“It’s been more than a full month since The Bachelor producers dangled the prospect of a heartbroken Joey Graziadei over our pretty little heads, and now it looks like we’ve finally reached this season’s dramatic final act.”— Laura Bradley, thedailybeast.com
“I want more. I want Demi Burnett to tear through Bachelor Nation, queering every space that’s been historically reserved for straight, white Christians, paint the island rainbow. And she’s doing it—loudly and proudly.”— Jill Gutowitz, them.us
“During the finale of Colton's season of The Bachelor, Chris Harrison announced who would be the next woman at the center of The Bachelorette.”— The Bachelor, ABC, The Bachelorette, twitter.com
“A lot of people said it now seems clear that Colton dumped ex-girlfriend Tia Booth, who he dated in Paradise, so he could become the bachelor.”— Stephanie McNeal, buzzfeednews.com
“The women on The Bachelor shows aren't interested in marriage except as a certificate of completion; proof that they've become what a girl is still expected to become. What they're looking for is the chance to embark on the singular adventure they've read about and seen acted in movie after movie th…”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“The Bachelor presents itself as a show about beautiful young single people finding love, but the show is less a matchmaking service than a sporting event. The sport is femininity.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“Yes, I get money from ads, but I’m also working every day on jobs that don’t pay anything.”— Ashley Iaconetti, amazon.com
“250,000 followers = $ 1,000/ ad. 500,000 = $ 2,000/ ad. And if you have 1 million followers? You’re probably getting at least $ 10,000 per ad.”— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com
“This is reinforcing gender roles. . . . But, aw, what if someone said that to me?”— Jason Ritter, amazon.com
“I will literally walk on-set after lunch and say, “OK, it’s Monday. Bachelor in Paradise tonight. Let’s get the hell out of here so everyone can watch it.”— Donnie Wahlberg, amazon.com
“As an actor, I’m supposed to say reality TV is anathema to me because every reality show is replacing a show that I could be on.”— Joshua Malina, amazon.com
“I can watch a Sunday-to-Monday night of The Bachelor and it’s like cotton candy. You eat it. It’s delicious. It disappears. Where did that go? I can’t believe I watched four hours of it.”— Paul Scheer, amazon.com
“The show has made me feel really ugly, because I assume that the women they cast are based on their perception of what a man would want— and all the women look the same to me on the show. They always have the same kind of long barrel curls and they’re all skinny. There’s no one that looks like me.”— Diablo Cody, amazon.com
“One thing that will never happen on my set is, like, a rape or something. I would never allow some guy to walk into the room of some girl who’s passed out. Everyone has to be cognizant of what they’re doing— even when two people get really drunk and want to have sex, if they’re too gone, it’s like,…”— Scott Jeffress, amazon.com
“I used to live-tweet during The Bachelor, and I loved it, until it became an unsafe environment.”— Spencer Pratt, amazon.com
“I know what’s up— they’re on the show to get IG followers and #SponCon ads. But the reality is, I went on a TV show just for fame and now I’m married with a kid, so the game is crazy.”— Spencer Pratt, amazon.com
“You can’t only absorb the ideals of a feminist world view through shows that espouse them— often, there are more lessons to learn about womanhood on shows where the women (or, more typically, the men) are behaving in ways that proliferate misogyny in one way or another.”— Allison Williams, amazon.com
““If I have any skill at all, it’s the ability to come up with ideas that get people talking.”— Mike Fleiss, amazon.com