The realities of reality television
BYU students talk "The Bachelor"
Tears, love and drama are just some of the aspects of "The Bachelor" that its 6.5 million viewers love. The show follows one man dating multiple women in order to find love with just one of them.
At the end of the two month process, the bachelor picks one woman to propose to, and they live happily ever after — or so people think. The reality is that many couples who get engaged at the end of the show don't make it down the aisle, and if they do, the marriage doesn't last long. Even with that fact, people still love to watch one man make out with multiple women on his journey to find the one because it seems like reality. The question is, is it really reality?
I talked to BYU sophomore Brooke Newhart, who doesn't like "The Bachelor," and junior Madeleine Dame, who watches the show every week, to ask how they view reality television as a whole.