The Bachelor franchise has been working with great leads for the last several seasons, but the franchise should choose a villain to lead the next season to spice things up for viewers who are beginning to get bored. While The Bachelor and The Bachelorette typically choose leads who are viewer’s favorites in the franchise, the majority of leads in the last few years have become boring after moving from contestant to lead. Despite knowing that the leads on the series have to move away from their personalities in many ways, Bachelor Nation often roots for their favorites to become leads.

After The Bachelor season 28 plucked Joey Graziadei from Charity Lawson’s season, where he was a funny, vulnerable, spontaneous contestant, he became the lead of his season. While Joey was a great contestant on The Bachelorette, many found him boring as a Bachelor. This tends to happen throughout the franchise, even though many Bachelor Nation viewers push for their favorite contestants to move into the lead position every season. In earlier years of the series, the casting of the lead would be less about who Bachelor Nation liked and more about who was dynamic enough to hold down a season.

The Bachelor Often Chooses A Sweet Lead

They’re Looking For Someone To Root For

Each season of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, the show often casts its lead from the previous season of the opposite show in the franchise. Bachelors tend to be the sweetest man who couldn’t make the cut on The Bachelorette, while Bachelorettes tend to be the strongest woman who didn’t fit the bill on The Bachelor. Opting for leads who are softer and less polarizing in recent years, the Bachelor franchise has been hopeful they’ll be able to continue to cast less dynamic leads, as the production side of the series feels leads have to be more diplomatic than contestants.