Tayshia “Dares the guys to tell the Truth”

Harrison comes to the courtyard and tells us that the guys who didn’t go on the group date get the chance to write a love song for Tayshia and whoever writes the best song will get one on one time with her. We’ve seen this date a thousand times over the years, but normally we get a celebritytohel p them with their lyrics or something. Not so much this year, this year they’re on their own and maybe they’re auditioning for the “Listen to your Heart” spinoff, why don’t we have that couple from that show help us out since they were on last episode.

These guys will not be getting any record deals any time soon. We’ve got Bennett rapping for some reason. We have other guys playing musical instruments like my 1 year old niece would. Ivan plays the move of having her come up on stage and he raps and he’s the one who got the one on one time with her. The other guys who were on this group date really got screwed out, because when they wrote their songs they were on their own and the only time they got with her on this date is when they are singing her a song, so what they all spent maybe 10 mins total with her. Poor guys! They probably wish they were on the wrestling date because they’d had spent more time with her.

Ivan comes over to her suite to hang out and she’s already gone for the wine before he comes. She said he is pretty shy and not the guy she’s normally go for. She wants to see if he can have fun and let loose. They play the floor is lava and use cushions to go from one room to another and then she hits him with feather pillow (there was only one feather pillow so obviously that wasn’t a plant), and then they play Twister and bocce ball. They seem to enjoy one another. I’m a fan of Ivan for sure. They also have the world’s largest ice cream sundae that has evidently not been in the freezer in a long time because it’s melting all over!

Date card is here and it’s for

1. Zac
2. Kenny
3. DeMarcus
4. Bennett
5. Riley
6. Blake

Okay good, so the guys who had to write the songs didn’t get screwed outta a group date, they will get an actual group date. So there was no real purpose of the singing songs, she could’ve/should’ve just given the one on one date to Ivan, but didn’t for some reason.

Ivan tells us that his dad is old, he’s 73 so he’s the age of most people’s grandparents. Ivan talks about his younger brother who is a year and half younger than him. He got into drugs and he spent time in prison and Ivan felt horrible about it and took responsibility of it. He also gets teary talking about how his brother’s girlfriend was pregnant right before he went into prison, so Ivan has become like a second dad to his niece and will always be there for her. Wow, then he brings up George Floyd and the BLM movement and this is one of the most in-depth conversations we’ve had on the show. He then asks how this has affected her this year and she breaks down. I’m happy that ABC is showing this conversation and shows the struggles that they have gone through coming from mixed households and all that they’ve gone through. This was just such a REAL conversation where I think they both forgot they were on a dating show for a second and we just watched two humans bond and connect. She tells him how safe she feels and how she’s feeling something with him she never expected to and all the words she’s saying are showing me that he’s a great guy and she should listen to what she’s saying and this could be a real thing. We then watch home videos of them and what a normal date-night.

Group date we get Sydney and Becca (our Bachelorette from 2 years ago – remember that horrible Arie breakup and now she’s broken up with Garrett from her season as the Bachelorette). We get the guys split up into teams and they need to do a scavenger hunt with all these random dares, which includes chugging gross smoothies and going up to Harrison as he’s eating lunch and getting his John Hancock on a butt cheek, then we hear some weird noises coming out of them over a loudspeaker and i’m just very thankful that they rented out the La Quinta because the sounds coming out of them are not family friendly. They then have to eat a habanero pepper and then they propose for some reason right after that, idk why we needed that. Is it practice for in 3 weeks when one may propose?!?

We’re at the night portion of the date and Bennett grabbed her first. He asks how her day went and her favorite part was the proposal and he talked about how he proposed before when he was younger and was going to get married, but it stopped him because he can’t remember his parents ever being happy in their marriage and has seen bad marriages and relationships, but somehow that pepper opened his eyes and he know realizes he could have a good engagement with her. He’s smiley around the other guys but not as cocky as he been.

Blake’s time with her surprises her with how much of a teddy bear he is. She wanted dirty laundry wondering what his exes would say and he said he has good relationships with his exes.

Tayshia wants Zac to open up more and I want to like Zac but I just can’t get past the Nick Vaill of it all and feel like I’ve seen him on this show 5 times already because of Nick. Tayshia likes him, so I need to get on board with this guy because he’s going to be around for awhile and it’s not his fault he reminds me of Nick, but he does and Zac gets the group date rose.

Ben is the one who goes and sneks to her room, we knew this was going to happen at some point, but there is a twist! Ed is wanting to go and talk to Tayshia too!

