I don’t usually watch the reality love shows but I was chatting with an old high school friend on Facebook recently and she is really into it so I started to watch so that we could discuss. This latest season of the bachelor featured Ben Higgins. Nice looking, slightly geeky, tall, hot guy who had all the ladies in a lather. He cries a lot which is cool, he isn’t completely fake, is it all scripted, possibly, but I don’t think that ruins the basic idea of the show. It is about love and it is “real” in that sense.
Anyway, poor Ben, he starts out with 25 women who would, under any other scenario, basically melt your brain and they are all competing and totally into him and he gets to date them all until he picks his dream lady. Why do I bot have that luck? And it isn’t middle class dating it is unlimited budgets and big moments dating.
If you watched this season, you had to fall in love with JoJo. Ben ends up picking Lauren B. She is beautiful, but JoJo is amazing. I actually liked the second runner up best, Cayla, or something like that. I would have probably picked her. JoJo was amazing and so sweet and so vulnerable but she didn’t impress me until the end. It was so obvious she was going to be heart broken if wasn’t the winner and then, sure enough, her worst fears came true, she gave her heart to Ben and he rejects her at the end. It was brutal! I think he still loves her! He says he is madly in love with Lauren B., and who could blame him, but I can’t help believing that deep down in his heart he realizes he let the best, sweetest, prettiest girl of all in JoJo get away.
So now JoJo gets her shot in two months. 25 guys. One lady. She chooses. She will find love this time. No more tears for JoJo. I am hooked now.
I usually don’t watch it either but somehow it was playing when I’m on the tredmill and bam I’m hooked, my husband thinks all this is lunacy but i dont care. Jojo looked phenomenal in that dress and dopey Ben says “see ya??”. What an idiot.
Me neither. I waste time in plenty of ways, but I’m fine saying I’ve never seen The Bachelor / ette and don’t ever intend to. The concept is gross and the people are typically that overdone, overly made-up look that isn’t remotely attractive.
I think most people watch it not taking it too seriously (not once they got past the first few seasons) anymore and just “enjoying” the total cheesy-ness and cheap in a very expensive way that it is! It’s sort of the soap opera of this generation. No real harm done unless someone happens to take it seriously.
If you watch with your teen kids just be sure to repeat once every episode, "this is not what relationships in the real world are like or should be like!!!’
That said, I have never watched a season though have sat through an episode here and there. Watched one episode of Ben’s season when D2 was home for spring break. It’s a harmless hour a week that she and her friends sit and immerse themselves in a sort of weird dream relationship world watching someone else!!!
When will the next season start? Hoping it’s not this summer - cause then I WILL probably be watching with D2!!! (please, please, let it be on in the fall!!!)
Oh, come #3. You can watch or not watch for whatever reason suits your fancy but to say the people on these shows are not remotely attractive because they are overdone or overly made up? Come on. They are attractive. And that doesn’t mean they are not otherwise intelligent or industriously either.
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JoJo looked great in each episode. She looked really good in the last episode when she finished second. But she REALLY looked amazing in the wrap up show this week Monday night. Dear God in heaven. Ben had to be kicking himself when he saw her then. You talk about the best revenge. And it isn’t like Lauren B looked bad, she looked better than ever also, but if you put them side by side I think most guys would not be able to take their eyes off JoJo.
She totally deserves to meet someone just as amazing as she is and given that she’ll have 25 gusy fawning over her every move I;d say she’s got a good shot.
By the way, in what way is the concept gross? People meet online and at the bars and at the gym … what difference does it make? I am sorry but I don’t hate people or slam them just because they are hot.
I have zero objection to people meeting online, at the gym, at bars, etc. I don’t think highly of people who would voluntarily engage in being followed / taped / broadcast publicly in doing so. See the difference?
I don’t “hate anybody because they’re hot.” This is the same line you repeated when people didn’t fawn over Kim Kardashian as you do.
I also think it’s a little cheesy for a man who is (I’m guessing) late forties/early fifties to spend so much time oogling twenty yo’s. I mean, I totally get that guys aren’t blind, and there’s no need to be, but there’s a difference between noticing a girl your daughter 's age is pretty, and sitting down and watching episodes of a show to look at them!
No, pizza it is not the same line. I defended KK because you basically said because they make money and are celebrities they are lazy and not intelligent. I disagreed. You remind me of the unattractive jealous high school girl who hates the cheerleaders because they are what you wish you could be. Plain and simple.
I watched this season with my wife (he says, sheepishly). After the disaster with Juan Pablo and an unwatchable season of Chris Soules, Ben was a great rebound for the franchise. One issue with Ben was he was too easy to read. Lauren B. was the clear choice from at least six weeks ago.
We thought for sure the ever-happy Caila would be the new bachelorette. Other favorites were Lauren H. the kindergarten teacher, the twins, and Jubilee. JoJo’s jerk brothers ruined her for me and I was kind of “meh” on her from the beginning. I will probably not watch her season unless D is home and interested.
I don’t usually watch the show, but found myself watching 3 or 4 shows from this season, one of which was JoJo’s home visit. Ditto on the brothers. They could have been Pizzagirl’s brothers.
I watched bits and pieces of The Bachelor - during commercials the first hour and multitasking during the second. I have watched a couple of entire seasons of the Bachelorette. I hadn’t been paying too much attention to who everyone was; partly watched so I could enjoy the snark on the boards afterwards. But JoJo (wish she used her full name Joelle) really grew on me the last two weeks. I’m pretty sure she knew going into the finale that she wasn’t getting picked and would end up as The Bachelorette but she did carry herself off very well. So yeah, I’ll probably watch the new season - which starts May 23, I believe.
A few on this thread have already mentioned watching with their kids or friends or whatever. It is a show that works best in groups. Me, for example, I’ve not watched more than 10 minutes of any of the B or B-lorette seasons but started watching this year so I could chat about it online with a friend. It was fun. Who do you like? Why? You compare notes and end up talking about relationships.
The premise of the show is solid because searching for love crosses all demographics.
JoJo kind of snuck up on me too. She was in my top 5 or 10, I guess, all along, but somehow towards the end she just went off the charts. She was the one. Ben blew it. He picked a giggling, little bit too thin, not real curvy girl over JoJo when JoJo just seemed to get prettier and sweeter and realer each episode. She looked drop dead amazing in the wrap up show this week when they announced she was the B-lorette.
I would add I stopped tuning in from the beginning of the show. It was the same scene over and over. The girl says she is afraid she will get hurt and Ben encourages her to trust him multiply by 10, rinse, and repeat over and over.
Tune it 15 minutes before the end to see who he, or she, picks, but, having said that, I might watch JoJo’s show. In defense of Ben, it must be hard not to fall in love with more than one person on a show like this.
