Bachelor Reality Shows and Beautiful but Desperate(?) Women

I believe it started with "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire" and the agony continues with "Age of Love," which is this new show where a set of attractive 20-somethings compete with a set of attractive 30-somethings for the heart (and body) of a 30-something guy.  Am I the only one to have wondered why all these attractive women that could get a date just about anywhere, go gaga for one (usually dull) guy.  They fall in love, get jealous, have visions of family and marriage with this guy within two episodes.  Some of them even resort to name-calling and backstabbing.  I suppose this makes it entertaining, but these women are either great actresses or they have serious issues.  The women that lose end up in tears, thinking that their life is about over once the guy rejects her.  Maybe they just want to be famous, but I guess getting it at the expense of their dignity is OK.

And they put up with the guy dating and being intimate with many women at one time.  If only women not on the TV shows would be amenable to this.  What's interesting is how the one guy / many women show phenomenon seems to have more staying power than the one women / many guys format shows like "The Bachelorette".

If you enjoy the shows, keep having fun.  I don't want to stop anybody.  The only reason I might watch is to see how ridiculously attached the women are to the featured man, and of course to observe the attractive women who are dressing to impress.  (They tend to impress me too).  But I do wonder how many shows like this we can stomach.  There are only so many ways this set up can be spun to be considered fresh and unique.  Perhaps it's time to move on to the next better reality TV show idea.

+ Atul

Comments

[beige]

Perhaps it's time to move on to the next better reality TV show idea.

Don't count on it...Despite flagging numbers, women still eat this stuff up by the millions.

[Atul]

I guess women live vicariously and agonize with them by watching the women on these shows. I do have some ideas for the next big show though. One involves 3 attractive women being my roommates for 3 months. It will be like a cross between Survivor, The Bachelor, and Big Brother.

[chancelucky]

I thought about blogging AGe of Love, but it's just not very interesting so far. I do think it would have been more interesing if they had used an ordinary 30 something guy instead of an international tennis star.

I'm not sure why the rooster in the henhouse metaphor works better on American tv than the other way around. there are lots of possible reasons, but one of the more interesting ones is that prodcuers say that the men just don't get as dramatic as the women do.

fwiw, Average Joe did fairly well with the one woman picks from multiple men plot and Love or Money's most popular episodes had the woman doing the choosing.

I guess I should be embarrassed to kinow this stuff :}

[Megs]

I totally agree with you on this one. I remember the show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and I remember thinking, "are these girls crazy?" These gorgeous women get casted for the show, not knowing what the so-called millionaire looks like, and within 2 or 3 episodes- they already know that they will have kids with the guy. I mean, come on. Just recently, I watched a show called Tila Tequila, which is hosted on MTV. Let me tell you, this was a mess, but a very interesting mess I must say. A certain amount of guys were brought to a house, not knowing that the same amount of girls were going to show up - and they all were competing for Tila Tequila, a bisexual, who became famous off of Myspace. Ridiculous. Of course it came down to one guy one girl, and she chose the guy. New Years Eve Tila announced that her and Bobby ( the boy she chose) were not together anymore and she will be hosting a new show sometime soon. I don't get it!