We’ve not had this before! We have both guys marching to her room and Ed knocks on the door and Harrison answers. He said it’s 2:30 and he’s still dressed and hair and makeup on, so obviously he knew Ed was coming. OKAY PRODUCERS THAT IS MEAN! I’m not a huge fan of Ed, but that seems uncalled for, and how does Ed now know where her room is, it’s the El Presidente suite where Clare was too and all they’re doing is hanging out on the grounds, he should know where her room is. But Ed goes in for a night-cap with Harrison and Ben gets to go hang with Tayshia.

Ben apologizes for not spending time with her and talking about how bad his plan was to try and wait until the last minute. She whines at him that she wanted him to make a move. I think they like each other, but I don’t know, it’s not as easy going as it was with Ivan. It seems a little too melodramatic and forced, but I do like Ben! I just think she’s treating him a little too harshly and playing a game with him. As they’re making out there is a knock at the door and we think it’s Ed, but it’s Ben that ordered room service with champagne and strawberries.

Rose ceremony time and one of the guys said it’s only Tayshia’s 2nd rose ceremony which is just insane! I feel like this should be her 3rd or 4th. Don’t worry the dusty rose is here, Ed gets the honor of wearing it this week!

Ben is the first to grab her and he has a very uncomfortable fashion faux paus he is wearing some of the tightest khaki pants and it’s not great.

Noah breaks cardinal rule #1 with his one on one time with Tayshia by talking about how he’s taking lots of heat from the guys and then said that the guys are rolling their eyes and think Tayshia gave the rose to Noah to just spice things up and get the other guys going……….COME ON! Tayshia, be smarter than this! She’s falling for it hook line and sinker though and is believing him. He is saying that the guys think Tayshia wants to stir drama when obviously there is one person stirring the pot here and that’s Noah. When she asks for specific names he hems and haws and won’t be direct and just said it’s the guys who don’t handle confrontation well.

Tayshia is pissed and storms into the room and brings them all into one room. She brings up that her integrity is being questioned and the guys are all so confused at where she’s coming from. Tayshia, read the room, these guys have NO IDEA what you’re talking about. She storms out and said she’ll see them at the rose ceremony.

The guys then try and figure out who the last one to talk to her was and then they figure out it’s Noah and the guys want to know what happened. I really wish Tayshia was eavesdropping on the other side of the door. Because Noah admits that he knows the guys didn’t say this exactly, but they’ve inadvertently hinted at it. Yet, he told Tayshia this is EXACTLY what the guys are saying. Bennett spitting straight fire by saying Noah owes Tayshia and all the guys an apology and I actually agree with him.

Rose ceremony time. Tayshia doesn’t even give a speech, we just go straight to handing out roses.

1. Noah – has the rose from last week’s group date
2. Ivan – got the ‘one on one’ date rose
3. Zac – got the group date rose tonight
4. Ben – sneaking to her room paid off
5. Eazy – i hope eazy fights Noah next week
6. Riley – he’s just so smooth
7. Brendan – he’s for sure my #1 choice
8. Bennett – i grew to actually like Bennett in the last couple weeks, i don’t think they’ll end up together, but i do like him.
9. Blake – after being a teddy bear this week, not surprising
10. Demar – i don’t really know him
11. Spencer – remember when he was our villain?
12. FINAL ROSE: ED?!? The dusty rose jacket and quality time with Harrison must’ve worked out!

Going home I’m so sad, is my nerd Jordan & Kenny the boy band director, did I see them with her, no, but for some reason I really liked them and was rooting for them! Also going home is Chasen and Joe, who I am okay with leaving.

I think Noah & Bennett get a 2 on 1 date next week, Zac gets a 1 on 1 and then there’s a group date. So looks like LOTS of drama! We can be thankful for Tayshia and that we have a Bachelorette season this year and hey we went a whole episode with no mention of Clare or Dale, a true Thanksgiving miracle!

Tayshia’s First Rose Ceremony & LOTS of Fighting!

Hello friends! Here we are back with Tayshia and her journey. Here’s hoping this is the first week we don’t have to deal with Clare and Dale!

Tayshia has a group date with:

1. Montel
2. Ivan
3. Demar
4. Ben
5. Chasen
6. Ed
7. Joe
8. Bennett

We have Ashley I and Jared here for some reason. Evidently they need 15 more minutes of fame for her podcast and Fabletics. They’re married and want to show us how happy they are and decided that this promo is worth quarantining for 2 weeks, I honestly have no idea why they’re here.

This challenge is the “grown-ass man” challenge and someone will win that title and someone will be a man-child.

This is the date where they’re going to have to answer a bunch of questions and they’ll look stupid answering them. Bennett went to Harvard so he thinks he has an advantage which we know are famous last words and he is going to get embarrassed. This segment just gives me serious Andy Bernard vibes and Bennett is getting schooled!

