Okay guys, I know I said I wasn’t going to blog about what I’m sure will be a train-wreck of a show “Bachelor – ‘Listen to your Heart.'” But well, that was more than a month ago when we lived in a simpler time. We were just angry about Barb beating up on Madi and cheering against her son in the audience. Of course Pete & Madi lasted not even 48 hours later.
Pete is now in quarantine with lawyer Kelley, the same Kelley who made it to what 5th or 6th place and wasn’t even invited to the Women Tell All. The same girl who said she just wanted to have fun. The same girl who had a front row view of the way Barb treated Madi at the After the Final Rose. I would’ve ran the opposite way, but I am not Kelley, though I have to admit, seeing her and Pete’s Instagram stories, makes me like her less than I did.
Speaking of people who were quarantined together, we had Hannah Brown down in Florida with Tyler C, his brother and a group of his friends. She was down there for about a week or so, but has since gone back to Alabama. Are they a couple or Friends with Benefits is another’s guess, but I’m gonna say it’s a FWB type of situation.
We also know that Clare’s season of the Bachelorette is currently on hold and not being filmed because of Coronavirus. Bachelor Summer Games has been cancelled and I’m assuming we can say goodbye to Bachelor in Paradise since that normally films in June and we won’t have any of Clare’s guys to pick from. So that my friends is how you get me at least blogging about the first of this 6 episode debacle.
We’re going to have 20 singles coming to the mansion and they are all hoping to fall in love and find someone who shares in their passion for music! They supposedly searched and found around the country the most talented musicians that are ready for love, not saying that they are attractive or a lightning rod for drama, that is all just a happy coincidence! These 20 people are obviously gonna be on all of our Spotify playlists here before we know it!
Also, I feel like all this mention of “A Star is Born” and how people are wanting a love story like that is giving me the same feelings as when people say they want to be “Just like Romeo and Juliet!” Is that really the romantic ending you’re wanting?!?
Alright let’s meet these people!
- Brandon – 34, I’m already excited we have someone who is 10 years older than our normal Bachelor contestants! He was in the Marine Corps and was deployed and wrote music while being deployed. He’s wearing the skinny jeggings and has the Tyler C hair working.
- Bri – 28. She loves her nieces and nephews and has been with them every day and they shape who she is. She was engaged 1.5 years ago, but he got scared. She’s ready to meet her future husband, who better play the guitar.
- Sheridan – 27 he keeps Austin weird. He has been traveling around living in his car as a musician. He’s a cheap Jason Momoa imitator.
- Bekah – 25 and is from Washington DC. She doesn’t exist without musical theatre and she is more dramatic than I’m gonna be able to handle. Her intro immediately makes me think of Sharpay Evans because she warms up doing this exact routine:
- Gabe – 28 Houston TX. He’s a huge sports guy, but also loves music and is a huge Christian and that’s the foundation of his life.
- Savannah – 25 and lives in Nashville. She’s big into Yoga, free spirit and wild child. Her past relationships have been rocky, so she’s gonna be making out with multiple guys this season.
- Trevor – 29 – he is sitting on a couch, shirtless with a dog licking him as he’s attempting to write lyrics. He’s from Thousand Oaks, which is LA. We’ve seen him all over the previews, so he’s THE GUY I think. I am not seeing myself root for this guy, I have a feeling I’ll be rooting against him, but we shall see! He looks like Jed. He was on Idol a couple years ago, but we just saw his audition, so must’ve not made it too far
- Jamie – 21. Looking for a husband has been dismal….you know probably because YOU ARE 21!!! She’s been on hundreds of dates but every guy she’s dated has cheated on her. Did they show me that 34 year old just to get my hopes up, because I am not gonna be able to handle this baby, who has way way too much blush on.
Wow, we’re at a mansion but it is MUCH bigger than our normal Bachelor Mansion. I wanna know why we changed mansions?!? When they did Bachelor Pad they were able to use the normal Bachelor mansion, why wasn’t it good enough for this show?!?
Jamie is the first one out of the limo and then this guy named Ryan joins her. Evidently not everyone gets a video package introducing themselves, because we haven’t met Ryan yet. I know they don’t on the Bachelor, but it seems odd on this show since we know no one. How am I going to root for any of you or care if you’re falling in love, if I don’t know you’re into Yoga or can sit shirtless with your dog?!?
We now have a Matt who is a singer/songwriter type that doesn’t know Harrison’s last name, which again I don’t really buy, but if they’re trying to play it like he’s the too cool for school guy, that’s fine.
Jamie is saying she doesn’t want a girl to come who just wants to start drama….enter Savannah our Yogi who is wearing leather pants and a sparkly tube top!
We’ve got Mel who is 27 and has purple hair.
Rudi is 24 in a hot pink dress and is PUMPED to meet Harrison! She is 24 and is old, which Harrison also admits (albeit sarcastically) and she is ready to be married!
Jamie who had been clinging to Ryan, drops him after he tells his story about having brain surgery when he was 6 which gave him a new lease on life, for our shirtless guy Trevor. Rudi is our commentator, who can’t believe people are already pairing up on night one, has Rudi ever gone out to bars and sees this what happens all across America?!?
This guy named Michael comes in and he’s the one who is trying too hard and is not genuine and is putting on a character to get his 15 mins of fame and I’m over him after 15 seconds on my screen.
Russell is here and he is trying to be Harry Styles with his hairstyle.
Julia walks in and she reminds me of Crystal, from Crystal and the Goose.
We’re all in the house and Harrison comes into the living room. Love is the center of everything we do in the Bachelor. We’re gonna do dates and date cards. We have roses! There are 12 guys and 8 girls, so 4 guys will be going home this week! We have the girls talking about who they all liked on first impressions and the guys are talking about who they like.
