I’m going to write about this as a bunch instead of each season.
Let me start with the fact that I’m fascinated with arranged marriages. I’m open to the idea. Please send me biodata of eligible bachelors or the info of a professional-auntie who’d love to pair me. I haven’t blogged about it yet, but during the pandemic, I binged Indian Matchmaker, The Big Day, Indian and Orthodox Jewish wedding highlights video on YouTube and watched the films Arranged, Unorthodox, and of course, Monsoon Wedding (one of my favorite movies). I’m into it, y’all.
Anyway, I don’t remember where in my arranged marriage craze I began to watch Married at First Sight, but I think I found it on Hoopla first. I started with season 9. Hooked. Loved the concept, the couples (the good ones) and was somewhat into the trash and trainwrecks. I think I found season 10 on Pluto (Ugh, commercials!). Then after Hulu was introduced into my world, I binged seasons 1-8 and 11. Finally, last month, March 2022, season 12 was released on Hulu and I ate it up.
From what I hear, seasons 13 and beyond are just too trashy-trainwrecky and that’s not what I like about MAFS. I like to see the couples work and work issues out. I also really enjoy the reunion and Couples Cam episodes.
Over 12 seasons, I got good at knowing when to fast forward and what to fast forward through. After season 2, I realized I could fast forward until I saw the stick figures hold hands, which is usually about three minutes of recap and a preview. After watching five seasons, I started skipping the matchmaking episodes: I only want to get to know who actually got matched. I skipped a couple of the wedding prep episodes because they were uninteresting, but I started watching those again in seasons 11 and 12. Season 12 had the best wedding dress: Hayley’s gown was gorgeous. I usually did housework during the honeymoon episodes because its so drawn out, especially season 12. I was disturbed by the production decision to continue following the couples who had clearly broken up way before the season ended. Leave them alone! I fast forwarded through any of their segments, or the segments of couples I don’t like.
Three Stars ***
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