In case you weren’t already emotionally exhausted by last week’s finale of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette’s second season premiered on Channel Ten on Wednesday night.

After the hullabaloo surrounding Bachelor Richie’s decision to choose Alex Nation over clear favourite Nikki Gogan, Australians are in need of another love story to get behind, and Brangelina ain’t giving it to them.

Enter Bachelorette Georgia Love – a 27-year-old Tasmania-based television journalist who is our perfect heroine.

First of all, there’s her surname, which must have sent the Channel Ten producers into a bloodthirsty frenzy.

Secondly, she’s smart, funny, humble but quietly confident and she likes whiskey and dad jokes.

Even better, she has a broad vocabulary and knows what to say in every awkward moment. She’s a far cry from Richie “Fantastic” Strahan.

Finally, Georgia’s dad is a surgeon specialising in – wait for it – erectile dysfunction. You can’t make this stuff up.

The icing on the cake was when our beloved heroine fell upon entering the Bachelorette mansion in front of all her potential suitors.

Her response was to point out the fact she didn’t spill her drink, which elicited a cheer from the waiting blokes. Nicely done, Love.

Watch Georgia’s embarrassing moment below:

Thankfully, Georgia seems to have been granted a group of men worthy of her company. Some of them, at least.

Immediate frontrunners included: sweet firefighter Cameron who loves kids and Disney movies, handsome Jake from the Gold Coast who seems normal and not insane, relaxed Clancy who invited Georgia to shave off his beard, and polite, thoughtful Courtney, a 30-year-old industrial designer.

A particularly promising prospect arrived in the form of Lee, a handsome 35-year-old plumber, who offered Georgia his jacket and also brought a living, breathing pun with him: a donkey dressed in a costume. He asked Georgia, “Does my ass look big in this?” Delightful pun-based banter ensued.

In the end, the nice guy won (for now) – Georgia awarded Courtney the coveted “first impression” rose because he gave her a pasta bracelet. Who needs Tinder when you have kindergarten-level craft skills?

Of course, we also have our villains. Sam, a ridiculously arrogant, ridiculously good-looking electrician who only dates “party girls” and “never has to try too hard” to get a woman’s attention.

He grilled poor Georgia about her interests and became increasingly frustrated when her answers did not match his. That’s called having a personality, Sam. Not as fun as a boob job, but far more interesting in the long run.

Stripper-turned-entrepreneur Carlos earned brownie points by bringing Georgia a Tiffany’s bracelet, then promptly lost them by using hashtags in everyday conversation and declaring that he “collects businesses”.

And then, for something entirely different, there was Ben, a relentlessly energetic, dog-obsessed miner who happily told Georgia he’d done “three nervous poos already”. We want what he’s having.

Carlos was immediately sent home despite his obvious stripping entertainment value, along with a man named Dale who had not scored a second of airtime until he was eliminated. Vale Dale.

The Bachelorette is already more interesting in one episode than an entire season of Richie Strahan blending smoothies shirtless and saying inane things to women who deserve far better.

We’re feeling the Love.