I Choose Myself

Deepti Vempati was a contestant on season 2 of the Netflix series “Love is Blind”, a reality show in which contestants date sight unseen through a “pod”, get engaged, then have 30 days to see if they can make it in the real world before getting married. Her story took a dramatic turn when the…

How to Win the Bachelor

So what does it take to write a book on ‘The Bachelor’? The research process itself is daunting. The American version of the show spans double-digit seasons across multiple decades. So to research their subject the journalists undertook a process called the hyperbinge, watching all seasons over 72 days at 2x speed, documenting the strategies…

Choices

If you watched MTV in the middle aughts you likely remember Audrina Patridge, who co-starred in the series ‘The Hills’ which chronicled the dramatic early career of up-and-coming singles in Los Angeles. She played the part of the sidekick whose relationship status with off-again-on-again boyfriend Justin Bobby kept viewers hooked. What is the Purpose of…