[Shaun]

caught up with both episodes that clashed with the traitors... this task is pretty much confirming to me that the producers just spend a bunch of money on props with a certain "theme" and then just make up the actual flesh of the task without much thought just turning this into another "which housemate was voted the smelliest...." thing sandwiched between two generic blindfold tasks. I did enjoy the spectacle of them trying to rig it at the end though.

But hey it actually woke Cameron up so that's something I suppose... not that he's much more interesting now that he's not shutting up.

Teja turning into a bit of a grump felt a bit inevitable too. There seem to be some tensions building.

I think there's a tendency with recent series for some viewers to just hedge all their entertainment bets on one housemate... and when they get ejected because they're just a bit of a one-trick bellend and don't have any social skills / are just using this as a platform to pursue a career as a political commentator / podcastnonce who wears a big sign saying "cancelled" and makes it their entire personality, it frees up the rest of the house to start trying to pick each other apart rather than focus on one mutually-agreed outcast.

I still think there's too many similar ages of HM though... not that being older inherently makes you more interesting but I'm just tired of every series being 90% 18-25 year olds who have the same boring chats about drinking and sex and don't have much to say because they're just starting life