We're back in Mexico with a four hour premiere which included an exit, a wedding, a shutdown and a whole lot of things to talk through when it comes to the shutdown and the approach to picking back up production with the cast on BIP.

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Rachel's journey comes to a dramatic conclusion in our three hour finale as we're forced to endure a pretty uncomfortable new format (why, ABC - why?), we're left with no indications of our new Bachelor, and Eric (and his sweet beard) is the MVP of the episode.

It's time for every season's favorite shouting match of confrontations of all sorts - AKA Men Tell All. It's the men versus Lee, Dean confronting Rachel on his recent exit and all of the men with those last final questions of Rachel.

This week it's Rachel's family and the start of Fantasy Suites. Rachel's family doesn't hold back as we get a glimpse at our final three through their eyes. Then we're off to Rioja, where there's lots of wine and one cliffhanger of a conversation that leaves us pondering what's next for Peter and Rachel. We also play a bit of catch-up and discuss last week's unique batch of Hometowns.

It's a serious week, as we go from six to our final four in Geneva. It's three one-on-ones, one three-on-one and lots of tears. There are watches, dogs... oh, and entirely too little time devoted to dinosaurs in our opinion.

We're condensing 4 hours of The Bachelorette into this one episode. We travel from Hilton Head to Oslo to Sweden for this season's 2:1, a round of Viking games and some good old fashioned Bachelor hot tub QT. This week's pair of episodes slimmed down our contestant pool down to a slim six (+ AJ.)

Instigator Lee is fueling the squabbling as the guys and Rachel head to Hilton Head Island - where it's a week of blimps, boats and a spelling bee with some hilarious variations on a random assortment of quasi-love-related words. And it's more drama as we hit pause on this week, with yet another cliffhanger.

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DeMario is sent packing for good as we finally get that rose ceremony. Two fighting suitors are also sent home at the ceremony, in advance of what proves to be a week of all kinds of fighting - from between contestants to a group date focused on mud wrestling. (Oh hi. We see you there too, recently announced BIP contestants.)We also get a one-on-one date with Anthony and a hilarious group date outing to The Ellen Show.

We're chatting through the highs and lows of Night 1 along with the star power and much hyped drama of Week 2.