by Gina Scarpa

 

It's down to the final six teams on The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat 2 and you can smell the deal making all the way from Whistler, British Columbia. Never has someone been more alone than Evelyn - and it's not the first time this has happened. The Island, anybody? Ev's entire alliance has been wiped out by Kenny's alliance. Evil has triumphed over good... or good has triumphed over evil, depending on whose side you're on.

 

The only person Evelyn has left is Lando Calrissian so she continues to drive home the fact that the two of them should be the finals together and work to take out Kenny. Landon, in the meantime, tries to strike up his own deal with Kenny which is: if Kenny wins, Landon wants to pick who he goes in against and he wants Ryan and Theresa. Hmm, I wonder why.

 

Time out. Do Ryan and Theresa and Jenn and Noor ever stop and wonder why Kenny wants them to make it to the end? Nobody really thinks he's going to let Pete and Jill get there, do they? Kenny wants to bring along weaker teams that he feels he can beat. Why don't they work together to take Kenny and Laurel out, who have dominated so much of this challenge, to have a fighting chance at 1st place? Maybe they're just happy to be invited to the party.

 

Time in. This week's challenge is called Wrecking Ball, where the girls hang upside down by the feet and are swung around like, you guessed it a wrecking ball, while their male counterparts try to build a little tower. The guys have to have their towers standing for 5 seconds, without their partner crashing into it, in order to finish. Laurel and Kenny went first and had no clue what to do so Laurel banged in the tower, while their fellow competitors laughed but Evelyn and Luke really took the cake when it came to comedic relief. Luke was an absolute disaster, having no ability to keep his tower standing or gauge where his partner was. It was embarrassing.

 

After four seasons, Jenn FINALLY wins her first challenge (thanks to Noor). He killed it and definitely showed why he was chosen to be one of the Fresh Meat in the first place. They choose Evelyn and Luke to go in while the others vote in Landon and Carley. No surprise there. However, there is a surprise when TJ walks in and tells the two teams that they're living now for the Exile. NOW?! In the pitch black and freezing cold?! Yes, now.

 

The Exile is exactly the same - a hiking course, with puzzles along the way, and weights for the teams to carry, this time, in buckets. Landon and Carley get off to a decent start, but Carley soon feels the altitude and dehydration. She is completely out of it by the time they reach the second puzzle and all Landon can think about is getting to the finish line, instead of her health. He pushes her to go and they complete a third puzzle, which shaves five minutes off of their finish time.

 

Evelyn and Luke reach the finish line and begin celebrating, then realize that there's still 5 minutes before they can call it a victory. Just as we're about to find out if Landon and Carley made it, three fateful words popped up on the screen: To be continued...

 

 

The Challenge: Fresh Meat 2 airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on MTV.

 

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