I think the franchise would stop short of serious violence, but there’s seemingly little the producers won’t do for good TV.Ĭarla: The breakup was not the problem. And now, the public humiliation of Becca K. The murky “Bachelor in Paradise” sexual assault production scandal. The “we didn’t know our contestant had Nazi tweets” problem from Rachel’s season. But everything I’ve seen relies on train wreck theatrics that make it hard to look away. I’ve only watched a few seasons and don’t claim to be any kind of expert. was hard to watch, or at least much harder to watch than the routinely infuriating stuff on “The Bachelor.” That “unedited and uncut” (say it one more time, Chris Harrison) footage of Arie’s breakup with Becca K. Here, The Times’s Bonnie Wertheim, Carla Correa, Lindsey Underwood and Jon Caramanica dig into the treacheries and satisfactions of the show’s “most dramatic finale ever.”īonnie: Last fall, when ABC announced that Arie Luyendyk Jr., a long-ago former contestant on “The Bachelorette,” would be the next Bachelor and everyone said “who?” we knew the show might be bland, but I didn’t think he’d be cruel.

She accepted the awkward live praise of a cavalcade of men who will woo her for our benefit this spring on “The Bachelorette” - should we choose to watch.

Kufrin, was anointed as the next star of the dual franchise. She accepted, they were hurried offstage, and the wronged woman, Ms.

Luyendyk choose Becca Kufrin as his wife and then, after several weeks of coupledom, break up with her in horror-film-like real-time footage to pursue the show’s runner-up, Lauren Burnham. on ABC’s 22nd season of “The Bachelor” ended in a two-part finale, stretched agonizingly over two nights.

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