The Challenge: All Stars
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After six riveting episodes, Ive decided that the best part of this season is ultimately TJ Lavins smile.
Allow me to be cheesy and a little bit thirsty for a moment.
Also, excuse me for comparing this all-stars season to the regular season ofThe Challengefor the umpteenth time.
So everyone returns from the Arena.
Im not sure whats so off-putting about this woman that it needs to be reiterated this much.
But other female competitors like Aneesa and Kellyanne are threatening, but no one hates them for it.
The challenge feels like a better-developed version of the skydiving/puzzle mission onDouble Agents(sorry!
Except for Katie, of course.
Everyone elsethinksthey did well, for the most part.
But now he has a victory on his hands.
Mark doesnt even look like hes internalizing this information, and waiting for TJ to say, Just kidding!
Once again, Katie decides to throw herself into the elimination.
Jemmye, our audience surrogate, reminds us that this is famously not how the game works.
Derrick is pretending like he was injured from the challenge, with a fake bloodied bandage around his head.
This isnt a dig, per se.
I understand the economic quality of screen time when it comes to reality television.
And that guy is Letarrian.
But Katie also has to do well.
Meanwhile, Mark and Kendall agree to put their differences aside to compete in the elimination.
Literally, what else would they do?
This is reality TV!
So we finally go to the Arena for an elimination that I find a little underwhelming.
But Mark and Kendal win the last two rounds, which I shouldve known would happen.
Or at least it wasnt obvious!
So we say good-bye to Laterrian and Katie.
Who knows if Katie would leave her family again to barely compete on this show another time.
But Laterrian is definitely coming back.
He and Aneesa kiss good-bye.
I love that Aneesa isnt just ambivalent about being with this man but that her ambivalence is also conditional.
See you next week!
