The Bachelorette Recap: Rom-Com Vibes - Vulture

Meet Katie!

Katie hasn’t had the time to find love … until The Bachelor Cinematic Universe intervened!

Plus, Michelle isn’t avail until, like, late-July.”  .

“Gentleman, this is the final rose tonight.

Something I’ve thought in my head and said on podcasts is that the Bachelor Cinematic Universe hasn’t been able to tell a cute, sweet love story in a long time.

Either because they thought the drama of the season would be more interesting than the love story being told at its center, or there was some postseason drama between the lead and their number one pick that had to be addressed at the After the Final Rose special.

But now … now … it feels like the show has the opportunity to tell a fun, sweet love story, and how are they doing that shit.

Two guys haven’t had a one-on-one date yet so … they’re going home at some point soon, but they’re holding out hope.

Greg is heading into his second one-on-one with Katie and has to carefully moderate all his emotions so as not to upset Mike P.

During the evening portion of the date, Katie asks Greg if he’s going to be able to make it through the rest of this process because he looks scared and confused most of the time.

He tells her that he’s excited to have his family meet the woman he’s falling in love with and Katie says she feels this gravity pulling them together.

Katie asks him about the first rose she gave him and talks about how he still amazes her and she wants to meet his mom?

It’s time for the next date card to arrive and Justin, Andrew, Blake, Michael A., and Brendan are going to find out there’s an art to love.

He’s getting a smooch or some reassurance if it kills him!

Katie opens the door and is positively shocked to see a man whose name she’s like 86 percent sure of.

Katie realizes what she has to do and says if he’s feeling like this, they might not have enough time to get where she would be comfortable meeting his family.

It’s time for the group date.

First the contesticles stare at some very vulvic flower paintings, and then they’re tasked with creating some art that represents their love for Katie.

Blake is immediately like, “How can I make the most disgusting, graphic piece of art that ABC will have to black out in its entirety.

Blake decides to take the opportunity to tell Katie that his family would love her but he’s not in love yet.

Justin paints her a big picture of flowers and butterflies that looks like it would be in the clearance section of a Homegoods.

Katie loves that she can feel herself around Justin, and he says, “I love that about us.” Justin moves fast.

and says that his life and his family include James and Laura, and she’s going to help with the juice boxes, and the life she pictures with James is a dream for her.

Katie says that the only thing they have to do is let love guide them and everything else will fall into place.

Andrew starts his time with Katie by saying that “every athlete dies twice,” like that’s a chill, normal thing to say, and tells her that if she wanted him to, he’d stop playing.

Katie is the most chill girl in the actual world and says that whatever they plan to do together, her job is to encourage him and figure it out.

Andrew recreates their one-on-one and tells her that he’s falling for her.

It’s time for the group date rose and Katie gives each man a compliment sandwich and gives the rose to Michael A.

It’s time for Mike P.’s one-on-one date.

It’s time for the rose ceremony?

I had Andrew going all the way to the top three and it seems like Katie did too.

Katie walks him out and positively weeps about how he deserves love and connection and she’s so happy they met.

They sit together and go over how difficult the rose ceremony was and Katie tells him she wasn’t exactly confident in her decision and Andrew slips her a note.

The note says, “If you change your mind, I’ll be waiting … ” with a lil’ smiley face.