Previously on Big Brother
Previously on Big Brother: Natalie has cut a hundred side deals and scared Adam with the spatula wielding crazy eyes. James went home and the hamsters were left hanging in glass boxes in the HOH endurance comp.HOH Comp “Glass Houses” - The Resolution
So that’s where we pick up this week. Ryan, Sheila, Sharon, and Natalie are enclosed in Plexiglas boxes suspended in the air where they are hanging on via a cross bar across the top and by wedging themselves against the sides. Once they get comfy it doesn’t seem too bad, yet Natalie is 100% sure she’s guaranteed to win this challenge. The glass boxes - they are now filling with foul smelling smoke courtesy of Big Brother. Natalie calls this “psycho style.” If anyone would know…Sharon, claiming a back injury, drops after eight minutes.
The chatter from the glass cages is exactly what you’d expect. Natalie crowing about how easy this is and Sheila whining about how badly she needs this win as she’s gone two months without a picture of her son or a letter from home. She needs those things to know why she’s in this game. Looks like I’m not the only one wondering what she’s doing in this game.
Natalie says she doesn’t feel safe, which Sheila finds “interesting.” Sheila is worried that Natalie has gotten wind of the plan to get her out before Sharon. Sheila tells Natalie that she has to try as hard as she can to win it for…wait for it…her son. And Natalie sing-songs that she has to try too. When she gets that particular cadence in her voice it’s so grating that I usually throw something soft at my TV. I went through an entire basket of socks during this episode.
Sheila feels old right about now and notes that she has 15 years on both Natalie and Ryan. Natalie agrees a little too enthusiastically that Sheila sure does have the age that’s for sure. As Sheila takes insult Natalie tries to backtrack that she meant it as a compliment that Sheila is as old as she is and doing so well.
Sheila interviews that this fueled her fire as she’s 45 almost 46. Nice to see she’s already gearing up for the change, as birthday’s can throw you when you feel compelled to state your age every 15 minutes. Like how the first week of the new year people keep writing the old year on their checks.
On the ground Sharon and Adam talk about how Natalie can‘t win this or it will ruin everything. It appears everyone in the house is on board to evict Natalie this week. They head back inside which gives the caged monkeys time to talk deal. Natalie put the topic on the table and asks if Sheila will agree to put up Adam and Sharon should Sheila win HOH. The sub-clause of this deal is that should Sharon save herself with the POV they would agree to evict Adam.
They agree that should Sharon save herself with the POV, Adam is gone. Some thanks he gets for doing all the heavy lifting for his alliance thus far. Ryan trusts Sheila far more than Natalie so he’s willing to drop. Natalie says she will stay up for a while so it doesn’t look as if they cut a deal. Ryan says he won’t mind a Sheila HOH at all, which elicits quite the eye roll from Natalie. At 2 hours and 47 minutes Ryan drops. At 2 hours 47.5 minutes he’s chewing into his microphone.
Sharon, meanwhile is quietly and brilliantly prods Natalie’s conscience. Well, not conscience exactly. Sharon appears to be appealing to Natalie’s sense of Christianity while she’s actually appealing to Natalie’s need to look like a Christian. Excellent work, my fur-rend. Natalie’s response to this is that she and Sheila should suffer up there because Jesus himself suffered.
Oh my. Being crucified as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity and dying an excruciating death purely for the love of your fellow man or being wedged in a glass box over a crash pad in So Cal. on a TV show for half a million dollars of personal gain. Those scenarios are practically indistinguishable.
This absurdity isn’t lost on Sharon who interviews that those two situations aren’t exactly the same and that while Natalie may call herself a Christian she didn’t know what the word “virtue” meant, so take it for what it’s worth.
The fact that Natalie doesn’t know the meaning of the word virtue explains a lot. You can’t lose what you can’t define.
Natalie wonders aloud “What would Jesus do?.” Not to let the rhetorical question go unanswered Sharon decided to speak for Jesus and proclaim that he would let Sheila have the HOH. The hamsters found this as funny as I did, all except for Natalie who finds nothing funny about being called upon to practice what she preaches.
Now Natalie is afraid to drop because it’s far to the mat. The alternative being what? She never drops and lives up there for ever and ever spouting inspirational platitudes she gleaned from bumper stickers and bracelets? Take the cameras away and that could work for me.
The dramatics continue and Natalie is so over the top that Sheila is wondering why it’s taking her so long to drop after cutting the deal.
Natalie is still hanging on her proverbial cross, asking Adam if he’ll be mad at her if she comes down. Adam tells her this is her call, he’s out of this and Sheila tells Natalie to do whatever she feels comfortable doing
Sheila says she can stay up there as long as she has to since she needs to see her son that badly. Natalie continues to vocalize her internal dialogue (because Natalie doesn’t do internal) about how her “good side” wants to drop and give it to Sheila but the “fighter” in her wants to hang in there. Complicating matters “the Christian” in her knows what good things she will do with the money if she wins in the end.
I wish she would pick one of her personalities and put it in charge. Maybe she has one in there called “the mute“ and can elect that one leader of her neural firings. She finally declares herself a giver and drops - because charity is nothing if not self-congratulatory. This gives Sheila her first HOH.
