Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette was bound to be the one when things would come to a head: Kaitlyn, already deemed by one gentleman to be only interested in making out with a bunch of dudes, followed the animal part of her nature and got busy with Nick Viall, setting herself up for even more cries of “Slut!” than she’s received thus far.
The show’s producers have been somewhat fair to Kaitlyn; they sent Ian, her critic, off with a bang, airing all the footage of him saying dickish things like, “I’m too deep a thinker, I’m too complex” to be on this show/with Kaitlyn, only to follow that up with “Oh man I need to have some sex.” They made it clear that while their chosen Bachelorette might be a sexual being, those criticizing her are no different.
But that doesn’t mean they’ve shied away from depicting the possible fall-out of Kaitlyn choosing to sleep with Nick, the reject from Andi’s season who she brought into this season late, despite the fact that it doesn’t look as though any of the men actually know at this point in the show, or will know for some time, how physical their relationship got. It’s sort of fascinating that the man Kaitlyn has so much chemistry with, who is part of the reason she’s been called things like a “ho” all season, is the same man who brought Andi a ton of criticism for sleeping with him when she knew she was in love with another man.
But in other ways, it makes sense: Kaitlyn likes Nick in part because he gets the Bachelor universe. “I think it’s probably good that you’ve done this before,” she told him, as they couldn’t keep their hands off each other during dinner in yes, a church. For Nick it’s certainly a good thing he’s been around the block, as he has a leg up on every other man he’s competing with. “He’s been in this position before,” competitor Shawn said. “He knows what to do.”
It also makes sense that Kaitlyn’s relationship with Nick escalated so quickly after she was basically called a slut by Ian. Nick was kind and understanding to her, the two of them bonding over the frustration of going through “this process.” “Ian shocked me with what he was saying, but after talking to Nick I felt better,” Kaitlyn said. So much better she decided to literally say, fuck it.
“To me intimacy is an important part of a relationship and I’m not afraid to say it,” Kaitlyn said. “I totally get it; I’m like a make-out bandit right now but I don’t judge any person how they go about a relationship.”
After her intimate conversation with Nick, the group traveled to Dublin, where she had an intimate date with Nick. (“Looks like I got lucky in Dublin,” Nick said after finding out he got a date, with apparently no understanding how lucky he was going to get.)
“[When I’m with Nick] I forget that there’s cameras, I forget that there’s people involved in this. It’s just him and me,” said Kaitlyn. “He makes me feel like a woman, like a desired woman.”
“The only concern I have with Nick is that our chemistry is too passionate. Is that a thing?
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