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I'm a reality show addict, like most girls... I'm not even sure why that is.... its all so cringey. The show is so cringey, but I'll watch it!! I'm not sure how real this show is, but it's kinda ridiculous. When you first meet a "date", everyone puts on a front. Guys act like they care about your feelings and girls act like they're willing to cook, clean, and rear the children at the same time freaky in the sheets. EVERYONE does this, but nobody seems to remember 2 years later in their relationships.. Its funny how these people go into this show 'believing' one thing, but as soon as they meet someone else they're attracted to, their 'beliefs' suddenly change. So comparing someone you're with for 2 years to someone you first meet is just absurd in thinking they're 'different'.. YOUR PARTNER ONCE DID THIS TOO!! Are these people naive af?! Looking for their 15 min (Alexis and Hunter obviously)?! Who knows? But I'll keep watching!

This show is literally horrific and these people are remarkably shallow and stupid but for some reason I cannot stop watching. Also what the F is this whole concept? So toxic and cringe even if it's scripted there were some scenes that was hard to watch but then I remembered those people stirred the sh*t for themselves so then I was ok again.

..even for reality show standards. Love is Blind has a ridiculous premise, but seems mostly real, aside from the expected reality tv editing and staging. This is very hard to believe any of, to me. These people are being put in a situation (let's watch my partner (who I want to marry) date and potentially "fall in love" with & leave me for someone else whilst in the same room as me) that would trigger primal feelings of stress, jealousy and misery in the vast majority of people. But these people are all as flat as can be. It just doesn't look like real human behaviour. Entertaining but less so because of the seeming fakeness.

As a woman who doesn't want to have kids, it was pretty offensive to watch a woman who's main boundary was to not have children (she said she doesn't feel comfortable around them!) have her FIRST conversation with a man be plowed over and ultimately be asked to overcome it, as if it's a fault, and despite not fully understanding where she's coming from. He was eager for her to admit it was about pregnancy affecting her body, rather than the lifelong consequences of raising a human being that she's not comfortable with. Then for her to actually acquiesce to it like it's not even that important of a concern, is absolutely mind blowing and reinforcing of the persistent sexist mindset that still exists. So much for women representing the rest of us, not that I should have expected it from such a shallow show.

Five couples swap partners for 3 weeks essentially living as married couples while doing so. Without the sexual activity for the most part, though some couples do get tactilely intimate.

Obviously this disrupts the various relationships and the outcome is pretty predictable. I wouldn't necessarily call it toxic since all it is doing is exposing the nature of human interaction on a very personal level. True, some people consider this a societal low, but realistically its really only exposing human nature in a very blatant manner, stripping away the the underpinnings of intimate relationships for all to see.

Actually I think it's quite a healthy way to explore the realities of serious romantic partnerships; especially since so much of what constitutes healthy pair bonding is really undisclosed misinformation with honesty and truth buried under pretence, façade and fluff.

Having said this, I'm not sure it's for everyone. If you don't want to colour your notions of love and romance, or explore the reality of what exists under the covers of perceived romance, then give this a miss. Even though it isn't uncouth, dirty or 'for the most part' tasteless, it is pretty raw in places with notions of love and compatibility unearthed for the reality of complexity that actually exists between the various couples.

I liked it, no real surprises, and exactly what you'd expect from a modern reality series. In fact given what's on offer, its actually a pretty good production.

These people have no respect or empathy for anyone, not even their supposedly long term partners. This is not the sort of behaviour society should encourage.

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (2022- ) is a show my wife and I watched together on Netflix (Season 1). The storyline follows a group of couples where an individual in the relationship has decided that their partner needs to marry them or move on. To help in this process they decide to go on this show and meet other couples in the same situation and date each other to see if that helps with next steps to stay together or move on...

As a season one of any reality television series you can tell there were some lessons learned from the team that created the show. It started right off in episode 2 when several couples panicked and immediately proposed when they were scared their partner would date someone else and no one wanted them. The series did handle it well but it drastically reduced the scope of the show.

Another lesson was hopefully learned when they look back will be how they handle serious societal issues. There was a physical altercation they didn't cover well. There was also a character that was pregnant in the final episode so they didn't showcase her evolution and challenges in the show (likely due to her condition, but it felt strange they didn't cover her rollercoaster journey in the final episode).

However, overall it was an entertaining and unique series that was worth a viewing if you enjoy dating/matchmaking type show. I would score this a 7.5/10 and recommend giving it a shot.

