Latvia is for Lovers?
- roserecaps
- Jun 25, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 3, 2019
As a long-time fan of the Bachelor (and previous recapper), I’ve taken it upon myself to recap Hannah Brown’s season. So here it is: the Rose Recap of Season 15 episode 6.
In case you forgot (since there was a whole hour of recap since the boys arrived) this week's dates take place in Latvia, and after the major meltdown Hannah had last week, you know, the one where she almost quit the show, she says just kidding, she's going to fall in Latvia.
The first One-on-One: Garrett, can I trust our love?
Sometimes I miss the older seasons where the date cards were big clues about the date. If this was 2016 it would probably say "let's bare it all and fall in love," but it's not 2016 and instead Garrett and Hannah walk through the woods until they come upon the bungee jump.
If somehow you were blessed enough to miss all of the season previews, I regret to be the one to inform you that they bungee jump naked. Apparently it’s a Latvian tradition. I mean, when in Latvia do as the Latvians.
Hannah clarified via her Instagram story that they weren't competently naked because they both were wearing underwear. However, ABC still uses black boxes to cover everything up. They jump out of the cable car and at the bottom, they share the most awkward kiss of the whole season. It was like they tried to recreate the Spider-Man upside down kiss, but Shrek and Fiona already did it, and they did it better.
I feel like once you’ve seen one of the night conversations, you’ve seen them all: they talk about the date and how the activity somehow translates into who’ll they’ll be as partners, they address things about their lives outside the show, for Garrett that means golf. Hannah talks about religion without directly saying that’s what she’s talking about and I’m pretty sure Garrett is unaware that's what she’s talking about. Nevertheless he says he’s falling in love with Hannah and she gives him the rose.
The Group Date: Let’s discover Riga
Mike
Jed
Tyler
Dustin
Luke
Conner
Dylan
On this date, Hannah and her boys roam around the streets of the capital of Latvia, starting with what looks like a grocery store, where Hannah eats a pickle, Tyler gets her flowers, and not much else happens. After the grocery store they go to a church, which I guess is to further dive into the whole "Hannah is religious and so is Luke" thing.
Once they get to the night portion Tyler steals Hannah first. He speaks to Hannah in her love language, words of affirmation, and she loves it so much that she kisses him in the middle of him complementing her. I want to take this moment to say that I finally understand the hype behind Tyler. He is respectful and articulate, without letting people (Luke) take advantage of him. Plus he looks good this episode, and that doesn't hurt.
Luke starts expressing how unhappy he is that Hannah was naked with someone who wasn’t her husband, he says that it feels like Hannah is cheating on him, and repetitively mentions that her body is a temple. Which is a whole mess because let us not forget that 1. they weren't really naked 2. God Himself had to tell Luke to stop being a womanizer, and 3. my faith is based on forgiveness and grace, instead of achieving perfection. For some reason we get romantic music behind Luke and I SWEAR if Luke wins, that might just be enough to make me stop watching the show.
Jed plays the piano. After finding out about his girlfriend, I am not impressed.
Tyler gets the rose, as he should.
The Last One-on-One
Since they don't read the date card on camera, I'm making it up: Peter, Roses are red, my nose is too. I want to make out in a sauna, preferably with you.
Sure my makeshift date card isn't subtle, but neither is the purpose of this date; this is the same as the spa date ever single season: an excuse to wear as little clothing as possible and have plenty of time, mostly by yourself. Similar to the night portions of one on one, once you've seen one spa episode, you've seen them all.
As if the sauna wasn't enough, Hannah and Peter go to a hot tub set up in the middle of the woods, and all I really have to say about it is that I cannot believe that Hannah said that Luke was the best kisser when Peter exists.
During the night portion, Hannah opens up about how the perfect woman is often characterized as meek and submissive, and while that's someone's perfect woman, that isn't her. Peter tells Hannah a Spanish proverb his grandmother used to share with him. Maybe I'm biased by how much I personally want to date Peter, but he seems so self aware and mature, that you can tell that hes a little bit older than most of the guys.
Obviously Peter gets the rose. And maybe the first fireworks of the season (although that might have been Tyler G.).
In between Peter's date and the rose ceremony, things get a little wild. Both Jed and Luke are in prime villain mode.
Jed is mostly acting like Nick Viall during Kaitlyn's season, compete with him showing up to her hotel singing the dumb song that he wrote week two, and then says that he’ll never tell a lie. This part is so hard to watch knowing that he has a girlfriend outside the show. Jed says that hes falling in love with Hannah.
Meanwhile Luke is mad at everyone, especially Garrett, for having the audacity to date Hannah, I guess. While all of this is happening, my newfound crush, Tyler keeps on reminding everyone that they just need to trust Hannah and understand that she is living Riga to the max.
The next day (maybe the day of the rose ceremony? the timeline is unclear) Hannah walks into the boys' hotel room and asks to speak to Luke. She calls out Luke for being misogynistic, but this isn't the big call out we've been waiting for. Luke talks in circles and its to the point where I'm not sure what he's saying anymore and I really don't care to know either.
Hannah calls off the cocktail party, and everyone is pretty sad but this episode has Hannah’s best rose ceremony look:
Garrett, Tyler, and Peter have roses.
The remaining roses go to:
Jed
Mike
Connor
Luke
Meaning that Dylan and Dustin get sent home. Hopefully they go to Paradise because they deserve better than this.
Tune in next week to see Luke behave poorly, but Hannah for some godforsaken reason still keep him around!
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