Big Brother 28 Premiere First Impressions: Rachel Returns Again!

Big Brother 28 premiered Thursday night and gave us 14 new houseguests and three realty TV “icons,” including Rachel Reilly in back-to-back seasons.

So Rachel has returned once again. Or did she?

I mean she did come back, but it was all just to throw us off and offer some of that really embarrassing Big Brother fodder that makes most of us closet fans of this ridiculous show. It was fun to see Rachel again, especially after she got screwed over so hard last season. But it was really silly and I am not sure what the whole point of that was. For those who don’t know, there will be another “icon” to replace Rachel. So it’ll be Angela, Devens and if you want to find out, check out our spoilers.

Now on for my actual first impressions. As I have already said, I did enjoy seeing Rachel again, but now that we know she’s not really competing, I am moving on from that. Let’s start with what I thought of the BB28 cast.

The Cast

The Big Brother 28 cast is a little young for my liking. The past few seasons, I’ve really enjoyed the older cast, but it looks like we are back to the younger cast. And as for the icons, I am not that impressed with the choices. I don’t consider those three icons, and they didn’t go very far by dipping into the Survivor pool.

It’s still early to really make a call on the cast, but I am not as excited as I have been the past few seasons. I do think that there’s some potential with newbies Barrett, La Trice, Jason and Taylor, but you never know how it will shake out. Angela will bring drama and Devens and the other “icon” will bring gameplay. So I am hopeful.

The Twist

I am not sure about this twist yet, because I don’t totally get it. It’s kind of obscure right now. All we know is that it involves time travel, but we have no idea what kind of twists there will be. So I really wish I could have an actual opinion but we will have to revisit that when we actually know what it’s all about.