TV review
“A hippopotamus,” she says and points to a buffalo: “The Bachelors” and their wives on safari
The “Bachelors” and their wives are supposed to look at the “Big Five” on safari – and are faced with a mystery
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Sizzling eroticism and conversations about buttocks: In episode two, “the Bachelors” approach the women in the truest sense of the word. And then we also go on safari. Not every lion likes that.
It’s only the second episode of “Bachelors” and already there is physical contact that robs Dennis of his remaining sanity. He invited Trampolin-Rebecca to his first official date. We remember: the lady who greeted the bachelor on the blind date, jumping like a jumping jack in space. For the special occasion, for once she is not wearing her orange full-body sports suit but an orange full-body leisure look. When the two squeeze into a small plane, the erotic moment occurs. “Her hand was on my thigh,” Dennis enthuses. “I really liked that.”
Bachelor number two, Sebastian, is now lying on a catamaran with his legs apart with candidate Leonie in his arms. As Leonie talks, he smiles to himself. “My head was thinking about something completely different, my ears were slightly tuned in,” he says. Until a catchphrase seems to set off his internal alarm system. “Do you also want to get married?” asks Leonie. What you ask on a first date. He answers: “I would do it if I knew that my partner would like it. I don’t have to have it.” And he doesn’t mention that his last relationship failed after the engagement.
Meanwhile, Dennis and Trampoline-Rebecca are allowed to sit on a sofa in a warehouse for small aircraft. “Beautiful,” they think. What follows are conversations that would take the breath away of any mindfulness trainer on Instagram. Dennis analyzed that Trampoline-Rebecca has “a tough core, but definitely also a vulnerable side.” So he discovered that she wasn’t a wind-up jumping jack after all, but a human being. He reflected that he wasn’t always in a good mood, but “somewhere a little vulnerable.”
Trampoline Rebecca is impressed. “I’ve never experienced anything like that, that you have so much in common,” she says. We note: Both are not always in a good mood and both have a vulnerable side. If they now realize that they both sleep, drink and eat regularly, RTL can plan their dream wedding in the trampoline park. You can see Dennis and Rebecca jumping hand in hand in front of the altar, she in a dream of orange tulle, while the pastor, also jumping up and down, announces: “You can now jump on the bride.”
Who are these “Big Five”?
Meanwhile, the competitors left behind are slowly becoming restless. The wait is “fucked up”. “The ceiling falls on your head,” says candidate Lisa in the luxury villa with a fantastic garden, pool and countless rooms in Cape Town. When Leonie returns beaming, the group interrogates her.
The next day, Lisa complains that Leonie has to “rub everything in everyone’s faces.” “That would be the first one I would have chosen for looks,” she hisses through spray-painted lips that resemble the legs of a balloon dog.
How lucky that the next surprise is already waiting: the first group date with both bachelors at the same time. Practically, open relationships are trendy anyway.
However, the announced activity poses a puzzle for those involved. Even reading the letter out loud causes difficulties for candidate Kim. And then the content: “We have a rendez-vous with the Big Five,” she says with a big question mark in her eyes and voice. Are they animals? “Penguins?” asks Katja. “Crocodile?”
“So my big five are bench presses, pull-ups, dips, squats and deadlifts,” says Dennis. Whatever dips have to do with it now. In view of the beautiful landscapes and zebras, later on the safari, only one question comes to mind for the fitness disciple: “How important is a good, trained butt in a man to you? Do you look for something like that?” The women agree: “Not like that, no.” “My butt is more important to me than yours,” says Brenda. The bachelor laughs, but in reality he is probably mourning the 365 hours a year of butt muscle building training.
Feel you, Leo
The candidates are distracted again. You see a lion. “Oh hiiiiiii,” they shriek, waving as if expecting the lion to raise its paw and nod at them. His majestic, devastating look says it all. Feel you, Leo. Later, candidate Larissa also discovers “a hippopotamus” and points to a buffalo. She says she has her glasses in the car.
In the end, almost everyone gets a rose, only the shy Bianca and the brunette Laura are allowed to fly home. Laura had even seen the Big Seven in the wild before: elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, leopard and two bachelors. The best preparation for taking part in the next jungle camp.