After ten episodes full of bromance, illness, and perhaps one too many cliffhangers, House of Villains Season 3 has come to a close. A new villain has been crowned America’s Ultimate Supervillain.
When we last left off, the bromance alliance had been fully killed off after Christine won the Supervillain of the Week. She nominated Tyson for banishment, and unfortunately for him, the vote against him was unanimous.
The death of the bromance left us with Paul, Kate, New York, Drita, and Christine as our final villains, and in House of Villains Season 3 Episode 10, “It Feels So Good To Be Hated,” one of them walked away with $200,000.
What happened in House of Villains Season 3 Episode 10?
Five villains entered the finale, but there was only room for three finalists. The last villains standing duked it out in an endurance-testing Battle Royale Challenge, with the eliminated contestants returning to sabotage them. Sweet revenge!
The winner of the Battle Royale earned the power to choose one person to join them in the finale. To secure the third spot, the remaining three had to battle it out in a Redemption Challenge. At the end, the eliminated contestants cast their jury votes, and one person walked away $200,000 richer.
The final five got screwed by the other villains
Things got screwy for the final Battle Royale Challenge, but thank god there was no spit involved after last week’s biohazardous game.
In the final challenge, Joel had the final five villains climb on top of giant, spinning screws and hold on for dear life. The last person hanging won a spot in the finale, along with the power to pick one villain to come with them.
As if hanging from a giant screw wasn’t already challenging enough, enter the six eliminated contestants. Joel revealed that each of them could sabotage a villain and make their screw spin faster.
This was a sweet moment of revenge (and much-needed screentime) for the eliminated villains, but it was also deeply revealing about where everyone stands. Kate, Christine, Paul, and New York all got sabotaged for one reason or another. Poor Kate got hit twice. The only person who didn’t get screwed over? Drita.
That realization confirmed what we already knew — her quiet game, sympathy votes, and home-cooked meals have all paid off in the court of villain opinion. Suddenly, everyone left in the game recognized her as the biggest threat in the room.
Christine won the final Battle Royale
After getting screwed over twice, Kate was the first villain to fly off her screw. New York was next, followed by Paul. That left Drita and Christine in a head-to-head showdown.
After about 40 minutes, Christine managed to pull off the win — her second Battle Royale victory in a row. She’s gone from clueless to victorious in the span of a few episodes. Better late than never. Right after securing the win, she turned to Drita and said, “We’re in the final three!”
The two of them have been tight throughout the game, except for that Spitting Venom challenge, so it seemed like Christine’s victory just secured a spot for both of them, right? Wrong.
After winning the Battle Royale, Christine had the power to choose one villain to bring to the finale. The other three would go on the Hit List and fight it out in a Redemption Challenge for the final spot.
Back at the lair, Paul sat Christine down and made a very compelling argument: bringing Drita to the final would be the kiss of death for everyone. She spent this season cooking, cleaning, and making it nice for the villains. That’s a very dangerous person to bring into a jury vote.
Drita got backstabbed by Christine in the House of Villains finale
At the final Hit List ceremony, Christine sat on her throne, looking as fabulous as ever, and made her game-changing decisions. First on the Hit List? New York, who celebrated the occasion with a rousing speech that probably just secured her contract for Season 4.
Next up was Paul, who wasn’t too shocking. His entire alliance is in the jury, so it wouldn’t be smart to bring him to the final.
Then came the final name: Drita. In this moment, gasps were heard across the nation.
In the span of a few hours, Christine went from telling her, “We made it to the final three!” to throwing her under the bus, backing it up, and running her over again.
Christine claimed she put Drita on the Hit List because she felt confident that she would win the Redemption Challenge and earn her spot back anyway. Drita did not take that well and lit into Christine on the spot, promising to make sure that no one on the jury would vote for her.
“I promise you, because you f*cked me over, they won’t f*ck with you,” Drita said. “Play your little safe space. Drive your little Lambo. You ain’t getting f*cking $200,000.”
Spoken like a true mob wife. Meanwhile, Kate was just standing there stunned, realizing she’d just earned a free ticket into the final three. Good for her.
Welcome to The Backstabbies
All season long, Joel has been throwing out jokes about The Traitors, since the two shows feel like close cousins in a messy reality TV family tree. All those zingers culminated in this final Redemption Challenge: The Backstabbies!
It’s not quite the Emmys, but hey! It’s probably the closest thing HOV will ever see to an awards show. Bless their hearts.
This final challenge perfectly doubled as a greatest-hits complication of the season, with Paul, New York, and Drita answering questions about the cast and earning points for matching the majority vote.
Who was the worst challenge partner? Everyone said New York. Most likely to buy followers? Definitely Sandoval. The questions kept getting shadier and shadier.
Ultimately, Paul flopped on this challenge and fell so far behind in points that winning became impossible. He was eliminated from the game and thus banished from House of Villains. Always a runner-up, never the winner.
Then came the question that ended the game: Who in the house is the fakest?
New York said Plane Jane, which, on paper, we see her logic. Meanwhile, Drita said Christine, because she had just backstabbed her approximately five minutes prior.
Drita’s answer matched the majority, and just like that, she was back in the final. She beat New York 5- 2. Christine’s plan completely backfired, and she got called out for her fakery in the process. Double whammy.
With that, the Backstabbies concluded, and it’s Kate, Drita, and Christine who headed into the final. May the best villain win.
Who won House of Villains Season 3?
In a 7-1 vote, Drita was crowned the winner of House of Villains Season 3, and honestly? Well deserved. Here’s how it all played out.
Ahead of the final vote, Christine gave a lengthy speech that seemed to lose the room pretty quickly, effectively wrapping up a season of giving the producers very little to work with.
That said, the last-minute backstab on Drita did impress a few people. It’s House of Villains, and pulling off something genuinely rotten counts for something. She earned one vote from New York, who respected the cutthroat gameplay. Fair.
Then there was Kate — kind of the main character of Season 3 from start to finish. In her speech, she made the case that she’d outcompeted everyone, repeatedly getting herself off the Hit List and winning Supervillain twice. She boasted that she did it all without a firm alliance, but in a jury vote, the lack of an alliance bit her in the ass. She got zero votes.
Drita, on the other hand, managed to win over the hearts of all of the villains. She didn’t play a strategy-heavy game, but she stayed true to herself, letting the Mob Wives energy pop out only when necessary. That’s why seven villains voted for her, securing the biggest landslide in the show’s history.
Drita is America’s Ultimate Supervillain, and she’s also $200,000 richer. Congratulations, Drita! Stay villainous.
House of Villains is streaming on Peacock.
TELL US — WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOUSE OF VILLAINS SEASON 3 EPISODE 10? WERE YOU ROOTING FOR DRITA TO WIN, OR DO YOU THINK SOMEONE ELSE DESERVED IT? IF THERE’S A SEASON 4, WHAT CHANGES WOULD YOU MAKE TO THE SHOW?
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