The Bachelor, Week 3

I missed the first half hour of this week's episode, but the remaining hour and a half provided enough drama to get me through the week.

Jason decided to go on a private date with a very tan blonde girl named Natalie. He said he wanted to go out with her because she's "really hot" but he wasn't sure if she was marriage material. It turns out she's not. Or at least Jason didn't think so. 'Cause he sent her home at the end of the date. Ouch. Maybe it's because the only three-syllable word she uttered on the whole date (over and over again) was "amazing."

I—along with most of the other bachelorettes—was relieved that Jason was looking for more in a woman than a good bod and long blonde hair. Not that either of those things are bad. But he was making a statement that it's not all about looks; that authenticity and genuine goodness are more important. Hooray for authenticity and genuine goodness!

But there are still some girls in the running who are not very good people, as Natalie pointed out to Jason when she got the boot. So Jason spent the rest of the episode trying to figure out which girls are mean to the others. And by "figure out," I mean he "pried some of the girls for info." Not cool, in my opinion. He was asking them to talk badly about the other girls, which is exactly what the mean girls were doing to them, and... it was just a big vicious cycle that involved lots of backstabbing and moving of the head and talking to the hand.

The cat fights that happen on this show make me embarrassed to be a woman. They don't realize that they look so... ahem, unclassy... when they're all up in someone's bizness. But, hey! Suckers like me love watching it.

The previews for next week involve lots of tears. I'm sure that's such a turn-on to Jason. We shall see!