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 - We Need to Talk About Helen

The 15th edition of Big Brother has already seen several series firsts, and after Thursday night's elimination of Jeremy, we have another. For the first time, the first three evicted Houseguests are all men.

Though plenty of women have won this game before, we've never seen an all-girl alliance take things over and run the show all the way to the end, as several groups of men have done in recent seasons. A few girls have mentioned the idea of blazing such a trail at times this summer, especially Candice, but so far they haven't formalized that chatter into an actual plan.

At one point I thought Helen might be the leader who could gather these scattered strains of feminism together into a truly forceful female alliance. But as her week in the House's master suite showed, Helen may be the oldest, most mature person in this game, but that hasn't made her any more immune to the dangerous disease know as HOHitis.

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.