be against him or there's a target on her back and Jessica rolls her eyes and walks to the other side of the room (it's a small room). Cody tells her she should be playing her own game, Jessica tries to stop him from even asking her questions because she thinks everything she's saying is a lie and asks Raven to leave the room. I don't know what's more annoying: knowing that Raven is lying or just how terribly she's lying. Jessica accurately predicts that Raven was going to go back and tell Paul and that Paul was going to kick it up a notch.
"Game on, bitches. -A"
Jessica needs to reclaim her time. Jessica NEEDS to RECLAIM her TIME. Why? When someone repeats a question back to you, without answering the question, you know that person is lying or that you've back them into a corner. Jessica tells him that he's playing a psychological game on people, he asks her to definite psychological game, she defines it and the craziest thing is that he doesn't even deny it. Jessica not following Paul's army makes he like her so much better. Anyone who will step aside to call Paul out on his ridiculously manipulative game gets a good review in my books. The contestants actually act like they're playing the game and not playing a game of follow the leader get good review in my books. Short term that's a much easier game to play but there will come a time when the leader will turn on one of them. Paul tells America's Best Stank Crew that she's going to use the hex. He calls Cody a "bully" and a "coward who can't speak for them self," but should I even waste my time trying to explain what a contradiction that is? He's calling someone else a coward who can't speak for them self to a bunch of headless chickens who can't speak for them self or make a big game move. The rest of what happens that day is Paul being a bully by putting his pet Tasmanian devil to work with his pots and pans. Alex asks Jessica why she wanted to target her, responding that it was because she put her up on the block. Alex quickly says fuck that and starts yelling and shouting at her for stealing her cat ears. How on God's green earth does Alex have the audacity to call Jessica "petty" in the confessional when she is on national TV fighting with another grown as woman about something she can get on the Ariana Grande shop as soon as she leaves the house. Alex says that Jessica lied and told her that Raven stole her cat ears. Raven gets involved and starts SCREAMING at Jessica about how she "DIDN'T WANT [HER] OUT OF THE HOUSE UNTIL [SHE] THREW [HER] UNDER THE BUS, BIIIIIITCH!" Everyone keeps yelling, they send Josh out with pots and pans, Christmas rides her scooter out to the drama, the leather on Kevin's body looks like it's getting ready to expire, Josh and Paul jump around the backyard dancing while Josh yell/hums his theme song. Girl, it was a hot monkey MESS.
EVICTION CEREMONY
Was there any question Jessica was going to us the hex? Julie kept alluding to the hex, the nomination ceremony wasn't going to start until damn near 9:45 and Jessica was wearing Cody's hat in the diary room so it was clear they ended up making up. I kind of didn't want her to use it only to see how the producers would have scrambled to end the live show in a timely manor. Jessica finally uses the hex and eviction night is murdered by a man who escaped from a Vincent Price tribute band who swore he was in a recreation of Thriller. Julie tells her the power is gone and can't be used again.
HoH COMPETITION
The HoH competition isn't based on skill, it's based on luck this week. Each person hits a golf ball (with a zombie leg) into a slot. Each slot is numbered. Whichever house guest hits their ball in the highest numbered slot wins HoH. Josh wins and I don't know if I can stomach through the week with Josh as Hoh. I'm not giving Josh the good dragging he's been asking for because...I think he just can't help himself. He needs some sort of help or support that he's obviously not going to get while he's still in the house
EPISODE GRADE A-
Stray notes:
-"Why is your face twitching?"
-Jason calls Paul a stud muffin for pulling him off the block.
-"You like assholes so much because you talk out of yours." Yikes, that was actually a good one.
"WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, MOTHERFUCKING WOLF."
-Matt: "This is embarrassing everyone. This isn't what my game is based on." Your game is based on an orange tank top, though?
-"Christmas, I need you to go ahead and take your shot please."
-"Houseguests, we're on live TV. I need you to be speedy."
