Big Brother: Why The Game Needs An Overhaul In Season 24
Big Brother will return once again this summer for BB 24, and it's time to explain why big changes may be beneficial. Given how the show has been received for the better part of a decade now, a massive overhaul will be needed to prevent certain problems that have been prevalent in recent seasons. Although many attempts to curb these recent issues have been made, big alliances still manage to form and steamroll through the game. Big Brother has largely had the same format for most of its run.
«Expect the Unexpected» is the show's motto. Big Brother producerstry to spice the show up every year, by introducing new twists to make things a bit different than the year before, although the general format remains the same. Some twists have little effect on the game, such as season 12’s Saboteur, while others strongly impact the strategy of the season, like Battle of the Block. It's often hard to tell whether a Big Brother twist will help a season or stunt it. However, it is quite safe to say that the twists conceived over the past few years have done nothing to save Big Brother from its biggest issues.
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What season 24 needs to avoid is a big alliance steamroll. Multi-person alliances have dominated the game before, with The Brigade in season 12. However, season 16 is really where this strategy began having a stranglehold in future seasons, and major power shifts have become more and more rare. The mega-alliance Bomb Squad and sub-alliance Detonators dominated, and had little to no pushback because they consistently had the power and the numbers. Following this season, new players caught on that theBig Brother winner was usually part of these giant
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