7 Reasons Bachelor In Paradise Is Having Its Best Season Yet

Though ABC's Bachelor in Paradise is tied to the flagship The Bachelor and The Bachelorette franchises through similar obscene amounts of protein intake (himbos gotta stay beefy somehow), awful two-tone hair dye jobs (Carly, we need to talk), more tears than the opening weekend of Toy Story 3 and tragic lies about even the most remote chance at finding true love, Bachelor in Paradise is its own unique animal. If you're not familiar with the format, buckle up: ABC fills an intimate seaside Mexican resort with rejects from previous Bachelor and Bachelorette seasons and an open bar, where contestants try to make it to the end and avoid elimination. [...] that stud who finds a convenient spur-of-the-moment relationship with that bimbo who is obsessed with him will definitely find the girl of his dreams joining the show just as he's locked down in commitment hell with a 24-year-old dental assistant from Dallas who has her press-ons digging into his barbed-wire-tattooed biceps. [...] given the third-round triumphs of shows like Breaking Bad and The Wire, it's no surprise that the current season -- its third -- has been particularly exceptional thanks to a combination of new personalities and reliable veterans (someone please save Sarah, PLEASE). In her Appletini fog she failed to notice that Josh was sitting two feet away and overheard everything, sparking the confrontation between Josh and Evan, which ended in Evan surprisingly standing up for himself and calling Josh out on his overly rehearsed defense of the allegations in Andi's tell-all book while steam blew out of Josh's ears (or was it just hot air?). Daniel Maguire, a personal trainer (duh) from Canada, has locked up his place in the Bachelor in Paradise Hall of Fame after just a handful of episodes. [...] his abrasive personality has softened through the season, going from comparing the women to farm animals to (sarcastically) admitting to being bisexual whi