While some of the crew are sipping on bourgeois drinks I am eating way too many cookies.
We return to the hotel while Sarah's one on one is still ongoing and Gabby still looks like she had just strawpedo'd a wine bottle.
Sarah walks in holding a rose and tells the waiting girls that "it is no one's place to tell Clayton what they think I am ready for...I hope that you can tell me who brought this to him" Mara heavy sighs. While Sarah monologues Mara makes faces and smirks she then says "I talked to him about how I felt about my situation....he want's an engagement at the end of this, I have been here from day one ready for an engagement." Sarah decides to twist the knife "one last thing, Clayton identified this as a last ditch effort, the person that did this is going home."
This has got to be a producer pushed question since Sarah sniffs the rose and says "smells like, something you will not be smelling tomorrow. Sayonara, biatch."
COCKTAIL CEREMONY:
Serene gets some of the narrative work while she gets ready "nine of us, three already have roses" etc.
The ladies feel the tension of the moment.
Serene gets pulled first, I had a few teachers that looked similar to Serene as a kid and I just know kids in her school are starting to awaken to feelings they did not initially understand.
Clayton says he has jars of fireflies (not real insects) to honor Serene's dead cousin (because of her story of getting fireflies with the cousin in her youth), but his delivery is so botched it is not believable that this is his idea. Serene however is all about it "it shows that he listened and remembered" or something similar because I started laughing so hard.
As Clayton tells us the night is starting off great "almost too good" we see Mara striding to go and talk to Sarah. Mara tells Sarah that her "last ditch effort" comment from the night before was condescending "and ignorant."
Mara tells Sarah that "you are getting a little sloppy and it is showing" especially funny since Mara is holding a drink glass and is looking a little sloppy herself.
I guess Rachel really is emotional about the Sarah and Mara confrontation because she whispers in her ITM after eavesdropping.
ROSE CEREMONY:
Roses to Susie (Gabby starts to tell us she wants "a rose so bad" you and all the ladies Gabby), Serene, Gabby, final rose to Genevieve which means Mara and Eliza are going home.
I fully expect Serene to make it to hometowns but I feel there is ZERO chance she is winning this, I would love to be surprised but I would bet the house on this before I see it happening.
Mara surprises everyone by being bubbly in her goodbye - While she might cry in her ITM she tells us that she expects to find her person. So the reason I cannot see Serene winning, look at the interaction that was happening with Genevieve and Clayton vs Eliza and Clayton and he keeps Genevieve ("G")? G looks like she barely wants to be there when she is around Clayton.
Off to Vienna: Genevieve still does not get a one on one.
ONE ON ONE:
Susie gets picked up for the "Pretty Woman" date that every season has. "I have never had someone take me into a shop and say pick anything you want" Susie I hate to tell you HE IS NOT THE ONE CAUSING THIS! You know what? I am being unkind - for all we know a producer said "have you ever had anyone take you into a shop and say pick anything you want?" and Susie is just replying honestly and then it is cut to make me think she is a simpleton...or both things are true. Susie is taken to try on some haute couture and there is a lot of ruffles and feathers. DOES CLAYTON UNDERSTAND THE WORD 'BELT'? Susie comes out in an outfit wearing a gold belt and Clayton calls it a "waist thing" uhmm what?
Because this show knows how to push jealousy Susie is sent back to the group with her packages and Gabby is not happy, she simulates being stabbed in the throat.
When Susie shows the bottom of her new shoes to make sure we all know they are Louboutins Gabby attempts to test if looks could kill she has been practicing all season.
To add to it while Susie is in her room and the others are on the mini couch of destiny a gentleman walks in asking for "Fraulein Susie" carrying a red gown which causes Serene to exclaim "Red is his favorite color!" and "I wish I was wearing that dress in front of him."
Evening:
Susie wears her dress to meet Clayton at the Schonbrunn palace (hopefully I got that right but if I didn't if you know you know, if you don't it wont matter).
Susie "no man has ever wanted to treat me like that" uhmm sis, many a man has probably WANTED to treat you like that but they could NOT AFFORD to do it. Susie of course gets the date rose.
Chris De Burgh!
The show actually gets someone I know and he is singing HIS HIT "The Lady in Red" so yes Serene maybe red is his favorite color but if his fave color was chartreuse best believe Susie was still getting a red dress! While the couple is getting serenaded a date card arrives and based on it the one on one is going to Serene.
Clayton says "being able to spoil you today was so special to me" bro you know you aint got money like that.
GROUP DATE:
And the group meets up with a psychoanalyst because "Vienna is the birth place of modern psychotherapy."
They will all be going through couples therapy with Clayton - Genevieve says she has chosen not to go to therapy because she does not like to talk about things...I get it.
