At its best, reality TV thrives as one of the few television formats that allow genuine insight into the fleshy underbelly of human behavior — albeit edited and manipulated to a producer’s satisfaction. While a genre largely driven by drunken foibles could be dismissed as juvenile, this model of programming offers a level of accessibility to major quotidian life events such as childbirth, marriage, divorce, infidelity and financial instability — inevitabilities for the average TV watcher, no matter your gender, race or class — here processed through the lens of a young dilettante searching for fame.
No themes are more universal than love and success, whether it’s striving for and preserving them or feeling a chance at happiness slip between your fingers before looking for the next lucky break. Enter the gamified reality dating show, where The Bachelor and its spinoffs have been an industry leader.
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