I tried to give it a chance, but I'm just really not feeling this season. I don't think the show's been in any way realistic in the past few episodes.
Even in the first season where everything was insane and exploitative, the manipulations were so much more subtle. Rachel setting up the girls in the first season felt unexpected.
This season, everything is just so damn obvious. Rachel/Quinn up the foster child. It was so obvious Ruby's dad was going to be brought in when Madison appeared, and literally nothing of consequence from the outside world? Like, if I was watching the Bachelor and the damn father walked in during the fantasy suite, I'd be disgusted with the producers. How does this fit in with Quinn's constant refrain that the viewers are looking for a princess fantasy?
I also feel like I'm not as invested in the girls this season. Each episode is serving me bad ANTM-editing teas where a girl we've never seen suddenly gets half the episode and gets eliminated. Like, I literally never saw the Muslim girl until the episode where she gets kicked off. And who the hell is the "other" black girl with the short hair?
I'm looking forward to seeing how this season ends, though.