Wednesday, October 12, 2016

B&L Recap "The Jojo Drinking Game"

  A momentous occurrence has happened in Bachelor Nation. One of the couples received their own reality show. The funny thing is, is it really even their reality show? It just screams like an excuse to have as many past contestants on one show as possible, but they want one couple to be the forefront. In that way, this show came off as an even more scripted unscripted show than The Bachelor, and that is saying a lot. You’ll see what I mean about that as the recap progresses. Also, based on the focus of tonight’s episode, I’ve invented a new drinking game. Every time they mention Jojo, the final 2 contestant on Ben’s season, drink a shot. Or don’t drink a shot. Only a wahoo wouldn’t die during this drinking game.

  So the episode starts in media res at the after the final rose for Jojo’s Bachelorette season, which was in July. At least the show has given us right off the bat when they started filming. Ben and Lauren are fighting over the fact that Lauren doesn’t want to be there because she knows they will be asked about how Ben told Jojo he loved her but proposed to Lauren.

  Then, they flashback to one month earlier in one of the most scripted segments ever. Apparently, I’m supposed to believe that random people, who know they are on camera, randomly will come up to Ben and Lauren and ask about Jojo. Ben reveals that he told Lauren ahead of airing the show that he had told Jojo he was in love with her, but that it still caused issues in their relationship. More of my thoughts on this in a second. Ben also reveals on the drive home that he is scared of clowns because of a dream. I relate. I’m pretty sure I’m scared of snakes because of a nightmare. I wasn’t scared, and then when I was 7 I had a dream that a snake attacked me and killed my family. After that, I’ve been borderline phobic.

   Anyways, back to the show. A producer calls and asks them to go to Jojo’s After the Final Rose. Lauren is adamant against going because she wants all parties to move on. Here’s where I think Ben needs to move on from Lauren. Its been a year, no one cares. It’s Lauren who needs to move on. If she had, she wouldn’t care so much about being around Jojo because Ben chose Lauren, not Jojo. If he wanted Jojo, he’d be with her. Also, at this point with the drinking game, I’d have died for taking 500 shots just by this point of the episode. Furthermore, the most recent engaged couple ALMOST ALWAYS goes to the After the Final Rose, with the final choice having to see their engaged person’s ex. Guess what? None of them cared. Because exes are exes for a reason. Kaitlyn went to Ben’s After the Final Rose and Lauren didn’t care then.  But supposedly it’s different now, even though it was almost a year from when Ben broke up with Jojo. 

  To prepare for their appearance, they watch Jojo’s season for the first time. The only thing I notice is that they make fun of Robby, which earns them points in my book. There is nothing about Robby that doesn’t deserve being made fun of. Also Lauren complains again about Jojo talking about Ben so much in her season. Fair point, it annoyed me as a viewer too, however, yet again only someone incredibly insecure would still care about Jojo’s relationship with Ben when they broke up almost a year ago. 

  In the obviously scripted part of the episode, Lauren has lunch with the twins from Ben’s season of The Bachelor. Within a minute, one of the twins asks Lauren how she is with Ben and shows her a tabloid story.  Was I seriously supposed to buy this? If you were actually friends, you would know that the tabloid story was false. So either they aren’t actually friends, or producers told them to ask Lauren about it to make her upset. Hmm I wonder which one it is……..#NotRealityTv

  There is a segment on how Lauren wants to buy a toilet because the one Ben has was made for cavemen. She talks about how his house has “potential” but it needs to be remade. I keep thinking about how this parallels conversations between my dad and my stepmom. Ben will soon learn that the female is always right, like my dad did. May our old 20 something year old couch rest in peace. If Dad watched this episode, he’d suffer PTSD for sure.

  Then Jojo is told by producers, scratch that, spontaneously decides to call Ben at dinner with Lauren to ask them to go to lunch with her. Lauren is pissed. I’m officially dead from the Jojo Drinking Game. Conveniently *cough cough* Jojo invites them to the meal right when the mariachi band plays so Ben can’t hear what he is agreeing to. If I took a shot at every scripted thing in this show, I’d also die.


  We are now back to the start of the episode, showing the fight between Ben and Lauren at Jojo’s After the Final Rose. I will say that this was an interesting part of the episode. They had seemed stiff and unhappy when I saw the episode in July so it’s interesting to see that it wasn’t over reading body language and that they were upset. 

  The show decides to end on the cliffhanger of Ben and Lauren about to meet Jojo and Jordan for lunch. I know I am just absolutely dying to see what happens next. Not. We know both couples are still together, so it’s anticlimactic. They show us a preview of the upcoming season and shows the return of many Bachelor alumni. Yet again, it’s absolutely forced that there will be an appearance from different contestants in each show. It’s as if they knew Ben and Lauren wouldn’t be interesting on their own. But, if that’s the case, why give them their own show? These are the questions at night that haunt me.

Have a good day and let me know if you want me to keep recapping this show!

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