The Challenge: Double Agents | Season 36 Episode 3 - "Enemy of the State"

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Hello everybody!

I know, I'm posting this later than usual but with Christmas and everything I didn't have time to watch the episode and review it. But, I did watch it yesterday and so, here I am today to talk about it. And I guess I'll just start with I was right.

That's right, my prediction came true - it was another guys elimination. I know I'm starting with the end of the episode but that was probably the best/worst thing about the episode. I guess it is both things because it was shocking but, at the same time, I didn't like how everything played out. But I guess I'll just rewind and start with the beginning.

There was not a lot of 'drama' before the actual challenge but one thing, which is the thing in the banner, happened before the week's challenge, and that was also one of my favorite things about this episode - CT and Big T's interaction and partnership is just the best. I'm truly happy about the fact that they ended up paired up in the last episode because I just really like the vibe of both of them together and I can see this pairing going far - with CT's knowledge and athleticism and Big T's good energy and getting along with everyone, I can see them going far in the game.

And well, after that I need to talk about the week's challenge which was not only super exciting - it was a physical challenge - but a lot of people ended up injured, one of them being Nicole who, in a way, was the person that started the whole thing that happened in this episode. Well, I'm just going to say that the winning team was Kaycee and Leroy, which was pretty good, and I'll just jump straight to the drama.

This episode was filled with drama, all thanks to my two favorite people (not) - Devin and Josh. Devin is Nicole's partner and, after arriving from the challenge, they all come to the house to the fact that none of Nicole's things where there which only meant one thing - she was out of the game. And that just started something in Devin and he really just didn't have anything to loose so... But, to be honest, who started this whole thing was really Josh. Well, this whole drama started with Kaycee and CT having a little argument about Pizza, but it wasn't a big deal. But of course, Josh had to make a big deal out of it and went to CT saying that Kaycee was crying, which was not true, to which CT went to Kaycee to say sorry just to be faced with her fine and that started an argument between CT and Josh. With Big T's help, CT calmed that but that was when Devin just wield that Big Brother Sucked and yeah, you know what happened next. Actually, in that situation, I was more on Devin's side because Josh just takes everything really seriously and he's just an emotional mess. However, that started the whole voting thing... Most people's strategy was to vote for Cory and Tori, but Devin really messed things up. In that situation, I would be Kyle - I loved the fact that Kyle just voted for Fessy and Aneesa because they did him wrong and I think that's what everyone should do. Just f*cking do your own thing... It really annoys me when they start creating some mastermind plans that, to be honest, are really dumb. Anyway, in the Devin and Nicole were the pair to go into elimination but really, it was just Devin. Then, it was up to Leroy and Kaycee to choose the other pair. Wes tried to create some type of arrangement with Leroy which, in my opinion, would work in Leroy's favor but he was just dumb that is the part that I didn't like about the episode.

When it was time for elimination, Leroy decided to choose Wes and Natalie to go against Devin and that was just dumb. They are all trying to get rid of the strong players and are forgetting the fact that with that, they're loosing Gold Skulls so... Yeah, this was the perfect time for Leroy to win a Gold Skull because it was against Devin so... But of course, it was Wes against Devin and, with that elimination, it was really neck-a-neck but, in the end, Devin won - mainly because Wes just gave up. Wes said that it pained him to go against his friend and so he just slowly gave Devin the win and that was super sweet but, in the end, I'm just mad that Leroy didn't take the opportunity. And, to be honest, this was all thanks to Kam who just thinks she's a mastermind and, again, she's just being pretty dumb. Anyway... Devin won and he decided to infiltrate and chose Tori to be his new partner. I don't like that either but... Okay... Which left Cory with Natalie and so now there's no Rogue agent. That makes me think that the next elimination might be another guys elimination but... I don't know. I'm not too sure about it this time. I am though excited about the next episode because not only it looks like Jay might be a big name in it but also the elimination is the Hall Brawl and that always gets me so pumped! Also, I know from the preview that it isn't Nany, Cory, Natalie and Leroy that go into elimination so... I'm curious to see who will be.

So, that's it for this week's episode. Let me know what you thought about it and if you agree that they are being really dumb with their pick for elimination and I'll see you pretty soon with a new rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Double Agents | Season 36 Episode 2 - "Dive Another Day"

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O-M-G! What was this episode?!

Hello everyone and welcome to a new The Challenge review.

