Mana's 2017 RTV Retrospective

**See Also:**

Mana's 2015 RTV Retrospective

Mana's 2016 RTV Retrospective

**Shows included:**

* Big Brother US 19
* Big Brother Canada 5
* Big Brother Brasil 17
* Survivor: Game Changers
* Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers
* Australian Survivor 2017
* The Amazing Race 29
* The Amazing Race Canada 5
* The Amazing Race China 4
* Masterchef US 8
* Masterchef Canada 4
* Masterchef Brasil 4
* Masterchef Brasil Profissionais 2
* Project Runway 16
* RuPaul's Drag Race 9
* The Apprentice UK 13

## Spawns of Satan

### **258. Marcos Harter (Big Brother Brasil 17 - 4th Place)**

He made me watch an actual abusive relationship not only broadcast on TV, but backed by most of the nation. Thankfully ejected at Final 4.

## Odious Ones

### **257. Paul Abrahamian (Big Brother US 19 - Runner-up)**

A DR shouter with a bloated edit, an unfair advantage, and a tendency to make the game boring and predictable. Possibly a sociopath.

### **256. Bruno Ielo (Big Brother Canada 5 - 9th Place)**

Mind-numbingly boring and infuriatingly self-righteous. The way he doesn’t accept being questioned is gross. Also, worst taste in allies.

### **255. Luke Toki (Australian Survivor 2017 - 7th Place)**

Grown-ass man who acts like a 6th grader. I would have appreciated the chaotic gameplay a lot more had he not targeted my faves constantly.

### **254. Kenneth & Ryan (The Amazing Race Canada 5 - 2nd Place)**

BJ & Tyler’s faux-bohemian-ness and Brodie(&Kurt?)’s perpetual shouting-for-attention tendencies in one package of playboy garbage.

### **253. Ben Driebergen (Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers - Winner)**

Obnoxious asshat with one redeeming moment, ruined by one hell of an irredeemable (not to mention fishy af) endgame run.

### **252. Matthew Clines (Big Brother 19 - 8th Place)**

The most subservient of Paul’s Zombies and a big pile of nothing the entire season. Also, how he was always latched to Raven creeped me out.

### **251. Kevin Martin (Big Brother Canada 5 - Winner)**

A prick who thinks too highly of himself despite only winning due to a challenge-run. Also infamously using queerbaiting as a strategy.

### **250. Henry Nicholson (Australian Survivor 2017 - 10th Place)**

How he jumped ship from his tribe while in the majority then called his alliance members dumb for being voted out made me want to murder him

### **249. Aaron Polsky (Masterchef Canada 4 - 6th Place)**

Led his team to failure with his stupid “unseasoned meat is better” plan, then bullied Thea to take his place in the elimination challenge.

### **248. Aaron "A.K." Knight (Australian Survivor 2017 - 15th Place)**

EXTREMELY visible gamebot with an “ahm the best playah evah” mentality. And he didn’t even have a good downfall, he was just swapfucked.

### **247. Emilly Araujo (Big Brother Brasil 17 - Winner)**

An insufferable spoiled teen who COULD be amazing if her horrendous behavior and abusive relationship weren’t backed up by the public.

### **246. Fabrizio Barata (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 8th Place)**

He was just really patronizing and had this aura of superiority. He also had petty feuds with the best people and was ALWAYS in the wrong.

### **245. Trevor Connie (Masterchef Canada 4 - Winner)**

First thought upon seeing this arrogant fuckboy was “please don’t win”. Well… that went well as you can see.

### **244. Jeff Varner (Survivor: Game Changers - 14th Place)**

If “queerbaiting as strategy” wasn’t bad enough, meet “outing trans people as a strategy”. Good thing he was properly destroyed after that(:

### **243. Raven Walton (Big Brother 19 - 6th Place)**

While the absurd lies were funny, she was just an overall sad and embarrassing character. The “WOOF WOOF” moment gets extra cringe points.

### **242. Brad Culpepper (Survivor: Game Changers - Runner-up)**

Far better as a pathetic early boot than as an actual contender. Also a challenge-dominating alpha who uses intimidation tactics to win.

### **241. Mike Newton (Masterchef US 8 - 12th Place)**

His airtime consisted of complaining about “those kids” underestimating him (they never did), and bragging about living in a big ranch.

### **240. Pablo Oazen (Masterchef Profissionais Brasil 2 - Winner)**

Would’ve just been one of the many generically conceited men who have been through MCPro had he not won. Also gave off a really smarmy vibe.

