The POV Challenge - Evel Dick or the Beebees?
Heading into the POV everyone but Natalie is on board for a win by…anyone but Natalie. Natalie will be happy with anyone but Sharon winning, as that’s her worst nightmare. Because she’s totally safe otherwise. She’s so the girl in the horror movie who says, “What could possibly go wrong?” right before the axe murderer gets her.On to the Veto Comp. The hamsters are sent to their separate quarters until called to the back yard. Once called, they will be assembling a puzzle on a large panel made up of nine different TV screens operated by nine different remote controls. On the screens are pieces of two different puzzles, but only one puzzle has all the pieces needed for completion.
One puzzle has all of the current season’s House Guests heads on Evel Dick’s body and the other is the guinea pigs coiffed in the House Guests hair styles. A choice between Evel Dick and the guineas? How is that even a contest? Guineas for the win, please. Natalie is up first and chooses to try the Evel Dick puzzle before she realizes it’s incomplete and then opts for the guineas.
Adam goes next, worried about how well Natalie did because she’s great at puzzles. Sharon and Sheila share this sentiment because apparently is some kind of puzzle genius. They know this because Natalie told them so. They don’t have puzzles in the house, so they are taking her word for it which is understandable because Natalie is nothing if not a truth screamer. If she says she’s awesome at puzzles it’s so, just like when she says she’s an NFL cheerleader it’s so, and when she says she only kissed Matt’s chest under those infamous covers it’s so.
Back to Adam. He takes the time to line up the remotes - or organizing his workspace as he says. He sounds like he’s been to one too many meetings led by human resources. Next up are Ryan, Sheila, and Sharon…Sheila struggling the most. Hey, at least we know Sheila isn’t throwing challenges, she really is that inept at everything all the time.
Sheila calls everyone to the backyard to reveal the scores. Ryan came in at 6+ minutes, Sheila at 15:30, Adam 3:20, Natalie the Puzzle Savant at 12:09, and Sharon finished at 4:56. Adam wins the POV much to his relief.
The POV Meeting
Adam does save himself in the POV meeting and Sheila gives Natalie her rightful seat on the block next to Sharon. Ryan notes that he and Adam are in control of the house. Well, no. They are in control of the vote, Big Brother is in control of the house. Ryan is in control of becoming exponentially less appealing by the second and at that he’s done an excellent job.The Inquisition of Natalie
Natalie comes in and whispers to Adam and Ryan in baby talk. She’s begging them to keep her, calling them “my boys,” and generally causing most of the viewing audience to throw up a little bit in their mouths. She tries to get them to confirm a final three with her and asks, “Have I ever lied to you?” Despite Adam’s unconvincing no (which is where a man will agree to anything to get a chick to shut-up. Yes, I’ve benefited from this device myself.) and their non-committal responses she still thinks she’s safe.When she leaves Ryan tells Adam that she’s still playing all sides (Ryan - pot meet kettle) and they don’t know who to believe. Since the guys control the votes at this point they decide to find out what’s true and what isn’t.
Unfortunately their inquisition will take the form of a house meeting complete with Bible verses, and not the water boarding I would have preferred to see.
Adam wants to know why Natalie’s nervous and she sing-songs that she doesn’t know. He tells her they will be having a house meeting to get everything out into the open. She doesn’t like this one little bit, as you can see she’s trying to maintain composure but her eyes are shaking back and forth in their sockets like she’s watching a ping-pong match between Dwight Schrute and Darryl. (Tell me you guys also watch The Office or that reference didn’t land at all.)
Natalie tells Sheila about the house meeting and Sheila isn’t happy about this, know that! Sheila is upset because the plan was to let Natalie think she was safe so they didn’t have to listen to exactly this kind of thing. The boys wanting to have a meeting makes Sheila nervous.
Natalie pouts that she should have stuck with the Girl Power alliance. So, the loyalty she was so adamantly declaring to the boys may be less than sincere? Shocking.
Adam and Ryan comes to the table, Bible in hand, and call the meeting. Sharon mocks the use of scripture, which…yeah. Natalie refuses to play, because she’s dying her hair and she’s already mixed the product so she needs to follow through. But the boys are not to be deterred by cosmetic timelines and so they bring the meeting to her. Natalie now not only gets to be confronted with her lies, but confronted while her hair is slathered in coloring. That was a little present just for me, wasn’t it?
Ryan says this meeting will be good for her as she can defend herself. When someone says something is for your own good it never is, and this time is no exception.
Adam opens with a Bible verse about the dangers of lying which I am sure whooshed right over her multi-colored head. Ryan does most of the talking after that, calling her out on her dual alliances. One with the guys, and one with the girls. He demands to know where her true loyalty lies. She stupidly says it’s with the boys, to which Sheila takes great umbrage. Sheila nails her down about that meaning that she will target Sheila next week. Natalie admits this is the case. She has (allegedly) always been loyal to “her boys” and would be to the end. That sound you hear is the door to Sheila’s barely existent heart slamming shut where Natalie is concerned.
