‘The Bachelor’ review: Kelsey Poe’s injury, Jordan Branch, Britt Nillson compete for Chris Soules

Tonight, “The Bachelor” aired an episode that was stuffed full of drama, and a few little surprises to boot.

We have to begin with the surprising decision by Jordan Branch to come all the way down to New Mexico in order to spend time with him … only to have that completely blow up in her face. We also saw two very different strategies to how to deal with this from the other women. For Whitney Bischoff, it meant trying to be nice to her despite the awkward situation. Meanwhile, Ashley Iaconetti wanted to just give her the cold shoulder. We want to make it clear that we don’t think that Whitney is being “fake.” There’s a difference between that and being polite, and her spirit is probably one of the reasons why she got the group date rose. Meanwhile, we saw Ashley pout extensively about it after the fact.

The individual date roses were handed out to Carly Waddell (for an extremely awkward date) and Britt Nilsson, who got to take a nap with Chris that made everyone extremely angry … especially Ashley Poe. This is where the episode got somewhat weird, as she confessed her story about her past to Chris, and right when we thought we were going to have a Rose Ceremony, it was canceled.

Then, for some reason Kelsey seemed to pass out, and production rushed to the scene in order to help her. To be continued? Yep, they are milking this for all it is worth! Despite it being two hours, we’re still going to have to wait to see what happens next. Ridiculous, given how much time we wasted with the love guru at the start. Grade: C-.

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