### **239. Jeff Philbin (Masterchef US 8 - 6th/5th Place)**

Just hated him for being an asshole all the time. Also occasionally sexist. But mostly for being an asshole all the time.

### **238. Ryan Ulrich (Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers - 3rd Place)**

Tryhard “pity-me” kind of nerd with too much airtime. Fading into oblivion post-merge saves him from being lower. Also says “females”.

### **237. Troy "Troyzan" Robertson (Survivor: Game Changers - 3rd Place)**

He went from secondhand-embarrassment-inducing delusional alpha in OW to secondhand-embarrassment-inducing subservient beta in GC.

### **236. Mark Wales (Asutralian Survivor 2017 - 18th Place)**

Bland, took himself too seriously, kinda really scary, and also weirdly possessive of Sam. Btw, why do people find him hot? Ew.

### **235. Brien O'Brien (Masterchef US 8 - 14th Place)**

Cocky douche who goes by his full name. Thankfully, he was properly owned early on. “FUCK YOU WHO SAID I COULDN’T DO IT” – HENRY, Eboni

## Nuisances

### **234. Ozzy Lusth (Survivor: Game Changers - 12th Place)**

Irrel. His biggest offender was the pathetic advocating for Brad at FTC. Guess it would’ve given him a sense that he could ever win one day.

### **233. Jason Dent (Big Brother 19 - 7th Place)**

His ineptitude at the game made me laugh at times, but every time he tried to be actively funny I died a little inside.

### **232. Rômulo Neves (Big Brother Brasil 17 - 8th Place)**

Boring and irrelevant older man. Also Marcos’ beta and, while not being as obnoxiously offensive as Marcos, still kind of a stealthdouche.

### **231. Brandon Kee (Project Runway 16 - 3rd Place)**

Lethargic gremlin who always put out ugly-ass clothes that looked all the same every day, only to be praised to death by every single judge

### **230. Daniel Pontes (Big Brother Brasil 17 - 7th Place)**

Another BBBoringOlderMan. I thought he would be Satan because he had this good guy narrative going on, but he was just a big pile of nothing

### **229. Eureka (RuPaul's Drag Race 9 - 10th Place)**

Purposely loud and obnoxious for screentime, but always makes terrible and/or mistimed jokes. Already dreading her S10 appearance.

### **228. Claire Buitendorp (Project Runway 16 - 9th Place)**

Both twins were infuriating, but Claire was the more competent, more entitled, and less funny of the two. Also the whole #tapemeasuregate.

### **227. Dillon Carman (Big Brother Canada 5 - 5th Place)**

A pro-shitty-returnee-alliance newbie. Never actively awful, but also just kinda perpetually unpleasant. Also I hate the teddybear archetype

### **226. J.T. Thomas (Survivor: Game Changers - 16th Place)**

On one hand his three-season-derailment arc is hilarious. On the other hand, his racial-undertone-ridden feud with Michaela wasn’t pretty.

### **225. Adam Parkin (Australian Survivor 2017 - 23rd Place)**

Basically the stereotype of a Poker Player on RTV minus the trainwreck factor (which is the good part) #Taraowned

### **224. Alexis Michelle (RuPaul's Drag Race 9 - 5th Place)**

Walking secondhand embarrassment. I don’t really understand the praise she got (Liza Minelli/Kris Jenner) but it sure got to her head

### **223. Sierra Dawn Thomas (Survivor: Game Changers - 9th Place)**

Such a bizarre, oscillating edit between strategic mastermind and complete nothing, I still don’t get what the narrative was going for

### **222. Matt van der Helm (Masterchef Canada 4 - 9th/8th Place)**

I just got pretentious vibes from him, bragging about his trips to Asia all the time. Other than that he was just dull

### **221. Charles Burns (The Apprentice UK 13 - 11th/10th/9th Place)**

Could be a fun fuckup, but not when he escapes many eliminations sending better people home with his ability to push the blame away from him

### **220. Matt & Redmond (The Amazing Race 29 - 4th Place)**

The way they approached the feud with Vashton was just so off-putting and self-righteous I couldn’t get behind them. Also “team no drama”

### **219. Nicola "Ziggy" Zagame (Australian Survivor 2017 - 6th Place)**

I wish we could have seen more “Crystal Cox’d Anneliese while voting” Ziggy and less “bland character, terrible player up Locky’s ass” Ziggy

### **218. Valter Herzmann (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 3rd Place)**

Nonexistent most of the time. When he existed, Valter was occasionally funny with his out-of-place comments, but mostly just offensive

### **217. Aja (RuPaul's Drag Race 9 - 9th Place)**

I feel like she just started an inconsequential petty drama every episode to get airtime, it might not be the case, but it got on my nerves

### **216. Sarah Tilleke (Australian Survivor 2017 - 8th Place)**

Interesting gameplay, but she got so much airtime I wish we could have known her personality beyond “I’m more than a pretty face (gretchen)”

### **215. Cody Nickson (Big Brother 19 - 11th Place)**

He’s just the embodiment of everything wrong with masculinity and I can’t get behind that no matter how righteous his position in the game.