I'm sorry I'm coming a little bit late but I have been busy and I only got to watch the episode right now and, of course, I had to write about it because it was so unexpected! I would go as far to say that this was better than the first episode. With saying that, let's get into it because there's quite a lot to talk about.

The episode started right away with a reveal. So, you remember that Natalie was about to pick her partner out of everyone and I was really confused on what would happen to CT, because I was already assuming that she would still be with Wes. Well, she did stay with Wes and what happened was that CT became a Rogue Agent - that meant that he couldn't participate in the week's challenge, but the person to be without a partner in the next elimination would be partnered with him. This are some really important information for what's coming next.

After that, they don't waste a lot of time on drama (and they do that throughout the whole episode, which I appreciated) and move to the actual challenge. It was basic, with some swimming and sticking some poles on the 'enemies team'. In the end, the Double Agents were Fessy and Aneesa, again, just because everyone was afraid to vote for them. I thought that was so dumb and, for the first time in my life, I agreed with Devin, which is something huge (cause I don't really like him).

Then all the strategy started. Part of the house wanted to stick with the plan to through Wes again (assuming it would be a guys elimination) but then Joseph wanted to volunteer. But he didn't really, because he then started saying some stuff about wanting Wes to be the house vote so he would know that he was going against Wes because he just wanted that... Well, not only that annoyed the heck out of me but it also annoyed everyone in the house and, in the end, a lot of people voted for him and Big T, including herself (they weren't working well together and she wanted a new partner) ending with them being the house vote. Then it was all on Fessy and Aneesa, and that's when things changed. Kyle went to them saying that he voted Wes (when he didn't) and, because Fessy and Aneesa end up finding out who votes for who, that changed their game.

When it was time to send someone into elimination, both Fessy and Aneesa voted Kyle and Nany. It was, indeed, a guys elimination so it was Joseph against Kyle. I was bummed that Kyle went into elimination but, to be honest, I was pretty confident that he would win. And he did. It was pretty easy and now he has a Gold Skull. Not only that but he got to choose if he wanted to stay with Nany or have a new partner and that was when things got crazy. Not only he didn't choose to stay with Nany but he also didn't choose Big T. He went full on a picked Kam! That was so unexpected and, although I'm not a fan of Kam, I liked that he went all in. That left Josh without a partner so he got to choose between Nany and Big T and, luckily, he chose Nany because that meant that CT would be paired with Big T and that was just what I wanted. In the end, all of them were happy with their new partners and so was I. I mean, I might not like Kam very much, but I liked Kyle's decision to not mess around. And then, I'm not a fan of neither Nany nor Josh so they're good for each-other and I really wanted CT with Big T so... That was awesome!

Now, I have a crazy prediction! Something tells me that next elimination will be a guys elimination again. I predict that because this game is full of twists and turns and they're already expecting it to be a girls elimination but the thing is, everyone has a partner now so it's a good excuse for TJ to mix things up and change it to a guys elimination again. I would love to see that, to be honest.

Anyway, that's my prediction for next episode.

Let me know what you thought of the episode and if you're happy with the new pairs and I'll talk to you on my next rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Double Agents | Season 36 Episode 01 - "License to Killer Kam"

 

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Hello everybody!

That's right, back again with a new The Challenge rant. Back with the actual first episode. And, I guess I was right. This episode had none of that drama stuff and all that get to know the people and all that, which was nice. Not a lot happened though, but it had it's moments.

The episode started right away with the challenge of the week, which was a pretty simple one - just a memory game that was played in two rounds (the girls round and the guys round). The challenge did have a physical part to it but it was pretty lame, to be honest. I just thought it was easier to just wait and see the colors 'peacefully' - there was no point in fighting for that damn thing. However, that did not work so well for Wes, cause he got hit in the face with a shoe because of that. But, it did give us a memorable moment, one that I just couldn't stop laughing, nor could all the other players, to be honest. It was really funny!

Anyway so, there were only two winners - a guy and a girl. For the guys it was Fessy (right away showing that he's not someone to mess with) and for the girls the win went to Aneesa, which was sort of a surprise, but it was nice. However, in the end, there was only one true winner and that person was Aneesa. That gave her an advantage - to pick her partner. That's right, so the first reveal of this episode was that the game will be played in duos, and because Aneesa won, she got to choose her male partner - she chose Fessy. He didn't want to be with her, but I guess it was a nice choice. And then, just like that, TJ tells everybody to pick their partners - right then and there. It threw everyone off and, to be honest, I'm not happy with this duos. Everyone that I sort of like is paired with someone that I don't like - Kyle/Nany, Natalie/Wes, CT/Ashley... so, I don't know how I feel about this whole thing, but I'm just going to roll with it, for now. There's actually some hope because of what we found out in the end of the episode but I'll get to that.

