Американский Холостяк #20 Ben Higgins

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Благодаря этой истории, которую сняли о Бене и Лорен, примерно понятно какие проблемы возникают у влюбленных, которые решили пожениться и съехались вместе. Иногда мне жалко Бена в некоторых ситуациях, поскольку в его простом мире появилась Лорен с кучей всего, чего ему и не снилось! Далеко не у каждого молодого человека есть дом. У Бена он есть, хоть и маленький. Но Лорен этого недостаточно! Тем не менее многие молодые пары начинают жить на съемных квартирах, копят на дом. Лорен к тому же еще не работает! А когда она работала, то жила на съемной квартире в ЛА. Я понимаю, ен нравится все красивое, но сразу же оно все не может возникнуть или надо было искать совсем другого жениха. В общем, мне ближе Бен и он мне еще больше нравится, хорошо понимаю Бекку, которая, кстати, была в последнем выпуске, но при таком качестве сложно было ее толком разглядеть.
А Лорен совсем еще ребенок, не знаю, порали ей замуж!? :dntkw:

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Рейтинги низкие...чего там вообще смотреть? :meeting:
3апощу отрывки из того, что пишут об этом шоу :

Have you ever seen a couple in the grocery store and just wondered, "Wow. What do those completely average, Kohl's-wearing white people talk about at home?" Well, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? is here to answer that question. Ben "Oatmeal" Higgins and his blushing bride, Lauren "Nickname TBD" Bushnell are back on our TV screens and back in our hearts and minds. The masterminds behind The Bachelor have determined that their foremost charisma-less Bachelor needed several more hours of exposure.
Lauren pranks her beloved by filling an Oreo with toothpaste. I guess that's fun. Lauren also reveals that she didn't know street sweepers were real. How did that happen? What system failed her? I can't possibly believe the sheer lack of knowledge on display.
Lauren goes out to lunch with the Twins who don't order root-beer floats because they're trying to be adults.
Lauren goes toilet shopping with the Twins for WAY too long and tries out a space toilet. The Twins also set themselves up for a real fun shot where they actually pull their pants down in the toilet store.

My two favorite moments from the "this season on" montage: Oatmeal saying, "Maybe we should slow this all down," and Lauren replying, "Because I didn't know you were allergic to coconut!" This is gonna be one hell of ride.

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Do you think Jade and Tanner are sitting around somewhere, posing with their hair-vitamin gummy bears and detox teas for their Instagram, wondering why they didn't get a spin-off show on Freeform? Imagine what could have been. Why didn't we get a tragicomic look into the brief Iowan life of Chris and Whitney? How did we end up with Oatmeal and Nickname TBD? They leave me with so so many questions.

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Oatmeal and Nickname TBD have invited their closest contractually obligated friends —*err I mean totally regular close friends —*to join them in the wilderness. Can someone explain why it's okay for Lace and the Twins, three women who made out with Oatmeal a couple times, to hang out with him and Nickname TBD but JoJo isn't? Oatmeal is driving into the woods with Chris Soules, who jokes that the trip is going to be a Brokeback Mountain. What does he think a Brokeback Mountain is? Also, that would be a great spinoff. The internet already went crazy when two Australian ladytestants found love so I can only imagine how sweet it would be if Oatmeal and Chris fell for each other. Nickname TBD drives up with the Twins and they make up more raps and have a breath-holding contest. Riveting.
The only thrill of the episode is when Oatmeal reveals that he's invited The CHAD to the camping trip. Why. Is. This. Happening. The CHAD is the ultimate gaslighting abuser. For some reason, the Disney-ABC Television Group is very interested in continuing to trot this leaky bag of garbage in front of America and have it drip hot trash garbage everywhere. The entire episode is just everyone wringing their hands about how terrible it will be when The CHAD shows up and they're all right except Oatmeal and Nickname TBD. In addition to hooking up with Grant's ex, the CHAD apparently also talked trash to Lace's face at AFR (After the Final Rose) and harassed her on social media. But Oatmeal and Nickname TBD talked to him in person for like five minutes once and he seemed okay, plus their lives are being paid for by Disney-ABC, so The CHAD is coming!
Finally, the CHAD shows up and does exactly what we all expect the CHAD to do. He insists that he doesn't know why he does what he does, but then mutters, "Well, maybe I did it for the entertainment." He says he doesn't feel bad for hurting people, but then says, "Well, maybe if I hurt them intentionally, I'd feel bad."

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Oatmeal and Nickname TBD are trying to figure out big questions about the future: Where will we live? What will our careers be? How many times a week will we make ice cream? Here's the answer to that last one. You'll make it twice and never use the ice-cream machine again. Also, Nickname TBD reveals what she thinks the recipe for ice cream is. Ice and cream.
Nickname TBD wants lots of useless things on their wedding registry, which offends Oatmeal to his core. Why do they need a new bar cart? Nickname TBD also decides that if they're going to get a waffle-maker and an ice-cream machine, they'll need a bigger house. So they pick Lace up on the side of the street in a baffling skirt-suit to go look at some houses. Thank goodness she was standing on that completely empty stretch of road nowhere near a producer or camera crew.
Suddenly, we're in the middle of an episode of House Hunters. This would normally delight me, but Oatmeal and Nickname TBD are even more boring and vanilla than the usual House Hunters couples. Lace takes them to a three-bedroom, two-bath flophouse.
Then Lace takes them to a house that is weirdly decorated with all of their favorite colors and pictures of Nickname TBD when she was child. Nickname TBD falls in love with the house and gets out her checkbook to make a down payment. Oatmeal reminds her that she doesn't have a job because she quit being a flight attendant because she was being recognized so much it got in the way of her job. Nickname TBD is the Sully of flight attendants. Oatmeal has a minor emotional breakdown and calms himself down by making Nickname TBD call him "Daddy" and listen to a lecture about financial responsibility.

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“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

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Nickname TBD decides it's time to get a job because she should contribute money to her marriage. Our charming couple go out for a hibachi lunch to talk about her job options. I have a theory that they're always sending Oatmeal and Nickname TBD to "entertaining" ethnic restaurants to counteract how boring and white their conversations are. Try to make that into a pull quote, ya monsters.

Nickname TBD likes to cuddle with animals, so her first job option is to open a shelter. That ol' money-spinner: animal shelters. She decides to try a day at the zoo as a zookeeper. Not to be left out, Oatmeal tries his hand at being a hibachi chef because, fuck it, why not? Neither goes well. I've never seen a TV show censor animal poop with a poop emoji before. More forced whimsy from Ben & Lauren.

Nickname TBD decides she wants to be a lifestyle blogger because she's thin and blonde, I guess? She already owns all those Danish leather flats and rose-gold succulent planters.
Can we just pause and think about how launching a lifestyle blog by someone with little to no writing or beauty-industry experience is seen as a surefire way to earn enough money to buy a house?
The party is a success, but Nickname TBD is riddled with anxiety that her blog won't be a hit. ABC will not let that blog fail. If necessary, ABC will hire a gang of Russian trolls to populate the comment section asking if a center or side part is sultrier.
After the party, the blog is …*an overnight success. What a surprise! Now that Nickname TBD has a job for like six days, it's time to focus on the wedding again. The couple goes to a vineyard to take pre-wedding photos.
Oatmeal admits that he's not connected to the wedding planning and Nickname TBD is asking for so many things, like a place to live and a wedding. He doesn't even know what a wedding registry is. He might be getting cold feet. And on that note, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? will be back in two weeks with a two-hour special event.

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)

barish

__________________
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that something was wrong with me.” (c)