## They Certainly Exist

### **214. Caleb Reynolds (Survivor: Game Changers - 18th Place)**

Somehow did even less than what he did in Kaoh-Rong (which was already nothing) but had worse taste in allies this time
### **213. Elliot van Emden (The Apprentice UK 13 - 16th Place)**

Irrelevant and kinda miserable all the time. His only memorable moment is some cringe sales pitch where he starts talking about his grandma

### **212. Vitor Bourguignon (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 7th Place)**

I don’t get his fan-favorite status, he’s so insanely boring. Returning over Nayane/not being medevac’d on Douglas’s boot episode was tragic

### **211. Jade English (The Apprentice UK 13 - 7th/6th Place)**

Her only purpose on the show was to be a huge bitch to Joanna for petty reasons barely worth arguing over. Also she’s good at sales I guess?

### **210. Taise Spolti (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 13th Place)**

Irrelevant, but whenever she showed up she was just sour and emotionless in an unfun way. Also somehow started dating Walter post-show?

### **209. Harrison Jones (The Apprentice UK 13 - 7th/6th Place)**

Constant fuckup who survived over better people. At least he had that one fun moment singing because his team was too cheap to hire a singer

### **208. Monique Gabiatti (Masterchef Profissionais Brasil 2 - 6th Place)**

Boring and most of the time she just didn’t seem to want to be there, it kinda bothered me throughout.

### **207. Zheng Yuanchang & Wang Likun (The Amazing Race China 4 - 2nd Place)**

One of the three BoringMORCouples. One of those dominant teams that manage to get last place specifically at a NEL, that pisses me off lol

### **206. Emily Hawkin (Big Brother Canada 5 - 12th Place)**

Newbie who aligned with the ShittyReturneeAlliance, also her showmance with Dillon was blah. Reeks of “not like other girls”.

### **205. Malcolm Freberg (Survivor: Game Changers - 17th Place)**

Once again, Malcolm is kinda strategic and kinda boring. Him being eliminated due to JT’s stupidity and a random shitty twist tho <3

### **204. Luciana Braga (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 20th Place)**

I remember nothing about her except that that she beat out SEXYHAG in the audition process. A truly unforgivable act.

### **203. Zed & Shabbir (The Amazing Race Canada 5 - 7th Place)**

Pretty boring and Shabbir looked like he was suffering the entire time, but I guess it was just how his face is.

### **202. Jordan Levin (Masterchef Canada 4 - 11th Place)**

I actually really liked this little shrieky twink in the premiere, but then he started getting too unnecessarily bitchy in his confs

### **201. Ana Luiza Teixeira (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 9th Place)**

Shown as this sweet girl but was actually a lowkey bitch? But not in a fun Neleh way, it just felt like the edit was trying to force us that

### **200. J.P. Hilsabeck (Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers - 9th Place)**

Aside from the countless confessionals about “the firehouse” in Ep1, I never got his appeal. He was just there surviving over better people

### **199. Qiang Zi & Zhang Xingyue (The Amazing Race China 4 - 4th Place)**

One of the three BoringMORCouples. Specifically had a vendetta against glamdessas Fan Bingbing & Xie Yilin so bye

### **198. Guilherme Cardadeiro (Masterchef Profissionais Brasil 2 - 9th Place)**

No personality, only remembered for returning (over better people!!!) then being sent home in the exact same episode.
### **197. Natália Clementin (Masterchef Brasil 4 - 18th Place)**

She was from the country, she cried a lot, and she didn’t know how to use salt. All we got to know about her.
### **196. Jericho Malabonga (Australian Survivor 2017 - Winner)**

I feel like I could like him and his sneaky gameplay, but something didn’t sit right. Maybe the creepy TC speeches or… allying with Luke
### **195. Ciera Eastin (Survivor: Game Changers - 20th Place)**

I constantly forget she was even in this season. Fitting for her to be a first boot in a season dedicated to BIG MOVES
### **194. Mayla Araújo (Big Brother Brasil 17 - 17th/16th Place)**

