Bad reality television shows are horrible and awful; yet, their ability to entertain, in some weird way, makes them good television.

One of these shows happens to be the popular dating reality show, “The Bachelor.” On this series, a man is wooed by 20 and 30 women who he eventually gets to choose the one lucky lady who could possibly end up being his future spouse.

The bachelor chooses women to go on both group dates and one-on-one dates. At the end of every episode is the infamous rose ceremony. If a woman receives a rose from the bachelor, she is allowed to stay. No rose and the woman must leave the show. Unbelievably, the show has been on for nineteen seasons and has even started spin-offs including “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise.”

“The Bachelor” has not maintained the best reputation when it comes to relationships. In the past 18 seasons, only one couple has managed to get married and actually stay together. This season’s new man who has attracted much attention is Chris Soules, also known as “Farmer Chris.” Soules is originally from Iowa and claims to be “looking for the love of his life” on the show.

In more ways than one, this show is ridiculous.

First off, this man is allowed to kiss all these women whenever he wants. Farmer Chris, for example, kissed a girl his first night meeting her! In my opinion, the show then becomes something based completely on physical attraction and not on finding the love of one’s life.

The women, objectified and seen as battling shrews compete against each other. The way to the man’s heart and to stay on the show is how they kiss him, not their personality, intelligence, or compatibility with Soules.

I think the bachelor should not be allowed to have any sort of physical relationship with the women he dates on the show until there are only a certain number of the women left. Maybe then, he will get to know them and be attracted by who they are and not what they are.

“The Bachelor”‘ can be extremely difficult to watch. The girls bring too much petty drama into the show. Whatever happened to sisterhood and conversation? Why would these women subject themselves to pettiness and jealousy? Also, this season, Farmer Chris is kissing anyone so it makes the viewers frustrated in that he is in the show to meet a woman to spend the rest of his life with or just someone to have a good time with?

Yet, watching “The Bachelor” is like the rest of bad reality television shows: exceedingly entertaining and hopelessly addictive.  Each week, I am drawn in. How could I possibly stop watching this season?  I want to see a relationship evolve. I want to believe in the happily ever after.

Viewers, like me, would get so much more satisfaction out of the show in knowing that the bachelor is on the show for the right reasons: to find a soul-mate. We too, hope to get to know the women on the show and root for the one we feel is destined to be with Farmer Chris.

This television show, for many of us, might be a reality show in label, but, for some of us, it is a fairy-tale come true or possibly one that has gone horrendously wrong.