Why We (Still) Watch ‘The Bachelor’ w/ Ilana Masad & Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais
Love to See It with Emma and Claire
Claire Fallon, Emma Gray
4.3 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, we go deep with Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais on their new anthology: “Here For All The Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor.” It’s a book of essays about our first – and truest – love, “The Bachelor” franchise, and (surprise!) we even wrote an essay in it. We had such a fun time chatting with Ilana and Stevie about how this book came to be, where their relationship with the franchise began, why we continue to stick with “The Bachelor” when there are a million reasons we shouldn’t, and what they want to see from the future of the franchise.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Thanks, I don't need help |
| 0:07.0 | Just watch me love myself |
| 0:11.0 | That's all I want, got what I want, |
| 0:15.0 | That's all I want, I'm not sorry |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Claire Fallon. |
| 0:21.6 | And I'm Emma Gray. |
| 0:23.6 | And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed podcast about the romance we see on screen, |
| 0:28.6 | from reality dating shows like The Bachelor to classic rom-coms and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy. |
| 0:44.0 | We can't live with these stories and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy detail and unpack all the weird messages on-screen romance sends us about love, sex, and dating. |
| 0:52.1 | Stop, drop, roll. |
| 0:54.0 | Love it, fire. Can you keep up? sex and dating. |
| 1:06.1 | Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about returning to our first and greatest love. |
| 1:28.5 | Obviously, Claire is referring to the Bachelor franchise. If you've been with us for a while, you probably know that. Yeah, remember that. Remember that franchise? Today, we're chatting with Alana Mossad and Stevie K. Stebert Desjard about their new essay collection here for all the reasons why we watch The Bachelor. We happen to have written one of the essays. There are also many other fascinating essays from all sorts of different perspectives in this anthology. So |
| 1:34.3 | Alana and Stevie, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Thank you so much for having us. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh my gosh. We're so excited to have this conversation. Before we get into all of our burning questions for the two of you |
| 1:46.1 | and more on this book, just a little housekeeping. If anyone missed our latest news and gossip episodes, |
| 1:53.3 | our recaps of Temptation Island 2, or our deep dive on the summerhouse scandal, you can just |
| 1:58.7 | scroll back and your love to see it feed. We also, of course, |
| 2:02.4 | recently moved our newsletter, rich text over to Patreon. And our most recent episode was about |
| 2:08.7 | Summer House in the Valley. And we have another episode coming soon about the devilware's |
| 2:14.2 | Prada too, which we have both seen. So you can find those conversations and more |
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