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Unless Karen Henthorn only wanted to do a year and was always going to leave, this is the biggest mistake EE have made in years. Also yelling at Vicki saying she told Michelle not to bother wasting money coming over as if she didn't miss the entire family’s funerals and every wedding since the 90s 💀

Oscar and Josh actually have chemistry but CHRIST this love triangle is absolutely terminal and does 0 favours for either of them or Jasmine. They should have just got together while Jasmine was in prison then she either just gets over it when she comes back to focus on family or she got sent down and they cut their losses. She’s good with the Slaters tbf but we don’t even see that, for all fhe “I need to find my son”, Zoe has had about 2 seconds of airtime with either of them since.

Absolutely awful, iirc there was whispers of this a while ago but nothing came of it, I think it was one of the same sex couples a few years ago. It’s worrying that this could just be scraping the surface

The duos are Crystal and Aura (rap and R&B), Silky and Vivacious (rap), and April and Salina (R&B). Runway is “you butter ask somebody” whatever tf that means lol The pairs all exchange points so a muted week on the MVQ front.

The issue is the BBC will just look at Eurovision as guaranteed decent viewing figures, over 5 million this year despite everything and a dip from last year. Eurovision is still shaking being seen as a joke so it’s just something fun people watch with their families as a tradition, no big artist is ever going to want to do it and the likelihood goes down and down each year that the show itself becomes more a joke with everything happening. So they won’t pull out, they won’t look at what they’re doing and change tact, they’ll do whatever and come last and have a little laugh and move on. I don’t even think the song was that bad, it was something completely different for Eurovision in general and I’d rather come last with that than 20th with some boring ballad.

It is quite funny how Bulgaria tried so desperately hard to win for years in the late 10s then they’ve just accidentally stopped an Israel win with a random girlbop.

I expected it to be harder not to cave or that I’d feel sad I was “missing out”, but I didn’t watch at all in the end. I’ve got a few good songs out of what I’ve heard (followed some national finals and heard songs from artists I knew for example), that’s about it, I didn’t miss the show at all and just feel nothing about it all because of what the EBU have made it stand for.

People acting surprised each time as well 😭😭

The way that country rigging was not even close lol. I haven’t heard all the songs but Bangaranga and My System were my faves so I’m pleased that Dara won. As I’ve not been really following anything, I don’t know if it was but it feels mega random, but slay. Even if Israel’s rigging failed, it’s going to keep happening and the EBU are siding with genocide. Even if we want to tout some bullshit about leaving politics out of a song contest to excuse a genocide, they’re clearly fixing it somehow and that should be enough but we’re having this conversation for the third year in a row and nothing will change, and my interest is completely gone even if the EBU do something about them atp, which they won’t. And if they come 2nd with this utter crock of rubbish and last year’s, once they send a vaguely competent song it will happen.

Idk why they didn’t have a lipsync or a vote of the other 3 queens (not Dawn to avoid a tie), I agree it was really anticlimactic. That’s a problem with the bracket format and having a tie did give them an opportunity to do something more unique with it and they squandered it.

I think this will go down like a lead balloon. Emma Willis is dull as anything, they could have had basically any presenter in the UK and they choose her to be on yet another show? I mean she’s a safe choice and I do think that works for a show like this, fine, but I really can’t see how her and Josh Widdicombe work as a pairing.

Dawn has really had a glow up, and fairly got all of her wins, but I kind of wish A’Keria and Morgan successfully made it to merge as their alliance, that’s a better storyline than the tie imo. Honestly I just think 2 queens merging is a bit shit when there’s three really strong queens in A’Keria, Dawn and Morgan so any of the 3 missing out would feel like a loss. Especially as both A’Keria and Morgan are coming back after disappointing showings last time around to redeem themselves. I guess 2 instead of 3 makes it a bit less predictable as one of the strong queens misses out, but eh As for this challenge itself, any of Dawn/A’Keria/Morgan could have won, A’Keria was the funniest but Morgan and especially Dawn really felt like hosts, I hate these kind of challenges where it’s not really clear what they want.

I know Honey is meant to just be a nice person but her just being like “aw oh well :)” at Bea’s credit card fraud is mental 💀

There’s many things wrong with the show but Christ we really really do not need this gangster rubbish

I feel like this era is way too scared to commit to a route for stories and so they just drag things along until they decide. Like why not just have Bea be a short term batshit villain and fully commit to that? You get little blocks of things being good (obviously notably Nigel’s death) then the whole show ambles along for ages until we may get another decent episode weeks later if we’re lucky