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Akbar & Sheri (59/142): I definitely GET the hatred for Akbar, because his attitude towards Sheri often became very uncomfortable. It's the same reason I got really BAD vibes from Travis & Nicole towards the end of TAR23. However, the reason I still rank them high is because, despite Sheri constantly getting berated by Akbar...she really WASN'T the albatross on their neck...so watching them fail because of AKBAR? That was a satisfying end to their story. Plus, the thing about TAR33 was that, as a season, it was really predictable...so having ANY team with some interesting interpersonal feuds just spiced the show up a little bit. TAR33 wasn't BAD...it just was very flat. I feel like the COVID stoppage really fucked it up, tonally...and it made everything feel so safe and nice and sanitized. Akbar being a dick was at least somewhat amusing, and the season needed that, in my opinion.

Paloma Aguilar (111/142): This is another one I absolutely get, and I think if I take out the Challenge players from my list, she ranks almost exactly the same spot for me. Paloma's a tough one, because she is aggressively and actively awful in her time on the show...BUT it was really interesting to watch her go full Vanessa Rousso in week one, only to have a mental breakdown and quit the game that same week. She's absolutely one of the biggest personalities of the season, and as horrible as she is, I'd argue that a solid 3/4 of the house was awful in those first 2.5 weeks, and most of them didn't have the decency to be interesting about it. Most of them were just low-key, boring dickbags. Paloma going insane was at least entertaining...plus she probably would've failed regardless, due to the backstage boss twist. If anything, her week one set the stage for the season, and BB24 wound up having perhaps the strongest overall STORY of any Big Brother season as a result. Paloma's still awful, but she's a major part of why BB24 succeeded, rather than failed.

Nicole Layog (131/142): She's not as awful as Daniel, but I just couldn't enjoy Nicole. Even her downfall wasn't pleasant, because as much of a raging bitch as she was, her defeat came at a time when we'd just seen the Leftovers form and take out Ameerah as one of the strongest women in the house...and then they targeted Nicole for similar reasons. I'm gonna be honest...I never really liked the Leftovers as an overall alliance, outside of the fact that they were suddenly protecting Taylor (because they needed numbers). I think Monte/Kyle were always in the majority due to multiple alliances, so forming the Leftovers and acting like they were the underdogs (without TRULY reconciling the fact that they were just as awful to Taylor those early weeks as everyone else) just rubbed me the wrong way. So then the Leftovers taking out the only real competitive threats on the other side in back-to-back-to-back weeks just didn't satisfy me as much as I would've liked. That's ultimately why Nicole ranks this low. I think under different circumstances, a cocky character like her getting blindsided two weeks in a row could be amusing (particularly at the hands of her best friend in the house), but at the time, it just felt like eliminating one of the only USEFUL members of the opposition (as opposed to Daniel, who was even worse than Nicole).