Landscaping week kicked off with a $50k cash injection for everyone, a blocked driveway, a gossiping Scotty, and a thread so exhausted by the judging fallout that its own host opened with a monologue. Mood: tired, suspicious, and still arguing about a mirror.
The mirror, the receipts and the “we always planned it” defence
Sev’s claim that the mirror wall was always on the cards did not survive contact with Reddit’s memory. Commenters recalled the “dance studio” quip about House 1’s mirror, the thread’s own OP asked whether she’d mentioned it before the fireplace and table, and one viewer asked whether the whole country had just been gaslit by Channel 9. The line that stuck: “It wasn’t inspiration when you straight up copied.”
Blame the judges, not the girls (mostly)
The most common take of the night was surprisingly measured: House 4 can’t control the scores, so aim at the panel. Plenty also noted Lisa and Jolene’s sulking was a bad look, while others said the smugness and the rewriting of history from Courtney and Sev did them no favours. Several people pointed out that the same thread that spent a week calling for civility had also spent a week being fairly vicious. The theory that three tens were a producer-made drama lever got a lot of upvotes.
$50k each, and nobody saw it coming (everyone saw it coming)
Another year, another last-minute budget boost, and another round of “what is the point of saving?” Houses 2, 3 and 5 got rescued; Lisa and Roscoe were down to about $4,500 before the top-up. Commenters labelled it “CommBank you lot can’t budget for shit week” and noted that a contestant who complained about “the rich getting richer” had just been handed the same amount as everyone else.
The blocked driveway and the bromance
House 1 blocking House 2’s rear access prompted Season 13 flashbacks and a surprising amount of petty applause. Dan’s site-manager conniption was widely read as performative, and the real winners were Adam and Roscoe, whose bromance was compared to Brad and Dale. Wyatt agreeing with the thread about the judging made some people feel physically ill.
AI music, Lando and the family reunion that wouldn’t end
AI slop count: at least one visual gag that “strips the imagination from the audience”, plus an AI treatment of an Australian classic that was called “pure evil”. Lando was name-checked on schedule, Hamish Blake turned up for a cliffhanger, and Scotty’s gossip fishing in the sharehouse became its own meme. The Shaynna and Darren spinoff got an ad break and a lot of promised non-viewers.
Verdict
Fewer rooms, more resentment, and a thread that has clearly run out of patience with everything except Frankie the Kelpie. Tomorrow: more landscaping, more cash, and Reddit sharpening its pencils.
