Reveal night landed on a Monday thanks to the footy finals, and it delivered exactly what the last few episodes promised: a genuinely brilliant winning room, a horror-show budget blowout, and Wyatt somehow finding a new way to make things worse for himself.
Courtney and Sev’s perfect week
The bronze mirror, the curved walls, the acoustic panelling, house 4 walked away with the room of the season and the thread agreed instantly: “Courtney and Sev, you fully deserve a 30 this week. No questions asked.” Under budget too, which made the judges’ fawning over the styling almost bearable.
“Wife or girlfriend or whatever she is”
Wyatt’s defence of himself over the Jolene house-snooping saga went badly, but Chantel’s line describing herself as his “wife or girlfriend or whatever she is” (in defence of him needing to be “intimidating to protect their family”) landed even worse. The thread was not in a forgiving mood: multiple commenters flagged the irony of Wyatt lecturing anyone about stealing, given the tree, and several pointed out he’d opened Adam and Jolene’s sealed boxes himself while denying it was a break-in.
The $40,000 rumpus room
Rick and Tayla’s room looked fine but the budget reveal stopped the thread cold: forty grand on a rumpus room prompted disbelief across the board, with one commenter simply writing “FORTY FUCKING GRAND. WHAT ARE THEY DOING?” Tayla took the resulting judges’ feedback on the chin, for what it’s worth, something even her critics gave her credit for.
The redo room returns
A proper redo room made a comeback this season, to general excitement, though the thread was quick to note the irony of some rooms scoring near-perfect marks while still visibly unfinished. “How wasn’t the girls a 10, Darren? You can’t claim it’s the best room you’ve seen and give it a 9.5” summed up the confusion around the scoring logic all episode.
The robot vacuum era
Sponsor integration reached new heights with a robot vacuum getting a full infomercial moment mid-judging, plus a background robot the thread found genuinely unsettling (“the robot moving behind Scotty is unnerving”). AI slop count landed around six for the night, a mercifully quiet one by this season’s standards.
Verdict
One genuinely great room, one genuinely bad budget, and Wyatt somehow still finding new lows before the credits rolled. The redo room’s back in play and the auction’s creeping closer, so there’s still plenty of runway for this cast to make things worse for themselves. Given the track record, don’t bet against it.
