So we're gonna be at the halfway point in the season this week. These are my current rankings:
Cirie Fields (She's Cirie. She's a great social player overall, and she gives great diary rooms.)
Felicia Cannon (I love how much wonderful "cranky old lady" energy she brings to the season, and she's got that kind of bitchy attitude you love to see.)
Hisam Goueli (Three weeks of him was the perfect amount of time for him to have a glorious rise and fall, while still being a likable villain.)
Izzy Gleicher (Her connection with Cirie is obviously beneficial, but her constant paranoia and general hatred of Cameron made for great television.)
Blue Kim (I hated her attitude at certain points, but it's kind of looped back around to being ironically hilarious how she wants to be this bad punk bitch, but she's kind of a flop.)
Reilly Smedley (She made for a good week two boot, that's for sure. Props for inspiring cultlike devotion to her memory.)
America Lopez (I appreciate her playing hard and being a house pariah for seemingly no reason, but I rank her a little lower because she's coming across as one of those "I need to make BIGMOVES kinds of characters.)
Matt Klotz (He seems like a mostly nice guy, Andrew Tate quotations aside. I appreciate him not being a complete jackass in a season filled with jackass men.)
Jag Bains (He's another nice guy, but he's also kind of a flop, and it's a tiny bit frustrating to see him bumble his way to success.)
Bowie Jane Ball (If her edit starts to pick up, she can certainly rise in my rankings. But for the time being, she has largely been a background player thus far.)
Mecole Hayes (See what I said about Bowie, but without the inherent exuberance she displays. Mecole is such a weird mystery to me in general.)
Kirsten Elwin (It's crazy how so many people say she was robbed, or the season would be better with her around. She wasn't BAD...but she also wasn't GOOD. She just existed and was slightly offputting, resulting in an early boot.)
Michael "Red" Utley (I grew to dislike him a little, if only for enabling Cameron instead of completely isolating him like the weirdo he is. Red wasn't TERRIBLE though.)
Cory Wurtenberger (I just hate the archetype of the nerdy superfan, because more often than not, they think they're so much smarter than we are, and production gives them all the narration possible to hammer that point home. It's just frustrating. I don't WANT to see someone like me succeed. I would SUCK as a character on Big Brother.)
Jared Fields (He's an arrogant brat and hs actually managed to tank a pretty sweet position in the house, because he's just incapable of being consistently nice...particularly towards women. More than that though, he has tanked CIRIE'S game as well, which is no bueno.)
Cameron Hardin (The guy's a creeper on the pretty girls in the house, but more than that, he's got massive "main character syndrome". He's the space cowboy, and he goes on the block twice and STILL doesn't realize that maybe there's a REASON why you're being pawned twice. Him winning HoH to take out Izzy and suddenly getting so much undue praise just sours him even more. Also, he's fake as fuck, and desperately trying to be a big character more than anything else. He unironically gives HIMSELF the nickname Space Cowboy...for SOME reason.)
Luke Valentine (I don't actively hate him as much as Cory/Jared/Cameron, but I can't justifiably put someone who used the N-word anywhere but last place.)