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Okay, just to give a brief recap:

BB18, Paul comes into the house as one of twelve newbies, competing against four veterans. He buddies up with Victor (of Nicole & Victor), and he's a big, vocal proponent of getting rid of the veterans. Fine. Of course, Paul was also THAT GUY for BB18. "THAT GUY" in Big Brother terms is a young white guy who shouts in the diary room and is the go-to character when the producers wants someone's reaction to an event in the house. It doesn't matter if he's smart or good at the game...he gets to narrate the season.

Now, given that his alliance (Victor, Jozea, himself) were anti-veteran when Nicole was the first HoH, he was put on the block several times early on. But Jozea and Victor took the hits in those first two weeks, and then Paul began kissing copious amounts of ass to get in good with the dominant, veteran majority. And eventually he wormed his way in good with Paulie, the brother of Cody from BB16 (who had a connection with Nicole from pre-season). And Paul's thing is...Paul...is an asshole. When Frank and Bridgette (and to a lesser extent Natalie) were on the outs with the majority alliance, he took PLEASURE in shitty on them and making them miserable.

Frank and Bridgette were on the block week five, and Frank was going home. Period. This would leave Bridgette almost completely alone in the house. And Paul spent the back half of that week whispering lies in Bridgette's ears. He convinced her that Frank had campaigned against her and hated her and had done a lot of unspeakable shit behind her back. Keep in mind...Frank was going out, an he would not even be on the jury. There was ZERO reason to do this, other than Paul just wanting to bully and outsider (who is, like Nicole this season, one of the sweetest people I've ever seen on the show.)

Soon after this, it became clear that Paulie was running the show and trying to be the puppetmaster, so Paul got roped into a coalition to take out Paulie, and suddenly he was working for the good guys (Paulie/Nicole/Corey were kinda assholes, running the season up to that point.) And for the rest of the season, Paul was mostly inoffensive, if I'm being completely honest. He and Victor (who won two returnee competitions) stuck together and were a likable bromance, and Paul wound up losing in the finals, in large part because he DID make some wildly sexist comments against Natalie, and shit on Da'Vonne before his turn to the light side by targeting Paulie.

This all leads to BB19. Paul was a decently-entertaining character in BB18, who became less problematic, halfway through the season. But the whole of BB19 was tailored to his success. The show pretended to add a twist to get him into the game (gave the cast of newbies a "choice" that only one person needed to accept to trigger Paul's entrance into the house), and then gave him an ungodly amount of early power (he had the house campaigning to him for safety in the day two boot of the season). And Cody, the one person in the house who wasn't snowed by his returnee status, because an outcast and spent the early part of the season getting shit on for having DARED to target Paul. Paul spent the entire season in power, and every week, he found a new player (or couple) to outcast and treat like pariahs, essentially bullying people all season long, and forcing his allies to join in that bullying. This created a toxic and unpleasant atmosphere in the house, all season long, and it was actively terrible, because he NEVER faced solid opposition at ANY point. Thankfully, he lost in the end, but only after he'd suctioned the life from the season.
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