Monday night brought a different kind of drama with the overlying theme of SOMEONE in the house is not here for the right reasons and it has become quite the game of ‘Clue’ to find out who it is. The girls travel to Vietnam this week and two girls missed the boat…Onyeka and Nicole who were sent home at the Rose Ceremony for causing WAY too much drama…THANK YOU COLTON! Now we can move on to bigger and better drama. In this episode girls can’t handle the pressure, a Villain’s surprise exit, and an ending that leaves us all in shock…it’s Recap Time!
Good Morning Vietnam! This country is at the top of my Bucket list to visit…it looks absolutely breathtaking and add Colton to the mix and it suddenly becomes even more stunning.
He is feeling more vulnerable as the weeks go by and even though he is the one handing out the roses you get a sense of deep insecurity and a fear of rejection. Some of the other girls are alluding to the fact that someone is not here for right reasons and he is trying to figure out who that girl is…most likely one of the frontrunners.
Every week the stakes get higher as the field narrows and the girls get more and more invested and if they haven’t gotten that 1 on 1 they know their time is up. This week the first 1 on 1 goes to Hannah G. and this leaves Sydney, Katie, Demi and Kirpa who still haven’t had that alone time with him. We see all of them unravel with insecurity and doubt about where they stand with Colton, especially Sydney, she is really feeling the pressure and time is running out to solidify a connection.
The 1 on 1 date with Hannah G. gets pretty steamy as the two of them set off to a relaxing spa. This ‘pampering’ date with massage, seaweed wrap, mud bath and showers sets the scene for the perfect “Make-Out” date. And that’s pretty much what they do the majority of the time…kissing…kissing…and more kissing. It’s undeniable that they have a ton of chemistry but I don’t see anything else. Hannah is very sweet but lacking substance. She opens up and confides in Colton about having a ‘hard’ time with her parent’s divorce but with all of the other dramatic stories we have heard thus far from the ladies , this one doesn’t exactly measure up. He says he is falling in love with Hannah but it is more likely lust than love. She gets the rose but I’m comparing everything to Cassie from this point on and Hannah G. isn’t the one.
Whilst Colton and Hannah G. are getting busy…Cassie and Caelynn are getting busy gossiping about Hannah G…and both feel she is too immature for Colton…or they are just jealous…probably a little bit of both. One of these two might be the one NOT here for the right reasons…something is a little fishy…I bet they both really came on the show to be The Bachelorette and faced with the reality that a proposal might be coming their way…yikes.
Time for Group Date! The envelope arrives and Heather, Hannah B., Tayshia, Cassie, Sydney, Demi, and Katie are going on the Group date…and Kirpa gets the 1 on 1. Kirpa? I don’t get this at all…we have barely seen Kirpa in any of the other episodes and she even got stitches on her chin and the producers didn’t even bother to show any footage of her…so this seems super odd to me. But not as odd as this Group Date…the combat date…where the girls learn ‘Vovinam’ a Vietnamese martial art and spar against each other.
Except when they spar against each other they definitely didn’t use anything they learned because it looks like typical ‘girl fighting’ and not even close to martial arts. Katie really got into it and Demi took quite the beating…it got ugly. Colton pulled the plug on the sparring and off they went to the cocktail party to lighten things up. Except things weren’t about to get light…a dark cloud named Sydney was about to bring the storm.
As the night progressed each girl had their unique 1 on 1 time with Colton…some playful, like Hannah B. ….she might have had too much of the cocktail…and some more serious like Katie, Tayshia, and Demi. Katie and Tayshia both expressed their feelings of insecurity and how hard it is to keep up with all the other relationships. Tayshia was more confident than Katie in their 1 on 1 time and Katie really showed just how much she is struggling with this whole thing. Demi gets serious in a different way by taking her time with Colton to give her mom, recently released from prison, a call.
Demi…you made the WRONG call girl. Way to kill the romance by calling your mom who just got out of prison….can we say awkward????!
The most serious of everyone though was Sydney. The pressure and insecurities she had been feeling came flooding out and she realized she couldn’t handle it anymore and said goodbye to Colton much in the same fashion as Elyse did.
She tells Colton that there are girls worthy of him and some that are not and for him to not get distracted by “shiny things”…hmmmmmmmm…who is the shiny thing? This was the right move by Sydney because she wasn’t going to get to the next level with Colton and she was done wasting her time…and since the producers weren’t giving her that much screen time it wasn’t probable that she was going to be the next Bachelorette…there is always Paradise?? Tayshia gets the Group date rose and the evening ends on an intense note…as Colton is really starting to doubt some of his relationships.
On to the 1 on 1 with Kirpa and none of the girls think she will be coming home. I agree…I didn’t think she would either…but Kirpa has a very mature demeanor and Colton appreciates that. They go on an exciting snorkeling adventure in the beautiful waters of Vietnam and it is pretty hard not to have a great time! They weren’t overly affectionate towards each other but there Is more depth to their conversations than some of the others so I understand why he gave her the rose…he genuinely wants to get to know her more. Watch out girls…Kirpa is coming back!
Right after Kirpa comes back with the rose, Demi gets the idea in her head to go put some moves on Colton in good ol’ fashion Demi style. She goes to Colton’s room to express how much she is falling for him and in return she gets “I don’t think I can see myself in the end with you”…Bye Bye Demi. So it’s official…all the villains have been eliminated …who will arise as the new drama queen??
The cocktail party is canceled because Colton already made up his mind and at this point it was between Heather and Katie on who goes home. Katie’s insecurity really factored in on Colton’s decision and she ends up in the limo without the rose but leaves him with some confusing words about the girls aka that some of them are not not here for the right reasons. Colton is left feeling uncertain about all of his relationships and then the dramatic preview of next week’s episode has all of us in SHOCK! Does CASSIE, his favorite, go home?? We see Colton crying, her crying, and something definitely goes down …is this where he jumps the fence? Oh Monday get here now!