How's Ashley doing? I went to HS with her.

She's...still on the show. Not much of a factor in the game, strategy-wise. I think she's hilarious, though. Was she actually as much of a space cadet in high school as they portray her on the show?

She was in 9th grade, I was a senior. My best friend's younger brother was good friends with her, so we would frequent some of the same parties, but never really interacted. I know who she is, but nothing really about her. My brother was in her grade, would probably know a lot more. I don't remember her being an idiot.

I love Ashley!

She's good friends in RL with another girl who was on the Pussycat Dolls reality show, again from my HS. I guess we just have a knack for making reality TV stars?

She's not an awesome game player (though that depends on how you measure a good player), but I like her the most of the newbies for her silly, free-spirited demeanor.

Ugh, this episode. The Chilltown 2.0 DRs with Boogie and Frank are some of the most heinous things that has ever appeared on Big Brother. YOU ARE NOT EVIL DR. WILL, FRANK. I hate them.

And Dan and Britney went down a couple of pegs in my book for choosing to side with them.

I'm not nearly as big a Janelle fan as I once was but even I felt bad for her indifferent edit in this episode and then being ignored when she knocked on the HOH door. Ouch. Her upcoming exit feels so unceremonious.

Danielle is still crazy, by the way. I kind of hate her but she's delusional enough that she's entertaining.

This season will rapidly go down the tubes if things don't get shaken up and things stay on course.

I hope someone gets a Pandora's Box and something "terrible" happens. I'd even take freaking Rachel and her endless braying somehow entering the game if it meant something interesting would happen.

This season is so boring. And Frank/Boogie's diary room sessions are excruciating.

I hate Dan this season too and don't want him to win. So annoying.

I don't want to write it off just yet. I feel like the satisfaction of Boogie or Frank walking soon would be awesome. Just who would do it?

Major controversy this morning:

It's all Allison Grodner's fault. Other than a couple of seasons here and there (like Dan's original season in 2008, which was AWESOME), the show has largely dropped in entertainment value since she took over. Way less drama than there used to be (there has been almost NONE this season, what's up with that?) and everything feels more manufactured/rigged. And the production itself has only gotten worse too.

An example of this is Janelle and her muted behavior this season. Everyone remembers "bye bye, bitches!" and "give me that key, bitch." She is undoubtedly getting booted tonight...so why has she sat like a bump on a log and done NOTHING? Granted, she seems to think she has a good shot at staying and will be semi-blindsided, but I almost blame the show more than her.

Is the show serious with this Ashley/Ian segment? She doesn't even like Ian!

It seems like they are trying to force that 'showmance' on us even though it isn't even a thing.

Also, horribly boring episode tonight thus far. Fight people fight! Also if Frank/Boogie win HOH I'll be pissed.

The only good outcome for HOH is Joe winning because everyone in the house is targeting him and it would be hilarious/random as hell.

Oh jesus christ. Frank? Come on.

Vomit. Allison Grodner must be orgasming as we speak.

Wow, shocking



Are you fucking kidding me?

Also Boogie throwing these competitions for Frank is making him even more obnoxious if that's even possible.

THIS SEASON IS RIGGED

Mehhhh. lol. I'm so excited to mute a week's worth of agonizing joint DR sessions between Boogie and Frank.

I liked Janelle's pronouncement of Boogie in her exit interview: "he's such a loser!"

Joe and Ashley will probably be put on the block WHICH IS SO BORING. I want Danielle to be nominated and lose her ever-loving mind.

Let's think about this objectively. Frank was 2 seconds away from being evicted LAST week. Because of Grodner's bullshit interference, Janelle is now gone and Frank is HOH AGAIN. #thisshowsucks

I hope everyone is excited about the prospect of Frank and Boogie F2 because that's what's gonna happen.

As annoying as Boogie is, so far this season, him and Frank are playing the best games.

Janelle's team is without a coach. Britney was down to one player. Dan was down to one player. And Boogie still has all of his players.

Britney is not playing a good game. Janelle was not going to go for her, and she just folded under pressure. Dan is also getting sloppy.

Realistically, if you take out the like factor of the players, strategically Boogie deserves to win the season so far as he's practically been running the show...

I can't argue with you, O, but I chalk it up more to how little the rest of them think. I think there's a certain level of "Let someone else do it", and I hope someone does. I love Britney and really want her to win, but my reason to watch now is to see if Boogie gets evicted before F2.

Janelle said it all on Thursday. Mike Malin is a loser. He's a douchebag. He has a high opinion of his worth to this show, meanwhile he's been living off of "residual cool" from Dr. Will since Season 2. He's living in his own past, trying (and failing) to re-create Chilltown with Frank. He wasn't the anchor of that alliance, nor were all the lame DRs faux-phone calls part of the appeal. It was always Will. He made it all cool and funny. Mike Malin makes it all immature and desperate.

Apparently, Mike told someone on the feeds about how Don Wollman has been a mentor to him for eleven years. Don Wollman being a co-executive producer on the show. Whether that will play into Mike's future on the show remains to be seen. But I'm inclined to believe Janelle's eviction on Thursday played out more as a personal vendetta against her, not just from Mike, but from Allison Grodner as well. She's never liked that "her best players" (aka those that came on after she took over, I believe in Season 7/8) have never matched the popularity of Janelle. How do you fix that? Get her evicted 12th in the game.