American Grit – Season 2/Episode 3 – "Liar Liar"
- Aallyhia Cruz
- Jun 30, 2017
- 6 min read
Originally aired: June 25th, 2017
I feel as though lines are about to be drawn sooner or later but that’s just my opinion. The episode kicks off with Herman cooking a meal for…as expected, Melanie. I have said it a million times since Melanie made the sacrifice of shaving her head. Especially after Herman said that she looked more beautiful without it. I’m not going to read into it more just yet because its only the third episode but we’ll see. It just makes me smile. Moving forward, Gill and George have returned from the elimination challenge without the obvious meaning that Nathalie went home. I’m still full of salt about it but you know; rules are rules. Heading towards the nighttime, with the smell of a warm camp fire, the cadre meets with John (Cena). He goes into detail that trust is very important. Especially in this competition and with these kinds of contestants. If you don’t have trust as a leader or a team member, no one will win. Onto Grady who I think, I’ve lost my “trust” in. John (Burk) was right; even though this show is about helping people, Grady has stacked his team to the point where if you looked at them, they wouldn’t need the help that they are asking for by being there. Now I’m on Team Burk; although I find him low key frightening, in a way, he knows what’s up. Which leads to this week’s challenge on trust. John (Cena) claims that a boat will be involved and yet it may not considering he was consuming an alcoholic beverage while saying all of it. See, this is where I can’t trust John (Cena) like a light switch, very sneaky. Now when it comes to Gill, I see that she really needed this time at camp grit. Marital problems look different on a lot of people; there are some who just aren’t very more open about it until its too late. In Gill’s case, its good that she is letting a piece of herself go in that sense of separating with her husband. Its hard for her now but hopefully she’ll be in a much happier place with not only a different significant other but most importantly, herself.
Next day, the cadre meets up with their teams and they step in with picking the team captains for the trust challenge. The captains are as told in order:
Hannah – Team Burk
Gill -Team Riki
Michael – Team Grady
Janessa – Team Chloe
The trust concept is tested in a boat race. The teams must swim around the buoy gates and all the way back to the dock in order to complete the race. Then again, this show is hosted by John Cena and nothing he says is always going to be easy. A trick or two up his sleeve is what will make this challenge more of a nightmare for the competitors. The teams will never see it coming during this trust exercise that is more extreme than the old fashion trust fall. “Trust me” – John Cena; him saying that is like my phone battery’s percentage right now, which is 39%. The time comes for the challenge and before John (Cena) releases his mark, he lets the competitors know that the team members who are rowing will be blindfolded. In this case since they are on water, they’ll be wearing blacked out goggles. Oh the joys of the dark. Just like the same concept from before, the team that wins is safe from elimination. The cadre leader of the winning team has to pick 1 member from 3 of the other teams to go into elimination. The challenge starts and well, I want to stay hopeful for team Chloe but that might just be the tiniest regret I could make in my life. I’m scared not even one person from Team Chloe will make it to the finale. The end is near and the results are:
Team Grady – 1st place
Team Burk – 2nd place
Team Riki – 3rd place
Team Chloe – 4th place
Now onto Grady, he has to pick who is going to be in the elimination challenge. These red flag competitors are:
Janessa – Team Chloe
Hannah – Team Burk
Gill – Team Riki
I don’t want neither woman to go home. That’s what makes this episode really sad. Moving to George, he finally reveals to his team, minus Grady because he already knows, that he is the son of George Foreman, the world champion fighter. Understandably, the team freaks out well, kinda excluding Gigi a bit since she doesn’t know much about Foreman, except for the grill brand that they own. Anywho, onto the rest of the night. With people on edge in regards to elimination, of course Herman took it upon himself to fool around and make people smile, especially Melanie. Yet she assures us that they weren’t fooling around which I obviously as a 20 year old female who’s never fooled around in that manner does not believe. I will sip my tea and just agree with her, at least for now.
The next morning I can carefully say that Hannah will probably walk away from this competition with accidental scaring. Fish hooks and stove burns, that’s me on…basically everyday when I take my walks and I’m still sleepy. Jumping in with Riki, it was good that she addressed Carla on the outfit situation. I hope for the time that Carla is there at the camp, she sticks to her reason as to why she wanted to be there. She can look cute all she wants but if I was her I would focus more on the money; we’ll see how she is in the coming weeks. John (Burk) pulls Hannah aside and basically gives her a focused pep talk conversation. Even though she wants to be in the competition, she has to step out of her housewife bounds a little more, especially in the elimination challenge. Next, the competitors are just hanging with each other in small groups and such, then something causes that to drastically change. John (Cena) pops up and wants to pull Melanie to the side and take her on a little trip. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Well lets review:
During the previous night, Melanie, alongside with Herman, they were both drunk under the pavilion and causing a disruption so that’s obviously a bad thing.
The good thing…could be anything at this point.
So when the camera pans to just John (Cena) and Melanie, he presents her with a gift. *pretends to be shocked but is still smiling* Its Melanie’s hair that was chopped off in the previous weeks challenge. Melanie asked John in the previous episode if she could donate it. He took it a beautiful step further by having Melanie donate it herself to #Wigs4Kids. Its an organization that provides wigs for kids going through chemo treatment. The salon that’s a couple of miles from the camp is a #Wigs4Kids salon. Nothing but just a beautiful vibe. If Burk was there I think he would be crying alongside John (Cena) and Melanie. I mean who wouldn’t? Its a beautiful cause just like any other and its just full of goodness. Next up, Janessa being a person that is not very easy to speak to. She’s not a big talker and she thinks about situations that she shouldn’t be focused on. That could all change or not. Its a step by step process. Melanie is back and she is informed by Hannah in regards to Ali’s mouthing off about the previous night. Just that right there, as told by Melanie is deception and dishonesty. Everyone knows in reality shows that if you are really causing trouble in any way shape or form, you would be automatically kicked off. If Melanie and Herman took it to that extent then they should be kicked off but they weren’t. Of course Ali lies about saying those things but all seems to be water under the bridge, at least for now.
Its elimination day and before the serious mood happens, Hannah speaks on an interesting encounter she once had. Well not once, at least multiple times. When she used to deliver pizzas, she used to deliver some to John Cena. He would order meatpies which is very typical of him to do. On the other side of the lake, the rumor has already spread about Herman and Melanie being under the pavilion to the cadre. I’m betting John (Cena) already knew too just by looking through the telescope. Richard spits out a good rhyme on how he and the team are staying positive when it comes to Gill returning from the elimination challenge. Hannah and Janessa are respectively preparing themselves as well in the hopes of returning.
Time for the elimination challenge! Hannah, Janessa and Gill must spin different sets of wheels. If one of those wheels even stop for a second, that is the permanently eliminated competitor. The challenge starts, so far so good, everyone is doing great.
A moment of pausing the remote:
I can’t believe Burk listens to Justin Bieber.
The elapsed time is ticking and crud monkeys! Hannah takes a quick slip and fall. She gets back up and recovers but the other girls are continuing to struggle. In a nail biting finish it is Gill who must ring out of the competition. Hopefully during her time at the camp, what she has learned can help her move forward in life. Well, that does it for my review of this weeks episode. Stay weird or in the case of summer, stay cool.
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