Tennis court, sauna, guest house, no neighbours, uninterrupted views of the sea, swimming pool and shock horror, some personality!

The way Wyatt is charging money for favours and/or flat-out refusing to lend the Cursio brothers is really starting to get on my nerves.

It’s like he thinks the way to win The Block is by hoarding trades, charging your neighbours for help and hoping the other teams get screwed over by a lack of resources? And yes, obviously everyone is there to win but if your strategy for winning depends on the other teams being disadvantaged rather than you simply being better at styling and designing, that says a LOT. honestly, to me, it screams insecurity. He doesn’t want an even playing field because he’s scared of losing.

If you’re as good as you think you are, you should be confident that you can beat the other teams on an even playing field.

Because if you genuinely have confidence in your building, design and ability, why are you so desperate to keep everyone else from having a fair shot?

Win because you’re better. Not because you made sure everyone else had a harder time.

Just my two cents.

contestants talking about fire places

\disclosure, ‘when a fire starts to burn’ plays*

My husband: “GOD another AI song”

Me: “no it’s actually a real song !! Haha”

I was watching Sev bemoan the lack of large table in the last episode and the frothing over a new Christian Cole table.

I was internally screaming “stop looking for something that doesn’t exist in Freedom!”

Are they not allowed to purchase items outside of The Block dossier?

I get they have Block Bucks to spend, and Freedom is a sponsor, but as someone who loves mid century furniture - why aren’t they styling with some actual high end vintage items? Mid century furniture would fit with the “quiet luxury” brief perfectly. And I’d be more interested in seeing contestants source and style with vintage items than visit Freedom for the upteenth time.

Do we think the judges will like Adam & Jolene’s mirrored wall??

I can’t think of much worse than having clutter duplicated or the view of the dust/fingerprints when the sunlight catches it arghhh the mirrors in our bathrooms are enough thanks.

Remember when the drama on The Block was a contestant discovering their floor wasn’t level at 11pm?
Now we’ve got contestants living together to manufacture fights, AI-generated fever dreams every five minutes, influencer casting, $3m houses nobody normal can afford and 45 minutes of drama for 90 seconds of actual renovating.
I don’t want the show cancelled. I want the old Block back.
Give five normal couples $500k shitboxes, a realistic budget and judges who care whether something is actually built properly.
That would be infinitely more entertaining than another argument in a sponsored E&S kitchen.
I fear the Hampton East drama season drew in a lot of attention and now the producers are aiming for that.

Btw if someone wants to write “you’re watching trash TV what do you expect” or “turn off your TV” save your breath…this is a subreddit about the Block you’re welcome not to comment or be here.

Does anyone know what brand the electric bikes are that are in the Plungie? I assume the ones at the Sharehouse are the same....

After yet again more harping on the girls and their budget I got sick of it. Other than their huge week on the bathroom their spending hasn’t been much crazier than the other teams considering their wins. I felt like last night they were punished for the room “looking expensive” despite it being in the same ballpark as other rooms. So I took matters into my own hands. I went through and got all the spendings and winnings including midweek challenges. Week one spending is an estimate, green is based on info we’ve heard and yellow is based on their guesses. Something that doesn’t make sense is on the recent episode they said the girls spending is around $135,000. This doesn’t line up with the spending they’ve told us each week. There’s no way the girls spent more than 20k week one because Chantel and Wyatt were slammed for spending just under 21k with the accounting error. Moral of the story the girls actually aren’t far off everyone else and it’s actually kind of gross of channel 9 to continue down this route while the girls get so much hate online.

Easily the most boring bathroom reveal in recent memory, not a single space stood out. And that "this is so Mount Eliza" comment? Major cringe. It’s absurd to reduce an entire community's aesthetic to bland and boring, I mean white and bright minimalism. There's no way every wealthy homeowner in the area actually wants a house totally devoid of personality and creativity.
Any serious homebuyer dropping money on this Mickey mouse construction has lost their mind.
What's the budget again? 300K plus prizes (and prize money)? For context, my niece bought an apartment in Queens, NY this year. Average neighborhood. One bedroom. Basically redo the whole apartment (walls intact) and with material, the total cost was 130K USD.

It is so good to not have toxic story arcs.

Am I alone in thinking this?

I'm finding that I don't like or agree with the judges more and more each week and why for the love of God is Shaynna wearing a ball gown to judge? She looks like a giant grumpy tomato.

We need fresh new eyes in the next season, if they do have another one.

Hating all the AI slop, but the bus stop in the domain open for inspection on the Mondays episode was the best use of AI so far!

Am i the only one?

.. i will not be eating my dinner off Scotty's arse.

Seriously, wtf is with this season?

Its become a yobbo's home & away show - nothing to do with proper construction and design. The contestants are true imbiciles and narcistics. Scott Cam should be ashamed to be associated with this crap show - for me all credibility out the window too.

Pity the buyers of this crap ...

I will never watch another season of this crap show again ... total rubbish viewing and noise pollution.

I predict that the girls will win the challenge this week so that they can afford their Christian Cole table

Ok, this is an extraordinarily pedantic thing to check in on, but these titles at the start of Mondays’ episodes are wrong, right? They do the reveal on Sunday, start work on Monday. That gives them 6 days to reveal when they show the title. Am I missing something? Haha.

If these Mt Eliza houses struggle to sell or don't sell..

The Block needs new Judges.

Don't know if it's called a lounge but did houses 4 or 5 get approval to build on the roof?

has anyone seen these houses on Domain? They are looking so cheap and I can’t really put my finger on the super power other than embarrassing!

Hello! I’ve binged seasons 18 & 20 of the block Australia and loved them both but found the auction on s18 quite sad.

Any suggestions on which other AUS seasons I should watch please? Thanks

I’m from the UK and also open to hearing about any other franchises people recommend, thank you ❤️

Hello! I'm viewing in Aus and have only just caught up on the VIP guest (Darren) chat where he blatantly walked back the advice to go bland that he'd given previously ("white, light and bright"). I personally had hated his original advice; it seemed like an express train ticket to sameness and blandtown IMO.

My question about his recent walkback is this: what motivated it? Did the produces suddenly realise they were gonna end up with five larely indistinguishable houses to try to sell on auction day? Or just a lack of visual interest for viewers? Or or or....? Hit me up with your speculative opinions, from likely through to fully unhinged

They're laying it on think with the tiling saviours (Cursio Bros) this week. If they're not making $ off selling the houses, is this the next line of tenders they've put out to make sponsor dollars?

Feels like every second scene is sponsor focused at this point.