The Bachelor (2002– ) User Reviews

A reality show that brings shame to America and "True Love"

[Taisora · 2/10 · 2 March 2009]

It makes one wonder how this show is still on the air. There's been one couple that has stayed together, married, and has children, but everyone else has broken up. What's the point of continuing this? The show can be entertaining at the beginning. You see all the girls swooning over one man, that almost all of them like instantly. It's just like in real life! The girls start to take sides, bitch one another out, and show their true selves (or so we think). But that one man is left to decide who to pick that he thinks he can marry and live happily ever after.

What is true love exactly? How can you fall for someone when you're forced to pick them? This show is unbelievable. You thought dating online was bad, but people have to go on TV to find love? It's not realistic. How could a girl be with a man when he is going out with several others, making out with them? None of these questions are answered, and finally when the show ends, you know there won't be a happy ending in the future. For all we know, everything is scripted.

Vocabulary

[tweety-cm-99-858876 · 3/10 · 9 March 2022]

I wish the contestants would stop saying « like » every three words. It's so annoying. I used to like the show but now, every contestant say that word and it seems they don't have any other word to say. I really think I'm going to stop watching it. Anyway even if I know everything is fake, the producers should tell the participants to use a most sophisticated vocabulary.

Lack of Character

[camlee-37161 · 2/10 · 8 April 2021]

The new contestants each year get more shallow as the time goes on. Back in early 2000, a lot of these folks were in it for love. Now people are just doing this show for fame.

I don't know if it is just the generation of people coming through or the fact this TV show is now more scripted than ever and becoming, "woke." Please leave politics aside and keep it to yourself as this is a typical Hollywood TV show.

Good looking, shallow and tacky

[penseur · 16 July 2004]

My girlfriend - addicted to American soap operas - wanted to watch this, so I thought maybe I should too. The concept is simple: get a bunch of attractive and neurotic young women who want to compete for the affections of some adonis and take them on one-on-ones with Mr. God's Gift to Women while the camera follows them and lets the viewer observe all the interesting and melodramatic moments (well most of them - we don't get to witness the sex). It creates a lot of questions - for example, why would women want to enter a show like this in the first place? What do they think is in it for them and what is really in it for them? It all looks good visually - the producers have seen to that - but it is also tacky, shallow and exploitative. It speaks a lot about America.

Seriously?

[MajorMAlice · 1/10 · 2 March 2018]

Dear god. Do these women not have an ounce of self-esteem or pride? I am watching Ari's season and I just want to scream at how these women (some literally crazy ones) put themselves through this for a guy just like any other guy. Oh, and lastly is the list of Latinas who sign up so thin or poor that you have the ONE moronic one who is beyond embarrassing to watch? No wonder this show is rated so low. Skip it.

Not believable

[AdrienneGrayceMusic · 1/10 · 9 November 2018]

I'm honestly baffled that this show lasted this long. We all know that reality tv is scripted, and not really reality at all. Dating multiple women at once and finding instant love is so far fetched it's not even funny. Most of the relationships don't last. It is just pure garbage.

Our Cultural Decline

[dbacke1 · 1/10 · 3 March 2009]

I am sorry, but I just can't get over the fact that this show has been running since 2003. What I also can't get over is how much we have declined as a nation and as a culture to the point where ridiculous "shows" like this continue to be successful. Give me a break! The bachelor and all of the "contestants" are all morally repugnant and reprehensible in their actions. The bachelor basically "test drives" 25 different women during the course of the show, and each one of the them tries their best to get this guy to marry them. The women pull out all the stops in order to try to get this accomplished, regardless of how they really feel about him. It is so stupid that it is beyond belief, and you can totally tell they they are only after the guy for his money and security. Why would any woman with an ounce of decency spend even a second of her time with a man who is sleeping with 24 other women at basically the same time? The women all come across as so shallow and dense, and you would have to think that any woman who comes on this show as a contestant is probably someone with issues and who would therefore not be a good catch. If they are such viable candidates, why hasn't someone found them yet? It all just shows how materialistic and depraved our culture has become, and how true love takes a backseat to all of the superficial stuff that everyone is so preoccupied with. Please take this trash off the air!!!!

Clayton Echard, the Bachelor, is a jerk!!!

