The Bachelor (2002– )
7/10
Solid Production, Not Inclusive
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.
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