1 hr 23 min
Season 3 Episode 10: It Is What It Is The Companion Pod: The OC
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- TV & Film
The final two women have received their roses in Australia and the Women Tell All is in the books. We’re one step closer to the end of Peter’s reign at Bachelor.
We begin the pod with a quick recap of the 20 minute rose ceremony where Madison keeps Peter waiting and accepts a rose to Peter’s surprise (“Are you sure?”).
(8:55) Then we follow Tiff into the Reddit rabbit hole and checkout drink from a cup of “Unverified Tea.” Was Victoria a bully in high school? Some people have posted some unpleasant things that Victoria said and did. This leads to Sean asking what year would they redact from their lives because they were the worst version of themselves. Is Victoria F. getting kicked out of Virginia Beach bars for yelling at employees (like, in January). Are Peter and Vicky F. together RIGHT NOW? They might be, if you believe the unverified tea… Did Peter get Kelley pregnant during their LA hotel rendezvous? Probably not. Sean drops his own bit of unverified tea because they change gears and talk about The Women Tell All.
(25:00) We lament the disappointing nature of the show overall. The women take no ownership nor do they set the record straight. Instead, Tiff thought it was a “Mean Girl” Forum. Kelsey and Sydney show that they squashed their mini-beef when Kelsey called Sydney a nasty name behind her back. There was no discussion about the drama or cutting at the heart of the issues in the house. Why wasn’t the Alayah and Victoria P. issue discussed considering both women left the house because of the issue. Tiff goes on a rant about “hate campaigns” among the women. The women all feel too aware of their impact and their role on the show at this point. The ones that took up airtime on the actual show did the same thing on the Women Tell All, driving silly fights and yelling over the others.
(40:40) Kelsey and Victoria have their Bachelorette try-outs, which don’t go all that well considering the announcement that Clare is the new Bachelorette. Champagnegate is slammed over our heads, when it didn’t need to be. Kelsey took one for the (production) team and owned the champagne incident, even though it was completely a producer created issue. Ashley I. enters the scene and tells Kelsey to just be as emotional as she wants to be, which sends Sean into a tailspin. Vicky F’s time on the hot seat wasn’t too challenging. She ducked more questions about sleeping with married men and didn’t really have to answer for any of her crappy behavior and running from challenges.
(58:25) ABC decided to have a mini-school assembly to talk about online bullying, which felt ironic to us because the first hour of the show had women yelling at each other and being mean. Rachel Lindsay read hateful DMs and comments from people online and allowed the women to talk about their experiences. It felt like they were dancing around the term “racism” and never named the behavior directly. People online suck and this is an issue that sadly feels nearly unfixable at this point.
(01:09:01) Sean tries to explain the season by sharing some traits of Gen Z, which is a large number of the contestants on this season. Then they wrap up with Clare as the new Bachelorette and dive into some Reality Steve tweets.
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The final two women have received their roses in Australia and the Women Tell All is in the books. We’re one step closer to the end of Peter’s reign at Bachelor.
We begin the pod with a quick recap of the 20 minute rose ceremony where Madison keeps Peter waiting and accepts a rose to Peter’s surprise (“Are you sure?”).
(8:55) Then we follow Tiff into the Reddit rabbit hole and checkout drink from a cup of “Unverified Tea.” Was Victoria a bully in high school? Some people have posted some unpleasant things that Victoria said and did. This leads to Sean asking what year would they redact from their lives because they were the worst version of themselves. Is Victoria F. getting kicked out of Virginia Beach bars for yelling at employees (like, in January). Are Peter and Vicky F. together RIGHT NOW? They might be, if you believe the unverified tea… Did Peter get Kelley pregnant during their LA hotel rendezvous? Probably not. Sean drops his own bit of unverified tea because they change gears and talk about The Women Tell All.
(25:00) We lament the disappointing nature of the show overall. The women take no ownership nor do they set the record straight. Instead, Tiff thought it was a “Mean Girl” Forum. Kelsey and Sydney show that they squashed their mini-beef when Kelsey called Sydney a nasty name behind her back. There was no discussion about the drama or cutting at the heart of the issues in the house. Why wasn’t the Alayah and Victoria P. issue discussed considering both women left the house because of the issue. Tiff goes on a rant about “hate campaigns” among the women. The women all feel too aware of their impact and their role on the show at this point. The ones that took up airtime on the actual show did the same thing on the Women Tell All, driving silly fights and yelling over the others.
(40:40) Kelsey and Victoria have their Bachelorette try-outs, which don’t go all that well considering the announcement that Clare is the new Bachelorette. Champagnegate is slammed over our heads, when it didn’t need to be. Kelsey took one for the (production) team and owned the champagne incident, even though it was completely a producer created issue. Ashley I. enters the scene and tells Kelsey to just be as emotional as she wants to be, which sends Sean into a tailspin. Vicky F’s time on the hot seat wasn’t too challenging. She ducked more questions about sleeping with married men and didn’t really have to answer for any of her crappy behavior and running from challenges.
(58:25) ABC decided to have a mini-school assembly to talk about online bullying, which felt ironic to us because the first hour of the show had women yelling at each other and being mean. Rachel Lindsay read hateful DMs and comments from people online and allowed the women to talk about their experiences. It felt like they were dancing around the term “racism” and never named the behavior directly. People online suck and this is an issue that sadly feels nearly unfixable at this point.
(01:09:01) Sean tries to explain the season by sharing some traits of Gen Z, which is a large number of the contestants on this season. Then they wrap up with Clare as the new Bachelorette and dive into some Reality Steve tweets.
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1 hr 23 min