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Big Brother Canada 1 was a huge success for Slice, the company that broadcasted it. So naturally, they ordered a new season IMMEDIATELY. Bring back the same host, the same format, the same number of houseguests, the same casting agency, but now, make everything MORE EXCITING. BIGGER TWISTS, BIGGER CHOICES,MORE FAN INTERACTION,and make everything LOUDER. You can tell the difference immediately, the people last season were quieter, more reserved, interesting to ponder about, but THIS cast is a party. I couldn’t imagine the season 1 cast going for drinks together, but the season 2 cast would DESTROY a bar and run away into the night, and I know that because there were many parties in that house, and they were wild. This is the cast that people love to see play Big Brother: Noisy, confrontational, messy, dramatic, lively. For all accounts, they did a great job finding a new batch of entertaining players.

The season itself is also much louder, messier, and enthralling-er. This season added many more twists that had to do with “fan interaction”. The audience could do a bunch of things here, from deciding a secret houseguest to be added into the game in Week 2, to giving powers to the players, to bringing new twists into the house by reaching a certain “number” of interactions, to having a week where THEY would decided who to nominate which… uh… we’ll get to. These decisions usually led to a bunch of fights, confrontations, calling outs, big moves, hell, there are even more iconic moments than in season one, there’s a huge power shift that stops an ugly alliance steamroll, all players seeming hungry for the win! This season sounds like it was a blast to watch!... Get ready for the “BUT”

BUT I do have a big problem with this season, and sadly, it’s a problem that I’m not able to shake off easily, because it basically dictated how the game played out, and that is the twist in Week 5. This was the week where Canada was able to nominate the people that they liked the least, and it screwed with the flow of the game. This ultimately ended up not only directly sinking the main alliance, but also messing with the mental state of many players who thought that they were hated by their country. You see many players thanking Canada for “making the first big move of the season” and that didn’t sit well with me, like, YOU should’ve been doing the big move, so when the new alliance takes over and dominates, I don’t feel like they earned it. They got a HUGE helping hand in Canada handpicking who to eliminate. Who knows how the game wouldve played out if Canada never took over, but whatever, expect the unexpected I guess.

But that’s not the only problem I have: I also thought this season was pretty predictable. I mean, in the first half, one alliance dominates uninterrupted, then Canada screws them over, so then another alliance dominates the second half uninterrupted. There are some creative plans inbetween, and there’s a player that has a LOT of fun being devilish playing both sides, but he gets pretty swiftly removed so I didn’t feel like there was much of a match, like, it was obvious who was going to come out on top at the start of the jury.

And now that we’re on that point, a lot of these players just get under my skin. Wether because they had a personality that I found irksome, or because their gameplay decisions were soooo frustrating.These players were fine in small doses, but when they felt on the top, they were too much. I do give some of them credit that they had some interesting strategies that they tried to implement, but the way they went about it was horrible. One for example, had this strategy of becoming the most hated person in the house so other players could drag them along as a goat, which is intriguing in concept, but how do they become hated? Well, they decide to publicly call out the house ladder as RACIST and SEXIST on national television. What the fuck, that shit does NOT fly. Even if I hated the person he was calling out, doing so on national television was uncalled for and just, absolutely vile in general. Those are huge words to be attaching to someone, even if they were a jerk.

There were just too many points where people behaved like assholes this year ! Especially in the beginning where the First Five were in control. The way Heather was treated in the beginning, jesus. Everyone calling Ika a bitch when she shredded the letters.. Sabrina looking down on almost every other girl. There’s someone who I was rooting for, and then suddenly they win the HoH and just become a huge asshole out of nowhere in the name of strategy! (though it did give us the best moment of this season.) And if we’re talking about assholes, there’s a giant one here. Not that kind.

Andrew has to be one of my least favorite Big Brother Canada players ever, the way he behaved in the house and how he talked to the people he wasn’t aligned with was infuriating. I know that it’s inevitable for people to behave like jerks sometimes in the house, but this guy never relented. His reign of terror made the first half of this season feel like a chore with no end in sight. He does have some moments when you think “Okay maybe it’s just the editing showing the worst of him, maybe he’s not as bad”, but then he leaves a goodbye message to another girl saying shit like “I’m sad that your family doesn’t get the chance to evict you from their life” and it’s like Who the fuck says that to a person?. He was a big part of why I WASN’T having fun with this season in the first half.

There’s also an infamously dumb move that could’ve shaken up the game HARD, but the players in power stupidly decide to play it safe and it robbed the endgame of the spice that it needed to be enthralling all the way through.A nd that leads me to talk about the winner, who I found…. Just fine. I just, there’s a type of player that I always know it’s the most likely to be the winner, and I become bored when they do end up winning in the end. I think it’s a boring outcome for as messy a season as this was, and the player themself is kind of bland and uninteresting on their own, and kind of annoying in the Diary Room but whatever, it’s inoffensive. There were just so many other fun options this season that it ended up feeling underwhelming.

Okay, oof, that’s so many complaints, you’d think that I hated this season, but that’s not true. As I said earlier, this second try DOES have more notably iconic moments: Poppin’ Paul, the shredding of the letters, the drunk mission, the wild parties, the fights, oh god all the fights, Sabrina’s meltdowns, WAKE UP CANADA!, just, Arlie in general.I had a lot of fun with him. I would say the Final 3 eviction is a shocking moment too ,but honestly I never thought of it as something I didn’t expect. I could see it coming, maybe if I had watched the live feeds I would’ve been more flabbergasted, but it didn’t hit me that hard. And I could say the same about the big friendship-showmance-flirting kind of thing that ends up running this season. I thought they were cute together, definitely saw them as more of a cute sister-brother relationship kind of thing but I really did love their chemistry, I just think I would’ve definitely loved it more had I witnessed it live.

Among all the assholery, there’s also a couple of players that are very likable and some truly heartwarming friendships that form this season, some that have lasted all the way to today! This is also the debut season of Neda, who becomes an icon of the game and it’s fun to see her strategy on full display this season… even if took the help of Canada to see her rise. Plus, something that this season has over the first is that it is funnier, again, messier players, funnier meltdowns. Sabrina is like 90% of the comedy here, oh she’s so annoying, sure, but it becomes hilarious just how much she breaks down over every little thing, and blames it all on being Italian. I love Sabrina and Iw love her character arc this season of being the initial puppet master in the beginning but then, her empire crumbles so hard that she devolves into being a crybaby making desperate shady deals to keep herself in the game and becoming a joke. She cracks me up, so that keeps things entertaining.

Looking back at it, I think I do prefer the more subtle, intricate feeling of the first season, but I totally get why so many people prefer this second iteration. It’s louder, it’s messier, it’s more in your face, more fights, more drama, more parties, it’s everything that people want out of Big Brother. I just can’t get over how Canada decided how the game played out, the predictable, underwhelming outcome, and a lot of these people getting on my nerves. But it is most definitely a pretty fun ride the whole way through.

But if I had problems with the twists in this season, boy, I can’t imagine what Big Brother Canada 3 is gonna do to me. See you in the next video.