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Big Brother

  1. Episode 11 Finale
    Big Brother Recap: The Finale Makes a Political Cartoonist More Cynical Than the Iraq War Did The winner made him despair for his country.
  2. Episode 10 Week 9, Rachel as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: When Times Get Tough, Tori Spelling Steps In She shows up to visit ‘90210’ fetishist Adam and gives him the strength to actually win something.
  3. Episode 9 Week 8, Porsche as HOH
    Which The Wire Character Is Each Big Brother Finalist Acting Like? Plus: The Jury House cures cancer!
  4. Episode 8 Week 7, Jeff as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: The Zingbot Will Rule Us All The robot returns, and our recapper tries to match him zing for zing.
  5. Episode 7 Week 6, Daniele as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: Return of the Walking Dead Brendon returned this week. Sigh.
  6. Episode 6 Week 5, Kalia as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: The Myth of Sisyphus That is actually mentioned in this episode.
  7. Episode 5 Week 4, Daniele as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: Hitting the Debt Ceiling And some fake skis.
  8. Episode 4 Week 3, Rachel As HOH
    Big Brother Recap: Alliances Split, and the Word Gameplay Is Liberally Spoken Julie Chen: “Wow, you guys are serious gamers.” Me: “This is the least fun game in the history of gaming.”
  9. Episode 3 Week 2, Jordan as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: A Week 3 Summary Composed Only of Lists Like, “Things contestants said that are probably true, which makes them sad.”
  10. Episode 2 Week 1, Rachel as HOH
    Big Brother Recap: Dress Up Like a Superhero or a Pastel Cow Recapper David Rees barely survives week No. 2.
  11. Episode 1 Houseguests Arrive
    David Rees, Unwitting Big Brother Virgin, Recaps the Premiere “Evil Dick looks like a partially deflated Motley Crüe Macy’s parade balloon.”
  1. Episode 14 Week 5
    Big Brother Recap: Big Hogg Energy The week featured some of the most surprising, provocative, and satisfying game moves of the season.
  2. Episode 11 Week 4
    Big Brother Recap: Chaos Is a Ladder In the course of about three days, and for no better reason than gossip, this season’s strongest alliance was rendered effectively obsolete.
  3. Episode 8 Week 3
    Big Brother Recap: Gossip Girl Will Isabella’s ill-advised gossip spree make her the next major household target? Our weekly Big Brother power ranking says yes.
  4. Episode 5 Week 2
    Big Brother Recap: Ovi and Out Well, Christie couldn’t have had a more tumultuous HOH rule if she’d tried.
  5. Episodes 1 - 2 Week 1
    Big Brother Premiere Recap: Notes on Camp This season might have a touch of Lost about it.

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