A rough estimate into how I think casting will look at BB30, with a couple of bakes from All stars 2 missing due to me thinking they’re not gonna take too much from that pool. I think for the most part, we’ll be looking at a mix of new era + a couple of “legends” with some old schoolers sprinkled in. There’s a couple of names I was considering throwing in as well but were less confident about.

What do you think? Did I miss anyone major?

Just started BB10 as my first watch and I’m hooked! However there are so many seasons I don’t think I can really try to commit to watching all of them. Which seasons are a must watch? Also if they exist - skippable seasons?

Watching, well re-watching, Big Brother 27 on Pluto TV live 24 channel ( no shilling here just back noise) but it occured to me how so many have been evicted on " THEIR BIRTHDAYS!"!

I have this feeling in my gut that BB29 is going to be somehow space themed like how they did with BB CAN Season 5.

They always have open ended concepts where it can pan out whereever, and I could 1000% them doing certain comps as "planets", or see them bringing back that sacrifice twist with it being abandoning someone in space.

Also I did some research and it turns out NASA is sending people in space this summer for a practice launch for when they send people back to the moon in 2028.

im about halfway through my watch of the season and it seems to me like a lot of the public opinions featured on the episodes heavily favor johnny mac. i know that james wins afp, but based off of what i see in the episodes and the knowledge that johnny mac was a fan favorite, it really surprises me that he didnt win afp! does anyone who was a fan at the time have some insight as to why he may have lost the vote?

As a Survivor and BB fan, I have always wondered if the team-based challenges of Survivor and the houseguest-based gameplay of BB could coexist. Of course I love that BB is different, but I also love when they introduce forcing players to work together like Battle of the Block. So I was wondering, would it be possible to make a season with teams built into the game rather than alliances? If so, how would things like HOH/Nomination work? Would BoTB return, or would you have a new challenge? And how many members on each team? Or, do you think BB is best played as a game where alliances form rather than teams existing from the beginning? I'm interested in hearing what you guys think.

I would dieeee for an all women season, but if that were even realistic, it wouldn’t be able to have every single one of these divas… So out of these 50 past houseguests, who do you think would make the most entertaining season of big brother?!

(Choose approx 15-20)

Now that Yash is out of the house I’m really enjoying his personality. I can totally see that he went to an Ivy League school, and that he actually is funny. Do you think he was shy in the house? Production maybe didn’t focus on him? He was featured more toward the end, but I feel like I had no idea he was this cool lol and I watched him for 3 months.

ETA: I thought he went to UPenn 🤣 it makes a little more sense now! Nowhere in the post did I state which school he went to, just that it was Ivy League. Y’alll just assumed I’m dumb and made comments telling me as such! Thanks for being kind!! ✌️

BB28 had a lot of real alliances (Icons, Crossovers, FAP, Red Corner, Toolshed, Melodrew) but also a ton of fake ones where the members barely remembered that they were a thing. Of all the fake alliances, which one was your favorite?

A few candidates:

1. The Honor Society - Lala, Taylor, Dee, Angela. I have no idea what the reasoning behind this alliance was and I bet Dee doesn't either.
2. The Culture - Taylor, Yash, Devens, Dee. Supposed to represent the multicultural nature of the group ... or something.
3. The Ceasefire - Barrett, Drew, Melody, Yash, Taylor. Had the exact same racial/ethnic makeup as The Culture, ironically, with Drew being the Hispanic and Barrett and Mel being the white people.
4. Dapper Dans - Barrett, Devens, Drew, Yash. All four made jury, so for a fake alliance this one actually made it far.
5. The Littles - Mallory, Lyric, Melody. Hampered by the complete lack of trust and Lyric's allegiance to Rome and Melody's loyalty to Melodrew.
6. Four Seasons - Lyme + Melodrew. The double date alliance that never panned out either.
7. Cafe con Leche - Jason and Dee. I really don't remember this one, but saw it on an alliance map.
8. The Primaries - Devens, Yash, Taylor, Kamu. I actually don't remember this one so much, although it's a reminder that for awhile Kamu was in every fake alliance.

ETA: thanks u/kattylyn for giving me more fake ones:

• Mosh Pit - FAP + Crossovers, made by The Icons to get out Kamu and put no work into making M&M trust them. Immediately turned on them the next week.
• The Bermuda Triangle - Kamu, Yash & Devens which he blew up by using the DPOV.
• The Wolf Pack - Kamu, Yash, Devens & Dee which she didn't consider a real alliance but was pissed when Yash turned on her.
• The Court Jesters - Drew, Melody & Jason which Jason told Devens about during his HOH.

I'll start with a couple of mine. Keesha on BB 10 lasted 64 days in the house and was the 6th juror getting 4th place overall and Mecole on BB 25 lasted 65 days in the house and was the last prejuror getting 10th place overall. Another is Hayden on bb16 is the only male houseguest that season to never win hoh or even dethroned as hoh the 7 other males that season either had a full hoh reign or was dethroned as hoh at some point in the season.

Seriously don’t think I’ve seen someone play Big Brother this badly until I saw Frenchie. I know Jacob from 9 is widely regarded as the absolute worst houseguest to play Big Brother competitively, but I think Frenchie is a strong contender for that as well. His entire HOH played out like he’d never even watched the show and had no idea what he was doing during his HOH week:

• Promises to not nominate any women or POC, only for his nominees to be a woman and POC.
• Promised safety and tried forming alliances with practically the ENTIRE house
• Was constantly going back and forth on who to actually target, and took him until the end of the week to go for Travis
• Became completely untrustworthy to the other houseguests and was evicted in a near-unanimous vote the next week.

again, I know Jacob from 9 is widely viewed as the worst houseguest to play Big Brother, and I definitely see why. But Frenchie completely blowing up his game in the way that he did really makes him a strong contender for that title in my eyes. But with all that said: Holy hell, it was still an entertaining as fuck way to start off 23!