We then have a random tug of war, where the guys are connected to one another and then race to opposite sides of the room. Then we have the guys serving her breakfast in bed. Chasen decides to not make any breakfast, he just takes off the apron and says he’s the main course. Bennett is in a robe and then gets into bed with her, but he did make her food, so he one-upped Chasen for sure.

The man-child award goes to Ed and he has to carry this doll that actually cries and acts like a baby and he’ll need to carry the baby as long as Tayshia decides.

The grown-ass man award goes to Bennett which of course makes a few of these guys quite angry and then he goes up and kisses her in-front of everyone.

Alright, we’re at the night portion of the date, Bennett is wearing his robe and before Tayshia can say a word, Bennett wants to steal her, but she said she wants to say hello to everyone first. She does a toast and then when she’s done, Chasen comes in and swoops and gets her.

They are actually having a convo where he talks about his sister being married and that he’s gonna be an uncle in February and he’s pumped. He wants to talk about what makes her her and their relationships. Ed & Bennett think that Chasen is an actor and they are NOT fans of him. Honestly, I’m not fans really of the 3 of them, but Chasen is the one I like the most out of all of them.

Tayshia is now talking to Ben and I am distracted by the neck of his sweater. It’s not a v-neck but it’s a wide neck, almost like it wants to be an 80’s shirt where you could see his shoulders and he could wear it off the shoulders. It’s not that level, but those are the vibes I’m getting and am really distracted.

She tells him that she is attracted to him and feels nervous around him and he feels nervous around her. They each have chemistry. Tayshia asks her favorite question “How and why are you still single?” He is a relationship guy and always has been. He broke up with his last girlfriend 2 years ago and he thought that was going to end in marriage and it didn’t, but he’s feeling things for her, and says he wants to kiss her, she gives him the signal, so they make out and then she jumps up and said he’s trouble! He jokes he’s not trouble, but he hugs her and she walks away.

Ivan wants to give back to the world, maybe start a charity. Tayshia said she wants someone to build an empire with. They are giggling and joking about if they did research before they talked to each other because they’re on the same page. Tayshia called him a dark horse. Ivan blindfolds her and feeds her strawberries because this is romance evidently. After he lets her have a bite of strawberry, he goes in for the kiss. She likes it, she takes off the blindfold and goes in for her own kiss.

Oh man, Ed spends his time with Tayshia throwing Chasen under the bus saying that he’s not here for the right reason and said that he’s saying the same thing to Tayshia that he did to Clare and that Chasen turns on for the camera. Ed evidently sees the writing on the wall and that he knows him and Tayshia aren’t going anywhere so if he’s going down, he’s going to take Chasen with him and said that Chasen is here for IG followers, just like they all are!

Tayshia grabs Chasen and brings it up to him and tells him what Ed had said and gives him a chance to defend himself. He said all the right words, but looking at Tayshia’s face she doesn’t buy it for a second. So she’s not feeling Chasen or Ed at all either. Ed really is showing why he’s the man-child here, he’s name-calling and not here for Tayshia at all. He asked what Cloud 9 is and then said it was a Zac Efron movie and Ed, you’re wrong, Zac’s movie is Charlie St. Cloud, come on!

Tayshia comes up and stops the fight. She wants everyone to be real with her. I like that when she gives the rose out she calls out a few guys and tells them she is validating them and appreciates what they did on the group date. Ben gets a shout out, but Ivan gets the actual group date rose!

We get our first rose ceremony and cocktail party of the Tayshia experience!

Chasen starts it off by telling the guys he doesn’t want drama and then asks Ed if he has anything to say and he said he stands by what he said and then starts going on about how Chasen is a fake. Chasen then said that Tayshia is a smoke-show and he actually means it as a compliment, not as an insult, he is just using words he doesn’t know the meaning to.

When Tayshia is getting time alone with guys, the first one we see her with is Ben, you can tell he’s not the one who took her first because he greets her at water fountain, but that first convo must not have been anything too special for them to edit it out. He asks her how she is and she’s just being real with him. She talks about how annoying it is. He said the showing up and being real and genuine resonates with him and she is eating it up. She giggles and leans into him, jokingly shoves him and then is all in when he kisses her. She tells us that there is definitely chemistry between them.

We get a montage of the guys attempting to pull out all the stops and impress her and it seems to be working out quite well.

And then because we’re having a good time, let’s go ahead and bring the wet blanket Ed here who brings up Chasen again. Ed said Chasen almost punched him last night, so Tayshia grabs him to ask him about it and of course he denies it all. She talks about how petty it is and she’s just over it. Chasen tries to apologize, but Ed is not letting anything go. Zac tried to get in the middle and be a peacemaker and make it stop.

