Early Thoughts on the 'Bachelor' Premiere: Same Bachelor, Very Different Vibe

I'll have a full recap of The Bachelor season 15 premiere when it airs January 3. Until then, here's my initial assessment of how Brad will fair as our first do-over Bachelor:By now you know that the upcoming season of The Bachelor is going to be a little different, simply by virtue of the show's attempt to keep one key element the same as a season past: For the first time, we're getting a repeat Bachelor. Disgraced Bachelor #12, Brad Womack, is back to try his luck and find a wife on season 15. But for Brad, this return to The Bachelor is about a lot more than finding love: It's about finding redemption. In the upcoming premiere, Brad openly admits that America thought he was a total jerk when he publicly dumped Deanna and Jenni back in 2007. Within minutes he's called himself a jerk, compared himself to his absent father and admitted to seeking years of therapy to change his callous and commitment-phobic ways. "I was a broken man," he says, and though he peppers these vulnerable admissions with the promise that he's now a "changed man," one part of himself still seems to be in pieces: His confidence. This makes for a distinctly different Bachelor premiere than ever before. Because it's a total bummer.

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