From year to year the traditions of the “Bachelor/Bachelorette” saga may vary, but the one characteristic that will never let us down is the ridiculously great looking people they provide for us to gawk at all season long. Chris Soules will be the 2015 “bachelor” looking for love, but this is not his first time on this show.
After Andi Dorfman’s 2014 season of “The Bachelorette” ended in heartbreak for Soules, he is back once again to search for a woman to make his wife. He is nicknamed “Farmer Chris” by the media due to the 33-year-old’s Iowa roots and farm back home.
On Jan. 5, the season began and the black limos began to show up one by one. Each woman stepped out one at a time trying to win over Soules with different cheesy openers he could remember them by. The line defining, charming, and weird came into question when Reegan, a donated tissue specialist, even went as far as to bring a cooler that contains, what looked like, a heart. She immediately explained that it is fake and Soules attempted to laugh it off.
After 15 girls had entered the home they would potentially be staying in for the remainder of the season, Soules finally began to commerce with them. As the girls finally began to get comfortable, and even came to love, the idea that this season would have a smaller group than any show in the past, more limos began to show up.
With a record-breaking number of 30 women competing to find love this season, patience was running low. Each women fought for just a moment alone with Soules all night long.
The pressure got even heavier when the “first impression rose” came into play. Receiving this rose from Soules meant that you were definitely someone that he intended to keep around.
Britt, a 27-year-old from California, was able to get the “first impression rose” and even steal a kiss from “the bachelor” himself. The live studio audience that tuned in took an unexpected view on this kiss and said they supported it. Only a very few said that a kiss after only meeting that same day was too soon. Soules’ fellow Iowans took to Britt as soon as she was introduced and really liked her for Chris.
At the final rose ceremony of the night, eight women did not get a rose and were immediately sent home. Although a certain woman, Kimberly, did not receive a rose, she purposely ignored instruction and went back inside the house to ask Soules for a moment of his time.
With 22 women with roses in hand, the grouped joined glasses to cheers the remaining journey ahead of them.
As the season continues and Soules develops more personal relationships with all of the bachelorettes a concern arises of this notorious show being a true search of love and good virtue, or a modern day escort service. The fact that America needs a nationally broadcasted TV series consisting of 30 women at eachothers throats just to win the attention of one man is borderline pathetic, but is often seen as charming in the common viewers eye. If the goal of marriage is something that I must fight numerous women for, then I am almost positive I would like no part in it. Many of the women on the show consider themselves “the luckiest girls in the world” and it almost seems kind of depressing to me. Not that the idea of looking for your soul mate isn’t a bold and pretty idea, but to me, the “luckiest girls in the world” won’t need to physically and emotionally share their boyfriend with so many other women. The line of loyalty becomes blurred when an entire relationship is built upon seeing your partner with tons of other girls. The 7:12 break-up rate speaks for itself. I am a complete contradiction in myself because no matter how odd the concept of “The Bachelor” may be to me, there is nothing that could possibly make it less of an addicting show.