Like the past 11 seasons of "The Bachelorette," this season is no different. It's a beautiful woman surrounded by 26 men who are attempting to win the heart of their "true love." Additionally, like every season, Season 12 captures the audiences' attention as JoJo, the beautiful brunette, chooses one man she will fall in love with and then eventually break up with. As I watch every girl - including my sister - swoon over the show, I find myself intrigued by the trance-inducing drama that is "The Bachelorette."
I must admit, the show is very hypnotic. It drags you in with it's soap-opera-like structure, making you invested in the drama. As I watched I began to hate myself. I know it is stupid to get invested in a show as cheesy as this, but it's hard not to. For me, not only is the drama somewhat mesmerizing, the show is extremely fun to tease.
Let's start with the plot. This is a show about a woman who was rejected by the former Bachelor, looking to find true love from 26 mostly attractive men, who, like her, are incapable of finding lasting love the normal way. Instead of meeting people at work, a yoga class or some other social gathering, the men decide to go on a show and compete for the woman they "love". And who says chivalry is dead? But it's not really love is it, just infatuation. I'm not going to lie, JoJo is a very attractive woman so it is easy to see why her men fall for her so fast. However, for a man to go on a show and say he is so in love with woman after like four months to point where he is going to marry her, is preposterous. Might as well go to Match.com, you probably have the same odds of finding true love there.
Additionally, the odds of getting Mono on this show are like 212 percent. Everyone on this show is spit-swapping with each other. The weirdest part, they all don't care. Sorry, but if I was on that show, I would probably have to sanitize my mouth knowing JoJo gets a tongue shoved down her throat at least seven times an episode. It's like licking an attractive petri dish. But I'll give props to JoJo, she is living most girls' dream. She literally gets to make-out with multiple attractive guys in a small amount of time, and not have a single one of them get mad. In fact, they get mad at themselves and the other men. In any other setting, no dude would be okay with his "future wife" getting a tongue bath from anyone else besides themselves.
Speaking of the contestants, they are the best part of the whole show. This show is set up to the point where you can predict if from the beginning. Like I mentioned earlier, there are mostly attractive men, but you also have the one guy who gets way too drunk at the opening party, the douche bag who stirs all the drama, the pretty boy who she falls for but US Magazine claims is an ass, and the normal people. In this season you have all that and a little more. The reason I keeps saying mostly attractive men is because you had contestants like Evan, who looks like a creepy washed up artist that paints abstract images in his loft and has a cat named Fernando.
PS: What is wrong with his body in this picture?
The douche canoe: Chad. If there was ever a mask that you wanted to buy for Halloween so people knew you were going as a douchebag, it would be a 'Chad' mask. Chad is the guy you love to hate. And out of the three episodes I've seen of the show, he was undoubtedly my favorite before he got booted off. He just did not care. He also told it like it was, which is refreshing. But of course he goes overboard with his douchiness and decides to start calling himself the "perfect choice for JoJo" and calling everyone fakes. As I watch this all I can think is, "dude every person on this show is fake. It's just a really long and expensive form of speed dating". But his antics are what made the show great. I don't care about all that sappy crap. I want to see the realness of people. I can't really blame Chad for getting physical at times. Competing for a woman with 20 other men can get irritating.
Last is the pretty boy who is supposedly bad for her: Aaron Rodger's brother. Aaron Rodger's brother, Jordan, was smooth from the get-go and is essential to the drama of the show. The small mouth-close-eyed dream boat is someone you question because he is so handsome and smooth. Every girl turns to their BFF and gossips about if Jordan is really good for JoJo or not. This is why he stays on the show, to make the audience question his intentions.
Additional side note: This guy looks like a buff and tan Jim from "The Office."
As someone who watches "The Bachelorette" from time to time because it's a guilty pleasure, I am somewhat jealous of the men. Not because they get to hangout with an attractive woman, but because they get to travel the world for free. These men literally just have to stay smooth enough to travel around the entire globe. If I didn't win over JoJo's heart, I'd still brag that I went to Argentina or Sweden or wherever they go! I could find a wife without having to go on TV. Traveling the world however, is not free, and there is no way I would want to miss that opportunity.
"The Bachelorette" may be a dumb show, especially from the eyes of a guy, but it's addictive non the less. The drama that builds from the music and closeups keeps us entertained and the characters make us hate and love them all at the same time. It is ridiculous to think any of this is real but the audience doesn't care. This show is all about entertainment, and that's what it does. It's fun to make fun of and when a new season is on, women watching the Bachelorette is the equivalent of men watching a football game: we scream, we get frustrated, we hate certain people, but we will always watch the next week.
