Of the three relationship counsellors on Nine’s staggeringly popular, John Aiken most fits the role of the “mean judge”, the standard antagonistic panelist of many a reality format. While the comments from all three “experts” over the previous seven seasons have raised the ire of emotionally invested viewers, feeding the social media beast that drives the ratings, Aiken’s brutal honesty has set him apart from dating expert Mel Schilling and psychologist Trisha Stanford.
Aside from tweaks to accommodate COVID restrictions, the eighth season sticks closely to its winning formula. In place of the home-stays, in which “newlyweds” do the rounds with in-laws, are “Intimacy” and “Confession” weeks. The nine couples live in a “bubble” on the same floor of a Sydney apartment block. Individual getaways are replaced by a communal retreat.
Only a few years ago, more than a third of all Australians still believed allowing loving gay couples to marry would fatally undermine the institution.
We only watch for the fights. Who gives a shit if they find love.
“Aiken’s profile and commitment to the show have effectively shut down his private practice, with only a handful of long-term clients still on the books. He doesn’t see this as a problem, gripped as he is by the highs and lows on board the MAFS “roller-coaster”. Yeah,why bother?
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Married at first sight needs to fuck right off!! It’s show’s like this that are making people think that this type of lifestyle is normal. What ever happened to family tv shows? All we seem to get these days is smutty shit and and crime shows.
I thought the roots of what MAFS was about was chasing ratings with car crash TV.