I'll come right out and say it: I loathe the concept for The Bachelor entirely. Everything about it makes my skin crawl. I used to think that it would be awesome to finagle my way onto the show and refuse the rose when "The Bachelor" offered it to me - assuming I curried enough favor to win said rose (In fact, I think a chick did this once, and she will forever be my hero.)
SPOILER ALERT: IN CASE ANY OF YOU WATCH THE BACHELOR
But because I read gobs of celebrity trash gossip, I was nearly immediately informed about the driz-ama that happened on last night's episode. Let me tell you guys - it did nothing except make me want to run to abc.com and watch the hell out of it. Unsurprisingly, a very large number of viewers are vowing never to watch again because of the awfulness and "fakeness" of it all. (Say it ain't so! Reality TV isn't real? Or don't a large portion of these same viewers watch The Hills?)
In case you haven't heard, The Bachelor, aka Jason, picked Melissa on the finale. Did the whole proposal song and dance yada, yada, yada. Then on the 6-weeks-later "After the Final Rose" special or whatever, the place they talk about how in love they are and why she won his heart and all that mushy bullshit, he dumps Melissa on national TV and goes begging to the runner-up, Molly. I'm not kidding.
I mean, really, I don't care if this is fake or real, this is TV genius. Ok. So I do care if it's real, because that's a terrible, awful, no-one-deserves-that thing to do to a person, to break up with them on live television (But um, hello, she is clearly going to be the next Bachelorette, so whatever, don't cry too many tears for Melissa). If it's fake, though, WHY HAVEN'T THEY THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE? Of course, now it's been done, so they've got to come up with more twists, but holy hell, this adds a whole dimension of drama the likes of Gossip Girl and 90210. I just might have to give this show a second look.
Oh, who am I kidding, I'm not watching this garbage, but I'm totally watching that last "After the rose" special or whatever. And blogging about it. I have clearly sunk to a new low.
Don't lie, you totally want to watch a clip, too.
1 comment:
I have never watched "The Bachelor" before, but three weeks ago I was feeling down and wanted to escape into some TV. I flipped around on the four stations I have and came across "The Bachelor." I ended up watching it. And, of course, once I invested those two hours I had to see how it ended. The whole thing is so ridiculous, but you have to admit that it's entertaining.
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