TV Review: Big Brother Season 9

Big Brother 9 started two weeks ago and has been nothing but a pit of drama from the outset. Not only are the players playing for money, but they are playing with a partner. That was definitely a great setup for the drama to begin. When the players entered the house, there were two couples who knew each other.

That's right, there was a couple that was dating at the time they entered and there was a couple that had split up. If that wasn't enough, the players, including those two couples, were going to be paired off based on what Big Brother thought their soul-mate match would be. The dating couple was split, but the exes were put together. If those two explosive situations weren't enough, one of the couples, a 46 year old woman and a 29 year old man were put together. They sparked right off, but not in the way one would with a soul-mate. It was an instant dislike.

The season has been dramatic in so many ways, including one of the house guests causing quite a controversy with his usage of the term "retards" for the disabled children that he works with. There was even one of the worse fights in the history of Big Brother between two of the house guests that included the comment that she should be given a noose so she could "hang herself like her father did."

In a less dramatic, yet house shaking event, one house guest was called into the diary room and did not return to the house. His partner was called in a short time later and was told of the house guests departure due to "an urgent personal matter." He was replaced in the house by a previously evicted house guest who had been in sequester. No one really knows what really happened to the house guest, but he is the first to leave without being evicted since 2003.