Gabby goes first, she says she is feeling anxious and wants to share more with her partner; this all feels performative, not so much Gabby but the whole thing 2 people who barely know each other are talking to a therapist while one partner will be doing this repeatedly with 4 of them as he cycles them out for the therapist to get snippets of who they are and their connection? Teddi "I feel open" Clayton "Teddi is so very honest with me...I am more drawn to her because of her vulnerability which is what I want" I know he didn't mean it, but it felt like a reference to her virginity.
G is told "try to express what you feel" there is a long pause and then an expletive. The therapist "so if Clayton cannot see what is going on inside you it will be very difficult for a relationship" "So what does Clayton need to do?" G responds "I don't know"...Eliza WAS RIGHT THERE!
Clayton asks to speak to G away from the therapist "I just want to thank you for being you" (such coach speak) and then boots her because "time is running out" gotta keep an eye on the game clock.
Cynic in me, G just wanted a trip to a new city once she got to explore Vienna she was done with Clayton. Clayton goes back to the 4 remaining women and tells them "with hometowns just around the corner I have to make tough decisions" he lets them know that he booted G and then tells them "see you downstairs" Rachel "to go after that I am definitely nervous."
Sarah to the girls "I am weirdly excited...because I love therapy, I love talking about myself!" Sarah treats this like a game.
Sarah immediately thanks the therapist "for doing this." While she is gone the other ladies are talking about her and Gabby says she thinks Sarah tells them about her time with Clayton as a tactic. Teddi was initially saying Sarah did not mean to intimidate the other girls but then...maybe?
The therapist meets with the group as a whole and says "some of them weren't honest and they were, let's call it performative." Clayton looks as shocked as he can pretend to register. The psychotherapist does not bother to say who was being performative. Rachel tells us that she Teddi and Gabby are going to have to band together to talk to Clayton about Sarah.
Evening:
Rachel goes first Clayton immediately says "therapist said someone was being performative and I know that was not you."
Rachel knows it is time for the jugular so she tells Clayton that Sarah came in after her first one on one and told them that she and Clayton cried on her one on one. Clayton is more concerned that Sarah "said I cried?" He wants to make it clear that he did not cry.
Gabby "definitely we all tried to steer clear" she is following the formula Sarah, bus, under.
Teddi "I was thinking of leaving but none of it had to do with you."
Now Sarah gets her time on the couch with Clayton, she is already looking nervous. Sarah takes the crying tact,
it is generally a strong tact but here..."I just wanted to leave at one point because it is so heartbreaking" Clayton is over it "I'm just gonna be real with you, I really felt you were trying to fake cry there with me. Like it didn't feel genuine at all."
Sarah with no hint of tears or remorse back to normal voice "Honestly I have no tears left because this has been a really tough week." Clayton "what scares me is that it was almost like you were trying to manipulate these women into getting them to quit...we are done, I just cannot move forward with you and I would like to walk you out." Clayton walks Sarah past the women on the couch and Rachel and Gabby's jaws literally drop
. Sarah makes one last desperate plea at the car door "What we have built is so strong." "Sarah I just don't believe you." Clayton returns to the women picks up the rose and says "with what happened here tonight I just cannot give this rose out tonight" cruel way to do it, I told you weeks ago he is weak, back home we say sopsy.
ONE ON ONE:
Serene asks Clayton "I know last night was really tough for you, are you okay?" Serene takes a smart tack and says "hearing that stuff was very hard but I trusted in you" that is right, play up to his ego.
Oh man I am going to rack up fantasy points this week, I have Serene on my team and you get points for 'random strangers' interacting like here where we pretend the couple just happens to meet people in the street dancing and yup this show tries to pretend this is just something that happened by chance.
Evening:
Serene is drop dead gorgeous in her evening look. Serene tells Clayton "I wanted to tell you, I am falling in love with you." Clayton is overjoyed, I think, his face cracks into a grin and he licks his lips before a kiss. Damn, they get to go and see Klimt's 'The Kiss' and I envy that moment I have always wanted to see it in person...Clayton says "it is called The kiss and we have to recreate it" sure they kiss but it is not a recreation. Literally they are standing in front of the painting they claim they want to recreate and do nothing to make it look like the painting. Sadly these 2 live persons lack the intimacy we see in a long created painting.
ROSE CEREMONY:
Until tonight I did not pay attention to the fact that Teddi is from Cali, for some reason I just thought she lived in the south, granted it is Highland, CA so it is south adjacent.
Rose to Rachel (house money) she whispers "I will" to "will you accept this rose?" and then the final rose of the night goes as I expected to Gabby not Teddi. As Teddi is walked out Gabby whispers "She is so graceful" struck me in the same vein as "she is so articulate" but I do not think she meant it that way.
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