Barely remember her, but I chose Emilly over her because she didn’t force a showmance Week 1. Ah, if only I had known what was to come…
### **193. Cameron Heard (Big Brother US 19 - 17th Place)**

Barely remember him either except the constant comments that he was hot, which… no?
### **192. Mark Chrysler (Big Brother Canada 5 - 16th Place)**

Apparently there was some huge plot behind him being 1st boot on feeds, but to me he will forever be the first victim of Karen Singbeil
### **191. Dan & Riya (The Amazing Race Canada 5 - 9th Place)**

Honestly not as bad as I was expecting since we’re dealing with Youtubers here. But they were also super UTR so I guess it was for the good
### **190. Odette Blacklock (Australian Survivor 2017 - 13th Place)**

So… odd. She was UTR forever and didn’t seem to know how to play Survior. Then was unexpectedly booted pre-merge for being a threat?
### **189. Mark Herlaar (Australian Survivor 2017 - 21st Place)**

Couldn’t care less about the “aww, gentle giant” stuff, he’s only this high for being a meat shield for Tessa. Also not hot, jfc

## Contestants

**Big Brother US 19**

67.Jessica Graf

72.Megan Lowder

82.Mark Jansen

100.Josh Martinez

105.Kevin Schlehuber

123.Dominique Cooper

143.Christmas Abbott

146.Elena Davies

148.Ramses Soto

164.Alex Ow

169.Jillian Parker

193.Cameron Heard

215.Cody Nickson

233.Jason Dent

243.Raven Walton

252.Matthew Clines

257.Paul Abrahamian

**Big Brother Canada 5**

2.Karen Singbeil

5.Ika Wong

12.Dre Gwenaelle

15.Demetres Giannitsos

40.Cassandra Shahinfar

43.Gary Levy

62.William Laprise Desbiens

73.Jackie McCurrach

85.Neda Kalantar

110.Sindy Nguyen

161.Dallas Cormier

192.Mark Chrysler

206.Emily Hawkin

227.Dillon Carman

251.Kevin Martin

256.Bruno Ielo

**Big Brother Brasil 17**

19.Elis Nair Gonçalves

21.Roberta Freitas

60.Gabriela Flor Bitencourt

76.Luis Felipe Ribeiro

83.Pedro Falcão

84.Ilmar Fonseca

102.Antônio Rafaski

103.Vivian Amorim

130.Mayara Motti

133.Manoel Rafaski

140.Marinalva Almeida

184.Ieda Wobeto

194.Mayla Araújo

230.Daniel Pontes

232.Rômulo Neves

247.Emilly Araújo

258.Marcos Harter

**Survivor: Game Changers**

4.Sandra Diaz-Twine

10.Michaela Bradshaw

13.Debbie Wanner

23.Cirie Fields

31.Tai Trang

58.Hali Ford

94.Tony Vlachos

96.Aubry Bracco

124.Sarah Lacina

159.Zeke Smith

162.Andrea Boehlke

195.Ciera Eastin

205.Malcolm Freberg

214.Caleb Reynolds

223.Sierra Dawn Thomas

226.J.T. Thomas

234.Ozzy Lusth

237.Troyzan Robertson

242.Brad Culpepper

244.Jeff Varner

**Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers**

7.Lauren Rimmer

22.Cole Medders

37.Jessica Johnston

39.Mike Zahalsky

41.Simone Nguyen

47.Patrick Bolton

52.Chrissy Hofbeck

71.Alan Ball

111.Ashley Nolan

127.Roark Luskin

132.Joe Mena

142.Ali Elliott

163.Desi Williams

172.Katrina Radke

180.Devon Pinto

200.J.P. Hilsabeck

238.Ryan Ulrich

253.Ben Driebergen

**Australian Survivor 2017**

11.Michelle Dougan

18.Tara Pitt

30.Ben Morgan

36.Jacqui Patterson

44.Tessa O'Halloran

64.Kent Nelson

69.Anneliese Wilson

77.Locky Gilbert

113.Peter Conte

121.Samantha Gash

125.Joan Caballero

126.Aimee Stanton

150.Jarrad Seng

160.Kate Temby

189.Mark Herlaar

190.Odette Blacklock

196.Jericho Malabonga

