"I'm not sure about Adrienne. I would find someone who kept saying they were good at everything very hard work, and unattractive."
I would find this a bit grating. I'd feel a bit like I'd missed the opportunity to tell them they were great at something without being prompted to do so by their self-praise.
But I don't know that we saw enough of the time they spent together to judge what was going on. I think the thing that I'm finding most frustrating with the programme now is that it's almost all tell and not show. Instead of showing us what is going on between the couples, we have them telling us about it. There seems to be more of the individual heads talking to camera, or even when the couples are together they're not doing things and letting us judge for ourselves if they're getting on, they're having an inane conversation about how things are [not] improving between them. Which they repeat to the other couples at the dinner party and to the experts at the commitment ceremony, and it's the same over and over again of telling the viewer what is happening and not showing.
I think the two most genuine bits of emotion that we have been shown in this series so far have been Roz becoming more and more crushed in the first couple of weeks - you could see the pain written across her face - and JJ blushing around Ella.
Everything else has been a matter of being told what is happening, and not being shown it.
The only explanation I can think of is that to cut costs they've cut the number of camera crews, so they can't spend much time with each couple recording anything and everything in case something interesting and revealing happens naturally, they have to come in, get the material they need in the minimum time, and then move on to the next couple.