Rose ceremony time!

1. Eazy – I forgot he had the group date rose on the first date
2. Brendan – got the one on one date rose
3. Ivan – group date rose
4. Zac – he’s the one who kinda looks like Nick Vaill to me
5. Riley – he is in it to win some time with Tayshia, he threw the punch at Spencer.
6. Kenny – I don’t know why I love this boy band manager so much, but I got so excited he got a rose. He’s never going to end up with her, but I will keep rooting for him!
7. Ben – guys he may be my #1 right now
8. Demar – he’s wearing the dusty rose jacket!
9. Bennett – he’s here as a ‘villain’ but he ain’t going too far, he’s just good tv
10. Spencer – he’s so good looking, but i still don’t trust him
11. Jordan – my nerdy guy that i love
12. Noah – get rid of the moustache NOAH!!!
13. Joe – nice guy in the background, but he’ll be going home soon
14. Blake – I forgot Blake existed, I think Tayshia has as well, so don’t expect him to go much further
15. Ed – she ain’t gonna put him with him and his drama much longer, but the producers want him around.
16. FINAL ROSE! Chasen – I think she likes him more than Ed, but they were both obviously sticking around for producer drama.

We lost 2 of the guys who just came with Tayshia (Montel and Peter), but honestly I don’t really know the guys who went home. I think Jay is the one who left who had been leftover from Clare. Poor Montel & Peter, they had to quarnantine for 2 weeks to spend what 3 days there. At least Jay spent a decent amount of time there because of Clare.

Group date rose! “I’m looking for my perfect match” and Easy guesses it’s going to be a wrestling match.

1. Eazy
2. Brendan
3. Joe
4. Jordan
5. Spencer
6. Ben
7. Ed
8. Chasen

We’ve got 2 fighters here with us to show us how to fight properly. Let’s figure out who’s here for the right reasons. We see them do smack talking in each others faces. I didn’t give Joe and his sense of humor enough credit, he made me legit laugh out loud when he was giving a rundown of how athletic and swoll some of the guys are and then said “Don’t mean to brag but I was all conference in volleyball in high school.” Joe, you hang your hat on that peg! Also, the muscles you got working, you ain’t no slouch! Heck, even my nerdy Jordan has some nice muscles!

Harrison asked if they’re ready for a primetime event! They’re going to wrestle in-front of a live audience. Whoever wins, gets time with Tayshia!

Wells is here as Harrison’s co-host! I do love Wells and am happy for him and his fiance Sarah Hyland (aka Haley Dumphy from Modern Family). He did say he was stepping in for Sarah’s grandpa, as Harrison’s co-host. Since Frank Willard played her grandpa on Modern family.

Tayshia puts oil on the guys and gets them ready for the ring. The live audience is the other guys not on the group date.

These guys are freaking MMA wresting. It looks real violent and the medics are getting called left and right for different injuries. Of course the main event is Chasen and Ed. Right before they go into the ring, Ed grabs Harrison for some reason. He tells Harrison that he has shoulders that chronically dislocate and that sounds painful as hell and since they’re in a bubble he doesn’t want to go to the hospital. Why does he tell Harrison and not Tayshia?!?

Harrison asked if anyone is willing to fight for Tayshia and Noah literally scales this fence in a single leap and gets oiled up and is willing to fight.

Chasen won the belt as the winner and Harrison said there’s an after-party and they’re going to head out. But Tayshia at the last second said she wants Noah to come along because he jumped a fence and is willing to fight for her. The other guys on the date aren’t thrilled they have another guy on the date they weren’t supposed to.

Noah is the first guy to steal her and if looks could kill, well Noah wouldn’t be around. Noah gives me a mix of Jordan/Luke vibes.

Noah gets rid of the moustache because Tayshia tells him she’s not feeling it.

Brendan and her are talking and he is saying how much he enjoys spending time with her and then Tayshia just jumps on him and said he has a tendency to ramble and she shuts him up by making out with him.

OOOFFF Ben is overly confident about this master plan he has and how he wants to go last and meet with her and he’s trying to manifest the rose coming his way, and those of us that have watched the show as long as most of us have know that this is not gonna end well for Ben.

Jordan got his time interrupted by Noah coming up and wanting Tayshia to shave his moustache and she does. She tells him he looks good and is kinda hot and then he said she hasn’t kissed him without the moustache and she said it’s much better. I agree, he does look much cuter without it.

