Barrett makes a very quick exit — nearly as fast as Michael Bruner’s a few seasons ago — and has a level-headed interview with Julie Chen Moonves: He has no regrets, he’d nominate the three icons in every lifetime, yadda yadda yadda. Then, the real fun begins as the houseguests learn of the double eviction and head out to the backyard… where Melody wins Head of Household?! Was she saving up all this moxie for the end?
Yep, after weeks of telling herself and others to “lock in” for these competitions, Melody seems to do just that, and she correctly answers the highest number of true-or-false questions about short video clips that are shown to the houseguests. And though it seems like Melody might be wavering on her plan to nominate the icons if she ever got power — I can’t be the only one worried by all that strategizing she’s doing in the bathroom after winning, right? — she ultimately stays the course and puts Devens and Dee on the block.
Up next, it’s the Power of Veto competition, which requires players to piece together a Great Wall of China puzzle, roll a ball down their completed puzzle and into a chute at the end of the lane, and hit their buzzer. And though it seems at first like everyone is moving respectably fast through their puzzles, an aerial shot reveals to us that Devens is actually way ahead of everyone else — and just seconds later, he finishes his puzzle, rolls his ball, and hits his buzzer, becoming the Power of Veto winner (and, of course, removing himself from the block).
This is where it gets dicey. If Melody truly wants Dee to leave the house — as she’s said she does, for many weeks now — she needs to make her bestie Drew the replacement nominee. If either Taylor or Yash goes up against Dee, Dee will likely stay: Devens will of course vote to keep his “Survivor” ride-or-die, and Drew’s fairly unwavering loyalty to the icons will probably come through once again for Dee. Now, Taylor realizes this, and she’s practically begging Melody to make Drew the replacement nominee so that Yash and Taylor can vote to send Dee packing — but Melody, frustratingly, says she won’t nominate Drew and needs to nominate Yash.
To Taylor’s credit, she tries to persuade Melody to nominate Drew up until the moment the veto meeting starts, but it’s for naught. Melody nominates Yash. There’s a commercial break, and when the show returns, it looks like Melody and Drew are having a one-on-one chat, and maybe she’s convincing him to vote out Dee. But when it comes time to vote, Drew is the tiebreaker, and after a long pause… he votes to evict Yash. (“I just can’t beat you, bro,” Drew tells Yash on his way out the door. “You’re just too good.”)
On Sunday’s episode, we’ll get to see the conversations that were going down during this episode’s commercial breaks, and presumably we’ll get Melody’s reasoning for putting longtime target Dee in a position to stay in the house. In the meantime, though, Taylor steals away to her bedroom and cries — pretty understandably — that her fellow players are “so f**king stupid.” (Whoops! CBS’ censors didn’t quite catch that one.)
And then there were five! Who are you rooting for in this final stretch, “Big Brother” fans? Hit the comments with all of your thoughts on the double eviction!