Married At First Sight - A new show that started this year and might be the big tank of Reality Shows as it is what people ask for: it's real. Next Tuesday, Sept. 16 the Reunion Special will be happening and we will be able to see what happened to the happy couples.
What is Married At First Sight? It is, as the show implies very adequately, a social experiment where six people who are looking for forever with another person agree to get married to someone else without knowing the person, but first meeting them down the aisle. That's one interesting premise.
It is not all so random, though. There are different specialists who analyze each contestant and place them with someone that they believe will be the "perfect" match. What is tested is if they really are the perfect match or everything was wrong. So, it really and literally is getting married at first sight.
Three couples are the ones who go through the different episodes living what is a "normal" marriage situation but with cameras with them all along. After seven weeks of being married, the person needs to decide if they will continue being married or they will divorce.
The first season is just ending and from the three Married At First Sight couples, only two chose to continue being married, one of the couples dissolved.
What happens at the Reunion Special is that from the two couples left from Married At First Sight, six more months pass only that this time without any cameras and next Tuesday we will see if they got along or things changed abruptly.
The two Married At First Sight couples are Doug Hehner and Jamie Otis, and Jason Carrion and Courtney Hendrix.
The funny detail is that Doug Hehner and Jamie Otis didn't like each other in the beginning. They didn't consume their marriage at all until the last moment of the show so far and even then Doug said to The Post, "We got a change to figure each other out and we took care of two years of getting to know each other in five weeks."
This pretty much clears out how Married At First Sight can lead to unexpected results and bring new surprises where it seemed there wouldn't be any. The couples that end up together seemed to be the least likely to.
Let's hope the Reunion Special that will last two hours brings some lasting happiness from the two couples and not too much dramatic reality.
