The Golden Bachelor Recap: Are We There Yet?

The recent hometown dates on The Golden Bachelor felt incredibly repetitive. This season’s choice of Mel as the Bachelor, combined with the surprisingly short length of these episodes, is a problem. It seems ABC prioritized getting Shark Tank on air at a certain time. While it’s unclear if longer episodes would have improved things, we definitely could have used more scenes of Cindy’s daughters playfully (but firmly!) getting to know Mel. Mel mentioning his podcast comments during the Rose Ceremony made it obvious he’d asked producers if he could potentially elope with one of them – they’re around the same age as his former wife, but thankfully, production shut down that idea.







