The Concept

Well, to be completely honest, I’m obsessed with The Bachelor. I know how completely ridiculous it is, and yet every season I tune in and watch every episode. It fascinates me how at this point, all of the men and women on the show are basically playing versions of men and women who were on past seasons – there’s something very meta about it. So I was interested in exploring that, and in why the show exerts a hold over me, and millions of other people, even though we simultaneously realize it’s totally absurd. I’m also getting married this year, to a wonderful man who I’ve been friends with for ten years – and dated for three – and so the idea of getting married to someone you’ve dated for six weeks, on television, while they were simultaneously dating twenty-five other people, is totally inconceivable to me … and when something seems totally inconceivable to me, I generally want to write about it so I can figure out what makes it conceivable for other people.