216.Sarah Tilleke

219.Nicola "Ziggy" Zagame

225.Adam Parkin

236.Mark Wales

248.Aaron "A.K." Knight

250.Henry Nicholson

255.Luke Toki

**The Amazing Race 29**

1.Brooke & Scott

16.Vanck & Ashton

24.Tara & Joey

26.Michael & Liz

29.Becca & Floyd

61.Kevin & Jenn

74.Sara & Shamir

119.Jessie & Francesca

171.London & Logan

185.Seth & Olive

220.Matt & Redmond

**The Amazing Race Canada 5**

33.Karen & Bert

50.Megan & Courtney

59.Korey & Ivana

65.Sam & Paul

97.Aaron & Deb

153.Adam & Andrea

158.Andrea & Ebonie

191.Dan & Riya

203.Zed & Shabbir

254.Kenneth & Ryan

**The Amazing Race China 4**

108.Fan Bingbing & Xie Yilin

109.Wu Minxia & Zhang Xiaocheng

131.Zhang Jike & Zhang Chuanming

137.Xu Yang Yuzhuo & Lu Ting

173.Deng Bin & Wang Xinyu

188.Xiu Jie Kai & Alyssa

199.Qiang Zi & Zhang Xingyue

207.Zheng Yuanchang & Wang Likun

**Masterchef US 8**

7.Eboni Henry

17.Dino Luciano Ignacio

34.Jason Wang

79.Gabriel Lewis

80.Reba Billingsley

101.Mark Togni

104.Paige Jimenez

112.Daniel Pontes-Macedo

116.Sam Reiff-Pasarew

139.Heather Dombrosky

141.Jennifer Williams

155.Caitlin Jones

156.Adam Wong

170.Yachecia Holston

179.Jenny Cavellier

181.Cate Meade

187.Necco Ceresani

235.Brien O'Brien

239.Jeff Philbin

241.Mike Newton

**Masterchef Canada 4**

38.Alice Luo

55.Miranda Wasstrom

70.Justine Joyal

86.Barrie McConachie

120.Thea van Herwaarden

138.Kimberly Duffus

144.Mai Nguyen

177.Alisha Sood

202.Jordan Levin

222.Matt van der Helm

245.Trevor Connie

249.Aaron Polsky

**Masterchef Brasil 4**

6.Mirian Cobre

9.Yukontorm Tappabutt

25.Nayane Barreto

32.Aderlize Martins

53.Abel Chang

63.Douglas Holler

66.Fernando Ferreira

87.Caroline Martins

95.Leonardo Santos

114.Michele Crispim

115.Victor Vieira

151.Bruno Viotto

152.Roger Fernandes

165.Deborah Werneck

197.Natália Clementin

201.Ana Luiza Teixeira

204.Luciana Braga

210.Taise Spolti

212.Vitor Bourguignon

218.Valter Herzmann

246.Fabrizio Barata

**Masterchef Brasil Profissionais 2**

14.Irina Cordeiro

35.Lubyanka Baltar

68.Angélica Vitali

75.Clécio Campos

91.Francisco Pinheiro

118.Ravi Leite

122.Mirna Gomes

134.Raíssa Ribeiro

136.Edney Moreira

154.Bárbara Cardin

168.Pedro Pecego

175.William Williges

176.Berta Schneider

198.Guilherme Cardadeiro

208.Monique Gabiatti

240.Pablo Oazen

**Project Runway 16**

20.Kentaro Kameyama

28.Margarita Alvarez

49.Samantha Rei

51.Michael Brambila

81.Amy Bond

89.Kenya Freeman

92.Aaron Myers

98.ChaCha Yu

128.Ayana Ife

149.Shawn Buitendorp

166.Batani-Khalfani

182.Sentell McDonald

183.Deyonté Weather

186.Kudzanai Karidza

228.Claire Buitendorp

231.Brandon Kee

**RuPaul's Drag Race 9**

27.Nina BoNina Brown

45.Sasha Velour

48.Peppermint

57.Farrah Moan

78.Valentina

90.Trinity Taylor

106.Kimora Blac

107.Charlie Hides

129.Cynthia Lee Fontaine

147.Shea Couleé

178.Jaymes Mansfield

217.Aja

224.Alexis Michelle

229.Eureka

**The Apprentice UK 13**

3.Elizabeth McKenna

42.Anisa Topan

46.Bushra Saikh

54.Joanna Jarjue

56.Michaela Wain

88.Siobhan Smith

93.Jeff Wan

99.Ross Fretten

117.Sarah-Jayne Clark

135.Danny Grant

145.Andrew Brady

157.Sajan Shah

167.James White

174.Sarah Lynn

209.Harrison Jones

211.Jade English

213.Elliot van Emden

221.Charles Burns