In 2019, our whole selves are made up of small acts of planning. It’s only natural that I want to see the mechanism of the planning. This is what we’re not supposed to see, right? Is this footage proof that what happened was unplanned, or is it part of the planning? The camera movements are shaky everything in this moment has an urgency that comes from these visual nods to the impromptu. There’s a sense of horrifying possibility that these women might do absolutely anything. There’s a practical brunette and a vampish blonde and they’re both laughing and crying. The image my mind keeps returning to is the reunion of the two rejected bachelorettes, the juicy glitch in reality television’s smooth veneer as they figure out what’s happened.
This television moment was like peeking behind a curtain, even while knowing that all I would ever see was another curtain: surely, the Honey Badger’s uncertainty and commitment-phobia was not real, and he was not allowed such consequential agency at this late stage of the game? Surely the network had planned and staged this awkward impasse to give us a little shock after years of insipid Cinderella finales? Last year on Australia’s The Bachelor, the Bachelor, known primarily as ‘the Honey Badger’-one of those private-schoolboy-faux-bogan types, if that explains anything at all about the naming situation-did not choose a bachelorette.
0 kommentar(er)
