Married at first sight!?

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Anyone else watching this madness?!

Unless they edited his good bits out? They seemed to be getting on pretty well on honeymoon. I can't believe he got through the process.

I just don't understand how the people running this don't choose people who want to live in the same area. Why should anyone leave the city they're living in to live with a stranger, when they love where they live? It seems a lot more basic than almost anything else.

And if they move, they're vulnerable, as they won't be near to friends and family.

There's be no conflict if they chose people who wanted all the same things. And a show without conflict makes for pretty dull viewing. The producers want high viewing figures more than they want these marriages to survive!

Yes, but surely the whole point is that they're proving you can make this selection based on scientific grounds. I know, it's stupid! But something like where someone wants to live should be one of the absolutely basic things. It says so much about you and just seems crazy that they'd ignore it.

I feel sorry for Lucie, and Sara too to an extent. Adam clearly didn't really want to give up his single life, and maybe he didn't realise that until it was too late. But I don't have a clue what Steve was even doing on the programme. I can't see him having had a successful match with anyone, he just wasn't emotionally open or confident enough to really embrace the experience. I don't buy for a second that the people doing the matching thought he would really have a successful match, Lucie was set up to fail from the start.

I'd imagine there's an argument between the producers and the matchmakers over who gets picked. There's no way the pretend-y scientists get final approval on who's selected.

I wonder if a lot more women applied than men, so that meant that some of the men (Steve and student adam) got through that perhaps weren't :ahem: ideal marriage material, let's say?

I think at the very start of the first programme they said this year there were 7000 applicants and only 1000 of those were men.

There you go then! Slim pickings!

Zo there were, I think, 3000 applicants, 700 men & 2300 women, which tells you a lot!

I can't believe that out of 1000 male applicants they couldn't find anyone better than Steve though!

I thought he was alright. He just didn't like his wife much!

3,500 people. 767 men. I just rewatched episode 1!

I think Steve had that 'I just don't fancy her but need to try and make it more complicated as I can't say that' issue, made worse by it being filmed!

I'm such a MAFS nerd, and ran out of things to watch, and started rewatching the first series, and who pops up but....!

What? He was in series one, too?

Oh my life!

It was just a shot of him when they were doing the application montages, but yes he obviously applied in 2015 and was either approached by the production team again or applied again. Odd!

There's something very sad about someone applying for this (bonkers) programme two years in a row, Get yourself on Tinder Steve!

Yeah isn't it? I feel sorry for him, I hope he can learn to open up, and to quit smoking!

His smoking alone might be the reason why he's single - if he smells of stale smoke that in itself would put off a lot of young women who don't smoke.

Steve came off as having crippling insecurity. From the start when he got his teeth fixed and the poor love's attempts at giving up smoking. I've never seen the embodiment of "you can't love someone else until you love yourself" before, but he is it.

I wonder whether he has PTSD from the army, he didn't want to talk about it and it would have been a massive part of his life for years.

This scientific approach isn't working, from what I can gather it is based on choosing the people with the most similar DNA. Maybe the theory that opposites attract might be better. I also agree that the vicar is creepy but any credible vicar probably wouldn't have agreed to a reality that show.