After a long long week wandering in the desert, The Challenge is back! Let’s talk some Rivals.

I’m glad Frank is in a better place, but I’m gonna need you to channel old Frank a little bit to keep this interesting.

I know this was filmed and even edited weeks to months ago, but I’m going to feel awful if Nany and Kaycee the couple is a major ongoing story line this season since they broke up this week.

Frank’s whole story line in Battle of the Seasons having been yelling at the women on his team and still being the less sexist person from San Diego is wild (fuck off forever Zach).

I think we could just eliminate Katie right now and save everyone a week.

Beth might be the most clueless person in a house full of reality stars, how do you not understand that accusing someone of cheating on her husband on TV would make them mad?

Turbo’s plan to get through this season without punching someone seems to be taking so many edibles he’s completely disengaged.

And 35 minutes into a 55 minute episode, we’re just now getting to the daily challenge. We’re absolutely not getting through the elimination tonight.

We’re covering people in mud, we’re carrying ice, we’re balancing balls, pre-Gauntlet challenges are back! Faysal is gonna hate this so fucking much.

I don’t even know if this was right or wrong, but just incredible meathead thinking by Faysal on the mud, just using Amber as a basket and carrying her.

Ok seems like that worked extremely well.

Adam and Steve being the only ones to just start angling the ice cubes is probably the biggest strategy advantage anyone has has tonight.

Extremely disappointing that the challenge ended when the 4 teams won, I always prefer when last place automatically goes in.

Incredible how excited everyone got by the concept of essentially a digital picture frame.

Oh wow, we don’t even get to see who’s going in. They’re gonna need to pick up the pace a little going forward or this is going to be a 30 episode season.

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