Julia is the hot commodity for the girls, all the guys like her. She is the one who looked like Crystal, the blonde beautiful one. She runs her own non-profit for musical therapy for Children’s hospitals. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis before she was born and was in and out of the hospital growing up, so it’s a cause very close to her heart.
The first kiss of the season is Julia and Brandon, they are definitely the Ken & Barbie of the house! They look like they belong together, which makes me think that they don’t actually belong. I’m rooting for you, Sheridan who actually had a conversation with Julia instead of just flirting with her.
We have the first hot tub action of the night with Rudi and Matt. Matt said he’s known Rudi for 2 whole hours so obviously he should attack her with kisses. I don’t trust this guy, he’s using her for the rose and then he’s gonna drop her like a hot potato next week, he’s just seeing how the roses are gonna go and is going with the sure thing to get the rose and poor Rudi is too young and naive to see this.
We’ve got a love triangle with Jamie, Ryan & Trevor. Jamie kissed Ryan. But then she went in the hot tub with Trevor and made out with him. While Julia was crushing on Ryan by the piano and Ryan has no clue what is going on with Jamie in the hot tub, but you know Jamie didn’t want any drama.
Okay so our date is Ryan and Jamie at a recording studio singing “Gravity” by John Mayer. I did love and play the crap outta my John Mayer CD “Heavier Things” at the end of high school and beginning of college. I didn’t realize John Mayer was still a thing, I thought Taylor Swift basically buried him when he broke her heart, but at least on this show they want us to remember him. No way 21 year old Jamie knows who he is though, but good try ABC.
Our main love connection in the house is evidently Bri and Chris. He has been serenading her a few times and they do seem to be pretty low key and hopefully stay away from the drama.
Matt decides to go on a date with Mel, the purple haired girl instead of Rudi. Rudi is pissed and telling all the girls that Matt is playing games and went back on his word to take her on a date. Rudi is crying and singing about her heartbreak at the mansion while Matt & Mel go on a date that is basically a backyard BBQ and the Plain White T’s are playing songs.
So yeah ABC is bringing on artists from my high school and college days. Again, don’t necessarily hate it, but these are very random artists.
This tweet made me literally laugh out loud, so yes I did retweet it. I don’t often tweet about the Bachelor, but this seemed like a great time to start, because us as viewers think this exact thing every time Harrison shows up on our screens:
I do gotta say, I didn’t think I’d like Sheridan, the Jason Momoa lookalike, but gosh dang he somehow is an underdog and I am rooting for him. He shouldn’t be an underdog, but he seems genuine and real and doesn’t realize how great of a catch he is, so that insecurity makes me cheer for him and want him to succeed. I want him to know he’s a catch….there’s a thin thin line between being a douche who is too confident and an underdog who has no confidence. I want Sheridan to get just a tad more confidence, but not too much where he goes over to douchey territory.
Poor Sheridan is all about Julia and good for him, he’s been about Julia since day 1 and even with 8 roses and 12 guys, he is telling all the girls he wants Julia’s rose. He isn’t playing the field and playing games. He is staying true to the course and I think that makes the other girls respect and cheer for him more. But poor fella, his girl Julia has made out with Brandon and he walks up on her making out with Josh who is a younger more attractive Mr. Clean as someone in the house accurately described him.
Matt is the douche who didn’t know Harrison’s name supposedly and is the opposite of Sheridan. He’s playing both Mel and Rudi and he’s trying to play the odds of getting a rose from either one of them. He’s a “circle back” guy who is now “circling back” to Rudi since they connected the first night. Rudi is not having any of that and is pissed at him. He is shocked when she accurately calls him out on what he said and the words he used. He is a deer in headlights and is trying to backtrack and save the situation and it is not working and I want him to go down!
Ryan and Jamie have one last cuddle where he says yesterday was dope, she agreed and told him he has a perfect face and cuddled right into him. Trevor comes and steals Jamie and says “this isn’t a last ditch effort to get a rose” and we all know that’s a lie! He said he just wants to hang with her because he likes spending time with her and doesn’t want anything in return.
He plays her a song on the guitar and then makes out with her and she is now crying because she’s confused and we all know she should choose Ryan because Trevor is playing her like a fiddle!
Rose ceremony time and Harrison’s last piece of advice “Listen to your heart”!
- Savannah (yoga girl) gives her rose to Brandon (the Ken to Julia’s Barbie)
- Mel (purple hair) gives her rose to Gabe (I have no clue who Gabe is and pretty sure he didn’t say a word this episode). Everyone expected her rose to go to Matt!
- Bekah (no idea) gave her rose to Danny (no idea)
- Bri gave her rose to Chris – I just know they’ve been vibing but don’t know anything else about them
- Cheyenne (no clue) gives her rose to Matt (the douche who screwed Rudi…..GRRR!!!) that had to be producer driven because no way she actually wanted to choose him
- Julia (the hot commodity girl) gives her rose to Sheridan (Our underdog got it over Mr. Clean!!!)
- Jamie gives her rose to Trevor — what a stupid stupid decision, she should’ve chose Matt, but she’ll learn someday!
- Rudi gets to hand out the final rose and she is giving her rose to Ryan!
Rudi is the hero for keeping Ryan! Thank you Rudi for keeping him! Cheyenne should’ve kept Mr. Clean instead of Matt, but that’s my only complaint.
Alright guys, we made it through episode 1. Do I love the show, no I’m not gonna lie, I don’t love it. Will I keep watching and blogging, yes as long as we’re in quarantine I may as well, especially since who knows the next Bachelor related show we’ll be able to watch. So the snark will keep coming your way!!
I’ll be back next Monday, until then, stay safe, stay home and LISTEN TO YOUR HEART!
Lindsay
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