For most, the New Year consists of resolutions that fail within the first week and getting back to school after a much-needed winter break. For me, it means a new season of The Bachelor. I am not ashamed in the least to say I have a severe addiction ever since my friend forced me to watch the first episode of JoJo Fletcher’s Bachelorette season in 2016. If you have accepted your Bachelor addiction as well, or you have never seen a single episode, there is an important background to give before I tell you how absolutely atrocious the current season has turned out to be.

Last season’s Bachelorette, Miss Alabama Hannah B., ended up alone after sending home two men that would have been perfect husbands and getting engaged to a lying, cheating, country “singer,” a.k.a Jed. Jed turned out to be what took the rest of America two seconds to figure out (a piece of trash), but Hannah took a little longer to get there. Adorable pilot Peter and model construction worker Tyler C. were both sent home with broken hearts. But once Peter Weber was announced as the next Bachelor, I was finally pleased with the producers’ decision because of how likable and seemingly nontoxic Peter was. Oh, how I was wrong.

This leads us to the tragic mess that is Peter Weber’s season of the Bachelor. From the very first night, the thirty women were already problematic, causing petty drama and creating issues out of nothing. I truly think the producers worked their hardest this season to spark drama, creating the most tumultuous season yet. Chris Harrison was right this time. Only a few weeks in, we experienced #champagnegate in which poor Kelsey brought a champagne bottle all the way from exotic Iowa to share with Peter. However, oblivious Hannah Ann saw it and popped it with Peter, stealing Kelsey’s prized moment she had been planning for months. Obviously, the producers must have guided Hannah Ann and Peter to the champagne spot and caused the catfight between Kelsey and Hannah Ann that followed the pop heard ‘round the world. I wish I could say that was the end — wait, I love the drama. Who am I kidding? Luckily, the producers kindly gave Kelsey and Peter another bottle to open and the next moments I like to think are the best recorded moments in Bachelor history. Kelsey decided it was a good idea to drink out of the bottle immediately after it popped, only for it to explode in her face and Peter and all of America to witness it along with her.

After about two weeks pass, it was time for the contestants and Peter to leave the lovely Bachelor Mansion and head to where? Oh, Cleveland! I think the producers officially ran out of ideas for domestic locations. Despite the girls’ monotone reaction to the location announcement, I have never seen this much promotion for a city. Every two seconds Peter or one of the girls marveled at how beautiful… Ohio is? The fun did not stop there with Victoria F. getting a one-on-one date with Peter, despite all the red flags she has shown. We will get to what I mean by red flags — give the date a few hours. Victoria and Peter turned the corner to find none other than the country singer Chase Rice performing a concert for the two of them and about 200 other random strangers. Yet, there is a fun twist with this one; Chris Rice and Victoria used to date. Did I not say the producers tried their hardest this season? With this information racing through poor Victoria’s head as she dances and kisses her new boo in front of her ex-lover, she decides to tell Peter later who is clumsily flaunting his new relationship.

After the details of Victoria’s past relationship are revealed, she basically runs into a corner and breaks down. She becomes incredibly defensive and this behavior continues in their future conversations, including telling Peter he is always in a “mood” and that their conversations are always him attacking her — the blaring red flags. I would normally feel bad for a man in Peter’s position, as he is simply trying to have an actual conversation, but he keeps her around even after she runs away when he tries to talk about real things, so I cannot say I pity him. Hometowns continued to reveal the issues in both Victoria and Peter, as an ex-girlfriend of Peter tells him about Victoria’s past of being a homewrecker. Peter, hoping to confront these accusations with Victoria, is faced with an insanely defensive Victoria who launches back at him, “you literally just came in here to act like that? Are you kidding me?” Personally, I would not want a future partner to suddenly turn and run away as soon as I brought up a controversial topic. That’s just me though. Peter, on the other hand, seems to love the “challenge” and gives her a rose, moving her on to the final three. I do not see this as a challenge, but rather a sign to get as far away as you can. Again, just me.

The drama is not left behind in Hometowns, as Fantasy Suite week begins and deeply religious Madison has yet to tell Peter that she is saving herself for marriage. For those uneducated in Bachelor Nation, Fantasy Suites is the week where the Bachelor has the opportunity to ask the women to spend the night with him. Leaving out the fact of her virginity, Madison tells Peter she will not be “happy” if he spends the night with the other women, but by no means enlightens him on her real truth. She decides to tell the other two women that she cannot say yes to an engagement if he sleeps with any of the other women. Peter, without this information, probably ends up being intimate with the other women because what can we expect from a man who did it four times with Hannah B in the windmill? Context.

In the dinner portion of Madison and Peter’s one-on-one Fantasy Suite data, Madison decides this is the perfect time to bring up her ultimatum (which she swears is not an ultimatum). Peter, flustered, will not reveal what he did with the other women — understandable — but Madison is not left with the obvious truth that he in fact did sleep with them. Bachelor Nation is left with this cliffhanger, as Madison walks away with Peter looking like Troy Bolton as Gabriella leaves him, singing Gotta Go My Own Way. As for my predictions, I assume Peter’s mother crying, telling him to “bring her home to us” in the promo we have seen about 1800 times is in reference to Madison. I see Peter breaking up with the other two girls, Colton-style, and “jumping the fence” to get his girl back. We now just have to wait and see how Peter will manage this situation, with his two brain cells and all, and convince the girl he is so deeply in love with to marry him.