She comes and sits down with the guys and Ben asks if before they hand out the rose can they talk and she tells him the night is over and I actually gasp in my living room. I just said I saw it ending not well, but I didn’t expect my guy to get rejected in-front of everyone. I thought he’d just go quietly into the night and not ask for time. She’s disappointed that he didn’t act and come and find her earlier in the night.

She gives the rose to Noah because he fought for her and the guys are not happy about this at all. You can cut the tension with a knife. Noah has managed to go to the most hated in the house. He has Ed more pissed with him than Chasen, which is saying something.

Looks like we get lost of drama next week with Noah, who is a guy obviously here for the wrong reasons and to just get more IG followers, which hopefully she’ll realize soon and he’ll be gone!

Until next week, try your best to be grown ass men and women, which we’ve heard plenty about tonight!

Lindsay

Tayshia’s First Dates!

Guys I feel like this is the beginning of the Bachelorette all over again. I am more excited for this episode than I’ve been about any episode we’ve seen of Clare. This is where we get to see how is the journey going to end?!? I have no idea if Tayshia’s season has been spoiled or not, even if we didn’t want to know, I think everyone knew how Clare’s season was ending, there was no way to avoid that spoiler.

But let’s get to know these guys again, because I’m not gonna lie, I don’t really know a bunch of these guys because I didn’t want to get to know them if they were all going to leave and Tayshia was going to get brand new guys.

We’re starting the night off where we left off on Thursday. Tayshia has gotten out of the limo and the guys are waiting for her to arrive. The guys all stand up and are visibly blown away by her.

I also think these guys are regretting the fact that they’re wearing man-pris and loafers without socks. They are all smitten and have no recollection of Clare and Dale at all!

Ivan gets the first one on one time with her and she is attracted to him. Tayshia is already able to hold a conversation better than Clare ever could. Ivan and her actually have a conversation and seem to be on the same page.

I do love that these guys know nothing about her and have to actually ask her questions. They couldn’t stalk her beforehand, they are just asking honest to goodness conversation.

One of my favorite guys is Jordan C, he’s our dorky guy who kinda looks like this Disney guy also weirdly enough named Jordan.

I love that we’re actually able to tell that these guys have great sense of humor and we can actually see their personalities! Who knew that these guys were this entertaining?!?

Harrison comes and steals Tayshia away and said “everything is about to change!” and Harrison is bringing in another limo pulling up to meet Tayshia, so these guys who were here with Clare and all getting along are now going to get other guys to bring the drama up a notch which just seems unnecessary at this point. She had 16 guys does she really need 20?!? I guess we’ll be able to tell at the end of the season if any of these new guys ending up being her guy, then I’ll need to eat crow and it’s not like I know most of the other guys anyways so it shouldn’t affect me as much as I’m complaining.

First outta the limo is Spencer. And wow! Tayshia says it better than I could “HE IS HAWT! HAWT! HAWT” oh but then when he goes and meets the guys he’s a douche and basically says something along the lines on if he was here then Clare would’ve chosen him and my opinion plummeted of Spencer and I’m over him………if that’s not a perfect representation of 2020, get real excited for a second and then it comes crashing down to earth and becomes a dumpster fire.

Montel is here and guys the SALMON JACKET is back!!!! We don’t get Tyler C back, but he must’ve left behind the Salmon jacket and is letting Tayshia’s guys use it! All is right in the world!

Peter is out of the limo and he has a wonderful smile!

Noah is out and he needs to shave his mustache off, because he’d be way more attractive without it. He does one more look back at her and she giggles and calls him trouble.

Tayshia comes back in and said keep the night going and like 5 guys come up to her to steal her away and of course the one who gets her is actually Spencer. He has a dfrnt persona around her than the other guys which is quite unfortunate.

We have the second first impression rose of the season!

We have Zac C who ends up giving Tayshia a coin and they each make a wish and throw a coin in there.

Noah with his nasty moustache tells us and Tayshia that his family has 11 kids, so he has 10 brothers and sisters and she is shocked. He also drops that he has a twin and her mind is blown and I love his lil throwaway line “We’re Catholic” and I love it because I’d said it to myself right before he did 🙂

Tayshia has talked about how these guys all want their stories to be heard and I have no doubt that is true, they’ve been waiting weeks to have someone to talk to and listen to.

Unfortunately Tayshia makes her first mistake of the season and gives her rose to Spencer and then grabs him and makes out with him. I hope she’s able to see thru him. I can’t fault her too much b/c when he came outta the limo I fell for him as well, so she gets a pass for tonight, but we need her to wake up!

We were supposed to have a rose ceremony, but Tayshia is breaking rules just like Clare and is not doing a rose ceremony! ALL the guys get to stay for the week and continue the journey.

