The 'Bachelor' Can Go Fuck Himself

My mother loves the show, 'The Bachelor'. If you have been living under a rock the concept of this reality show is that you take one good looking guy and you set him up with 26 women who will hopefully be whittled down to one who he will propose to at the end of the series cycle. Week after week women who make the cut are given roses to stay on the show. No rose and you go home.

It's easy to get rid of some of the women early on. Either there is no chemistry or the women are batshit crazy. The guy they pick to be 'The Bachelor' has the advantages of getting to take these girls on impressive, expensive and exotic dates that would impress any girl - especially a fame whore looking for a husband on a artificial semi-scripted reality show.

I made the mistake of watching an early episode and kinda got hooked on the program for the first time. The woman who survived 'the cut' every week were very appealing, especially the one who worked as a funeral director (no lie). She was cute and funny and she got let go. I was crushed.

Then tonight the true evil of this program revealed itself. They are down to two women. We have been waiting for the 'Bachelor' (who is as phony and evil a creature to ever be thought up in fiction) to make his 'choice' for months now. The limo pulls up and BANG, the first girl, who we know is about to be rejected after making it to the final two, comes out of the car.

Now let me paint the picture. She gets out of the limo looking GORGEOUS. The BEST she has ever looked. She is escorted to the bachelor by the host of the show in a setting right out of a fairy tale. The man of her dreams is waiting for her and you hear the background narration about how much she has grown to love this guy. How he is her first, her last her everything.

However, we all know that because she came out FIRST that he is going to CRUSH her heart after first telling her how terrific she is. The camera will catch every second of her world crashing around her. Basically the show builds her up with the fairy tale ending that all women dream of and then cruelly snatch it away. And they call it entertainment.

I knew this was coming but I was not prepared for how much I was going to hate watching the whole sick process unfold. I don't even care to watch the ending when he tells the last survivor that she is the one for him. Fuck him. Fuck the producers.

It's telling that of all the couplings that this series of shows (and it's companion piece - 'The Bachelorette') has achieved that only TWO wedding have resulted. That is a sucky track record for anyone.

Now they will bring the poor second choice girl back and have her go through the process of picking HER dream man from a pile of wannabee actor losers right after she has had her heart wrenched from her body. Woe be to any man who tries to impress her after that.

Never again for me. This show just added to my feelings of despair that I have had since the weekend. I need to go punch the paper boy before he is recruited for 'The Bachelor 2022'. I just know that smug punk will get the call.

My Mom said "Well at least she got to travel to all these nice places." HUH? WTF Mom? Et Tu? What about her broken heart? What about MY broken heart.

Oh, btw, they just showed the 'After the Rose' show where the girl who got rejected gets to be interviewed and crushed AGAIN while we hear how the 'Bachelor' and the woman he picked are not together anymore and are not going to get married anytime soon. Big surprise. I guess true love can't be scripted.