Two of this summer’s hottest TV shows are all about fairytale romances. One,
The Bachelorette , is wholeheartedly selling it. The other,
UnREAL , is lampooning it. But the two series have another surprising connection. UnREAL ‘s creator
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro worked on
The Bachelor and
The Bachelorette for nine seasons before going on to create the Lifetime drama. It’s like peeking behind the scenes at the inner-workings of a reality dating series, but also getting a reality dating series, thanks to the show-within-a-show,
