A surprisingly good episode! Quite a few good (hair) pies today. Definitely worth a watch.

10 minutes in, and OG Julia (the same Julia who got an amazing triple pieing without missing a beat barely 2 years ago) is almost CRYING because the MEAN BOYS are pouring WATER (WATER!!!!!) on her head!!! Said mean boy then followed it up with the worst pieing this show has ever done. (And man that is a LOW bar to get under.)

Hoping the episode really picks up... This is a pretty bad start even by modern standards.

(EDIT: 15 min in, Token did the wraparound pie thing. Good if you like hair WAM.)

(EDIT: Hour in, still no good facial pieings. Barb has already pied 4 different guys and is 100% clean. Apparently we are only getting Darkest Timeline Barb in this new incarnation.)

(EDIT: In the least shocking development ever, Barb stayed 100% clean, as she has ever since returning, and pied the hell out of the losing male captain... even though it didn't stick.)

I dunno, this looked like a pretty shitty episode to me if you like actual facial coverage. And Barb basically being allowed to be her worst every week with ZERO chance of comeuppance is borderline unwatchable. No wonder OG Julia was crying. She thought she'd signed the Barb contract. ("Come back and we'll rig the game so nothing ever happens to you.")

There was an abundance of hair pies.

However, the men did a poor job of also pie-ing the face.

When they do the former without doing the latter it's incomplete, IMO.

Part of it can be blamed on the dryness of the pies. If the pies were gooey little effort would be required to accomplish both.

Even Ruda's (Token's) swirling pie got stuck in the girl's hair. Her face remained mostly clean. This never used to happen.

The rest of the blame goes to the men who refuse to press the pie sufficiently to get it to adhere to the women's face. (The women have little problem doing this to the men.)

Again, if the pies were better this would've been a pretty damn good episode. (How many weeks have we been saying this?)

And yes, it really sucks that Barbara (the team captain) walked away clean, AGAIN! However, the losing male captain only received one pie. So, almost assuredly, little was lost.

If she wasn't so goddamn beautiful I would really dislike her. Her face is literally perfect. Give her boob implants and she's a better looking Pamela Anderson. But if she can't take a pie without crying like a baby she needs to get the hell off the stage.

Her role now is to be one of the "veteran" models who provide "name recognition" (???) for the cast. Or some bullshit or something.

ANYWAY. It's pretty obvious all the veteran female models are protected. Ana and Barb have walked away spotless for close to 12 shows now between them. And Julia's been 100% protected until this week.... and it was the WATER that brought her to tears. Literally the stupidest, most worthless gag they have.

I get why Dani quit after that show tho. If all the models who came after you got to pie the hell out of the guys with no consequences... and YOUR show resulted in you getting the only good female pie barrage of 2017.... You'd probably quit in disgust too.

ANYWAY. Julia isn't gonna quit--or have anything happen to her--anymore than Barb will quit (or have anything happen to HER). Just like Curly will never quit... and never NOT lose as captain. This stuff is all rigged and they're not even trying anymore. And now that the pies are garbage I'm not sure there's any reason to tune in.

Also for those who care, there is indeed one GREAT pieing in the previous week's episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoYBdy3Km6o

Starts at 1:09. Everything else is forgettable, along with everything from Sunday.

Speak for yourself Rich... No hair in any of the pies last week

Yeah, we're looking for different things here.

I feel like the current frustration has mainly been with facial coverage, or lack thereof. So that one hit was surprisingly good (and long), perhaps because they were making a point of avoiding the hair. (But covering the face well.)

Barb used to do this thing where she would grab the pie and SHOVE it back into her own face if she felt the guy was going for the hair. The end result, of course, would result in amazing facial coverage. But you rarely saw it because the show made a point of protecting her from mess during the later shows. (I mean, not like now, where she's invincible...)

If I remember correctly that occurred when the guy delivered the pie standing behind Barb and used two hands (and his body weight) to pull it into her face. He nearly pulled Barbara backwards off the chair.

It's a great technique because the recipient can't push the pie forward. They can only attempt to push the pie up. This results in burying the pie deeper into their face.

It's kind of like a judo flip where you use the motion of your opponent to throw them in a desired direction.

Nobody has used that technique in some time. I wouldn't be surprised if the producers no longer allow it.

Actually, she used it multiple times.... The one you're thinking of was the infamous "cut to a wide shot with no aftermath" debacle. But the same thing happened earlier in the same show. And several other times in the Chega era. And then once or twice during Conexao. (Which doesn't sound like much, but Barb's only been pied like 5-6 times total during the Conexao era, despite appearing in about half the shows.)

Spoiler alert: I watched some of my old compilation clips last night!
Other spoiler alert: EVERY era of CM is better than this one. Even the beginning of Conexao when we were bitching about how much the show "sucked now." We would KILL for one of those shows now. At least the pies were good. (Actually, the "outdoors" era was just as bad as this one.)

At least the lighting and camerawork is better indoors.

thanks for posting! That was indeed an awesome hit. Like Rich I am a fan of face hits and facial coverage. However some of the hair pies (in the past anyway) still managed to get moderate-to-good facial coverage. Great leg shot, too, after the red pie. Wish there had been more aftermath following the blue one. But for the current era of the show, very good. By the way...I used to think the "no pie clause" was a myth, but last night Barb missed a question and designated another girl to take the balloon. She said something (wish I spoke Portugese) and the girl she selected to sit in the humiliation stool was none to happoy about it!!!

I talk portuguese, say the moment of video and I talk to you.