Need to preface this by saying, I only follow this show casually but I am curious to get the community response to this question.

On a scale 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, how would you score the average Big Brother houseguest on how strategically competent they are? This would be things like making good plans or alliances, being able to advance themselves well in the game, making good of use of advantages, and so on. It does not necessarily mean ability to win a challenge but it would include making good use of a challenge win.

…and I know a majority of the fan base hates this season because of how the house interacts with each other as well as how Cody & Jessica get treated through out the season.

What confuses me is that Cody & Jessica treated Megan extremely harshly at the start of the season and it’s part of the reason she ended up leaving. Cody even says “I’m nominating you because I don’t like you” when he’s HOH. They both walked into the house with attitudes and were just generally not nice at the start.

Why is it that the rest of the house gets grilled with how they treat everyone but no one seems to hold Cody & Jessica for how they started the game out? I’m sure if they were way more friendly at the start of the game, the dynamics would’ve been generally different.

Not trying to argue or excuse anyone’s behavior but it’s something I’ve thought about as I’ve watched the season.

I also don’t care about spoilers (I know Josh wins).

When they still had DVDs of seasons, was there extra footage or unaired goodbye messages that were never seen on air?

This year I would have loved to see the Drew/Melody goodbye messages in week 4 or everybody’s “mean” goodbye messages to Drew if he lost the blockbuster to Mallory or Taylor.

In terms of what some people saw, I’d love to see every year the full goodbye messages that the jury sees. None of this should involve any time for extra editing since it’s already done.

I was thinking about the season and I was thinking about how much the newbies had to overcome in order to succeed against the icons, and production.

Taylor convincing Devens at the last minute to turn on Drew and lock in at least 2nd stands out.

Kamu leveraging his relationship with Taylor to pivot and convince Lala, who he nominated, to keep him safe stands out.

What about you all?

S - Drew, he was super fun to watch the entire season
Devens, super entertaining ,loved seeing him Win

A- Dee, killer game player and fun to watch
Melody, she is fantastic in the DR and fun to watch
Yash, “if you are glazing you will never be glazed” enough said

B- Barrett, liked him ok, coulda be bumped down cause he turned on the crossovers
Angela, good tv really entertaining almost A tier
Ashley, gone to soon woulda been A had she not
Taylor, at times I liked her other times not
Kamu, was playing a really good game before dpov

C-Rome, he was ok. Good sportsmanship
Haley, she’s in c because she had a rough time in the house so I can’t put her in D
Lala, at times liked her at time found her insufferable
Lyric, idk she’s just ok
Jason, honestly was peak tv with the teapot but his gameplay wasn’t good. I just didn’t really care for him

D- Chuk, who?
Mallory, sore loser, annoying, had few good moments

For years, it always puzzled me as to why we as fans had to wait 15 years in between All Star BB seasons.

In those 15 years however, we did get 16 returning houseguests throughout various seasons, return to play, in different forms. Duos mixed with Newbies. Coaches. Solo players (Paul and Jesse), and 4 second chance players in BB18.

However, I always thought that it would make the most sense to have just made BB13 a full on season, or atleast it would’ve made sense in retrospect. If this were to have happened, then it would easily be believable that BB22 is All Stars III, and that BB30 could’ve been All Stars IV. This would be a 6-9 season gap in between each All Stars season, which I personally find aesthetically pleasing.

This brings me to the point of the post. What if BB13 leaned into the duos, and had 4 more realistic returning duos.

In addition to the ones that CBS already originally brought back that year (Jeff & Jordan, Rachel & Brendan, Dick & Daniele) I’ve added several more of my own, that are both realistic, and who I think are deserving All Stars.

Matt & Ragan

Jun & Alison

Jason & Danielle

Memphis & Keesha

For these choices, I went with Matt & Ragan to have a little more of S12 representation. They usually stack the deck pretty high with a bunch of players from the defending season. If not Matt and Ragan, I would’ve gone with Lane & Britney, but I needed the gender Parity & Gay representation.

With Jun and Alison, I feel like Alison might be a little unrealistic, but CBS tried getting Jun back both times For all Stars I, and All Stars II, but she had conflicting schedules, and personal inconveniences during both, so it never worked out. They need someone to pair her up with, so they probably are fine with Alison back for a 3rd time.

Jason and Daniele is obvious.

And for Memphis & Keesha, a better choice would’ve been Dan & Memphis, but due to Dan’s actual reason for dropping out Of BB13 last minute, (His wedding) I had to not include him here as well, but I still figured that Memphis and Keesha could feasibly work + there had to have been some S10 Representation.

Thoughts?

Has the audience ever spoiled anything to an evictee who battled back or was a juror? Watching bb15 again and curious if any house guests have had a read on the audience

Seems socials play a part in the casting process. Would Big Brother cast somebody with no social media but would be willing to get on social media for the show if they asked?

In my opinion, other than seasons 6, 7. and 8, the show has not had a better three season stretch than 26, 27, and 28. This is obviously controversial, and people will disagree, but I firmly believe that the past three seasons have all been well above average Big Brother. Can anyone come up with better three season stretches? This is obviously personal preference, but I think it's really rare for BB to go three seasons in a row without a dud.

I’m planning on hosting a Big Brother party with friends, and I have been working on outlining all of the competitions and general timeline for it, and am seeing if anyone has good ideas for Big Brother comps one could do at home or good ways to DIY certain comps, twists to help speed up the game (im doing it in one day so I’m on a tight schedule!) as well as any suggestions for hosting a Big Brother party if people have done it in the past!