Most Dramatic Ever: The Bachelor

“A vivid and enthused collection of extended essays on the show … full of such offhand sparklers.” — New York Times“[Showler] studies the show using the tools of literary analysis, treating it as a text whose form provides meaning.” — The New Yorker“Essential to a better understanding of one of the most popular, longest-running shows of the past decade and a half.” — Globe and Mail“Most Dramatic Ever … contains fresh theories and excellent analysis of the show. It’s a very sophisticated reading of how the mashup between the dating show and the game show has reached its fruition on the Bachelor.” — LA Review of Books“Showler is incisive and witty about the show’s peculiar idiom — which relies on an alternation between intimate one-on-one disclosures and very public group dates … Showler is especially astute on the cultural moment of which the show is a distillation.” — Event Magazine

Suzannah Showler is the author of the poetry collections Thing Is and Failure to Thrive. She is a 2017–18 Presidential Fellow at The Ohio State University. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in places like Buzzfeed, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Walrus, and Hazlitt.

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