2020 Bachelor - Week 3

We jump back into week 3, picking up with the definition of the word “bully”. Hannah Ann and Kelsey are still going at each other’s throat over last week’s “champagne-gate”. Ah the pop heard round the world! Hannah tearfully exclaims “I’m NOT a champagne stealer!” *sniff, sniff*, while Kelsey screams “I don’t even LIKE champagne! Stop making this about you!”. I’m not even sure what’s going on at this point, but thankfully, the producers don’t make us deal with it much longer and we can move on.

Victoria P, the nurse, gets a 1:1 date, and there’s not much to say. It’s an A+ date. They go line dancing and then have dinner at an airplane museum, and its overall v v cute. Victoria opens up about her traumatic youth – her dad died when she was young and her mom struggled with addition, so she was left caring for her younger sister. She’s worked hard, studied hard, and became a nurse. I’m super impressed with her, with her only wrong turn being willingly participating on this trash reality tv show.

We cut back to scenes from the mansion, where the girls are all suddenly b*tching about some no-name Alayah. She’s had absolutely no screen time until tonight, and when she finally gets in front of the camera, all of my red flags are going off. She’s crazy and I can smell a good fight brewing.

On the group date, Demi (from Colton’s season) returns to organize a date. Why we need to bring back past women from prior seasons, Lord knows, but I’m not having it. The date involves the women wearing lingerie and then pillow fighting each-other. I feel like Demi imagined what a horny 14 year old boy thinks happens at girls’ sleepovers, and then decided to make Peter’s first wet dream a reality.

At the end of the evening, Sydney falls to the classic temptation that we’ve lost many a solid contestant to. She pulls the “not everyone in the house is here for the right reasons” card. Usually, this annoys me, but Sydney’s balls impress me. Peter brings her back to the group and asks her to point fingers in front of the group. With cojones of steel, she calls out Alayah by name. I respect the hell out of it.

Hilariously, Alayah is like “yikes, well is anyone else feeling that way?”, and we pan a group of women all with the same “oh HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL nah” face. Everyone is silent, until the next day, where nearly every girl spends their 1:1 times with Peter going “yeah she’s kinda psycho but I didn’t wanna say anything yesterday”. So we have a house full of wusses. Disappointing.

Instead of a cocktail hour before the rose ceremony, Peter opts for a pool party instead. I can only assume it’s because he’s sending a bunch of hot girls home and this is his last chance to see them in a bikini. The whole day is consumed by Alayah drama anyway, so it’s a waste.

To recap the reputation shamming, first Sydney tells Peter that Alayah is crazy. Then reinforces it the next day saying that she “absolutely has not changed her mind”. Then 3 other girls tell him Alayah is crazy. Then Victoria P, the nurse we all know and love, tells Peter that Alayah asked her to lie to the producers. AND PETER IS STILL WONDERING if he can trust her. Buddy, we didn’t send you a red flag, we sent you enough red flags to fill all the poles outside the United Nations building. Oy.

We finally make it to the rose ceremony, and after much hype, Peter sends Alayah home. We also say goodbye to Jasmine, Alexa, and Sarah. In previews for next week, it looks like Alayah is back to pull a “2018 Taylor Swift”… to reclaim her reputation, that is. The girl is down, but let’s not yet count her out.