Let’s start with the name: Farmer Wants a Wife. The Bachelor-style Fox reality competition that ended just a few weeks ago is not technically about farmers or their particular wants.
The premise of the series — landing auspiciously amid our heated national debate over the growing urban-rural divide, family formation, declining birthrates, and "what it means to be a man today" — is that a group of 32 “city” women has tired of the hustle and bustle of modernity. They thus divide themselves among and compete for the affection of four “farmers” looking for a good woman to start a family with on the lonesome frontier, or what passes for it in 2023.
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