When casting directors pick out their seven new bad girls for the new season, they decide based on how each one of the seven girls will bounce off each other and every different possibility. Being cast as an OG means that the producers bet on the seven of you to make the season possible based on how they predict each personality will interact with one another.

I know people in this sub like to clown Tess for leaving too early and say she’s not a real bad girl, and go hard on season 11’s casting and the lack of diversity, but the season was never envisioned to turn out the way it did. Tess’s departure made season 11 so chaotic, and a more relaxed personality like her was going to tone down the more extreme girls in the house.

Gigi was not at all expected to come so early, and she wasn’t cast as an OG for a reason, so for her to basically function as one changed season 11’s dynamic for the worse. They don’t analyze the house for days and choose what replacement will work; they just bring in whoever is ready to come to the house at the moment, and that is clear with Gigi.

Season 12 is disliked like 11, but for polar opposite reasons: it is too boring. Linsey’s drunken antics ended up getting her the first boot on the first night. Linsey nor Tess were meant to leave the first night or even the first few days. Of course, the show is no stranger to replacements, but the OG seven are meant to last a week and create a base storyline that the replacements folow.

I don’t know how season 12 would’ve been with Linsey because she was very drunk, but it was clear the season wasn’t meant to be the Jada hate club. People like to say XYZ season has bad casting, but if an important part of the cast leaves 12 hours in, it’s hard for the season to recover. Girl A may be cast for the sole reason that she will bump heads with Girl B, but if Girl B leaves before anything meaningful happens, the reason Girl A was on the show doesn’t matter anymore.

I give season 12, and to an extent season 11, some grace for that reason because I can see the vision the producers had, especially for season 12, because Linsey’s exit was lowkey a domino effect of Slim burping, lol. (Tess lasted longer than her. Tess left when the girls were right about to go to sleep; Linsey left before the girls got back from the club)

Would bgc 11 and 12 better if linsey and tess stayed?