The Bachelor Watch: Sean Lowe Is Back

Emily Maynard’s castoff is ready for his closeup. Yes, Sean Lowe is The Bachelor and he is ready to find love or die trying—and by “die” we mean date a lot of very attractive yet seemingly emotionally unstable women on national television in the hopes of finding love the old fashioned way.

In the intro to the show’s 17th season, Sean assures us that he loves his job, he loves Dallas, he loves his family, and he loves working out. Unfortunately it also appears he hates shirts, because he doesn’t wear one for the first five minutes of the show. Then a series of golden light-tinged montages reminds us about Sean’s “journey” with Emily, highlighting the important paving stones on their path to love, like the time he ran through the streets of a small Czech town yelling her name until he could make out with her. Then she broke his heart by passing him over for his more heavily hair-producted competitors, race car driver Arie and entrepreneur Jef.