The stakes were monumental in this final episode, as the farmers visited the girls’ home towns.
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Just like at parent-teacher interviews, everything suddenly starts making sense once you meet the parents.
We began on the Mornington Peninsula with Farmer Matt and Tara (the one who walked off and walked back on), where her parents did her no favours by asking Matt just how many holidays he gets as a farmer, why he can’t pop down to Melbourne when he feels like it and saying they’ve never been apart from their daughter for longer than a handful of weeks.
“I don’t know where she gets it from because we’ve never gone and lived on a farm,” Tara’s mother said before saving it with this goal kick, “but she’s always said she wanted a bit of land and to fill it up with dogs and cows".
Later, Farmer Matt went to South Australia to meet with his other girlfriend's family, where Alex’s family approached the whole situation with a sense of humour and (frankly unseen) levels of understanding.
Next the Man From The Snowy Mountains went to monsoonal Queensland to meet Vicki the hippie and her inspirational crystal collection before also going to South Australia to meet the anti-oyster girl’s family.
The anti-oyster girl kicked it off by surprising Robbo with her identical twin sister and trying to pull the switcheroo straight out of the gate.
Thankfully Robbo didn’t fall for it and correctly identified who was who.
At the 25-minute mark Matt made his decision and proved what a bozo he is by going for Tara (the one who left than came back) over Alex.
Robbo pulled a ‘Farmer Rob’ at the 37-minute mark and told both his girls there was no “lightning bolt connection” and he wasn’t feeling it.
In the second half of the episode we got to see what became of Andrew and Will.
It was revealed Will hadn’t applied to the show under his own free will, but was instead dobbed in by his mates. However, he wasn’t holding this against them.
We got shots of William wandering around Melbourne and looking up at skyscrapers while searching for Jaimee. We can’t help but notice the short commute between the two's homes – Melbourne to Longwood is only an hour and a half.
Later he was also dragged to South Australia to meet his second girl, where we got this great exchange in the kitchen between Will and Kristina.
“So your mum’s coming around?”
“Mum will be here shortly.”
“Oh god.”
Will struggled with his responsibility, but ultimately he went with his gut, not his head (his words not mine) and chose Jaimee.
This was a big moment in the office, as the person who sits across the office divider from me has been betting on Jaimee since episode one.
Following the revelation I had to admit how right they were — and how wrong I was — and shout them a drink. It was River Port, Pine Quench flavour. I put a bow on the soft drink bottle and everything,
Andrew was saved for last by Channel Seven for obvious reasons. Despite his best efforts, Andrew has managed to attract the most drama in the entire show.
Seeing Jess out on the Melbourne town, I think all the viewers and Andrew came to the same conclusion at the same time — there was no way this girl was leaving the city.
Her pack of mates, who’ve been her BFFs “since we were 12”, was testament to that.
However, this means nothing in the face of love. Yes love, because now we not only have Jess on camera saying it, but also Andrew.
Andrew chose Jess, despite all the heartache.
We wish them all the best and hope the removal of the ‘multiple girlfriends’ situation was all the relationship needed to get off the rocks.
Straight after the credits, television viewers were launched straight into Olympics coverage.
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