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Now that Lee and Kenny are gone, so is the central conflict in the house so I'd say that the show has finally removed all of the dead weight but then I remember that Adam and Matt are still here. Or just joined the show. It's very confusing. This episode takes place in Switzerland, where Rachel announces that there will be three one-on-one's and one three-on-one. I don't need to hear the word "one" again after this season is over for six months. Shockingly, the guys you think are going to get one-on-one's get them: Peter, Dean and Bryan AKA the front runners.
In what I feel like is their twelfth one-on-one date, Bryan and Rachel go exploring around Geneva city in a Bentley. They go to a watch shop, Rachel (well, production) buys them both expensive watches. While the salesman is still sitting there, Bryan grabs Rachel's face and just starts making out with it. By the time they finished, my dude left them alone because if he's anything like me he would rather lay down rat traps than watch two people make out. Speaking of making out, they kind of just talk and kiss the entire day. Rachel thinks he's good for her because he gets her to open herself up in a way that she likes. They go to dinner and Rachel is still super worried about falling for Bryan because he continuously seems like he's just too good to be true for her. They talk about their upbringing and he sweet talks her into giving him the rose. Well, it's not like there was a chance she wasn't going to give it to him.
ONE-ON-ONE (Dean)
Rachel takes dean to church, literally. A Catholic church. The perfect setting for a date. In French. They're spend the whole time sitting in the back of the church watching a service they can't understand and then they go around the city and explore. Dean spends the entire date looking absolutely terrified because he knows he has to tell her that he's worried about her meeting his family because they don't get along and have a very strange dynamic. Rachel and Dean actually sit down at lunch and she really tries to talk to him and get to know him more and he spends all of lunch just laughing and joking around. In hindsight, that's fine. He has a very nice personality but in contrast to how serious Rachel is taking this, it's a bit jarring to see him giggle while Rachel is staring into his eyes trying to make a connection with him. It makes him seem immature. During dinner, she has to dive into his chest, hold her breath for thirty minutes, find something of substance and literally drag it out of him. He finally tells her that his father was never there for him emotionally, especially after his mom died, so he doesn't want her to see the family that abandoned him. Rachel tells him that she's not expecting him to have a perfect family and that he's not here by accident and she gives him the rose.
ONE-ON-ONE (Peter)
Rachel and Peter go on their date in, what looks to be, Antarctica and Peter tells her that having everyone in the house have good dates is beginning to make him tense and giving him dark days. Then they kiss and I guess all his fears go away, okay. At dinner, she says she appreciates his honesty but it also really is beginning to scare her. She doesn't know, and he doesn't know, if he would be ready to propose to her if she chose him in the end. Then he tells her that his mom talks a lot and he has a good relationship with his dad. She wonders if his family will be alright with him bringing a black girl home and assures her that it's fine. Finally, she asks about the last girl he brought to his family and gets sad/teary eyed because he gets a flashback to when he drove away and left her, and felt bad because he thought he was abandoning her. The tears are enough to earn him a rose, which means there's only one rose left for the three-on-one.
THREE-ON-ONE (Adam, Eric, Matt)
You know, I'm actually really surprised that Adam hasn't had any screen time before last week's episode. He talks so much but has nothing to say. He's the epitome of with the show is. He goes into the date seriously thinking that he has the strongest connection with her out of any of the other five guys still left in the competition. In all honesty, it looks like the show is just setting him up to look absolutely dumb. He's over here pleading his love for her in the confessionals when we've probably seen them talk a maximum number of three times since the season has started. He gives this monologue to the two other guys and Rachel, straight out of his booty hole, telling her that the answer (to who should get the rose) isn't difficult and he hopes they make it even easier after the date is over. Trust me, dude, you're making it easy for her. When she goes off to talk with Eric, she starts to cry and he tells her that he's seen how hard this has been for her and tells her that she deserves to be selfish because she's such a good person. When she goes to talk to Matt, she also starts to cry because she really sees herself in him, but also knows that her relationship with him isn't as strong as the other relationships she has with the other guys and sends him home. She meets with Adam, who asks her if she thinks she could see herself falling in love with him. Rachel says, in kinder words, "Bitch, duh. Why do you think you're still here?" and then they [nope, sorry, I don't care]. Her and Eric talk again, where he reveals that he's never brought a girl home to meet his family before which shoots up like 29 red flags for her (29 for each year he didn't bring a girl home). Despite this, he gets the rose. Duh. Obviously. Expected. And Adam is super, super, super shocked. Duh. Obviously. Expected.
Final four:
Bryan
Dean
Eric
Peter
EPISODE GRADE: B-
Now that the central conflict of the season is over, I don't expect to be as engaged as I was earlier but this episode was still a major let down. Unless the producers were actually just giving Adam screen time to make him look stupid and delusional, they wasted a lot of time this week. It's almost anticlimactic to give a bunch of screen time to two guys who haven't even said two words all season and expect them being eliminated to carry any emotional weight for us as viewers. There were a few good things to come out of this week, though. The dead weight (Matt and Adam) have officially been tossed overboard. They really set up some interesting things to be excited for next week. I cannot wait for Bryan to get called out, Peter's mom to tell Rachel he's not ready for marriage, Dean to confront his dad and, well, I guess just to look at Eric.
Actual transcript from Rachel and Dean's date.
Dean: Are you gonna...do you believe in the tooth fairy?
Rachel: "Talk about your feelings." Dean: "What's your favorite type of dinosaur?"
Dean: "...You're so pretty."
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