I just finished watching the season finale of Big Brother 16 on CBS. It was a very predictable season and Derrick, the 30-year-old undercover police officer from Boston, won the $500,000 dollar grand prize. He played an amazing game and was never even on the block the entire season. That's quite impressive when you consider this season had the special "Battle of the Block" competition every week which meant four houseguests were always nominated. He actually took home a winning of $575,000 if you count his Team America completed missions along with a previous HoH competition prize.
Cody finished in second place and won $50,000 dollars. I thought Cody showed great loyalty to Derrick at the end when he won the final HoH and elected to take Derrick to the end as planned for a long time. It was obvious he was only going to receive two or three jury votes at best against Derrick. They were a part of the Hitmen alliance from day two and stayed true to each other. Cody could have surely won the $500k if he had simply taken Victoria to the final two. She was the biggest floater in Big Brother history and I don't think she would have out-voted him. Donny won America's favorite player and the $25,000 prize. Plus he received a contract from CBS to appear on a future episode of the soap opera, The Bold and The Beautiful. He may actually end up making some pretty good money with or without the beard. Perhaps even Duck Dynasty on A&E may invite him on a future episode or two. Zing! Well okay, not really.
I was actually pulling for Frankie aka Ariana Grande's older brother, or Caleb aka Beastmode Cowboy, to win the game or place in the top two but they were both evicted 5th and 4th overall respectively. Those two guys should have stayed strong together and went to the end. Instead Caleb stabbed Frankie in the back on more than one occasion. Actions always speak louder than words and Frankie was always loyal to Caleb when it came down to it, but it was never the other way around and that ended up causing both of their downfall. They were easy targets for the hitmen alliance when they should have been a tough challenge.
While I enjoyed Big Brother 16 this entire summer I'm hoping they cast some better game players next year. It just seems like this past season had only four or five really intelligent and determined players. With sixteen people in the house it was sort of a boring process weeding out so many bad players who had very little strategy. The girls definitely need to stick together next year as well. Instead they seemed to be picked off one by one by a big guy alliance. Especially early in the season.
As far as some new shows I'll probably watch this fall. Scorpon and Stalker on CBS. They seem interesting but I haven't been able to keep up with too many shows lately, old or new, because I've been busy watching the Houston Astros finish their 2014 MLB season. I'm going to watch the pilot episode of Scorpion on my Xfinity on-demand later tonight or tomorrow. Stalker will premier next Wednesday Night on CBS. Also the new season of Survivor: Blood versus Water part two, premiered on CBS earlier tonight. I'll catch up with that episode as well.