Let's get one thing out of the way: Chris Soules is a snoozefest. He seems perfectly nice—his whole appeal is that he's a charming, homegrown gentleman farmer, the opposite of what ABC got with botched bachelor Juan Pablo last season. But nice doesn't make for good reality TV. Women across America might fall in love with the guy who leaves his date secret love notes, but they come back to watch the drama, the tears, and the crazy. Which is why, it appears, ABC has really upped the ante with the women this time around.

The first episode started off with a bang. Where Chris doled out lines like "You look stunning," "That's awesome" and "It's going to be an amazing journey," the women fired back with fake human hearts, Daisy Dukes paired with Jameson on the rocks, and kickers like "You can plow the f**k out of my field any day." This is going to be GOOD, I thought.

But then this week, things got weird—and not "rub my bellybutton ring for three wishes" weird (because, yes, that happened too), but should-this-footage-have-been-aired? weird. In fact, I found it disturbing.

Last week we saw Ashley S. spew some nonsensical sentences and get weird with an onion. It was awkward, but fun-awkward, helped along by ABC's editing and choice of background music. "I wrote on my bucket list this new idea of sunflower fields. Like I just want to run through the sunflower fields," she tells Chris before the camera cuts to her fixating on an onion that, once she's climbed into the bushes to investigate, she discovers is actually a pomegranate.

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It was funny, and when she miraculously was handed a rose last week, the members of my viewing party cheered. Of course we wanted her to stay, she was a hoot. But this week we weren't as amused by Ashley S.

The episode started off wrong. The first group date had six women stripping down to bathing suits for an offsite pool party, which Farmer Chris enjoyed immensely (which is fair, these women are, as he says, "stunning"). But after splashing around for a while, the ladies took to the streets of Downtown L.A. for a tractor race. Fun! Except, they're still in their bikinis. Walking the streets of Downtown L.A. Being honked at by the cars passing them. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about admiring the abs of a shirtless dude—really, I take every chance I get to celebrate a half-naked man, so I don't want to sound hypocritical. But there's something about making these women walk down the streets of a bustling metropolis sans clothing that feels wrong. Especially when the women are saying they're uncomfortable.

The episode continues with Chris taking Makeup Artist Megan on a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon before a second group date with the rest of the girls in the house. Group date number two sees the ladies killing zombies with paintball guns at a haunted house, video game-style, because romance! While Chris is spending some one-on-one time making out with Kaitlyn, we see the rest of the girls taking to Ashley S. who has just reappeared after wandering off somewhere. "I heard the truth," she explains. "What truth?" they ask her, confused. "That's how I feel like, boom. Boom like the truth." "Oh God," she says, exasperated when the girls don't get what she's saying.

"She's bonkers. she didn't hide that for a second," one of the girls says back in her confessional-style interview. "I don't know if Ashley is just nervous or if that's how she really acts," offers another. But when we see Ashley interacting with Chris moments later, unable to string together a sentence or even comprehend questions, suddenly things are less funny. In fact, they're worrisome. The scene is a bit disturbing to watch.

"I've never met anyone quite like Ashley in my entire life," Chris tells us. "Ashley's beautiful and has moments of saying really intelligent things, and then kind of drifts off into something I don't really understand." During their interaction she asks him if they're in Mesa Verde or a dome. While he's being interviewed by producers about the date, she comes over and interrupts him as he's saying "Certain people react to this kind of thing in different ways. She seems like a great girl really, I just, I don't know if this has gotten to her, I don't know what's going on. I feel bad." He asks her if she's okay, and she says, "Yeah, of course...your leather smells really great." When he asks again, "Are you holding up okay?" she finally says, "No, I don't even know what you're asking me," which is the first thing she says that fully makes sense.

"She's definitely on something," one of the girls in the group says. And it's clear that she is—or is off something, or possibly mid-breakdown. Whatever's going on, it's something serious that needs to be addressed, off camera. "Something has definitely gotten to her head," Chris says as we watch Ashley crawling on her hands and knees, talking to a cat, before being taken back to the girls' house to be put to bed.

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We don't see Ashley again until the next day at the rose ceremony. We don't see her talking to Chris, in fact, we don't really see her at all until she's being handed a rose. "WHAT?" my viewing party collectively shouted. "That's just gross," one of my friends remarked.

Perhaps Chris decided to do this on his own to give her another chance—he is the gentleman, after all—and maybe the two of them had a discussion later that we didn't see. But it feels more like she's being kept on for entertainment. And if this wasn't a move by producers to keep us laughing, should they have stepped in to encourage her to go home? Because it's all laughs until someone gets hurt—not to mention humiliated—and that's a journey I don't want to be a part of.

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