Reality TV is Solvable

Solvable

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, News

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally.

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

Here are additional resources suggested by Lizzy and Chad, where you can learn more:

How To Win The Bachelor by Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Win-The-Bachelor/Chad-Kultgen/9781982172947

Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101985915

TV Show: Unreal

https://www.hulu.com/series/unreal-dcd85133-0465-410f-8792-aeb94ebd5755

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:15.4	This is Solvable.
0:17.6	I'm Ronald Young Jr.
0:19.4	Michelle and Young.
0:24.8	Will you marry me?
0:28.4	He hasn't.
0:33.5	That's Nate Olokoya, a contestant of ABC's Bachelorette, proposing to Michelle Young on national TV.
0:40.7	The Bachelorette, a spinoff to ABC's The Bachelor, is a competitive reality dating show where contestants vi for the love of the lead aptly titled The Bachelor or The Bachelorette.
0:51.6	With the start of 2022, The Bachelor premiered its 26th season. The franchise
0:56.7	has been a popular mainstay for ABC with average viewership reaching over 10 million in some seasons.
1:02.7	I love both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. I've watched for many seasons, and at times,
1:07.8	I've loved to hate both shows as well. Recently, I felt like the shows have fallen out of step with reality.
1:12.6	I mean, you have almost entirely white player pools.
1:16.6	There was a year where both leads and all of their players were all white.
1:22.6	Twenty years later, we finally get a Black Bachelor.
1:26.6	We still have never seen a Black woman win the ring, which is getting the final
1:31.0	rose.
1:32.0	There's still so much that needs to happen.
1:35.2	The past few seasons of the show have tried to address its blind spots with regards to race.
1:39.8	Out of a combined 44 seasons, there have been two black bachelorette and one black bachelor so far. But beyond
1:46.6	the lack of inclusivity, watching the show is difficult at times because its premise feels dishonest.
1:53.4	Everything you see on that screen is a choice made by producers. Everything from what's actually
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