Ben and Lauren Happily Ever After - Discussion - *Sleuthing - Spoilers*

Cila51290 wrote:I find it annoying that the woman gets more of the backlash and poor perfect Ben who vomited ILYS is the nice guy here on defense mode. I also don't like how Lauren is being portrayed as someone wanting to change Ben's place & question his ILYs as a bad thing. To me that's exactly what I would've done if I moved in with my fiancé and still had some unresolved issues. JMO

Personally, I think Ben is an idiot when it comes to a lot of this. In every single interview I've ever seen them do, if he's asked if he regrets sharing his feelings about JoJo he gives some answer that's along the lines of "No, I can't regret it because those were my real feelings, but it spit me out with Lauren."

I appreciate Ben's honesty, but with his fiancé sitting right next to him in a public interview it would probably be best if he stopped reiterating how real and genuine his feelings were about JoJo when he knows how badly it hurt Lauren, but that's JMO.

Cila51290 wrote:I find it annoying that the woman gets more of the backlash and poor perfect Ben who vomited ILYS is the nice guy here on defense mode. I also don't like how Lauren is being portrayed as someone wanting to change Ben's place & question his ILYs as a bad thing. To me that's exactly what I would've done if I moved in with my fiancé and still had some unresolved issues. JMO

Couldn't agree more. And the constant pitting of Lauren and JoJo against each other, when neither of them have done anything wrong and have every right to feel any way they want about Ben's ILY vomit. He is not the victim here and never has been. I know some people can fall in love with several people at the same time, but I know I sure as hell can't, so it would be really hard for me to understand and feel good about being the slightly more appealing option. Lauren has been far more understanding than most already. I haven't watched the episode, but if it's all about making Lauren look bad then all the more reason not to watch. When will someone give Ben the flak he deserves?

Ash2214 wrote:

Lennoxcolinrolland wrote:

umngirl wrote:For some reason I'm getting some strange satisfaction outta the backlash they are receiving. It makes me chuckle.

What have you been seeing?

From what I've seen on social media, a lot of people are mad that 1. They made it all about JoJo 2. Ben and Lauren bickered the whole time over JoJo 3. Some people think Lauren is passive aggressive and insecure 4. Everything about it seemed scripted.

This article made me laugh:

http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/ben-lauren-happily-ever-after-recap-season-1-episode-1.html

You also forgot to mention: 5. They're boring and 6. Lauren is a biotch to Ben (which then led to) 7. Poor Ben

That article literally made me snort. I like Ben and Lauren, but this is amazing. Oatmeal, white people..etc. Did you find any other good ones?

IMO.

Ash2214 wrote:

Cila51290 wrote:I find it annoying that the woman gets more of the backlash and poor perfect Ben who vomited ILYS is the nice guy here on defense mode. I also don't like how Lauren is being portrayed as someone wanting to change Ben's place & question his ILYs as a bad thing. To me that's exactly what I would've done if I moved in with my fiancé and still had some unresolved issues. JMO

Personally, I think Ben is an idiot when it comes to a lot of this. In every single interview I've ever seen them do, if he's asked if he regrets sharing his feelings about JoJo he gives some answer that's along the lines of "No, I can't regret it because those were my real feelings, but it spit me out with Lauren."

I appreciate Ben's honesty, but with his fiancé sitting right next to him in a public interview it would probably be best if he stopped reiterating how real and genuine his feelings were about JoJo when he knows how badly it hurt Lauren, but that's JMO.

mindless wrote:

Cila51290 wrote:I find it annoying that the woman gets more of the backlash and poor perfect Ben who vomited ILYS is the nice guy here on defense mode. I also don't like how Lauren is being portrayed as someone wanting to change Ben's place & question his ILYs as a bad thing. To me that's exactly what I would've done if I moved in with my fiancé and still had some unresolved issues. JMO

Couldn't agree more. And the constant pitting of Lauren and JoJo against each other, when neither of them have done anything wrong and have every right to feel any way they want about Ben's ILY vomit. He is not the victim here and never has been. I know some people can fall in love with several people at the same time, but I know I sure as hell can't, so it would be really hard for me to understand and feel good about being the slightly more appealing option. Lauren has been far more understanding than most already. I haven't watched the episode, but if it's all about making Lauren look bad then all the more reason not to watch. When will someone give Ben the flak he deserves?

Completely agree with both of you!

Ok that recap is funny, I'm tempted to watch!

So I was able to take a chance to watch their reality show because of what I am reading here of all the recaps . Wow! Can I say how so scripted and fake this show is ? I know this is just one episode and we don't know what will be the next episodes . I just cannot believed they agreed to do a reality show of their own life out of this . Not saying their new show is so bad or whatsoever . But upon watching it I cannot help how scripted and so fake . Not only because the way they edit the show and the main casts but the way they act is horrible.You can really tell the jojo scenario was planted to add drama on their show . The thing that I said this is because jojo called Ben at the middle of his date with Lauren and the way Lauren reacted to it how jealous and insecure she was .I know some of you will say blame the editing but that is what reality show is . When you film a reality show you have script and they just ask you to show how you react of it and they really get the emotions that they want with Lauren. She did not come out really good on editing . The show is really boring . Even the twins were there . Still not enjoyable to watch . The next episodes looks like there are more scripted dramas to come . Jmo.

My opinion is neither Ben or Lauren did this because they are good actors, expect accolades for such or even expect a future show birthing from this(unless it's the wedding). My opinion is they did it for $ and future $ that will spin from this exposure.
If those were they only expectations they had, good for them and more power to them.
With all the prime idiots from past seasons being "guest stars", I honestly did not expect more than a very stilted, over processed cheese spread.
Hopefully, they had fun doing it.

Another review of their show last night premiere .

https://www.google.ca/amp/jezebel.com/ben-and-lauren-happily-ever-after-is-a-missed-opportu-1787704688/amp

I was waiting on pins and needles for this show. I was majorly let down. Agh, in my opinion it made Lauren look like a jealous spoiled airhead. Didn't care for produced the JoJo drama. She was talked about as much as Ben was on her season. I don't see it lasting long. If they were going to do a reality show, Wish it had been JoJo and Jordan or Sean and Catherine,

I just remembered that Melissa Rycroft and her husband had a show like this. Melissa was a little more charming and bubbly than Ben and Lauren though.

So I ended up watching this anyway after seeing a link on Twitter. I must say, legitimate concerns aside, Lauren managed to sound like a bit of an airhead throughout the episode. Well more than a bit. I can see why she gets along so well with the twins. Speaking of the those two, they were practically the highlight of the episode, because Ben and Lauren together have the screen presence of drying paint. I mean this is what I assume it would look like if someone filmed me and my boyfriend going about our daily lives, minus the 'he told another girl ILY moments before proposing to me' drama of course. Might satisfy us, but I haven't a clue why anyone else would want to see it. JMOAA.

Gosh this is sooo beautiful. Best part is jo being her carefree, happy self and talking and talking  

https://instagram.com/p/BLe7nTbF3NZ/