We have good news and bad news. The good news is that The Anonymous returned with a brand-new episode this week. The bad news is that moving forward, we’re only going to get one episode each week. That three-episode premiere spoiled us, and now we’re going to have to wait on the edge of our seats each week to see what happens next. The horror!
Alas, in The Anonymous Episode 4, “New Handle, New Me,” we picked up right where we left off last week, with a handful of players up for nomination and the power of The Anonymous up for grabs.
Thanks to Xavier and his alliance, Tyrenna had the biggest target on her back, and her only hope for survival was gaining the power of Anonymous. Here’s how it all shook out in Episode 4.
The Anonymous strikes again
Within the first moments of the episode. DANI had all of the players on edge waiting to see who The Anonymous chose to eliminate. Unfortunately, the axe dropped on Tyrenna, and she became the third player eliminated from the game. Xavier’s plan worked.
Then, it’s revealed that Xavier was the one who ended up winning the power of The Anonymous. He got to see his plan through to the end, all while lying straight to Tyrenna’s face.
In his hideout, Xavier justified the backstabbing move by saying that Tyrenna “sporadically” shared information with other players. Did the cameras forget to capture that, Xavier? Watching from home, it just kind of seems like they targeted the nicest player.
Back at the dial, Tyrenna revealed that she was playing as the Truck, which should have made everybody feel silly. They were all convinced that she was the Dice, which let Robbi skate through another episode unscathed. Either way, Tyrenna left in good spirits.
“Be glad you got rid of me early because I was going to be running all of ya’ll,” she said with a laugh.
Nina’s cover is blown
After the elimination, the players all went to their separate corners and started talking strategy. That’s when Jack shared a game-changing bit of information with Xavier. He tipped him off on the fact that Nina looks suspiciously similar to Survivor legend Sandra Diaz-Twine.
At that moment, you could see it all click for Xavier. He practically soiled himself when he realized that he had been playing this game alongside Sandra’s daughter. Xavier immediately took the information and started seeing Nina through a new, threatening lens.
Meanwhile, Jack said in his confessional that he planned to keep Nina as a close ally, thus putting Nina in a sticky situation. She has one person gunning for her because of who she is and another trying to take advantage of her. The bottom line is that Nina needs to watch her back.
A handle refresh shakes up the game
As if this game hadn’t been confusing enough, DANI tells the players that they’re going to get new handles. She also warns them that this can happen at any point throughout the game. This is great news for some players and terrifying for others. Regardless, DANI makes the rules, so the players were forced to go to their hideouts to create new handles. Here are the updated players:
- Dillan: Popsicle
- Christopher: Lipstick
- Nina: Fire
- Andy: Lightning
- Marcel: Snake
- Xavier: Scissors
- Jack: Flamingo
- Lilly: Robot
- Robbi: Rocket
Sounds good, right? Wrong. DANI drops another bomb. Suddenly, there are 12 avatars in the chat. What does it mean? It’s time to welcome three new players into the game! Sydney, Kacie, and Tyrenna are yesterday’s news. Now, it’s time for Wayne, Bismah, and Victoria. Let’s meet them.
- Bismah aka Eagle: A political lobbyist who lies and tells the other players that she’s a real estate marketer
- Wayne aka Lightbulb: A former police detective who lies and says he’s a janitor
- Victora aka Cactus: A travel blogger who is ready to flirt her way through the competition. Little does she know, someone already tried that this season and it didn’t work.
There’s a showmance blossoming
With a flirty new player in the game, Christopher immediately flocked to her like a moth to a flame. Within minutes, these two were making small talk like they were on Love Island or something. You could tell Victoria was just living for the attention. It was also a good distraction for Chris, who had previously been spending his days complaining to the house about his disdain for Dillian.
According to Chris, Dillian wasn’t contributing enough to the prize pot, so he started gunning for him to get kicked out of the competition. Elsewhere in the house, Dillian made it known that he wasn’t a huge fan of Chris either.
As a reality TV veteran, Nina saw all of this happening and recognized an opportunity to start some mess. Bless her for that. She told Dillian that Chris had been gunning for him, and thus, the seeds were planted for a fight, but first, a challenge.
160 pounds of puzzle
For the third challenge, DANI had the players split into three teams, chosen by the newbies. They also learned that the new players would be safe from elimination. Plus, if they won the challenge, they would get to share their immunity with a teammate. Those are some serious stakes, DANI!
