Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I learned plenty of interesting tidbits that I promptly regurgitated to a friend later that day. Like did you know that Des was living paycheck-to-paycheck while on the Bachelor and had to ask producers to pay her rent? Or that Sean, having last-minute doubts, barged into Catherine’s room while she was wearing teeth whitening strips the night before the proposal to ask her if she would accept a life centered around Christ?
But I think it ultimately failed to deliver on its implicit promise–explaining just, why? Why do we all watch it and why can’t we stop? Why does such an ordinary and, honestly, boring show seem to encapsulate everything that matters in 2018 America?
If you know of a book that answers that, let me know.
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