Big Brother 18 is boring. There, I’ve typed it.
After being a loyal fan since Season 5, when I got to know Marvin Latimer, this is the first season where I’ve felt that something is not quite right.
The show is like a cake that looks tasty, but when you bite into it there’s a vital missing ingredient.
Like sugar.
The cast is bland, and the three most interesting personalities — Tiffany, Frank and Da’Vonne — are out of the house, leaving ten remarkably low energy millennials floating around.
Even the showmances, of which there are three, are unbelievable and boring. None of the couples have yet to discuss when to break the other twosomes up. It’s sloppy game play.
Don’t get me wrong, this group is not as bad as Season 15 — my personal least favorite — where the cast was either racist or surviving on the brain cells of a rodent (all except Nick Uhas who was voted out early and escaped his own personal stalker.)
No, the problem with this years cast is that they blend together too well, thus failing to make good or interesting television.
With the strong personalities out of the house, who do you even root for?
Paul seems to be in the drivers seat at this point, even after having his back against the wall the first few weeks. He even inspired the alpha male Paulie, the Jersey born, slightly sexist Trump talker, to grow a beard and shave his hair into a Mohawk. (I can’t imagine Paulie’s brother Cody, who played the game brilliantly in Season 16, doing anything to resemble his ride-or-die Derrick.)
Speaking of sexist, Victor is the new Head of Household and has nominated two women who are not a threat to him. He is incapable of thinking for himself because his understanding of the game is non-existent. He is just floating along until Paul and Paulie send him packing.
Could there be any more boring of a twosome than Nicole and Cory? Watching them communicate is almost as excruciating as watching James and Natalie, who are amazingly weak players. James, a former fan favorite, has no backbone and is just floating along.
Bridgette, Michelle and Zakiyah will no doubt be the “businessmen” targets this week. Each playing unremarkable games, although give Bridgette some credit for surviving the fallout from her relationship with Frank. Still, she has done nothing to increase her numbers in the game.
At the end of the day, while we have the wildest presidential election in decades going on outside the house, inside we have the most quiet and boring Big Brother game in years. The winner will take the title and BB fans will yawn.
As the life of Big Brother on CBS winds down, let’s hope next season features a cast full of diversity — gender, race, background and age. Or maybe just bring back the most interesting contestants and let them battle it out once and for all.
Either way, it will be a huge improvement from watching the paint dry this summer.