Domain Buyers Jury week rolled around, which meant $50,000 up for grabs for whoever could charm the most strangers through their front door, kids bedrooms to build, a surprise redo room, and, as promised, a copycat scandal. r/TheBlock arrived ready for all of it, and left mostly furious about a tub of protein powder.
The Protein Powder Purge
Weeks of passive aggression about Wyatt and Chantel’s dishes finally boiled over when Jolene tipped his protein powder straight into the bin. The thread split down the middle: half were cheering (“that shit is expensive, it hurts”), the other half pointed out that destroying someone’s property is a different category of pettiness to leaving a bowl in the laundry. Either way, nobody thought it beat the obvious move of just telling Wyatt and Chantel to their faces.
The Mirror That Broke The Sub
The “allegedly there will be a copycat scandal” tease from the mod delivered: Sev revealed a tinted mirror wall for the girls’ redo room, mere weeks after mocking Jolene for the exact same idea in her living room. The thread did not let it go. “The more she tries to explain how it’s different, the more you know she’s copying the idea” summed up the mood, and predictions of Jolene short circuiting when she finds out were basically a running bet.
Design Over Finishing, Again
Jolene’s complaint that a half point off a perfect score barely dents a room with visible defects reopened the season’s oldest argument. Reddit mostly agreed with the substance while wishing she’d deliver it with less contempt, especially given Lisa scored a generous 6.5 to 8 for a bathroom that was still bare waterproofing a few weeks back. As one commenter put it, style has trumped execution all season, this was just the first time someone said it out loud on camera.
Wyatt vs Everyone, Including The Television
Wyatt spent the episode as the lone holdout against moving his rumpus room’s TV to face the view, a position the thread treated as exactly as credible as his interior design opinions generally are. Add in more grumbling about house snooping and intimidation, and the sub is fully out of patience with House 2’s whole vibe this season.
The Verdict
A protein powder crime, a mirror scandal delivered exactly on schedule, and yet another round of “since when do tens go to unfinished rooms.” Kids bedroom week did not make anyone kinder to each other, but it did make for one of the more entertaining threads in a while. Redo Room 2 is up next, so here’s hoping Jolene has found out about that mirror by then.