Boy howdy. It would be easy to give this show a 1/10 if you rate it on the people in the show alone, because nearly ALL of these cry baby lunatics are truly deplorable. But if you watch it with the intention of exploring the completely malformed psyches of the 20 somethings that are walking the streets today then you won't find a better show. I wanted to hate this show, I wanted to not be able to bear a second of the vapid, insipid pseudo intellectual musings of self absorbed morons, but then something brilliant happened. I found myself drawn in and watching with the same mode that I would a Ben Stiller cringe comedy, the likes of "Meet the Parents" or "Something about Mary." It's a feast of watching selfish self absorbed people with virtually zero self awareness try to convince themselves that they are ready for a lifetime commitment to each other. It's a hysterical, laugh a minute slow motion train wreck. And the fact that some of these morons think that they're ready for the responsibility hey of having children makes this feel like this show is teetering on tragedy. Don't get me wrong, there are three kids who don't complete suck, in particular a guy named Randall. With some more experience and maturity under his belt he will make a fine addition to the real world, but he is the only one that can even remotely articulate how he actually feels, what he wants and his rationale behind his beliefs. But watching him to to relate to a bunch of immature spoiled cry babies makes the shows cringe factor reach all new heights of hilarity. ALL and I mean ALL of these people NEED and would be better served with intense therapy than wasting nearly two whole months on a reality tv show is evident. How these people function and are able to hold down employment of any kind is incomprehensible. But enough. Watch it and enjoy how your life can't be anymore messed up than These peoples.

I'm on episode 4 and I can't believe I got that far. How desperate are people going to get to be on TV?!

How desperate am I to watch a good reality TV show to watch 3.5 episodes of this crap?!?! Shame on me-I blame myself for contributing to it.

Also, how annoying is Vanessa Lachey???...good god, I can't stand her!

I feel like the show producers should pick better couples. Clearly people are out for fame, leaving early, and not willing to go through the process completely. The show is not relatable and completely fake. Not worth our time. I didn't even get past episode 3. I had reservations at the beginning once I realized a lot of the couples seemed fake, but I watched until episode 3 when two couples abruptly left the experiment. I think this is ridiculous and a huge waste of time for audiences. I also realized that similar reality "love" shows also have couples leaving early and I think the producers need to have better screening or have higher consequences for leaving early. What a shame.

They are not even real couples, very lame reality, totally staged... Who think this is real is blind, i checked all their instagram and there is no poctures before the show...

This show is wild, I don't even watch reality tv but this concept is so insane to me that people would put this stuff out their. I have to say its hard to stop watching though, and seeing how people play games. But damnn their pupils are huge especially at the table (end of ep 2-start of 3) very interesting.

I'm 5 episodes in and this show is absolutely terrible. I'm convinced that the couples who agreed to go on this show are only in it for the money and don't actually care about each other to begin with. The entirety of the show takes place in ONE week. Yes, these couples are risking their relationships (some 2 to 3 years in) to date numerous people for one week and decide if a stranger they just met on a reality show could be "the one". The premise of this show is terrible and this is something you'd expect to see on a failed idea board for MTV. I'm going to finish the remaining episodes so I can update my review, but I literally feel like I've lost IQ points watching this. I believe the ideal target audience for this show are high school girls.

Just another toxic dating reality show, glad I don't watch these type of shows often, I can feel my brain melting. These people need therapy, not a reality show. Poor things. I do hope they all get the help they need.

I enjoyed the fact that this show had a premise, unlike most reality television that centers around the personalities themselves. These couples seem to all make an odd choice by adding a television show to their problematic relationships, but soon progress to realize if they love or not with The Ultimatum.

It's a casual weekend watch with a friend type of vibe, and I dig it.

The premise... put 12 of the most self absorbed, 20 something year old headcases in a bottle and shake it up. That's it. That's the show. Sadly, I watched one episode and I'll never get that time back. If you are DYING to know which of these headcases stay together just wait until the reunion episode and save the time. It's really that brutal. After watching a few minutes of this you'll realize why this generation of kids is so messed up.

The show is cringy at time not believable, I know these shows are scripted but the rules and the layout of 3 living together and 3 weeks coming back together while the same time being involved with the other couples is messy and strange.

I'm 7 episodes in and I can't believe I'm still watching this, there is constant negativity and fights to the point that it becomes too much and just becomes unsettling to watch. I don't know how anyone would want to display their relationship problems like this, I mean if you want to get on TV so bad , there's other ways to do it than to embarrass yourself and your spouse on tv. There's only 2 almost sane people on this entire show...

If you want to waste hours of your life watching a handful of 20 somethings fall apart at a snails pace, by all means check this out. Otherwise just wait for the (inevitable) trainwreck reunion episode.