This challenge seemed nearly impossible when watching it from home. DANI had them assemble a puzzle, but the puzzle had to weigh exactly 160 pounds. Who the hell comes up with this stuff?
While some folks were fighting to win, others were just fighting to make themselves look relevant in the game. For example, Dillian and Andy needed to prove that they could contribute to the prize pot. Unfortunately, that still didn’t happen.
The winning team turned out to be Bismah’s team, thanks to Jack. He immediately saw the solution to the puzzle and guided their team to victory. And since he was such a big asset to the team, Bismah awarded him the immunity. Seems fair, right? Not to Lilly.
When Bismah announced Jack as the recipient of the immunity, Lilly about lost her mind. She had a full-on temper tantrum. After being up for elimination literally every single day, she really wanted a break, even if she didn’t earn it. She said, “I’m madder than a hornet!”
An Anonymous Mode takedown
Later that night in Anonymous Mode, the players were ready to break in their new handles. With a clean slate, the players wasted no time getting messy. Immediately, Dillian felt ready to shake the table and wrote, “Robbi, you’re going up tonight.”
With that in the chat, Jack decided to shine a light on Victoria and Christopher. Feeling threatened by their showmance, he wanted to get other players against them. It worked, and everyone joined suit and started dragging them. Welcome to The Anonymous, Victoria!
Victoria didn’t know how to navigate all of the heat on her. She genuinely seemed surprised that people were throwing her name around in the chat. So, in an attempt to throw people off her scent, she wrote in the chat, “Chris tonight, Victoria tomorrow.”
Meanwhile, Wayne the Lightbulb didn’t say anything throughout the entire chat. This newbie perhaps had the smartest strategy. he just sat there quietly, collecting “intel.” Why pop off in the chat and risk outing your identity?
During the final stretch of the episode, DANI challenged the players to nominate someone for elimination. Of course, this is always when things get interesting.
As promised in the chat, Dillian aka Popsicle voted for Robbi to go home. Four people voted for Christopher to go home, which shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise. Bismah and Robbie both voted for Xavier. Bismah’s reasoning was so real. She was like, “He won Big Brother. He’s a threat, and he needs to go.” Finally, someone is saying it!
Andy got a few votes like he always does, but the most surprising nominations came from Chris and Lilly. They put Nina up for elimination, which seemed out of left field. Chris said he was just trying to throw people off his scent, but with her ties to Survivor being whispered about in the house, this doesn’t look good.
Dillian finally popped off
After the nominations, Victoria was sitting around sulking and confused about why people were coming for her in the chat. Then, Dillian popped up out of nowhere and tried to give her some perspective, all while reading Chris. Cue the most epic takedown we’ll probably see on this show.
“You’re associating yourself with people who are loud and obnoxious in this game,” Dillian explained to Victoria, before completely dragging Christopher.
Meanwhile, Christopher acted like he hadn’t been campaigning against Dillian. However, Dillian aka Popsicle aka the Phaedra Parks of The Anonymous wasn’t having it. He popped off on Christopher in a feisty moment of reality TV excellence. He called Christopher a handful of things, including “unfunny, loud, and country as hell.”
Meanwhile, Christopher, Victoria, and Lilly were sitting there with their mouths agape. They had no idea how to react to Dillian and were completely dumbfounded.
“If I do get the Anonymous tonight, you will be walking out. Don’t play with me,” Dillian concluded, before strutting out of the room in perfect rhythm.
With that epic takedown out of the way, DANI summoned the players back to their hideouts to complete “the test.” Who remained the most anonymous with their new handles and will get to vote out one of the nominated players?
Of course, it won’t be revealed until the next episode who won the power to eliminate, but DANI teased that it was either Victoria or Jack. If Jack won the power for a third time, let’s just call it quits and give him the grand prize now.
Next week. we’ll find out which of the nominated players got the chop from The Anonymous and what other twists DANI plans on throwing at these players.
The Anonymous continues on USA Network on Monday nights at 11/10c.
TELL US – WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE ANONYMOUS EPSIODE 4? DO YOU THINK VICTORA MADE A MISTAKE BY GETTING SO CLOSE TO CHRISTOPHER? WHO DO YOU THINK THE ANONYMOUS WILL SEND HOME NEXT WEEK?
