Airing since 2014, this American dating reality show has taken it upon itself to play cupid and pair strangers to become life partners. Married at First Sight is the Americanised version of the original Danish reality series which aired its first season in 2013.
The show has whipped up a combination of experts including the likes of sexologists, psychologists, sociologists, and relationship experts who huddle together to pair up strangers with each other in a way they think would be best. The aim is to have these strangers pair up, get married, and live together to see if they happen to be each other’s soul mates or not.
Since its release, the producers of the show have put out two spinoffs of the show, Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island and Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After. The show is currently airing its seventeenth season and seems to optimistic despite the fact that their success rate of matching couples, who stay married to each other for a long term even after the show ends, is only seventeen percent.
Many who have watched the show, question the experts and their authenticity. Fans have expressed the strange nature of the experts and their judgments that are made based on whatever little they know about the contestants.
The Plot
For this season, the experts have moved to Denver, Colorado with the hopes of matching couples with each other. We know already that the show brings on a bunch of couples who have their first meeting at the altar, where they get married and then move on to spend time with each other to get to know the other person better.
By the time the finale rolls around, the couples are given the choice to either remain married or get a divorce and split apart. Our couples for this season are Emily Balch and Brennan Shoykhet, Clare Kerr and Cameron Frazer, Becca Haley and Austin Reed, Orion Martzloff and Lauren G, Michael Shiakallis, and Chloe Brown.
With host Kevin Frazier and the experts, fans observe the relationships that blossom between the five married couples. A few episodes before, the couples had flown out of Denver for their honeymoon, and in the last episode, we saw them coming back to Denver, thus ending their sweet honeymoon phase.
They had moved into their partner’s place to finally start living together like a real couple, finally getting to see the reality of each other. The upcoming episode will be the official start of their living together and will bring their way quite a few shocks and surprises.
While living with a stranger might be scary, the couples plan on hosting a housewarming get together to help ease things for each other. But it will not all be roses and happy faces, as tensions will rise among some couples and it might even lead to a big blow up between some of them.
You can expect intense fights and drama coming your way with the ninth episode of the show.
Release Date & Where to Watch
While we do not know how many episodes this season is going to air, we do know that things have just started to get fun and wont be coming to an end anytime soon. You should be able to watch the ninth episode of the season on Wednesday, December 13th, 2023.
The episodes run for usually 120 minutes or more and are released on a weekly schedule, i.e. every Wednesday. You should be able to catch this upcoming episode at 8:00 PM (EST), and if this is not your time zone, then do check out the ones mentioned below.
- Canada: 8:00 PM, Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
- United Kingdom: 1:00 AM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- Philippines: 9:00 AM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- Australia: 12:00 PM, Thursday, December 14th, 2023
New episodes of the show, Married at First Sight US, will be released on Lifetime, so you can easily watch them there. But the episodes will also be available on Hulu, Netflix, and Apple TV, so you can watch them there too. Fans from the United Kingdom should be able to stream the show through Channel 4, so keep an eye out on the network.
