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Cut - Shirin Oskooi

318. Shirin Oskooi - Season 30 - Worlds Apart

Shirin is an incredibly annoying and try-hardy presence this season, on top of the fact that she stroked the already ginormous egos of Max and Mike (as well as actively enabling the former), which is just ew, especially from someone that didn't know how to shut the fuck up.

Considering that Shirin 1 - had a substantial edit, and 2 - has a mouth that keeps going, and going, and going, you'd hope that in the 11 episodes she's around, she'd have plenty of good moments, which just wasn't the case. Instead, I count all of 3 good moments from her this season: 1 - Raising her hand, preventing Will from getting his letter (obviously); 2 - The part of her jury speech directed at Will; 3 - Pointing out monkey sex (although looking back, that 3rd one is a bit iffy as it's another example of her being an attention-seeking try-hard, though it stands out for being ridiculous).

Some do point to her voting confessional against Will in the pre-merge as a "good moment," which is not the case. Said confessional goes: "We need to win challenges, AND we need A LOT more space in the bed!" To me, that's just like "Really? A fat joke?! Not even a good one?!?!" Like, ugh! Talk about the epitome of try-hardy and immature there. Also, considering that at this point, her main ally was Max and they were feeding off of each other, it just added to the cringe and awfulness of her character.

Overall, to me Shirin is just an awful, annoying stain on Worlds Apart, and contributed to my dislike of the season as a whole. I'd also like to add that it doesn't appear like Shirin herself learned much from this appearance as she went from someone who was treated poorly to someone who was booted BECAUSE of her poor treatment of someone else (Abi). So yeah, this cut is long overdue in my opinion, and I'm glad I got the chance to do it. BYE SHIRIN!

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