[elliebrew]

What we got, I loved. But it was so far from the behemoth of a show we used to have that there was a disconnect for me. It felt like Big Brother, but Big Brother light. Big Brother Bitesize

These are the problems I had

1. I HATE the eviction night setup. They're supposed to be the big blockbuster of the week but they felt like a non event. No sense of occasion, no grandiosity. The interviews being pushed into Late and Live are unforgivable. No housemate should be exiting through the back door

2. Half a series. Having it just be 6 weeks long feels like we only just scare the surface with some characters. Not enough live stream to really get to know people either.

3. The location. I hate it. Its really generic, it looks like the garden is stuck on the side of a call centre

4. AJ is lovely and has nice energy but she's not a presenter. She is woeful, tripping over words, extended moments of dead air/silence until she is able to get back on the right page and her accent is so affected that it verges on grating. Rylan, Emma or Davina should have been asked back. Having said that, will is more than capable of carrying this on his own

5. too many tasks that go nowhere. Remember the days tasks lasted days. Late nights, early mornings. Real endurance. Here we had more build up to the a hunger games task than anything and it was over with in an episode. Its all just....Oh is that it.

With that being said

1. Whoever is in charge of casting needs a raise because this was brilliant

2. the house designer did a phenomenal job

All in all, I liked it a lot but it just felt very superficial, very surface, nothing really pulled me in. It was Big Brother for the TikTok generation. Big Brother for those with 0 attention spans. Big Brother for an audience who can barely get through a 20 second YouTube short.

The content was fine, there just wasn't enough of it.

Needs some major changes if its to continue