So, Aneesa and Fessy are safe and they're going to pick the team that's going to go into elimination against the team that the house chooses, and here we have a few more twists. 1) the vote is secret 2) although it's a duos game, they vote individually 3) later on the double agents (in this case, Aneesa and Fessy) get the information of who was vote by the house and, more important, who voted for the chosen team. This week the house voted for CT and Ashley, which was a pretty big deal, even more because basically the whole house voted for them, which was a shock. In a way, I kind of understood why they went with them - it's a different choice and it's taking out the big players instead of the rookies - but, at the same time, they were pretty dumb, mainly because Aneesa and Fessy chose Wes and Natalie to go against CT and Ashley. Just for then to find out that it was a girls elimination and neither CT nor Wes were actually going into elimination. It was just a dumb move to do something so ballsy without knowing all the rules. But the twists don't end here. So Ashley goes against Natalie, Natalie wins and then TJ lets her know that she now has a gold skull but also she's faced with a decision - now she can pick who she wants to be paired with, does she wants to still be with Wes, be paired with CT or she can pick any other guy (apart from Fessy, because he's safe). That was pretty huge and that was how the episode ended.

As I said, nothing really major happened but there were a lot of twists and turns. This thing that you can switch partners every time you go into elimination is super cool but now that leaves me with a question - what's going to happen to, in this case, the guy that is left without a partner? And what if Natalie picks someone else other then Wes or CT, what happens to that person's previous partner? I'm just really confused with this new rules but we'll see... We're going to find out all about that in the next episode so, I'm excited! Personally I think she's going to stick with Wes. She said that she likes to be paired with him and there's nothing to complain so far so... I'm predicting that she stays with Wes but who knows? Natalie looks like someone who's really unpredictable so... We'll see.

Let me know what you thought about all the things that happened in this episode and who do you think Natalie is going to pick and I'll see you next week with a new rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Double Agents | Season 36 Episode 00 - "Declassified"

 

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Hello everybody!

I'm coming to you a bit earlier than expected because, turns out, The Challenge decided to release an episode 0 for this season of the challenge which they called "Declassified".

From what I understood, this was an episode to get all of the boring stuff out of the way - getting to know the players, the location and all of that. So, I'm assuming next episode will be straight to the acting, but we'll see.

Well, because this episode was just 'drama' (which isn't really drama this early in the game, it's just us knowing who's who and stuff like that) there's not much I can talk about. You all know by now that the main reason why I watch The Challenge are the actual challenges so this episode was a bit boring to me. Nonetheless, I was excited to know all the new players (mostly). But one thing is for sure, I'm not rooting for anyone in particular this season. Yeah, there's no Bananas this season (which I already knew going into it) but it also looks like they picked all the people that I don't like and put them in a Challenge season - Devin, Ashley M, Nelson, Kam, Lolo, Wes... And all the other ones are just people that I don't care that much... I guess, as of now, I'm rooting for CT, Darrell, Jay, Kyle and Leroy. Yes, only guys. I did like some of the new girls such as Gabby and Natalie but it's too early in the game to know.

When it comes to the game, we didn't find out much with this episode. We know that 'lies' are going to be one of the main things in this game but also, something exciting, the skull thing is back! That's right, in order to compete in the final people will have to go into elimination and win in order to get a skull. The twist this season is that there's only 10 skulls which means, not only less people will get a skull and get to the final, but also they won't send into elimination the same people over and over again because, if they get two skulls, that's a chance that is taken from another player.

And that's pretty much it, to be honest. There's 30 players as of now, which is a lot of people and I'm sensing that there will be a major purge pretty soon, if not in the first episode, and it is set in Iceland, which is nice. Oh, and they're in a house now, which is also interesting.

I'm a bit bummed out that Bananas isn't in this season, but I've come to terms with it so I'm just going to root for Kyle instead. Anyway, I'm excited to really understand the rules of the game in the first episode but, in the meantime, let me know your first thoughts on this season and who are you rooting for as of now.

I'll see you guys tomorrow with the review of the first actual episode.

Love,

Daniela.