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The Bachelor took a week off due to the NFL adding a Monday night playoff game which is the worst thing this particular season could’ve gone through because I had no idea who any of these women were and didn’t recognize them until there was like, 20 minutes left in the episode and now there’s a whole 6 days for me to forget these people again. Doesn’t help when you have the lamest Bachelor of all time.
Fortunately, this season has one drama at the house that has nothing to do with Clayton. Shanae vs. Elizabeth has been the only thing worth watching this season. Shanae has convinced herself that the only way she can extend her time on a show about finding love without actually doing any of the work to find love, is to pick an enemy and present them as a bully and herself as a victim.
I have nothing specifically to say about the plan. It’s not particularly genius as it happens almost every season nor is it this disgusting pearl-clutching maneuver because the stakes are incredibly low.
It is hilarious for Elizabeth to say that she ignored Shanae once because her ADHD doesn’t allow her to focus on two things at once and it’s even more hilarious for Shanae to never let that go and make fun of her ADHD every time she remembers to do so.
This week, their beef went to a new level as they battled for kitchen supremacy. Elizabeth made shrimp for all the girls andddd naturally, Shanae decided to eat a majority of the shrimp before most of the other girls could.
Next week’s preview has both girls make it past another rose ceremony despite their only interactions with Clayton being completely about discussing the other woman. I want/need the producers to keep these two until the very end and force Clayton to choose between them without ever actually getting to know anything about them.
Winner of the Week: Cassidy’s bang buddy
The episode started with Cassidy both bragging about the rose she won on a group date as well as bragging about having a friend with benefits at home leading to Clayton finding out and kicking her off the show.
Completely unfair for Cassidy to be sent home because there’s a guy in her hometown she occasionally bangs and he makes it known he doesn’t want to date her. It’s insane to assume all of these women are virgins prior to meeting the Bachelor and they should all be 1000% devoted to one man as that one man openly dates and hooks up with 20 other girls directly in their faces.
But shout out to Cassidy’s bang buddy who gets his 1am drunk hook up back sooner than later.
Loser of the Week: Everyone who keeps getting stuck on group dates with Elizabeth and Shanae
If you are in the same room as Elizabeth and Shanae then you hold the same level of significance as the fake Home Goods potted plants in the background.
Weirdest Moment of the Week: Trauma circle
It’s never a good sign when The Bachelor returns from a commercial break with a trigger warning. Nothing on Bachelor should get serious enough to make anyone change the channel and thankfully, nothing serious was really said but the forcing of emotions was cringy.
The first group date made these girls sit in a circle and almost try to one-up each other spilling their self-esteem issues and weight struggles as some bonding exercise with a guy who they may have collectively had maybe 5 conversations.
The oddest part of this bullshit crying confessional was the initial prompt being ‘what’s something about yourself that you’re not proud of’ which led to women telling stories about being rejected by men for not being good enough. Just a fucking outrageous response to that question.
Q: what’s something about yourself that you’re not proud of?
Their answers: I’m not proud of my ex starving me because I hit 101 pounds. I’m totally not proud of that part of myself.
My answer: That time I got drunk til 6am and had work at 7am.
