[Ray.]

I know it's early days, but one thing that continues to annoy me about ITV's Big Brother is their prioritising games and tasks over actual housemate interactions. The vast majority of housemate interactions last series, as far as I can remember, was centred around the latest task or parlour game. So the scope of what housemates spoke about was very narrow and limited.

Sure, every now and again these games games expose an interesting quirk or duplicitous streak in certain housemates (like Daze last night), but those moments are pretty few and far between, and would be just as likely to happen in tasks more similar to how they were run during the days of old (i.e., a fewer number of tasks, but longer and usually running over a period of many, many days and with lots of downtime for the HMs to just shoot the **** and not be hyper focused on the task at all times).

True, the housemates that BB seems to prize nowadays are pretty vacuous and dealing in platitudes as opposed to any real degree of original or controversial styles of thinking, but they should at least be given the opportunity to display those traits and have them rise to the surface. Because I don't doubt that they're there below [[CURRENT YEAR]]'s rictus grin of wishy washy politeness on television.

The best part of last night's show, despite me not finding either to be particularly likable or interesting, was Lily and Ali sitting down and contrasting their vastly different life experiences. It was actually pretty amusing (and somewhat endearing) to see Lily talking so excitedly and eagerly about her work as a takeaway call handler when Ali had just finished cooly explaining her esteemed role as a forensic psychologist.