Harrison comes on our screens and is making everything WAY more dramatic than it needs to be and also Harrison is trying to convince himself and all of us that Bachelor Nation actually care about what’s going on with Clare and Dale. I wonder/hope this will be the last we’ll see of them. We won’t need a Men Tell All or a Final Rose with Clare, we’ll just have Tayshia. Harrison is having us rehash this over, but like he said it was 2 weeks and we’ve hashed and rehashed this every week for the past month so I don’t need to anymore. It’s not like we’ve watched a whole season and need to go back and review it like we’ve had to after we’ve seen a whole season.

Good for Clare and Dale, I hope they are happy and wish them all well, but don’t need to see them on our tv screens anymore! They can go live their lives off the grid!

Okay, we’re now back to Tayshia and she’s going to have her first date and it’s a group date!

1. Riley – attorney from NYC
2. Zac – coin toss in the fountain
3. Jordan – my dorky lil guy
4. Noah – bad mustache
5. Peter – I’ve never seen this guy before in my life until i realize this is the guy we just met as part of the 4 new guys and just had a great smile and that’s it.
6. Kenny – boy band director, I love Kenny more than I should. He is my Wells this season, where I’m going to root for him and want him to go much further than he deserves to go b/c he probably won’t have much of a connection with Tayshia, but I like him!
7. Eazy – who doesn’t love Eazy?!!?
8. Spencer – of course
9. Jay – he always blends into the background to me b/c we have Jay, Jason and Chasen.
10. Blake – I get him and Jason confused though I know I shouldn’t.

We have the video of Tayshia coming out of the water that we saw for her intro to the season. I don’t know if we needed to see it a second time. We have a pool party where they’re having fun and dunking each other and then we need the guys to play basketball in speedos in the pool. The blue team wins and gets to have a BBQ with Tayshia but the green team can come back for the cocktail party tonight. We don’t get to see any of the BBQ, we just go straight to the after party.

Eazy tells Tayshia that she makes him giddy and she agrees with that and said that she’s digging his personality. They both think they have positive energy and bring good energy to a room. She tells him that she needs him because he puts her at ease, that is a KEY statement right there!

The way that Zac talks I feel like sounds like Nick Vaill. She then asks the question which i hate “Why are you still single?!?” who in the world knows how to answer that question? They both said they haven’t found what they’re looking for. She says she’s always comfortable with him and then she goes in for the kiss.

Tayshia notices that my cute lil dorky Jordan is putting himself out there and she appreciates that and appreciates his manners.

I love Kenny if for no other reason b/c I feel like his commentary is mostly everything I’m thinking. They’re talking about how hey we don’t need to be besties but we do gotta live together, so please keep the peace! He is a real douche b/c he is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he pretends to be sweet with her and a lil more shy, but around the guys he’s cocky and obnoxious. He can’t keep this up for long I don’t think, I think Tayshia is a smart enough girl that she’ll see thru it.

Eazy gets the group date rose and I am happy with that result!

Jason is struggling, he opened up to Clare on his one on one and can’t do that again with Tayshia so he’s going to go home. How sad that this guy opened up to Clare and she had no interest in him whatsoever. I hope Jason already has some girl back home by now! He deserve it and is too good to be on this tv show. He has too good of a heart, he doesn’t need me giving snarky comments about him. He says his goodbye to the guys and gives his goodbye to Tayshia and I am glad he got to go home on his terms b/c it would’ve sucked to have him open up to Tayshia and then go home at the next rose ceremony and get kicked in the teeth again.

Brendan gets the first one on one and I think it may have been b/c when he first met her he made a joke about him being like Steve Jobs because he was wearing a turtle-neck.

Tayshia shows up at the pool where all the guys are hanging out and she shows up on a horse bringing another horse with her. They can’t leave the LaQuinta so they’re doing laps around the property on the horses. Harrison greets them and gives them margaritas! Then he literally bolts away, gets on a scooter and pops up to get them ice cream and then runs away to give them coconuts. Brendan feels like he is getting blocked by Harrison.

They finally get off the horses and get into a pool and Brendan finally makes his move, but by making his move he talks about how he wanted to do something the first night but Harrison interrupted them to bring in the 4 new guys. He just mentions there’s something he wanted to do the first night and Tayshia launches herself at him and makes out with him.

Brendan tells her at dinner that he has been married before and is now divorced. He talks about being well-rounded and that he may not be the sexiest guy in the group, but she tells him that he is very good looking. I had completely forgotten that Tayshia had been married and divorced at an early age and that her husband had cheated on her. They are bonding over their shared experiences and realize they have more in common then they realized.

