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The Block 2026 Episode 9: What r/TheBlock Actually Thought
The family bathrooms were revealed, and the thread’s verdict was blunt: a team blew their budget by tens of thousands of dollars and still nearly beat a finished room. Judging logic, budgets and patience all took a beating tonight. Blowing the budget paid off, apparently One team spent roughly $53,000 against a budget closer to…
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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 Bedrooms
The Block 2026 guest bedroom reveals have now aired. Here’s how all five teams landed, and what it means heading into week two. Five teams are building from scratch on Mount Eliza, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, for The Block 2026: Lisa and Rosco (yellow), Adam and Jolene (red), Rick and Tayla (green), Chantel and Wyatt…
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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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