Most Dramatic Ever

- Explores hot-button discussion points, including sex, the show's problem with race, and feminism.

- Bachelor Nation (the show's fandom) is as strong as ever with 6.56 million viewers of the most recent season premiere of The Bachelor, and 5.68 million viewers of the most recent premiere of The Bachelorette. Bachelor viewing parties have swept the nation, making viewership difficult to capture.

- The official Twitter accounts for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise boast a combined 1.5 million followers, and #bachelornation has made over 2 million impressions.

- Suzannah Showler's essays and cultural criticism have appeared places like Buzzfeed and Slate, and she has 1.2K Twitter followers.

- At Winter Institute, independent booksellers in the U.S. expressed enthusiasm about ECW's Pop Classics series, especially its aesthetics for display in their stores.

High-profile fans of The Bachelor franchise include Roxane Gay, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Kendrick, Ellen DeGeneres, Emma Straub, and Jennifer Weiner.