He gets the date rose and I am actually here for these two. They are so smiley and I gotta say that these two have already talked more than Dale and Clare! They get fireworks to celebrate their date! At least with other guys on the property they get to enjoy the fireworks as well.

You know Tayshia has this whole voiceover about talking about kissing Brendan and I’m not convinced that she said it after this date, she could be talking about kissing him later on in the season.

Looks like we get lots of drama next week and I am here for it and want a full episode of just Tayshia please!

Clare Blows up the Bachelorette!

Friends, we’ve made it! We’re at the point of Clare blowing up the Bachelorette!

As a reminder our group date that was the roast didn’t end up with any of the guys getting a rose and they are all ticked off and think that she is wasting their time and it’s hard to refute that as a viewer.

Clare’s journaling probably putting her name and Dale’s names together and seeing how they look.

Well there’s a knock on the door and it’s Harrison and he is out of breath. They must’ve made him run over there. He wants a complete honest conversation just btwn Clare, him and oh yeah the millions of us watching on TV. Harrison said that the guys aren’t stupid, they know that she’s completely phoned it in.

Clare then gushes about Dale with Harrison. She admits that when Covid shut down production she was still able to stalk the guys on her season and she STALKED Dale.

She talked about the Mother’s Day post he had. His sister is in a care facility like her mom. Harrison asks the question we all want to know, did they talk before the show and she swears on her Dad that they didn’t say a single word. So she legit fell in love with his social media persona, the version that we normally put our best filters and versions of ourselves online. I do hope that Clare actually knows Dale and not this fairy-taled built up version of him that is prince charming.

Harrison asks Clare what she wants to do and she wants to spend ALL HER TIME with Dale and let him know how she feels and see if he’s on the same page as her. Clare said the Bachelorette is over and Harrison says “CONGRATS YOU’VE JUST BLOWN UP THE BACHELORETTE!” Harrison is probably worried at this point about if his paycheck has cleared the bank yet and hoping they can get Tayshia on a plane and in 2 weeks of quarantine right away.

We got the guys all huddled in a tiny living room and I can’t get past the crazy difference in how people are dressed up. There are some in bro-tanks and t-shirts and then there are some guys in suits. Harrison comes in and breaks the news that there is no cocktail party or rose ceremony tonight. The guys are dead silent and Harrison asks to talk to Dale outside.

Harrison said the reason there’s no cocktail party and rose ceremony is because Clare wants to spend time with him.

We get Clare dressed up in a bright red dress with her girls fully on display. She is going to tell him that she loves him. He sees her and he does gasp when he sees her. They get to have a candlelight drinks. She said she found the place and then they do weird small talk. She asks how he is and he pauses and before he can answer, she goes on a monologue about how she just keeps thinking of him. Then she points out that they haven’t had a one on one date but she knows him better than anyone. She said that he has the qualities that her Dad had. Sadly her sisters and friends told her she had too high of standards and wanted her to lower them, I’m honestly thankful she didn’t.

WOW okay! Clare tells Dale the story about her parents getting together and EVERYTHING now makes sense!

Her parents met one night. Then 3 weeks later her Dad hitch-hikes across the country to find her mom and propose, all after meeting her one time! 3 months after that they are married for over 40 years!

HEY OMAHA gets a shout-out! Dale’s parents met in Omaha, NE and Dale’s dad had to hitchhike an hour to hang out with his Mom and Clare freaks out! Dale’s parents were together for 40+ years, and then they lost his Mom and Dale needed to be the rock for his Dad and sisters. Clare felt the same when she lost her Dad. They are actually having a convo here, so I support this.

Clare tells him that she loves him and thinks about him all the time. Dale tells her that he felt love when they met and he’s falling in love with her and they’ve been dying to share this with each other. Then she just keeps asking what is happening and then attacks his face. Then we get the winners of Bachelor Listen to your Heart, which was just this Spring but seems like a lifetime ago. There’s no way the other guys can’t hear this concert going on since they’re in the same little quarantine area right. And speaking of quarantine, our singers must not be dating anymore because they are socially distancing from one another, I don’t really care enough to look into it. We then get to see Dale & Clare making out on her bed and it just seems like too close, not a fan of that right there at all.

We then get to see the morning after and see all their clothes on the ground and the two of them cuddling in bed. I don’t need to see the after-glow. Dale keeps his eyes closed the whole time. Clare then asks what needs to happen next and he is not committing to anything. She never wants him to leave or be separated from him ever!

