[Warning: This article contains details of sexual assault.]

Out of necessity, last season’s Bachelor finale rejiggered the formula a bit, trading the happily-ever-afters for a heartrending event built around “the first uncut, unedited scene in reality TV history.” That scene? Bachelor Arie Luyendyk, Jr. breaking up with winner Becca Kufrin so he could get back with runner-up…

Well, he may have dumped his fiancee on national television, gotten universally scorned for the piss-poor way he went about it, and inadvertently revealed himself as a secret jerk hiding inside a nice guy shell, but at least The Bachelor’s Arie Luyendyk, Jr. won’t ever have to eat poorly prepared hotdish.

On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel continued his mischievously enthusiastic relationship with fellow ABC property The Bachelor, welcoming the freshly reunited couple of Arie Luyendyk and his for-real-this-time true love, Lauren Burnham. Kimmel, whose corporate-synergized interviews with participants in the…

Last night, sentient vape pen Arie Luyendyk Jr. pulled some regrettable shit (even by Bachelor standards) by choosing finalist Becca Kufrin over runner-up Lauren Burnham, then reneging on that decision a few weeks later by dumping Kufrin in agonizing fashion so he could win back Burnham. The breakup was bad enough,…

Once again, The Bachelor does its best to make us think the craziest shit you’ve ever seen in your life is about to go down. “The most dramatic conclusion in Bachelor history,” etc. etc. Instead, what we get is a more brutal, unsettling version of what happened during Jason Mesnick’s season. Much as he proposed to one…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, February 25. All times are Eastern. 

Drag Race comedy challenges rarely leave me begging for more, but “The Bitchelor” deserves to be a Burning Love-style series on WOW Presents Plus. This parody of The Bachelor assigns each drag queen a different dating show archetype and pairs them up to improvise scenes with Unreal’s Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, and I…

On The Bachelor, it’s very common for the women to give a tearful confessional straight to camera after being dismissed from the show. Less common? Learning one of the contestants is simultaneously still listed as a missing person on the California Department Of Justice website.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, January 1. All times are Eastern.

Few people who watch The Bachelor or The Bachelorette do so without some kind of game attached. Maybe it’s a drinking game—do shots when someone cries. Or perhaps it’s a brain buster—what purpose, exactly, does Chris Harrison serve? Or maybe it’s a good old-fashioned bet, with each viewer putting cash down on a…

Season 13 of The Bachelorette begins on Monday, and the bios of the latest batch of chiseled stud-bros just went live, meaning the entire A.V. Club staff had to take a moment to soak in these new contestants. They feature such charmers as Grant, 29, who says, “I like being the center of attention while appearing to…

Last week, ABC got a head start on its upfronts when it announced it was renewing all three of its big reality TV performers, including The Bachelor and Dancing With The Stars. And now that the alphabet network is in the limelight, it’s unveiled plans for spin-offs for both competition series.

Lest you think today’s glut of cancellations, renewals, and series pick-ups has caused ABC to lose track of those things that really matter—i.e., celebrity dancing, helicopter-based romance, and entrepreneurial success—the network also gave a bit of its renewal attention to its stable of reality shows tonight. …

As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, former Bachelor star Chris Soules was arrested today in Iowa after allegedly fleeing the scene of a deadly car crash. Soules was The Bachelor on season 19 of the show, where the Sun-Times story notes that he was “portrayed as a wholesome country boy.” The crash happened at some…

Caity PenzeyMoog: The Bachelor turns 15 this week. Alex McLevy and I—along with a glut of other A.V. Clubbers—recap the modern iteration of the show every season around the office’s proverbial watercooler (a LaCroix minifridge). So when we realized that the show has been on for 15 years this week, we wondered how much…

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.