I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about slowly realizing that the fun, fantastical reality dating show that allows you to escape the horrible world you live in is actually a soul crushing trap.

Guys, we somehow survived another absolutely miserable season of The Bachelor at last night Gabi windy and Rachel recce is dumpster fire of a journey finally finally ended in the words of Gabi windy.

Thank God, thank God, and also can you believe we once found all of this like super fun I truly feel like I'm trapped in like a horror show of like mirrors and trick exits right now.

I swear it didn't used to be this way. It really truly truly didn't.

But today the two of us are going to try to unpack the three hour live finale that was somehow way way too long and yet also too short to address anything that actually matters like you know Eric

where is blackface scandal yeah they were just like we got to somehow fill up this last 45 minutes of the show what if we definitely don't address the important issues that need to be addressed and instead we just ask Zach how he's feeling 15 times.

I'm I'm so annoyed by this finale it really was like to it was like two hours of finale and then they cut out 15 minutes of it.

And through it on the cutting room floor and then they put it into a three hour bag it's like.

How is it that you spent so much time just doing filler and you still didn't cover the show we need to cover somehow like disappeared Rachel within an hour and a half never saw her again I just I just she and Gabi didn't really get to conclude together.

And then we got an hour of Zach like the most bland man alive like that was an hour more of Zach is bachelor than we should be having and yet there's still so much to come.

I just hope that after Rachel left the couch you somewhere with even having like an egg cream and just enjoying her evening and like an entire bottle of Xana.

But not in a dangerous way just in like a way just one of those safe ways where you have an entire bottle of Xanax at one time.

So let's go back to the very beginning the show opens with the apocalypse vibes that we caught a glimpse of a couple weeks ago the camera opens on Jesse and a silent dark in studio Noah plas no audience lights no music.

He says that he thought they would be doubling the happiness this season.

Did you just not how it worked out.

I love when the show does this where they're like we thought one thing and then by no doing of our own.

It just didn't work out that way sir sir we all know.

They're like we it wasn't our decision to make this happen I don't believe them so he says that during the show we will be finding out of Tino can explain his indiscretions and Eric with text to his ex just have to say it is very bizarre that they are just speaking to the audience as though everyone has done a deep dive on the spoilers like in the world of the show.

So none of this has happened none of this has been discussed.

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