Golden Bachelor (How about The Amazing Race?) (12 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

I can't believe y'all aren't talking about this show. I'm very curious what the public perception is going to be about all these over-60 ladies. Being one myself (well, not quite yet 60), I sure am. So far, they sure have down that horrible "I have to make a good first impression" moment that is so cringey.

 

[superchuck500]

This is a “The Bachelor”-free zone.

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

It should be called the widower.

 

[SWJJ]

This is a “The Bachelor”-free zone.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

There a couple of women in my life who are very invested in this new show/concept.. I heard about it a while back, and i figured it would be someone in the late 40s/early 50s age range.. but then i heard the guy is 72.. they skipped right from milinneals to Baby Boomers, giving us Gen Xers the shaft again ! I dont actually care, but i am genuinely surprised that they went from one extreme to the other like that .

 

[SWJJ]

There a couple of women in my life who are very invested in this new show/concept.. I heard about it a while back, and i figured it would be someone in the late 40s/early 50s age range.. but then i heard the guy is 72.. they skipped right from milinneals to Baby Boomers, giving us Gen Xers the shaft again ! I dont actually care, but i am genuinely surprised that they went from one extreme to the other like that .

they figured out who is watching (and not watching) this crap

 

[Optimus Prime]

my girlfriend is interested (she doesn't watch the bachelor) she's also curious about how the women will act

Will it be just as birchy and dramatic as the younger women just 60 and 70 year olds, or a much more mature version of that, or a drier, almost British level of calm yet cutting remarks?

 

[Optimus Prime]

MALIBU, Calif. — Gerry Turner slipped on his tuxedo and hearing aids, then went out to meet the next love of his life.

Nancy, a 61-year-old interior designer, showed off her hearing aids: “I, too, wear a little ear candy.”


An elderly woman inched across the driveway using a walker. “Do you need help?” Gerry asked. Leslie tossed the walker, tearaway nightgown and gray wig to reveal a strapless mini dress: “Do I look like I need help?” teased the 64-year-old fitness instructor.

And Faith roared up on a motorcycle. “I’m proof you can live fast and not die young,” said the 61-year-old high school teacher. “If you leave here with me, it will be the ride of your life.”


And so began “The Golden Bachelor”: 22 women — ranging from 60 to 75 years old — vying for the love of the 72-year-old widower. ABC’s wildly popular dating franchise is having a senior moment, in the best sense of the term.

Gerry is tall, handsome and successful, which means that in real life he could be dating people three decades younger, but here the love interests are age-appropriate. TV shows centered on older women do pop up — “Grace and Frankie,” “And Just Like That …” — but can anyone remember one on a major network since

“The Golden Girls” debuted 38 years ago? (Back then, the show’s idea of “older” was women in their 50s, which three of the four main characters were.)……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2023/09/28/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-abc-premiere/

 

[town123]

Biggest difference for me was the look of utter despair and disappointment on the older ladies faces when they didn't receive a rose. Regular show first night losers usually look more pissed than suicidal.

And good start to the Amazing Race.

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

https://saintsreport.com/threads/you-have-to-with-one-and-only-one-70-year-old-who-you-got.435735/

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

MALIBU, Calif. — Gerry Turner slipped on his tuxedo and hearing aids, then went out to meet the next love of his life.

Nancy, a 61-year-old interior designer, showed off her hearing aids: “I, too, wear a little ear candy.”


An elderly woman inched across the driveway using a walker. “Do you need help?” Gerry asked. Leslie tossed the walker, tearaway nightgown and gray wig to reveal a strapless mini dress: “Do I look like I need help?” teased the 64-year-old fitness instructor.

And Faith roared up on a motorcycle. “I’m proof you can live fast and not die young,” said the 61-year-old high school teacher. “If you leave here with me, it will be the ride of your life.”


And so began “The Golden Bachelor”: 22 women — ranging from 60 to 75 years old — vying for the love of the 72-year-old widower. ABC’s wildly popular dating franchise is having a senior moment, in the best sense of the term.

Gerry is tall, handsome and successful, which means that in real life he could be dating people three decades younger, but here the love interests are age-appropriate. TV shows centered on older women do pop up — “Grace and Frankie,” “And Just Like That …” — but can anyone remember one on a major network since

“The Golden Girls” debuted 38 years ago? (Back then, the show’s idea of “older” was women in their 50s, which three of the four main characters were.)……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2023/09/28/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-abc-premiere/

That’s the irony of these shows/ideas
‘Let’s make a show showing older people being confident as long as they do so by pretending to be young’

It’s like the body positivity ads that have the hidden message of ‘even though you’re big, you can join as an ancillary to our group and long as display being pretty is very important’

 

[Madmarsha]

Wow, that just blew my mind.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Wow, that just blew my mind.

Mission Accomplished .

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I couple of the women in my orbit have made overtures about watching the show but instead reverted to online searches of the cast. Interest seems to have waned.