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Aired summer 2020 · The second all-star cast

The Second All-Stars

The franchise's second all-star season, and the first since 2006. Sixteen returning houseguests spanning the show's full history walk back into a house produced inside a strict bubble. Twist-light by design — the cast is the format.

Filmed
Studio City, California
Studio City soundstage, strict bubble production
Premiered
Aug 5, 2020
CBS · Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday
Episodes
33
33 episodes across the summer run
Format
16 returnees · all-star cast, twist-light
Safety Suite the only standing weekly wrinkle
Cast size
16 players
16 returning houseguests across BB history
Host
Julie Chen Moonves
Julie Chen Moonves, twenty-second summer at the helm
01The take

The Second All-Stars.

The franchise's second all-star season, and the first since 2006. Sixteen returning houseguests spanning the show's full history walk back into a house produced inside a strict bubble. Twist-light by design — the cast is the format.

The Second All-Stars is the season that argues the modern run has its own legends. Twist-light, cast-heavy, and built on more accumulated franchise text than any house before it.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

The franchise's second all-star season, and the first since 2006. Sixteen returning houseguests spanning the show's full history walk back into Studio City, produced inside a strict bubble. The season is twist-light by design — a single Safety Suite wrinkle, and otherwise the cast is the format. Every move lands with seasons of prior context behind it. Julie Chen Moonves anchors thirty-three episodes. The modern era's argument that Big Brother has built its own legends, made on screen.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #03 slot.

Slot #03 of 26 in the Big Brother Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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04What to watch for

4 moments, no spoilers.

  • Ep 1 · the lineup lands

    Sixteen returnees from across two decades of Big Brother walk in together. The first hour is the season's whole argument — every face arrives with prior text attached.

  • Ep 3 · Safety Suite

    The season's one standing wrinkle is introduced. Watch which veterans chase it and which trust their social game instead — the cast sorts fast under pressure.

  • Ep 12 · old reads collide

    Players who have history from prior seasons re-meet at the table. The accumulated context does work no newbie season can; the producers let it breathe.

  • Ep 25 · the long game shows

    By the late stretch the all-star instincts are fully visible. The bubble-era pacing tightens the room, and the season's cast-is-the-format bet pays off.

06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
Big Brother S22 — The Second All-Stars — tiered.tv