Welcome back to Paradise After Dark, the unofficial Bachelor in Paradise After Show, coming to you live after the show.

Hey, Jackie. Hi, Stephanie. How art thou?

Thou? That was so good. I'm doing great. Just finished episode two of Bachelor in Paradise.

So excited to recap this with you. I feel like we're starting to get the ball rolling a little bit.

We were left on a cliffhanger. Yes, which I was stressed about,

but at the same time,

happy that the show delivered significant drama.

I didn't even think this was going to be a possibility.

Can we maybe just jump to the end?

Because I was so fully convinced that Justin was going to give his rose to Lexi

and Susie was going to go home

and I was preparing myself being like, wow, this is the one relationship that I'm actually

genuinely invested in is Susie and Justin and we're not even going to get more time with them.

However, we got a little surprised this time around. Yeah, I mean, I saw it coming. You saw it coming?

There's only so much left to go with

Justin and Lexi. My God, there's nothing there. The girl literally said when they were behind the

curtains doing like the makeout challenge, she goes, this is my worst nightmare. And like I understand

she didn't mean it about kissing Justin. She just maybe didn't want to be like put on the spot to kiss

someone. But I just feel like they have no chemistry. I foresaw the fact that Justin was the last rose. Susie's still standing there. I was like, oh, Justin's going to do this. I don't think it's romantic. I think Susie doesn't want to blur those lines, though. And that's why she reacted the way she did and wants to make it clear like she's not looking to like me.

Oh, see, I read it more though that she didn't want to hurt Lexi.

Like less, I think I think everyone's like on the same page that it's not a romantic situation.

I think she just didn't want, she was like, Justin, why are you like sacrificing yourself in this relationship and you're hurting Lexi like just to save me? Like you should, I think she wants him to go pursue other things. I don't know if I agree though that Justin and Lexi had run its course. I mean, clearly now at this point it has because I don't think there's any like going back from that. But I don't know. I thought they really liked each other. I was so confused because Because I think what was confusing to me was that, like, Justin clearly seemed invested in his relationship with Lexi the entire time and was very hurt when she was like, actually, I think I need to take a step back because of your relationship with Susie. But then it turned out that all she had to do was have a conversation with Susie. And then she was right back being like, oh, do you think Justin will give me my rose? So I actually thought there was something genuine there. I thought he was serious about pursuing her. And, you know, he was only one eye for her. And like, I don't understand what happened here. So maybe we should start at the very beginning of the episode and work our way to the end since we just started at the end.

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