The Bachelor: Paris: Premiere

This season begins with an oh-so-tasteful look back at Bachelors' past, glossing over the major disasters and broken hearts and celebrating the successes which is basically still Trista and Ryan (at least until Bachelor Byron officially marries up). We start off with the handsome Dr. Bland, otherwise known as Travis Stork. Dr. Bland is definitely easy on the eyes, tall, polite, and strong-chinned in a soap opera hunk way. And of course we are in Paris, a city so damn gorgeous that it would make you fall in love with a man far less eye-candy worthy than Dr. Bland. The girls are predictably aswoon from the get go. Early charmers include the darlingly clumsy April, the effusive Kristen, the toothy Venus and the rather forward Yvonne.It's easy to tell which girls Dr. Bland prefers as he casts longing looks up the staircase. Those poor girls have to make the journey up wide stone steps in very precarious heels but it's inside that the real fun begins.

Dr. Bland is allowed to give one red rose to the girl he wants to stay during the introductory cocktail party. The women each vie for Travis and news travels fast that there is a doctor in the house. During the party, Allie, also a doctor, camera-confides that her "eggs are rotting" and so she is hoping to mate with the Bachelor (she manages to drop this tidbit into party conversion with Dr. Bland). Kristen tries to make points by giving Travis a shot glass from her home town. The single rose goes to young Sarah B., the husky-voiced outdoors girl from Canada. Those who don't get chosen are more than a bit jealous seeing as they will lose out on not just hunky Dr. Bland but also additional time in Paris.

The rose ceremony takes place with the usual breathless thank you's and increasingly grim-looking unchosen girls. Our remaining Paris-ettes are Cole, Moana, Jennifer, Elizabeth, Shiloh, Yvonne, Shannon, Jehan, Susan, Tara, Sarah S .and Kristen (and Sarah B. whom he already chose).After the ceremony, Allie is absolutely beside herself that he didn't chose her and that he didn't want to procreate with her. She confronts Dr. Bland who tells her he isn't ready for reproduction yet. In the end credits they show Allie again talking to someone (a camera operator maybe) about what she did wrong and railing against men in general.

Want more? Check out this clip of the morning after. It's definitely going to be a rough season.