Bachelor in Paradise

First of all, yes, this show is a silly show that is not anything serious and is really for only an audience that watches The Bachelor/Bachelorette series. The show didn't need any changes. It's for a small audience and it is a guilty pleasure.

But someone at Disney thought it needed a big budget and needed to be shot at a resort instead of the original beach.

How did ABC / Disney / Hulu manage to take a charming, somewhat tacky, funny yet unserious little show, shot on a real beach with not too many cameras and not overproduced, and turn it into another version of Love Island, but much worse? No one who loves the OG Bachelor in Paradise show is asking for this. This 2025 season, it is not being filmed on the beach in Mexico where are all the other BIP seasons were shot. Instead, it is being filmed in a fancy resort where they all hang out by a pool.

The over-the-top music and ridiculously over-sexualized intros in episode one were awful. The silly BIP theme is gone, along with those goofy intros that showed our reality TV stars laughing at themselves. And what happened to the playfulness on the beach, and the funny titles under everyone's names? We aren't looking for F Boi Island or Love Island where they pose and prance like influencers, and hang out by a boring pool, and play Love Island type games, we just want our old show back. They had immediate access to a beach on the OG Bachelor in Paradise and they spent most of their time on that beach. They had real bugs and they had crabs that would invade their rooms, and they got sweaty out there on the beach and their makeup ran and it was all very real, and that's how people meet. If you still want to get to know someone while they're sweating because there's no air conditioning and screaming about crabs, then it may be true love. We need the ORIGINAL tiki bar with Wells, we need everything like it originally was.

Until the producers change things, I have watched my last episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Yes, it's just a silly little show that truly was nothing more than a guilty pleasure, but I enjoyed it more than I did The Bachelor or The Bachelorette because at least we could laugh! The peak was probably when they had David Spade as a guest host. It was never meant to be some overproduced Disney mess.

TL;DR: The producers somehow managed to take a charming, tacky, funny little show and turn it into just another reality TV love genre filmed at a generic Love Island type resort.

OMG. Another fav. Thank you for Demi (Summer 2019) and the alternative storyline. We love you gurl. xoxo MUAH!

This show would be less depressing if it was about animals in heat on some critter ranch in Hawaii. Savage beasts born without any moral values, ignorant of human virtues, just looking to hook up with anything, man or woman, and hoping that a big bank account will be part of the reward.

It would be nice if these shows would include important social life statistics, such as how many of these characters have STDs before the show? How many of these characters have them after they are on the show? What is the cost of pennicillin during filming? Same thing for frequent flyer cards at the Planned Parenthood Clinic. The tenth one is free.

A Painfully Overproduced Season That Misses the Mark

This season of Bachelor in Paradise is, unfortunately, a textbook example of how overproduction can strip a show of the very qualities that made it engaging in the first place. Instead of focusing on genuine connections and the natural drama that emerges when contestants are left to navigate romance under pressure, the producers have burdened the season with poorly conceived "tasks" and contrived challenges.

What's most frustrating is not just the lack of authenticity, but the disproportionate amount of screen time and money spent on these empty exercises. The pacing drags, the manufactured moments feel excruciatingly forced, and the overall effect is that the heart of the series-love, vulnerability, and messy but entertaining drama-gets lost in the shuffle.

Rather than feeling like a fun, chaotic beach escape where sparks fly and personalities clash, this season feels like a parody of itself, awkwardly stitched together with production gimmicks. It is both exhausting to watch and disappointing to longtime fans who tuned in for unscripted moments of humor, heartbreak, and connection.

If Bachelor in Paradise wants to recapture its charm, it needs to stop overengineering the experience and return to what the audience craves: real people, real emotions, and real stakes-not an overbudget spectacle that forgets its own purpose.

This is not the traditional Bachelor or Bachelorette. The cast is not meant to be pure as a driven snow or poised, Etc (but who is anyway?). It seems some reviews, I glanced at, rank and criticize Love In Paradise according to their own moral code. But you have to admit that the producers came up with a great idea, they understood some of the appeal which draws people to watch the original program to begin with. It's exciting, with twists and turns, feel good moments, meltdowns, it has it all. This is popcorn television, based on entertainment. Although I have not watched all the seasons yet, I like what I see. Improvements? ... include Chris Harrison more, make the dates more challenging/over the top, like the original Bachelor/ette. It increases the potential for conflict. I want cringe-worthy matchups. Let the (love) games begin!