Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - Down Goes Judd!

That Just Happened...

First off, Wow, just wow. It's not a TOTAL surprise to see Judd walk out the door in 10th Place, but I didn't expect it to go down like that. He and his bear shirt had grown into fan favorites and I, along with a lot of others, thought he was going to go a lot farther in the game. Right after it happened, a couple of my "episode-only" friends who know I've been watching the live feeds hit me up with texts, emails, and tweets, all expressing the same thing - "Whaaaaaaa?" 

Honestly though, what really shocked me was Aaryn winning another HOH in a massive More/Less Game bombout by a bunch of other players. I didn't expect to see that many people eliminated in one fell swoop, and I never would've picked the Bigoted Bobcat Barbie to be the one to survive.

Candice's explosion was no surprise at all of course, but was no less ferociously entertaining, apparently she's a good person but you wouldn't know it if you watched the show lately. I feel for the abuse she had to put up with in the House, but it pushed her into a place where she acted ugly and petty herself, and that's too bad.

...and so did That

Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - The House Flips, Then Flips Out

It doesn't get real til Howard carries
someone out of the room

Well, they did it. The insurgent #MomSquad alliance successfully flipped the House and booted Nick, shattering the Moving Company Alliance and taking control of the game. 

The MC goes down as a bigtime failure. Modeled on classic alliances from seasons past like The Brigade and The Quack Pack, these five guys couldn't keep their connection a secret, and ultimately couldn't even keep their connection at all. Jeremy's lame attempts to dominate the other four over the Elissa issue pushed things over the edge. Let's never talk about the Moving Company again. 

Instead, the real story of Big Brother 15 in the wake of Nick's eviction is the ugliest outburst of awful, racially-insensitive behavior yet from Aaryn and her minions.

Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - Let Viewers See the Ugly, Bigoted Truth? I'm All For It

It's ok, Aaryn, predicting what's going to happen in a game of Big Brother is never easy...

Despite the impressively quick turnaround time on a typical Big Brother episode, the shows that air on CBS three times a week remain slightly behind the real-time events taking place inside the house. If you really want to stay current on what's going on with the houseguests, you've got to follow the live feeds online.

For Power Rankings purposes, I prefer to update my lists after each structured, edited episode on the network, rather than try to stay on top of every single live development. However, a little over one week and just two official episodes into BB15, some of the things happening on-camera but off-air are just impossible to ignore.