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Aired summer 2013 · The season the feeds outpaced the broadcast

MVP Summer

The MVP twist hands the public a third nomination each week and the season aspires to a structurally tighter game. What it became is something else — the run the live feeds outpaced the broadcast on, and the one CBS had to address on air when houseguest conduct kept landing outside what the edit could hold. The season aged hard, and aged fast. Worth knowing as part of franchise text. Worth watching only with that text in hand.

Filmed
Studio City, California
Premiered
Jun 26, 2013
Episodes
37
Format
16 houseguests · viewer-voted MVP nominee
the public chose a third nominee each week
Host
Julie Chen
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

Interesting twist, hard aftermath.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #26 slot.

Slot #26 of 27 in the Big Brother Editor's Canon. Twenty-sixth, the clearest gap in the canon between what a season's twist promised and what actually took over the summer. The MVP mechanic is a genuinely interesting structural idea, a real jump from anything in the tier above it, and on format alone this might outrank the Pilot. It doesn't, because what the room made of that structure overrides the mechanic's own merits. It still finishes ahead of the Winter Couples at the bottom of the canon because MVP Summer's problems came from within a normal summer format; Winter Couples never had a normal summer to work with in the first place, which is the harder deficit to overcome.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

Big Brother: every summer gets its own twistlist · 25 entriesThe broadcast wasn't the whole showlist · 15 entriesBig Brother: the twist is the formatlist · 17 entriesBig Brother — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #26