mardi 10 janvier 2017
The Twins From The Bachelor Are Getting Their Own Spinoff, and We Have Feelings
The Bachelor's Las Vegas-dwelling "professional twins" Haley and Emily Ferguson have achieved the ultimate goal in the world of reality TV: they got a spinoff. Premiering on Freeform on March 20, The Twins: Happily Ever After is following in the footsteps of Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell's similarly titled spinoff. As a brief history lesson, they first appeared on Ben's season, he said goodbye to Haley fairly early on, and pursued a relationship with Haley. When that didn't work out, the twins packed their bags and went to Bachelor in Paradise. By week five, they weren't finding love and chose to leave. While the new show won't focus on their quest to find romance, it will show them living at home (with their mom) in Vegas and striving for success in the entertainment industry.
As a longtime Bachelor fan, I have mixed feelings about this. The flagship show is ridiculous enough, then came televised weddings, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, and After Paradise. While I choose not to watch Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After, I get why it exists. They're in a relationship and it's actually interesting to see how this romances play out after the whirlwind of the show. But giving contestants their own spinoff - twins or not - feels like a stretch. I realize my argument is futile, and that spinoffs have produced some of the best TV out there (hell, Frasier was a spinoff), but do we need this on already crowded reality TV landscape?
Let's pretend that we do have room in our lives for another Bachelor spinoff. The best part of these shows is the way the contestants interact with each other. They form relationships, develop enemies, and go out on dates that supply ever-changing dynamics. Sure, Freeform will get some familiar faces to show up on The Twins, but it won't be the same. A quick appearance from Chad does not a good series make, especially when the show gimmick of the show is as simple as: twins! If this were the case, they would have given Nick a spinoff instead of putting him at the helm of The Bachelor.
I do hope the show is successful and that Emily and Haley find happiness - I would would just be more prone to watch a spinoff if it had several Bachelor contestants living in a house Real World-style, working and dating. Are you listening, ABC? Please give us that.
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