It’s the beginning of the end on The Golden Bachelor
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Gerry with his final three
As we’ve said in pretty much every one of these, there’s simply no way The Golden Bachelor ends well. At this point, tuning in is as excruciating as watching a freight train full of sweet older women—and now their children and children’s children—rush headlong into a brick wall labeled “complete and utter heartbreak.” It sucks. But for what is really the first time this week, one has to wonder who is truly to blame for this situation. It’s easy to point fingers at the franchise’s notoriously exploitative producers—the plug should have been pulled on this whole concept a long time ago—but this week our dear Golden Bachelor Gerry also showed a bit of a nefarious side for the first time. Or maybe he’s just an extremely (extremely!) naive, hopeless romantic who doesn’t have the foresight to imagine even a single consequence to his many wrong actions. In which case he shouldn’t have been cast for this show in the first place, if anyone on the production team cared at all about the ethics of what they’re doing. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
This week, Gerry went on three hotly anticipated/slightly dreaded hometown dates with final three Theresa, Faith, and Leslie. But before embarking on his first date with Theresa in Shrewsbury, NJ (of course Theresa is a Jersey girl), Gerry took a minute to check in with himself. “It’s been so long since I first felt those feelings with my wife, so I’m in uncharted territory,” he said of the fact that he’s pretty clearly falling for all three women. “I only want to say ‘I love you’ to one more person in my lifetime, so I really have to sort my feelings out and do the right thing.” Yes, Gerry! Correct!
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But when push comes to shove, he can’t do it. Leslie gets a rose (probably because she was the last date and therefore the freshest in his mind, if we’re being honest) but Gerry walks out of the room before giving out the other. Just days after convincing the remaining two women’s families that he might be a part of their life “for the rest of his time left on Earth,” he simply can’t cut one of them loose. Either these four people need to read up on ethical non-monogamy stat, or someone’s headed for the blindside of their life—and their family’s lives—next episode.
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