Since the powers that be decided not to air a new episode
during election night, we were instead treated to a double header last night.
And by treated, I don’t mean of the chocolate or sports car variety, but the
bug bomb your room or take an antibiotic type of treatment. While I’ve always
wanted a spin-off of one of the Bachelor couples, I can’t help but feel Ben and
Lauren were a misstep. Every episode has ended up being the same. Ben has cold
feet. Lauren doesn’t understand that. They keep fighting. Then they make up
because of “love” and all of that jazz. But don’t let my feelings about the
show spoil it for you. Let’s talk about what happened this episode.
The episode starts with Lauren shopping for bridesmaid
dresses with her friends. She talks about wanting them all to feel
comfortable. I flashback to the previous
weddings of my sisters as a bridesmaid. Sorry, I don’t know why I’m shhhakinggg
now. Ptttsssddd??? Anyway, off of that subject for my sanity. Lauren discusses
how the day went “perfect” and she can’t wait to tell Ben. As expected, he will
ruin that “perfect” day by talking again about his cold feet. Here’s a thought.
Try some bunny slippers. Move out of Colorado. You’ll get warmer real fast. Oh,
they meant about the wedding? I could never have guessed.
To
deal with their problems they decide to go to pre-wedding counseling. Because
they haven’t had any Bachelor alum in 10 minutes, the show hyperventilates and
decides to bring in Lace/Grant and the Twins. I use to love The Twins, but do
they really need to be in every episode? Could they not get any other alum?
Heck, I bet Josh/Amanda would have loved to do it for tv time and I would kill
to see them in couples therapy. Anyway at this counseling they play the nearly-wed
game. I’m sure most of you know the rules. Your partner answers a question and
you have to see if you know what they said. Everyone is surprised because
Ben/Lauren do poorly, but Grant/Lace do well. But, all of Grant’s answers
outside of one had to do with sex. He and Lace were having sex within 2 minutes
of meeting each other. I wonder what their relationship is all about. Next
time, ask them about when Grant expects to start cheating on Lace. I’m sure
Lace will get that question wrong…..
Lauren
doing poorly just puts more doubt into Ben’s mind before the couples do part 2
of the therapy by completing a Ropes course together. All the girls are
freaking out. I guess I’m not as much of a girly girl as I thought because it
didn’t look scary at all. I mean, yes, heights suck. But did they really think
that the show would EVER suggest doing something that would cause them to get
hurt? There’d be lawsuits and cancellations if they did. Any logical person
would have known that they would be perfectly fine. Yet again, maybe I’m just
not like most girls, but the crying just got annoying after a while.
After the ropes course, they have the standard therapy
session of talking out feelings. Ben again elaborates on feeling unlovable and
how that makes him want to be extra sure before he marries Lauren. He feels
they haven’t done enough to get married. This angers Lauren because she completely
uprooted her California life and moved for him. She feels blindsided. She
really shouldn’t because he has literally expressed this every episode, but she
does. The therapist trying to help them, decides to do an exercise where they
dress in wedding clothes so they can gauge how they would feel if they got
married that second. Ben does a 180 and decides he’s ready to be married. Yeah,
no that doesn’t happen. It only freaks him out more and he calls off the
wedding. You know producers, maybe this would have had more impacted if you
hadn’t shown that clip 70 billion times before the episode aired. Just a
thought.
So they go to Chris Harrison to tell him the wedding is off.
This was again a repetitive segment where Ben and Lauren continued to express
the same problem. Chris Harrison continued to act like he cares about the
leads, when its just the paycheck that he is after. Ben realizes he is in the
dog house so to compensate he buys
Lauren a new car. It’s a successful tactic. If a girl is mad at you, buy her an
engagement ring, dog, house, or car. Usually, we will be blinded by that long
enough for you to get at least a day of peace. The not happy couple then takes
a road trip.
On the way home, they stop at the IheartRadio Music
Festival. I’m surprised because that took place in September. So the turnaround
on these episodes is getting faster and faster. It also makes it appear worse
that Ben and Lauren are still having these issues. Anyway, they fight. Again.
The press keeps asking them about a wedding date and Lauren feels like Ben is
faking that things are going okay. What is he supposed to say though? Dear press
that we don’t know, we are fighting a ton and the wedding is called off. No. I
get Lauren is upset, but every situation doesn’t need to be about the wedding.
Of course they aren’t allowed to end the episode on a bad
note, so ‘spontaneously” Ben and Lauren meet with a couple that’s been married
70 years. Blah blah Blah. They offer advice. Blah Blah Blah. Ben and Lauren are
happy again. ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ. Woah. I just woke up. Sorry about that.
The episode ends with the big reveal that Ben had the house
redecorated to Lauren’s taste while they were road tripping. The house is a
little too overtly feminine for my tastes, but if Ben can suck it up, good for
him. Until next time folks, keep dreaming about being on a reality show so you
can afford a brand new car and complete remodeling all in the space of 3 days.
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