[qwlc-98791 · 1/10 · 9 March 2022]

Clayton, the Bachelor, is a total jerk!!! He told the 3 finalists that he was in love with all of them and had sex with 2 out of 3. This guy has no moral and conscience. He is just a selfish person who doesn't care about hurting these women and breaking their hearts. He just used these women who were in love with him for satisfying his lust. He has no conscience what he did to these women was so wrong. When Susie found out what he did with the other 2 women, he pointed his finger and putting the blame on her for not telling him that was a deal-breaker. He intimidated her by flaring up his temper, raising up his voice, blaming her and talking nasty to her while she was crying for the shocking ugly truth. He took the upper hand of the situation by walking her out to the car. What a jerk!!! He bullied Susie to a point that she apologized to him before getting into the car. It is very upsetting for me to watch this. In fact, it is a good thing that Susie has found what kind of person he is before getting more involved with him in a relationship. This immoral bully doesn't deserve to find love.

Show is fake with many season couples breaking up within weeks.

[shinobisinx · 1/10 · 11 February 2015]

Note that there are 18 finished seasons so far. Many of the seasons couple ends up breaking up within several weeks (at least 3 season couples do), and many others breaking up within a year. Know why? It's fake and not real as they try to make it seems so.

On March 26, 2009, Megan Parris says that not only is the show scripted, but the producers even bullied the contestants into saying stuff to the camera that they did not want to say. I quote from her,"They basically will call you names, berate you, curse at you until they get you to say what they want you to say." Both ABC and Warner Bros., the studio that produces The Bachelor, had no comment.

On March 15, 2010, creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20/20 and said that he developed contestants into characters that will cater to his audience's tastes and that they "need fair share of villains every season." Fleiss has come under fire for admitting that The Bachelor has less to do with reality than it does making good television.

Just do your research and you'll find more facts given to you. During the "tell all" episodes, they would coach the girls into expressing fake emotions and say certain things that they did not want to do as well.

Dumbest show on TV

[babymack-15749 · 1/10 · 22 February 2016]

I've tried to watch this show several times and I just can't get into it because I can't get past how stupid and shallow it is. They take one hunk and put him in a house with a bunch of hot girls and eliminate them to find his "true love"? Honestly? Anyone who thinks that could ever have potential of working is extremely naive. He leads on as many as 28 girls for weeks, kisses them, hugs them, tells them how he "feels" about them and treats all of them like his girlfriend only to dump one each week? What would we think about a guy who did this in real life? He doesn't have genuine feelings for any of them, he's horny. What would we say about him in real life? But because it's a reality show and the guy is "hot" it's okay? Not to mention how every girl is beautiful. It's ridiculous. Does he have sex with all of them too? Because if so... Puke. Everyone talks about this show and I can't understand why for the life of me. I don't get the hype about a guy living in a house of hot girls who he gets to take his pick of and jump back and forth between whenever, not to mention lead all of them on and probably screws them simultaneously. This is the single stupidest, shallowest sluttiest show on TV. Except maybe the bachelorette.

The end of the bachelor

[imdbglenn · 1/10 · 16 March 2021]

Chris Harrison you deserve better than the way this whole situation has been handled. At no stage has there been an OPEN conversation. In 2021 you have been betrayed, betrayed for attempting to have the open conversation about this issue and being completely bombed by media and one sided commentators who never had any agenda other than ride the ban wagon of divisive inequality.

The Epitome of Modern Television Entertainment

[hightempo · 8/10 · 28 January 2016]

I think people who give this show negative reviews are under the mistaken impression that it should be something other than trash.

The Bachelor is the entertainment equivalent of a fluffernutter sandwich. It's bad for you. It isn't really even very appealing. But you still find yourself shoving it in your pie hole at the end of the day as a means of crowding out all that fills you following another in a series of soul-crushing experiences like slaving away through the dehumanization of working at a job that treats you as a commodity, fighting masses of furious drivers raging though their commutes, and staring at the table to avoid the eyes of your uncaring spouse as you quietly work your way through another lonely dinner together.

8 stars!

Rachel Lindsay needs to be cancelled

[bobngusdavid · 7/10 · 17 February 2021]

Fluff or not, I enjoy the show. Rachel Lindsay is not the moral center of the universe. Allow people to have opinions that, gasp, are different than yours.

