Bachelor in Paradise

This is not the traditional Bachelor or Bachelorette. The cast is not meant to be pure as a driven snow or poised, Etc (but who is anyway?). It seems some reviews, I glanced at, rank and criticize Love In Paradise according to their own moral code. But you have to admit that the producers came up with a great idea, they understood some of the appeal which draws people to watch the original program to begin with. It's exciting, with twists and turns, feel good moments, meltdowns, it has it all. This is popcorn television, based on entertainment. Although I have not watched all the seasons yet, I like what I see. Improvements? ... include Chris Harrison more, make the dates more challenging/over the top, like the original Bachelor/ette. It increases the potential for conflict. I want cringe-worthy matchups. Let the (love) games begin!

I am convinced the producers of this show look for women who wholeheartedly buy into the princess/knight in shining armor fairytale myth. This assures that they have a sense of entitlement ("I deserve love!"), providing drama. Another common trait is a keen focus on their biological clocks ("Why can't I find someone?"), adding more drama, like a Hitchcock film that keeps referring back to the timer on the bomb.

Throwing together "losers" from prior showings of "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" for the alleged purpose of creating lifetime commitments is like asking people to drive at top speed into an intersection without traffic lights. You might not be able to avert your eyes from the ensuing accidents, but they are still accidents.

Can you learn something by watching this show? Well, you can learn to better identify potential partners who are bad choices. And you can learn that better long-term results can be achieved through a more organic development of relationships. Being thrust into a superficial, timed environment like "Bachelor in Paradise" will seldom yield happiness.

Otherwise, the show has little to offer and is not far removed from "The Jersey Shore" or an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show" in terms of entertainment or educational value.

This show would be less depressing if it was about animals in heat on some critter ranch in Hawaii. Savage beasts born without any moral values, ignorant of human virtues, just looking to hook up with anything, man or woman, and hoping that a big bank account will be part of the reward.

It would be nice if these shows would include important social life statistics, such as how many of these characters have STDs before the show? How many of these characters have them after they are on the show? What is the cost of pennicillin during filming? Same thing for frequent flyer cards at the Planned Parenthood Clinic. The tenth one is free.

First of all, yes, this show is a silly show that is not anything serious and is really for only an audience that watches The Bachelor/Bachelorette series. The show didn't need any changes. It's for a small audience and it is a guilty pleasure.

But someone at Disney thought it needed a big budget and needed to be shot at a resort instead of the original beach.

How did ABC / Disney / Hulu manage to take a charming, somewhat tacky, funny yet unserious little show, shot on a real beach with not too many cameras and not overproduced, and turn it into another version of Love Island, but much worse? No one who loves the OG Bachelor in Paradise show is asking for this. This 2025 season, it is not being filmed on the beach in Mexico where are all the other BIP seasons were shot. Instead, it is being filmed in a fancy resort where they all hang out by a pool.

The over-the-top music and ridiculously over-sexualized intros in episode one were awful. The silly BIP theme is gone, along with those goofy intros that showed our reality TV stars laughing at themselves. And what happened to the playfulness on the beach, and the funny titles under everyone's names? We aren't looking for F Boi Island or Love Island where they pose and prance like influencers, and hang out by a boring pool, and play Love Island type games, we just want our old show back. They had immediate access to a beach on the OG Bachelor in Paradise and they spent most of their time on that beach. They had real bugs and they had crabs that would invade their rooms, and they got sweaty out there on the beach and their makeup ran and it was all very real, and that's how people meet. If you still want to get to know someone while they're sweating because there's no air conditioning and screaming about crabs, then it may be true love. We need the ORIGINAL tiki bar with Wells, we need everything like it originally was.

Until the producers change things, I have watched my last episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Yes, it's just a silly little show that truly was nothing more than a guilty pleasure, but I enjoyed it more than I did The Bachelor or The Bachelorette because at least we could laugh! The peak was probably when they had David Spade as a guest host. It was never meant to be some overproduced Disney mess.

TL;DR: The producers somehow managed to take a charming, tacky, funny little show and turn it into just another reality TV love genre filmed at a generic Love Island type resort.

OMG. Another fav. Thank you for Demi (Summer 2019) and the alternative storyline. We love you gurl. xoxo MUAH!