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Spies, Lies & Headlines of The Challenge 37 Episode 12
Every week this season, I’m going to be breaking down the biggest headlines from The Challenge season 37.
Without further ado, LET’S GO!
A Predictable Elimination Result
In a season filled with telegraphed episodes, this might have been the worst one so far.
I knew within about five minutes that Emy would be going in against Bettina and she’d switch to Sapphire. This was pretty much the exact same thing as episode 7 when Emy went in against Esther and stole CT from Berna.
I understand they need to build a narrative throughout an episode, but I just felt like there was way too much time spent focusing on Bettina and Emy this episode.
I thought early in the episode there was a slight chance that Amanda would get called out, but that went out the window when Emy and Bettina got in a fight at the club.
In all honesty, I don’t know how you could ever make a Bettina boot episode interesting (especially given how bad she performed in elimination), so I give the editors a bit of a pass for this subpar episode. But I…