Covid Coma

[zytnzsd · 1/10 · 25 January 2022]

Dear God, if I have to hear one more young person whine about body image and poor mental health, I'm going to scream. Producers, really? You think this is going to keep faithful viewers? Why don't you throw in cliches like " perception is reality" and "people of color" to really kill off your last few viewers. Maybe your producers are too young? Have we lost the entire youth of America to "feelings must be validated" bull crap? I'm already in a Covid Coma due to politics. Can't you PLEASE release the network from the political binds that tie you and produce something fun, exciting, interesting, wild, juicy, stimulating, educational? Take your pick, really, ANY of those adjectives might help you during your brainstorm sessions. ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN DULL, DRAB, BORING, CLICHÉD, CONVERSATIONS AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVENT BEEN ON EARTH LONG ENOUGH TO SEE THROUGH THE CANCEL CULTURE AND LONG FOR MORE IN LIFE THAN PLATITUDES SO NOBODY'S FEELINGS GET HURT. Please give us something to watch!!!!!

Who Cares

[metalface101 · 18 October 2002]

Is the dating scene really that bad?? Are these women trying to tell me that they can't find a decent guy without the help of a "reality" show?? So this bachelor can't find a decent woman? Give me a break!! I can't figure out why pathetic shows like these get such good ratings. I hope these people enjoy their 15 minutes of fame. I could care less if he picks any of them, and it's too bad more of the viewing public doesn't feel the same way.

Made By Sociopathic Producers Enabling People for Money

[shinedowness · 1/10 · 13 March 2019]

This show was made by sociopathic producers enabling people for money. As a result, people on this show are acting immaturely on the outside to entertain people who are all part of the lowest common denominator. Decent people do not watch this show or be contestants in this show. Instead, they actually find other decent people without causing stupid hatred, revenge, drama, etc. that you see in immoral shows like this. Most or all of these people on The Bachelor are fame-hungry monsters who try to pull on people's heart strings by adding children onto the show. I was done with this show after a few seasons.

Ruined

[praxus-32057 · 1/10 · 8 June 2021]

Letting a bunch of 20 year old woke police push Chris Harrison out was a mistake. It's been a good run; but now its probably over.

Predictable

[garryshw · 1/10 · 3 January 2018]

So disappointed, every season the crazy one, or the rude over aggressive on stays! First impression rose to the one that is being most aggressive, it really makes you wonder if it really is reality TV? I think it is a rating grab and the viewers are catching on!

Remember When?

[arrowwood · 2/10 · 9 February 2021]

Remember when this used to be a fun, happy show to watch? Guess again. This season is actually depressing. Contestants fight, constantly cry, rarely even smile. If this is what producers thing the public wants to see right now, guess again. Sad, because this used to be an uplifting, fun, enjoyable show to watch. No longer. It's now filled with ridiculous pettiness and fake drama.

Good for a Guilty Pleasure

[rochelle-rochelle · 5/10 · 2 October 2007]

This show stars a hunk of a man that is loaded with money, good looks, charm and confidence and about two dozen women who are all dying for his affection, love, attention and sperm. Yes, sperm. These women want The Bachelor to be the father of their future children. Dare to dream.

This show is good for a guilty pleasure for viewers, but should not be taken seriously. No show-winner yet has been able to make the relationship work and head into marriage without breaking up within months or weeks of the finale. This show format is NOT a good way to find love. I mean, come on, how can you fall in love with someone who is basically "cheating" on you on national television, kissing other women, dating other women, feeling up other women, sharing dreams and futures with other women, not knowing whether he is being true to you or to them.

The relationships between the girls in the house is purely superficial and fake. No one cares about the other women or hates to see them go. All they want is that rose so they can stay on TV a bit longer and garner their 15 minutes of fame. Because once the show is over, no one remembers who was on the show or even who won.

It's fun to watch because it's a reality competition based show, but in the end, we don't really care if they end up married or in love. We want to see who wins, but don't try to tell us they've found their soul mate because everyone on the show is a 'ho. The host of the show is pimping out the women to the bachelor and everyone has to put their best show on to get that rose that means absolutely nothing in real life.

All of the roses die before the finale even airs. But this show is great for filling a guilty pleasure as a viewer. I don't watch the show for love, but for pure entertainment and drama, which the story editors do a good job on this show to keep the interests high, drama deep and entertainment strong. But don't tell me the purpose of this show is to find true love. The formula of the show goes against all the odds of finding true love.

