The Bachelor: My Guilty Pleasure

So here it is...the inevitable post about my favorite "reality" show: The Bachelor.  Let's be honest, we all have our guilty pleasure show.  Whether it's Wife Swap or Real World/Road Rules Challenge,  we all have that one show that we hate to admit we love to watch.  I've been a Bachelor fan since season one oh so many years ago (I belive this is currently season 14 or something).  And while I prefer watching the endless parade of ridiculous man-candy on The Bachelorette over the catty, back-stabbing drama queens on The Bachelor, I don't discriminate.  I watched Trista and Ryan meet and make Bachelor history with their marriage; I watched Brad dump not only one but both of his final girls; I watched Jillian be completely manipulated by the country-singing dog Wes; and now, for the past however many weeks, I have watched pretty dull but nice guy Jake be fought over by many trashy, annoying and downright crazy women.  It's like a car accident--I just can't look away.

Next week is the finale, where Jake will choose between the beady-eyed, hated-by-everyone Vienna, and Tenley, the girl who is so sweet it's like she fell out of a Disney movie as one of the girls put it.  As is tradition with the episode before the finale, last night was "The Women Tell All" special, where all the women Jake dumped get to come back, talk about how devastated they are and trash on each other.  Quality television if you ask me.  For you non-Bachelor watchers, the scandal of the season was Rozlyn, who was kicked off the show for sleeping with one of the producers while she was chasing after Jake with the rest of the girls.  Classy.  Rozlyn was in attendance and continued to deny that anything happened with the producer, even though multiple girls confirmed that they saw them together and the producer himself confessed and was subsequently fired.  Yes Rozlyn, we totally believe that everyone is lying except you.  Because that makes perfect sense.  She then continued to make herself look even worse when she accused the lovable host Chris Harrison of hitting on said producer's wife sometime back.  Again, classy.

Also in attendance was Ali, the girl who had to choose between keeping her job and staying on the show, ultimately choosing to keep her job.  I'm sorry, I know Ali was at times bitchy and whiney, but at least she has some sense.  Having a career and being able to pay my bills or unemployment and a 25% chance of getting the final rose?  I'm with Ali on this one...although I'm willing to bet she'll "choose love" when they inevitably offer her the chance to be the next bachelorette.  Which we all know is coming. 

After various other (crazy and trashy) women got their chance to talk, the man of the hour finally came on stage.  When Harrison asked Jake if he's happy, he delivered a less than enthusiastic "yes," leaving viewers to ponder the hidden meaning behind his emotionless response.  And so ends the two hour segment, with an actually pretty funny gag reel and a look ahead at next week's oh-so dramatic finale.  We're nearly at the finish line. 

So who do you think Jake chooses?  Will it be public enemy #1 Vienna or sickly-sweet Tenley?  My money is on Vienna unfortunately.  And what did you think about the "reunions" with previous Bachelor and Bachelorette losers contestants?  This show just gets better and better.