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Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against <em>The Bachelor</em>

Over the course of the season, the show’s latest villain just might have … grown as a person.
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This post reveals “plot” points of episode 10 of The Bachelor season 21.

According to the fabricated lexicon of The Bachelor, the show’s characters do not participate in a mere televised dating competition. They have been brought together, instead, on an emotional adventure that the show refers to, infallibly, as “a journey.”

’s insistence on is ironic for several reasons. The biggest is that, while the show does offer a kind of momentum—things proceed week after week, Rose Ceremony after Rose Ceremony, with romantic tensions inevitably mounting—its participants, for the most part, do very little in the way, basically, is a show that offers a lot of movement, but very little evolution.

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