One To Watch(103)

Ruby:

Okay, let’s take a minute to process everything that just happened. First, can I just say, we really nailed it with our respective picks for Bea.



Cat:

Did we?? I picked Asher, who ABANDONED her at the first sign of trouble, and you picked Sam—



Ruby:

Who’s the only man left from the original cast. I win!



Cat:

Wow, so that was just a backdoor way for you to brag?



Ruby:

I am crafty and clever like a reality TV producer.



Cat:

SPEAKING. OF. WHICH.



Ruby:

Okay yeah—so for those who haven’t heard, TMZ broke the news that Luc actually had an affair with the executive producer of the show, which seems absolutely crazy to me. Cat, as our resident Main Squeeze expert, can you confirm that it’s not normal for one of the contestants to sleep with the showrunner?



Cat:

I mean, I have no idea how often it happens, but this is certainly the first time it’s been exposed by the national media.



Ruby:

Do you think she’ll be fired?



Cat:

I’ve got to imagine that’s a fireable offense, but who knows? This is reality television, not a symposium on ethics and moral philosophy.



Ruby:

Is it wrong that I would watch that?



Cat:

Um, it’s called The Good Place, and it was the best show on TV. But we digress.



Ruby:

Okay, so let’s recap: We’ve got Asher, who seemed like a nice grown-up option for Bea, except he quit the show. Do we think he’s really gone, or is he coming back?



Cat:

We don’t know anything for sure, but from what I’ve read on the Main Squeeze sub-Reddit—



Ruby:

Oh, Cat.



Cat:

Don’t judge, you’re part of this fandom now too. Anyway, according to the Redditors, this isn’t the producers messing with you—Asher really did leave the show.



Ruby:

And I presume we’re also done with Luc forever?



Cat:

Farewell, Luc, you beautiful, beautiful douchenozzle.



Ruby:

Do you think he was good in bed?



Cat:

Men that good-looking rarely are, but Bea certainly seemed happy the next morning, so I guess maybe?



Ruby:

Plus the whole slap/kiss thing in New York was vaguely kinky, I bet he’s not totally vanilla.



Cat:

Well, hopefully for Bea’s sake, she at least got to have some good sex before she got totally blindsided.



Ruby:

So the two men she has left are Sam and this other guy, Ray, who’s like sort of her ex but also was apparently engaged to another woman until very recently?



Cat:

All of Ray’s social media feeds have been set to private or deleted entirely, which isn’t surprising considering the circumstances of his newfound fame. But some intrepid bloggers dug through his friends’ feeds, and they found out that he’s an attorney living in Atlanta, that he and Bea worked together in Los Angeles in their early twenties, and there are pictures of him with a perfectly lovely looking woman who we can guess is the recent fiancée in question.



Ruby:

Has anything like this ever happened on the show before?



Cat:

We’ve seen exes show up from time to time, but they’re usually dismissed pretty quickly, like, “Oh God, Brian, why would you think this was a good idea?” Very occasionally, we’ve seen men ask to be members of the cast, and sometimes they even get to be, but that usually happens way earlier in the season. To have this guy show up on the precipice of the finale is pretty unprecedented—not to mention that Bea actually walked out of the ceremony before asking him to stay, so we have no idea if she’s even going to!



Ruby:

So if she doesn’t, then what, it’s only Sam for the finale and I automatically win everything?



Cat:

That’s one way of looking at it.



Ruby:

It’s the way I choose, Cat.



Cat:

Speaking of choice, we know that you have lots of options for cook-at-home meal kits, but “Je ne sais quoi” kits offer something special: a secret ingredient to add to every recipe. I’ve been using the kits at home, and they’re super fun—you get a little envelope with a red “X” to add to your meal, and they do always have that extra something special—if you will, that “Je ne sais quoi.”



Ruby:

Wow, so you literally do not know what … is in your food.



Cat:

You literally don’t! It’s just as much of a mystery as next week’s Main Squeeze finale. We’ll be back right after this.





Bea hadn’t spoken a word since Ray’s arrival and Asher’s abrupt departure. Over Johnny’s pleas and Lauren’s protests, she simply walked out of the courtyard, then holed up with Alison and refused to leave the wardrobe room until the producers gave in: They declared that they were finished filming in Amboise and would drive to Paris the next morning as planned. Bea didn’t leave Alison’s side for the entire trip, and she ignored anyone else who tried to speak to her.