<em>The Bachelor</em> Gives Nick the Redemption Edit

There are many ways to be a villain on The Bachelor. You can be overly aggressive in pursuit of the Bachelor or Bachelorette whose heart—and, in the meantime, whose rose—you are seeking. You can be disrespectful of your fellow contestants. You can be overly emotional. You can be not emotional enough. Or you can be, if you are Nick Viall, all of those things at once: a multi-dimensional villain—someone who is not villainous in one particular way, but whose villainy instead accretes, episode by episode, by way of bad behavior and good editing.

In his two seasons as a, Nick, a 30-something software salesman from Wisconsin, annoyed the other guys by bragging about his connection with the Bachelorettes in question, and also by writing fawning poems, and also by singing . During the live special that concluded Andi’s season, Nick violated one of the cardinal, if unspoken, rules of ism: He discussed what happened between the two in the Fantasy Suite—the one place where a couple can interact away from the show’s otherwise omniscient cameras. And he revealed that he and his almost-fiancée had indeed had sex during their stay in the Suite. Cue, for Andi, the .