Married at First Sight

Ok we like the voyeuristic salaciousness.We both wonder what is an expert? Expert what? Based on the current success rate, ie. married and still together it is dumpster diving. Major league players with these stats would traded off or relegated to the minor leagues. The main concern is some of the mental abuse that is tolerated by the "professionals." There should be a safety button, get out of jail free card, or other device to immediately terminate a marriage. Based on this I wonder if the "professionals " are more concerned about their stats then their clients. I also wonder how the producers fit into the picture. Remember this is entertainment as well as someone life. Perhaps the methodology used to select candidates needs to be re-examined. The current couple Dork and Mindy are painful to watch. The man in the relationship has more excuses, obfuscations and outright BS than you know who. I trust they have signed NDA's and other documents which hold the "professionals " and the producers harmless. If not I would be at my attorney's office as fast as one could say mental cruelty.

I started watching this after seeing a commercial for it and couldn't believe how ridiculous it sounded. It was like a train wreck I didn't want to see but was intrigued. Upon watching the first episode of the first season I thought maybe this could be interesting after all. But I soon realized it was anything but. I'd say I'd you're going to watch this then it may be worth watching the first season, but beyond that it's a waste of time.

Firstly, the success rate of this show is abysmal. Either the "experts" don't know what they're doing, or they're doing the best they can with the limited sample size, or both. I also feel like the show is really drawn out, which makes each subsequent episode more and more boring. But most importantly after 8 seasons and a 27% success rate means that this show has serious credibility issues. Clearly, whatever they are doing isn't working. If the success rate was higher, I'd actually be more open to the concept of this show. It's like the "experts" are determined to prove their "skill" instead of doing real science, which is to admit when something isn't working and revise the method.

This got pretty boring and drawn out. Not worth all that time.

This is a review for the second season of "Married at First Sight". There is another page for the first season.

"Married" is a self-described social experiment, as are most reality shows. You put some people in an unusual situation and you see how they react.

In this case, a team of relationship experts collected tons of data on 7,000 candidates, then picked three men and three women who they determined to be suited for marriage--to each other. The six "winners" of this process then were told they would be getting married in ten days. To someone they would first meet at the altar. Pretty bold of the candidates, but they felt unsuccessful in their prior efforts to find "the one" and decided to let social science take its best shot.

The process requires the couples to marry, go on a one-week honeymoon, and make arrangements for cohabitation. At the end of six weeks, they are given the option of staying married or getting divorced.

The budding relationships are under stress, of course, but some start out better than others. But for all three couples, its a roller-coaster of emotions.

People sometimes make fun of "The Bachelor" because the participants expect to find a mate after just weeks of interaction. The fact that those weeks in no way resemble reality, because they are wined, dined and swept away to exotic destinations for once-in-a-lifetime dates, makes that show seem even more unrealistic. The differences with "Married" are that a) scientific matching is done up front and b) you don't get weeks to learn about someone before marrying. There is no proposal.

The series produces some touching moments and some that are tough to watch. There are surprises. See if you can figure out which couple will be the first to kiss. Or who will first say "I love you." Or who will consummate the marriage first.

I just watched this as a marathon. I wanted to love it, kind of like Monet and Vaughn wanted to love each other, but some glaring issues remain:

My biggest gripe is that 1month is completely inadequate for an experiment such as this. I suggest at least 6 months to truly get to the depths of how two people adjust to an arranged marriage. I understand that there are other concerns when producing a TV show, but one month can't be taken seriously. It almost smells lazy in terms of production.

The show recycled sound bites way too much. It was awful listening to the same quotes every episode!

The matching process was hardly described- really vague. It made the first episode quite boring- which worked for me because I watched the wedding one first, so I was already hooked. But what would be educational about this show is to learn more about how they matched these couples.

Another suggestion: it might be beneficial to round out every episode with a therapy session for each couple. It's another chance to educate the audience on healthy ways to confront marital issues, and it might help redirect couples early on, thereby increasing their chances of staying together.