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I think the most exciting thing about Big Brother this week didn’t even take place in the Big Brother house.

Instead, it was the show’s Jury House – where ex-housemates go to live until the season finale – that provided a good amount of entertainment during Thursday’s live eviction episode.

There already were Rachel and Kathy - an odd pairing consisting of one part Las Vegas cocktail waitress, one part small-town sheriff. I can’t imagine much of interest happening between them to in one big house.

Then Matt showed up. You know, the dude who’d been playing both sides of the house all season, the player who was the deciding factor in getting Rachel and Kathy evicted and the man who made up that stupid lie about his wife suffering from some rare, medically expensive disease. (Hence why he really wanted to win the game’s half million prize).

He made his way inside and caught up with Rachel and Kathy. They talked about Big Brother-y things and then watched a week’s worth of episodes.

Then Brendon, too, entered the Jury House, marking, as Matt said, the time “to drop the bomb on them.” The bomb, of course, being the big reveal of his wife’s apparently perfect health.

As expected, Rachel, Matt and Brendon didn’t take the news in stride. Brendon said Matt was going to hell, Rachel called Matt the most horrible person she’d ever met and Kathy, well… Kathy got up and left the room.

Matt followed her into the kitchen and was berated for playing with her emotions. She questioned whether Matt had ever lost anyone to some untreatable medical condition. For the newbs out there, Kathy is a cancer survivor.

I think the worst part was that earlier this year, Matt had told Kathy that he felt he could feel better about his wife’s health thanks to Kathy’s successful battle with cancer. She brought this up with him with cameras rolling, and you could tell the point hit Matt pretty hard.

I don’t know. It isn’t too often for Big Brother’s drama to be poignant. But those moments in the Jury House were especially well done in ripping Matt apart. He totally deserves it, and I hope the episode makes Matt realize the weight of his lie.

Yes, it’s a game. But Kathy’s anger – I hope – rocked Matt. Living life in the way he played the game is a dangerous way to live.

Said Kathy: “There is not enough money in the world that would sell my soul to the devil. And that right there is pretty close to it.”

Anyway, the rest of the week was pretty lackadaisical, but I’ll do what I can here to review what went down.

For the week’s Head of Household competition, houseguests had to catapult giant balls into bins marked by playing card descriptors like Ace of Hearts, Queen of Spades and so on. Houseguests who scored 21 in the least amount of tosses moved to the next round, while players who scored less than 21 (or got 21, but with too many tosses) were eliminated. Last man standing won.

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