Relationships
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5 days agoChris Coelen Is Ready to Make 40 More Seasons of Love Is Blind
Dating shows create real stakes for participants, and relationship outcomes feel authentic, driving lasting audience engagement.
The connections can be genuine, and the feelings often real, but the situations are contrived and manipulated, a pioneering brand of deliberately saccharine, hokey and ridiculous in the name of love and for the sake of entertainment. Watching The Bachelor and its spinoffs, as I occasionally have over its two-plus-decade run, is to be baffled, frustrated, annoyed and ultimately hooked.