Love’s a game and this year we’re playing. For the full rules and intellectual justification of The Verge Bachelor Fantasy League please see this explanatory post. For a little background on why this is poised to be the best-ever season of The Bachelor, see this essay by culture editor Chris Plante:
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Lizzie Plaugic: Hey there, Viallettes, we’re now two episodes and four hours into the biggest sporting event of the season, and boy is it hot out there. The name of the game this week was villains — or should we say, “Viallns?” Who is one, who’s not one, and who’s going to become one in the pursuit of everlasting love. Having a villain on your BFL team won’t help your diamond ring dreams, but the nice pile of villainy points should ease the burn.
This week, there were two group dates and one one-on-one date. The first group date was “wedding photos,” where the women pretended to be taking shots to commemorate themed matrimonies with Nick. (The shotgun wedding! The Adam and Eve wedding! Etc.!). There was very little talking, but there was a lot of kissing (these kisses only counted for three instead of five points — it’s too easy if you’re playing bride and groom dress up). Here Corinne solidified her villain standing by taking her top off and forcing Nick to hold her naked body in front of the rest of the women. “I was daring enough to have clothes and take them off,” she says. That’ll get you a cringe and 10 points! And Taylor a +1 for cursing.
Later, at the post-date cocktail sesh, Corinne nabbed herself some more camera time and a new stack of points by “stealing” Nick away from the other women. She’s a bank robber and we’re all just tellers at Wells Fargo, baby. At one point a visibly drunk (+5) Corinne stole Nick from Taylor (+5), just as Taylor was about to impress Nick with stories of her graduate degree. Moments later, Taylor decided to flip the tables on Corinne and steal Nick back (+7). At this point, Nick was getting very dizzy. Corinne decided that Taylor had broken some unspoken rule of “classiness,” because it is okay to interrupt convos, but not to “re-interrupt” them. Corinne’s tears didn’t last long because Nick gives her the date rose (+15). Interruption 1, re-interruption 0.