The guys are talking and it’s been 18 hours since Harrison grabbed Dale and took him away and they’re wondering if they did a 1 on 1. Then one of these poor saps obviously never watched Clare on Juan Pablo’s season and saw her in the ocean. He said there’s no way that Clare would do an overnight date with Dale.

OMG! Harrison just turned it up to 11. He goes and talks to Clare and she’s giddy and is defintely kissing and telling. He said she’s blown up the whole Bachelorette. She asks what next and he says “AN ENGAGEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” WHY!?!? Why does an engagement need to be the next step!?!? Why can’t we just let Clare and Dale drive off the La Quinta property and hang out just the two of them and see if they want to talk to each other again. I mean we make fun of the show already for being on a break-neck speed, but this is freakin ridiculous. Harrison said she’s going to be proposed to tonight! Clare thinks it’s all about Harrison and the producers looking out for her and wanting her to find a guy. Oh you poor sweet girl, this has nothing to do with you. They are wanting to exploit you even more. They’re making this into an all or nothing situation and keeping the two of you separate and not let you guys talk this out.

This actually kinda ticks me off. Now I’m not a big Clare fan, you can go back through any old blog post that I’ve written about Clare and you can see she’s not my #1 girl. However, ABC and Bachelor producers shouldn’t do this to her. She clearly has gone through a lot in life and it just seems that they’re taking advantage of her and her vulnerability and they don’t want Dale to propose, they want the drama.

Clare comes into the guys living room and breaks the news to them that she is breaking up with them. It’s not her, it’s them 🙂 They are not the love of her life. Dale is. One of the guys does call her out for her head not being in the game and thinks she needs to apologize for that. She cries, but there are no tears actually falling down her cheeks. Then we got some random guys talking about they appreciate how honest she was. Then she brings out the whiny voice and wants hugs from all of them. She then breaks down with her producers.

We now have Harrison and Dale speaking. Dale talks about how there is no pressure in their relationship and they’re just going to explore and see where things are going in an interview. Then Harrison drops the bomb that Clare wants him to propose in the next 3 hours.

All I have to say is as Harrison is going back and forth between Clare & Dale, he has spent more time with each of them then they have with each other. Also, instead of bringing him back and forth, you could bring Dale & Clare together and get everything resolved in 2 seconds, but then ABC can’t milk this and make it super dramatic.

Her finale dress is a long white dress, so she is ready to get married tonight! And remember Harrison is an ordained minister. Harrison comes out to her and tells her that there is something he needs to tell her and he’s saying that they’re so proud of her and he’s gonna get Dale. Clare tells us that she’s so excited to tell Dale how she’s felt the whole freakin time, but the whole freaking time is like 2 weeks and she already told him all of this last night, so it’s not that shocking to him. He does get down on a knee and we see the HUGE Neil Lane ring and we didn’t get to see Neil with the rings beforehand, but he gets the big payoff with the zoomed in ring shot. Clare freaks out about being engaged, but I do wonder how much of it is her being excited to be engaged to him and how much is just being engaged. I wish them ALL the luck in the world, it was bizarre, but it was a perfect example of what 2020 has been. But hey, let’s toast to the bride and the groom!

Harrison tells the guys their journey isn’t over and the guys are floored. They get to decide if they’re going to stay or go. Dear Lord, they need to decide by tonight if they’re going to stay or go. They need to be dressed and ready to go. So we had Tayshia already in quarantine and ready to go?!? I want to know how she was ready to go and also she’s getting the shaft here that the guys have to make a decision so quickly. Doesn’t seem like they’re setting her up for success here. We know they aren’t here for LOVE, but this episode has shown it more than normal to me, that they’re willing to sacrifice their leads for the dramatic factor and how it may be good television, forget the lead finding love.

There are 16 guys left and they get to go to the hotel in groups of 3s. We had all 16 guys show up and because of all the crap that Clare put them thru these is more of a frat house that we normally don’t see until we get to the final 5 or 6. Which you know what, I’m actually here for the kumbaya between them and hope they keep it going the rest of the season. Our new Bachelorette is on her way and the guys all want to know who it is. We’re restarting the Bachelorette tonight! Do we get to see them awkwardly leave the limos again?!? Nope, looks like they’re staying in the cocktail party room and Tayshia is the one exiting the limo. Harrison greets her and it seems that he may actually like her more than Clare. I think he realizes that he won’t need to hold her hand as much, she seems strong and that she can navigate things on her own.

I’m actually excited for Tayshia to be our Bachelorette and feel like the season is actually just officially starting right now. I have high hopes for you Tayshia, please don’t let me down!

Next week we get Clare & Dale to sit down and Tell-All. I want that to be quick and I just want to move onto Tayshia!

Let the journey begin!!!

Lindsay