There have been dramatic episodes and series, but there hasn't really been an argument on Big Brother in a long long time that's provoked debate quite like tonight's, I don't think.There's a real feeling in this year's house of...uncomfortable...things coming to the fore in many of our housemates. Sort of very divisive 'truths'. Obviously on the first night we all suspected it might be a dangerous line-up, but it seems to be unravelling frighteningly quickly.
We've already had a proper homophobia row, a decent amount of controversial animal rights stuff, a huuuuge blow-up explicitly about gender roles, a lot lot lot of proper adult discussion about sex, you can certainly feel a lot of uncomfortable class-divide stuff coming to the fore, and that's before we even get to the two housemates everyone expected the most controversy from (Jim and Liz) and the contentious love-triangle feelingsy nonsense. I feel like Big Brother hasn't been so...'social prism'y since the very earliest C4 series.
We've already had a proper homophobia row, a decent amount of controversial animal rights stuff, a huuuuge blow-up explicitly about gender roles, a lot lot lot of proper adult discussion about sex, you can certainly feel a lot of uncomfortable class-divide stuff coming to the fore, and that's before we even get to the two housemates everyone expected the most controversy from (Jim and Liz) and the contentious love-triangle feelingsy nonsense. I feel like Big Brother hasn't been so...'social prism'y since the very earliest C4 series.
