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The Block 2026 Episode 7: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
Waterproof Tuesday arrived, and almost nobody made it. Between an “impossible” deadline, a $43,000 oven, and Roscoe getting outplayed by his own teammates, the thread had more fun with the numbers than the renovation. Nobody was ever making Waterproof Tuesday Production shaved a day off the usual deadline and called it Waterproof Tuesday instead of…
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The Block 2026, Episode 7: Waterproof Wednesday Goes Completely Dry
Family Bathroom Week has reached the point where everyone is saying “waterproof” so often it has stopped sounding like a real word. Unfortunately for Courtney and Sev, the water was very real. It was sitting in their screed. Episode 7 began with Chantel and Wyatt returning after losing a full day, and ended with them…
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The Block 2026 Episode 6: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
Six episodes in and the live thread finally got the drama it’s been begging for, a full stand up shouting match over a spreadsheet error. Bathrooms are underway, budgets are already a mess, and one contestant spent an entire episode threatening to walk off over a typo. Wyatt refused to sit down, literally The thread’s…
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The Block 2026 Episode 4: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
Four episodes in, and for the first time this season the live thread had something other than complaints to offer. The AI songs mostly vanished, the actual building got airtime, and one contestant emerged as the season’s clear villain, for reasons that have nothing to do with the renovation. The AI cutbacks actually landed After…
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The Block 2026 Episode 3: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
Three episodes in and the live thread has stopped asking whether this season will pick up and started asking whether anyone will still be watching by the time it does. Tonight’s culprit: more AI music than ever, a sob story stretched well past its natural length, and a contestant secret that landed with all the…
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The Block 2026 Episode 2: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
Episode two aired, and the live thread arrived already braced for disappointment after the premiere. It got what it expected: a full week devoted to a guest bedroom decider challenge, more AI than actual building, and a photo scandal that showed up suspiciously fast for episode two. The AI songs have to go The most…
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The Block 2026 Premiere Recap: Five Teams Land in Mount Eliza for a $250K Guest Bedroom Showdown
Twenty-two seasons of The Block and Channel Nine has never once given contestants a water view. That drought is over. This season lands in Mount Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula, a one-hour run from the Melbourne CBD, where five brand-new teams have just been handed keys to houses looking straight out over Port Phillip Bay.…
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The Block 2026 Premiere: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
The Block is back for The Block 2026, and within about twenty minutes of the premiere going to air, r/TheBlock had already decided the whole season is cooked. Bold strategy, considering nobody’s picked up a nail gun yet. The Kim K of it all Producers apparently told the cast to chase “quiet luxury” and hold…
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A Kangaroo Named MG Just Handed Sonny and Alicia Their First Ever Block Win
Right, Let’s Set the Scene Twenty-seven hours to tools down, five teams, one shared front yard budget, and, because The Block loves a milestone, this also happened to be the show’s 1,000th episode. No pressure. Scott Cam spent the cold open reminding everyone this is the countdown of lasts: last pre-start, last room reveal, last…
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The Block 2025 Backyard Reveal: A Gnome War, a $20K Slab and Half a Point
Landscaping week. The one every single contestant on this show insists, with the confidence of a man who has never once landscaped anything, “wins you The Block.” Five teams, five backyards over 1,000 square metres each, and a ticking clock that didn’t care that half of them hadn’t even started turfing by Saturday lunchtime. Somewhere…
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