Big Brother Season 27 (2025) / Survivor Season 49 (2025) / The Amazing Race Season 38 (2025)

[Timewalker]

Apologies for not getting this thread up on time. I misread the start dates.

The first two BB episodes have been shown already.

The discussion so far:

I've heard Survivor Australia is worth seeing but I'm not sure where I can watch it besides Youtube maybe.

Not sure how I feel about the Big Brother cast yet. There's nobody I dislike but something just kinda feels off so far. Everyone has podcaster energy, like they're all salesmen of themselves. We'll see how it develops.

I don't get the point of the accomplice twist since it was over in episode two and didn't amount to anything. No ongoing sabotage. What was the point?

Sorry, I have no idea how to watch anything from Australia. Agreed that the accomplice thing was pointless unless they can salvage it some other way. The women seemed to have better thinking skills on this, but why didn't they speak up if they thought it was a woman? It's not like their votes weren't secret.


Normally I would have checked out the cast to see if I get any impressions. There wasn't time, so my impressions from the episodes will have to do:

Honestly, not very many give good impressions right off the bat, and I'll admit some are for what people might consider shallow reasons, but we'll see.

Riley: I would be using earplugs to avoid listening to his accent. Sorry, but my Canadian ears find some accents really grating to listen to.

Any of the women who are pretending to be blonde: Stop it. Your natural ethnicity isn't a Halloween costume, right? Well, neither is mine.

Ava seems nice. She also looks like she's about 14 years old. Tentative good first impression. Hopefully she doesn't overboard with talking about "auras" because anything like that tends to put people on the "too weird, must evict" list.

D&D player. Should be interesting to see if DM strategy translates into good BB strategy. Just don't go into either Lawful Evil or Chaotic Evil territory and my jury will be out for now.

Amy: Stop using half the contents of your makeup kit at once. You look like a clown.

Rachel: Would they please just vote her out ASAP? I didn't like her in her previous seasons. She's just gotten worse now. She might have strategy, but that insincere fakery and posing (she's really not all that) started annoying me inside of 2 minutes. I pity the people having to live with her.

Ashley: Who takes 2-hour-long showers and then gets annoyed when other people get annoyed about it? Please let her be the first to be booted.

Vince: Tentatively makes a good first impression and is trying to be a good HOH.


The design of the house isn't bad. It's really interesting, like a combination of Clue and several other early 20th-century mystery-murder settings. Actually, having a Clue theme for BB would be a fantastic idea.


The Amazing Race Canada started last week. Opening leg was in Edmonton, AB. The second set of tasks happened in my city. Pretty underwhelming, in all honesty. Really annoying teams, for the most part, so I won't bother watching.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

With Ava it's hard for me to get past her completely absurd career focus on "Auras" and phony spiritualism scams, but she hasn't done anything wrong in the house yet.

My early pick this season is Zach. He seems level headed, well liked, and good at comps.

I kind of liked Amy at first but now she's starting to annoy me, she seems weirdly entitled but no game besides allying with Rachel.

Jimmy feels like he's already written his ticket out of the house. Keanu feels like he's a permanent go to target for a lot of people now, those two might destroy each other.

Vince seems to have played his HoH well and didn't make many enemies.

I also don't really mind Rachel so far this year but I don't think she'll be able to stay under the radar very long.

Spoiler: Veto

Kellie seems cool but I do not get her offer to be nominated. Nobody knows much about who's voting for who yet, I think she's in the most danger and only through her own dumb move.

 

[Timewalker]

Jimmy went from decent first impression last episode to disgusting jerk this episode, in less time than it takes me to type this.

I want Ashley gone. Doesn't BB have some sort of penalty for houseguests who are late for meetings and competitions?

Seriously, Rachel: Quit prancing around in your underwear and put some real clothes on.

The woman who lists her job as "fine dining-whatever" (can't be bothered to learn her name yet): It's called being a waitress. Doesn't matter if it's a fancy restaurant or the local diner. She's a waitress.

Oh, good grief. Has whatsername never seen the show? Pawns usually get sent home. About the only season I can remember when it took a long time for that to happen was the one where the pawn was the dentist (can't remember his name).

Agreed about Zach. So far, so good. I have nothing bad to say of Keanu, either. And yes, Vince is still doing a good job as HOH.


I will be disappointed if they don't have at least one competition with an Edgar Allen Poe theme. The house decor this year is fantastic.

 

[Danny99]

Just got caught up on the PVR.

How after 27 seasons are there still technical issues during live shows?

And we're still allowing shout outs!

And why did Julie keep saying by a vote of 5 to 9?

Who decided it would be a good idea to have a 90 minute Wednesday episode full of clips like Adrian vs. the washing machine and the amazing appearing Keanu and then losing the HOH competition in a Thursday episode where we still had more pre-vote stuff going on? I understand they were probably given the time slots without much negotiation, but why don't you move the Blockbuster and pre-vote stuff onto Wednesday? Then you don't have that awkward moment before the vote where Julie tells them they can strategize when most of those choices have already been made.

I will give Rachel credit. She has been pretty quiet for the most part and actually plans on staying that. Hard to believe Rachel and quiet can be used in the same sentence, but here we are.

Is Jimmy supposed to be a super fan? Doing his big dramatic performance at the veto meeting was silly, especially in the first week. Way to put a target on your back.

If he and Ashley could be evicted ASAP, my enjoyment of the season would increase.

 

[Timewalker]

The shout-outs are annoying, but what I can't fathom is the little dance thing they do in the hallway between the living room and diary room. That's a perfect opportunity to stack the vote by the one who just voted, whispering who they voted for (or indicating it in some other way).

Rachel needs to be gone. Good grief, she's obnoxious. Does she own even one article of normal clothing that isn't sparkly? I get that she's made $$$$$$$$$ off of BB by now, but couldn't she just wear a normal shirt and pants? That whole schtick about "wearing a gown" is just stupid. WTF does she think she is, royalty?

I'm glad Kelley won the Block Buster competition, but I can't figure out how. I had two words figured out, but couldn't make out the rest. Does anyone know what the whole thing said? One word was "with" and another was "least".


Julie appears to be math-challenged. Either that, or saying "9 to 5" might have struck her as weird?

I should think the 90-minute Wednesday episodes might be due to either Survivor or TAR taking another 90 minutes later on, when they get going (I'm not sure when their premieres are).

Jimmy's a jerk.

Adrian is so forgettable that when he came into the diary room, I couldn't remember seeing him before. There are still a few of them that I'm fuzzy on, and might not be able to match names and faces until they actually do something.

At least the first evictee was a good sport about it. "How many can say they came in 17th on Big Brother?"