The Bachelorette is a utopian oasis in a dystopian world

It is an inescapable fact that a lot of people claim to be interested in the higher arts, serious political issues and the serious conflicts facing their nation and this planet . Then they settle in to enjoy The Bachelorette .

Now I confess that I am not a connoisseur of the franchise. I watched the Canadian iteration and it was barely watchable. It was also funded by taxpayers: "Produced with the participation of Canada" appeared in the closing credits. And I was not at all surprised to discover, by doing research in this column, that Jasmine of The Bachelorette Canada and her chosen husband, Kevin, were separated from her. 39, last year

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It's quite trashy, of course. Usually, I receive my updates from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette by Jimmy Kimmel, who makes a brief summary of the antics every week. This is a useful service that he performs. This week, notice, I was brought to pay attention to The Bachelorette (Monday, ABC, City-TV) because the day of the famous disaster of the Helsinki Summit, I I noticed that this problem disappeared online. turned to the acts of Becca Kufrin

The Bachelorette remains a utopia in a dystopian world. I do not blame anyone for the pleasure of savoring it – the real one, that is, not the fragile Canadian version. Honestly, if you look only The Tale of the Servant or Sharp Objects or Westworld you will begin to feel infected by the very unease that these dramas inhabit [19659009TheBachelorette is a happy place. It is by no means a useful guide to the American political situation, an explanation of this anti-truth era or a manual for understanding climate change. The odds of the Monday night episode were very high in the United States, and the show easily outperformed the competition of the American Ninja Warrior of NBC, no matter what. she is. No wonder he has stellar notes. Monday was the day it seemed that President Donald Trump was in the pocket of the President of Russia.

Everyone on The Bachelorette is on a different journey. That's all they talk about: "The trip". One might think that it is Homer's Odyssey that takes place here. But no. Becca visited the families of the remaining four suitors, giving everyone the impression that they might have a chance to claim her affection.

It was completely and completely ridiculous. Becca loves this guy from Blake; this guy from Jason is a competitor, but she chains him up; that Garrett is doubtful and will be thrown away; and Colton, the virgin, was inevitably sent home because, well, the virginal thing is just weird. There was a show-side drama about someone who called Tia and who had a crush on Colton and it was even weirder. Yet, not as disconcerting as the consideration of the gloomy possibility that the President of the United States is a pawn of the sneering Russian President

The Bachelorette exists in a nice little corner of the vast chaotic canvas that is our reality. Becca welcomed all of his last four contenders by jumping in the air and straddling their waist. Who do this? Who chained people and smiled at bbad remarks? Becca Does

The reasons for the enduring and sometimes dazzling popularity – last Monday being an example of soaring – of the series are not nuanced and contradictory. It is the escape when there is the need for escape. It allows busy adults, who have little time to chat or speculate on the romantic entanglements of friends and family, the opportunity to indulge in this vicarious vice by proxy. Everyone should know better, but they do not care.

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And then there is Becca's narrative. If you're new to this tangled tale, Kufrin was a competitor on a previous season of The Bachelor . She was in the last three. The next thing, his ex-boyfriend arrived in Peru, where the events unfolded in a kind of magical realism world, and offered him. Becca refused, putting her faith in Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr., as the romantic dope that she is. Then Luyendyk chose her as the winner and she accepted her proposal. But, wait, Luyendyk turned her over and chose Lauren Burnham instead! That was, they say, majestic in his raw melodrama.

Now, Becca does the dipsy-doodling, putting on the guys and the magnet. It's a tiny dye of justice in a mean and mean world. Helsinki is damned, it is paradise for many viewers. This is a must.