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The Bachelor

Love’s a game, romance is the future of sports, and this is the golden age of reality TV. ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are tacky classics — long-running franchises about the pursuit of love and lust and drama that we tune in for every season.

How do Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants kill time without phones, internet, music, or TV?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

The Bachelor at its best is The Bachelor when it’s over

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

The Bachelor turns into a horror movie when you already know how it ends

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor is saying s-e-x and the o-word in primetime, oh boy

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor finally talks about money and race — kind of

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor producers have so much power, they’re strangling the romance

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor has a huge problem: everyone hates him

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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How The Bachelor became a battle between three supervillains

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

The Bachelor’s villain arc has reached its inevitable, frenzied peak

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor fantasy league, week three: the spin doctor is in

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

The Bachelor fantasy league, week 2: here are your villains

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The Bachelor fantasy league, episode 1: what exactly is a shark?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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The golden age of reality TV is already here

By Chris Plante
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Welcome to The Bachelor fantasy league: the only sport that matters

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Disney will launch Snapchat shows, beginning with a Bachelor spinoff

By Lizzie Plaugic
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Nick Viall is a disastrous choice for The Bachelor — here’s how ABC can fix that

By Chris Plante

Bachelor in Purgatory: the season three finale spectacular

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

Bachelor in Purgatory: a massacre in Paradise

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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Bachelor in Purgatory: season three, episode 4

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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Bachelor in Purgatory: season three, episode 3

By Kaitlyn Tiffany, Lizzie Plaugic, and 1 more

Bachelor in Purgatory: there are no rules in Paradise

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic
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Bachelor in Purgatory: season three, episode 1

By Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

Illustrated Bachelorette recap: why did this have to take three hours

By Dami Lee
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Illustrated Bachelorette recap: Robby loves JoJo, his dad said so

By Dami Lee
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Illustrated Bachelorette recap: hometown buffet

By Dami Lee
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Watch Kristen Wiig's hilariously sloppy impression of The Bachelorette's JoJo Fletcher

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Illustrated Bachelorette recap: the horse whisperer

By Dami Lee
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Illustrated Bachelorette recap: these are all of my boyfriends

By Dami Lee
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How The Bachelor became social media’s new favorite sporting event

By Chris Plante
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Illustrated Bachelorette recap: the Chad Voltron

By Dami Lee
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The right reasons: a list of Bachelorette contestants who are trying to break into showbiz

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Illustrated Bachelorette recap: this Chad is on fire

By Dami Lee
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