Hello and welcome to Here to Make Friends, a HuffPost podcast about the

Bachelorette franchise where we lovingly snark on the Bachelorette, season 11.

Whether you love the Bachelorette or love to hate it, we'll decode what this

reality show reveals about the world of dating.

I'm Emma Gray, senior women's editor, and I'm Claire Fallon, culture writer.

Thanks for tuning in to our second episode recap. Go team, Caitlin.

Yes, Brit, no matter how right it felt to you, you are not the Bachelorette.

Sorry. Tonight we'll discuss Caitlin's questionable taste in men and

break down the what the fuck season highlights. We'll need all the why we can get

our hands on. Let's do this.

So they don't waste a lot of time, fortunately, getting right into picking the

Bachelorette tonight. But Chris definitely makes it as painful for each of

them as possible. He's basically fucking with them. He really draws it out when

he tells Brit that she is not the Bachelorette. Yeah, he's like, oh Brit, you

unfortunately will not be the Bachelorette. Like you could just see the hope in

her eyes as he said her name. She was like envisioning that he was about to say, Brit,

you are the next Bachelorette. That was just mean. Well, I feel like they were hoping she

would have like a mental breakdown on national television and start weeping, but she was

pretty calm. I think she was actually in denial. She kept just like looking at him

with big sort of limpid questioning eyes, just saying like, but it felt so right.

You know, it just it felt it felt really right. I don't understand. And it's sort of like it

all it was almost like she thought that he would be like, yes, like you're right. You are

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