So bad it's Godawful

[d-j-dekok · 1/10 · 23 May 2014]

This show, and its a/b alternative "The Bachelorette", are easily the most pathetic, eyeroll-inducing, "reality" shows of them all. I can't fathom any good reason for wasting an hour of my life watching them, never mind a whole season. CBS should be ashamed of itself for promoting the "dashing prince/beautiful princess" fantasy. It's 2014, for Christ's sake. This isn't how solid relationships are built.

The worst part is where they're interviewing the "star" in one of those moments where they're "baring their soul" accompanied by thoughtful music. You run away from people in your circle who tell you everything they're thinking, every time they're thinking it--here it's seen as deep. Blech. Even Jack Handey wasn't this emetic on SNL.

Much is made in the fan mags about the couples resulting from this show. What they SHOULD do is a "where are they now" on the people who AREN'T picked and what work they're getting in Hollywood as a result of being seen on "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette", since that seems to be the real reason anyone puts up with this nonsense. I have nothing but contempt for the people who put this drivel on the air--in fact, I've wasted too much time writing this review.

I used to watch the Bachelor. NEVER AGAIN.

[jk-59477 · 1/10 · 28 March 2023]

I watched the early Bachelors in the early 2000s. They were new and exciting. But the biggest reason I watched were the beautiful women. It was interesting to see all these beautiful women who were not actors. Each week I was waiting eagerly for the next episode to see what would happen next. I would go online and discuss each episode with other viewers. I was obsessed. Looking back, it was so pathetic and a colossal waste of time. The "drama" is all fake. They make mountains out of molehills. They make the Bachelor and contestants make bad decisions simply to create more drama and ratings. These "reality" shows are all so fake. All of them. The "drama" is all manufactured. I just simply stopped watching. Never again.

There are far better things to do with my time.

Lol

[kory_savoia93 · 10/10 · 1 March 2020]

It's everything that's wrong with society; But I just can't look away.

Solid Production, Not Inclusive

[strattonamy · 7/10 · 26 February 2023]

I have watched every season of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise, and almost all of the extras. I know a few people that worked on the set. I have worked in film myself. The quality of the production is phenomenal at least on the user end. I have thoroughly loved the storytelling and being able to so clearly study human behavior via this show.

However after they discriminated against Chris Harrison, the show has never been the same. They have taken on a heavy BLM agenda with making so many of the Bachelors and Bachelorettes African American. This show portends to be "inclusive" but I have never seen an Indian American get past the first round. I have extremely rarely seen a Chinese American make it past the first round (despite it being the most populous nation in the world and very populous in California) and it's very rare to see a Mexican American make it past the third or fourth round. The contestants are disproportionately African American since Chris Harrison was booted off the show. There is nothing racially inclusive about this show.

Almost all of the contestants are Myers Briggs Sensing types and many of them don't have very much intellectual or emotional depth. I am shocked when a therapist or an artist makes it beyond the third round. I think wanting to have only beautiful people on the show attracts more Sensing types to apply and be chosen because they tend to take better care of their physical bodies. (I've studied temperament my whole life.)

This exclusivity to Sensate types makes this show increasingly boring to me. I'd love to be more intellectually stimulated by this show. I think the closest this show came was with the musical 'A Star is Born' version of this show but I think that was a flop because they didn't know how to bring out the artistic sides of people probably because the show is run by Sensate types although filmmakers usually are Intuitives.

I'm tired of seeing the basic bros and basic b**** on this show. I want to see interesting people with charisma and personality that might not be the most 'beautiful' people. The more mature I'm becoming the less this show interests me because it's not relatable to everyone's ideals-just the Sensate ideals like "pizza, friends, and football", fitness, physical beauty, popularity, and being an Instagram influencer.

If the ideals of the Intuitive-intellect, philosophy, art, psychology, film, music, entrepreneurship, and science-were addressed more effectively, this show wouldn't lose followers like myself as we seek to find other shows and entertainment that reflects more of we want out of life.

Boring. This season was also handled HORRIBLY at the end.

[rebeccagorley · 1/10 · 8 June 2021]

Boring! This season was also handled HORRIBLY throughout and especially at the end.