Married At First Sight is an Australian reality show that was released on May 18th, 2015. The show is based on a social experiment done on groups of people paired with each other by experts. Each pair gets bound to each other by a fake marriage contract commitment. The couples are put together with the help of relationship and dating experts.
They start their journey together at the altar and go through different phases of a relationship. Throughout the season, the couples live with each other as an actual couple would, and by the end of every week, they decide if they want to continue staying or leave. The recent season of the show premiered on January 30th, 2023, and has a total of ten couples.
This season brought back relationship coaches John Aiken and Mel Schilling, along with a sexologist Alexandra Rampolla. Midway through the season, the producers of the show introduced two more couples. The season released its twenty-eighth episode on March 15th, 2023, and a lot of the participants seemed to have left the show.
Over its nine years of airing, the show has been in hot waters with the viewers for being ridiculously fake and toxic to the couples. A lot of the contestants from the previous seasons seem to suffer a lot mentally throughout the filming of the show. The show is popular for being Australia’s most controversial reality show.
Married At First Sight Australia Season 10 Episode 28 Storyline
Married At First Sight follows the journey of a group of strangers who are put in a fake relationship by experts, from being totally awkward strangers to having their wedding and honeymoon followed by meeting each other’s parents and building a home together.
While some of the couples actually spend time together to get to know each other at a more personal level, others end up leaving the show and their partners in the early stages. The season is reaching its end, and the recent episode of the show had its second last dinner party for all the couples left.
Previously the partner swap challenge left the couples shocked. Melinda and Leyton were a strong couple, but their last fight did not end all that well. Lyndall and Cameron also seemed confused about their future or the absence of it.
Bronte and Harrison’s relationship was shaky, too, with Bronte eventually walking out of the door, leaving Harrison alone. Harrison attends the dinner party alone, becoming everyone’s focus of attention. The dinner party probably became Harrison’s worst memory on the show considering people would not stop asking him where his other half was, and rightfully so.
Bronte walks out of the show with all her bags and goes home, and only Harrison is aware of this. He spends the entire convincing others that they are just not in a good place, but suspicions rise even more when there is no place card and seat for Bronte at the table.
Fans of the show and Bronte are both done with Harrison and his tactics. He snaps at Melinda and tries to convince himself some more that whatever he had with Bronte was good when everybody knows that Bronte was constantly suffering.
Cameron finally tells Lyndall that there is no point in their relationship because he is usually away for work for six months to a year at the most. Lyndall is obviously shocked, whereas Cameron refuses to adjust and quit his job for Lyndall.
Cameron admits that he is willing to change cities for his love, and because he also refuses to make any changes in his life for Lyndall, it is pretty clear that Lyndall is not the one for him. Cameron does not realize the meaning of his words, and Harrison tries to chime in to give his own two cents on what Lyndall could do to adjust instead of Cameron.
Nobody pays much heed to the man who does not even know where his wife is. Another strong relationship, the one between Melinda and Layton, gets shaken when Layton thinks it would be to circle back to the partner swap challenge.
He points out how Harrison moved in first with Melinda and then with Bronte, also complaining about Melinda’s lack of support for him. The episode ends with their fight going a bit too far and Melinda following Bronte’s footsteps and leaving the show.
Married At First Sight Australia Season 10 Episode 28 Review
The show, Married At First Sight, is a dating reality show that has experts putting together a bunch of random strangers together, marrying them off, and watching the drama roll. The weddings in the show are not legally binding but are more of a fake thing just to make things real for the viewers and the contestants.
Throughout the show, we see these strangers come together and get to know each other and figure out if their fake on-screen marriage could possibly turn into an off-screen real something. Over the episodes, the couples and their relationship is put to the test through various challenges and activities like deciding if they want to switch partners with somebody else or ranking the appearance of the participants.
Over its previous seasons, the show found itself gaining major popularity partly because of the lockdown and partly because of the drama, heightened emotions, sex, scandals, cheating affairs, and cruel revenge. The show is loved by many because, much like any other dating reality show, this one is also messy, nasty, and full of conflicts.
The show has received backlash for being entirely scripted and for causing a lot of toxicity among the on-screen couples. Out of the couples that have been on the show, barely a few still remain together. Clearly, this show is not a guide to finding love in your life. The recent episode is proof of this because the couples we thought would go strong till the end and were rooting for ended up breaking apart.
The episode saw two couples break up and the women just leaving the show because the men refuse to take responsibility. Leyton’s complaint toward Melinda about Harrison moving in with her and then with Bronte is weird because it is directed at the wrong person. Bronte and Harrison’s fight made the viewers realize that living with Harrison is probably similar to living with a brick wall.
Harrison lacks the emotional maturity to comprehend what Bronte went through while she was doing all the emotional labor in their relationship, and he does not figure this out till the end of the episode. The fact that these were two couples we believed to go on till the final of this season feels like a blow and a wake-up call. The show is not real and lacks mature relationships.
The show has some really screwed tasks, one of them being ranking one’s partner’s appearances and comparing them to the rest. Way to inflict insecurities in people. The show also has a knack for finding possibly the most trashy men ever. One could have a better conversation with a cardboard box than with the men, especially in this season.
Our Verdict
This episode had peak drama, with two contestants leaving after having huge fights with their husbands. All men having hollow personalities and their wives constantly crying about it has become a bit boring. The conflicts Melinda and Bronte had with their husbands did not feel impactful enough for their decision to just drop the show like that.
Harrison’s lack of knowledge about his wife’s whereabouts and his snapping at Melinda for pushing him to answer where Bronte was just added to the awkwardness at the dinner party. Harrison’s relationship with Bronte was shaky from the start, but the two had managed to push forward somehow. Finally, Brontte had enough of it, and her confrontation with Harrison did not really lead to much.
Layton trying to bring up old arguments and getting into a heated discussion with Melinda felt uncalled for and a pathetic attempt at creating an issue for views. The show has continued to air for the past ten seasons in the past nine years.
Clearly, it has its own fanbase of people who would never admit to having watched it before. It is a guilty pleasure for many with its fake crying, embarrassing fights, and over-the-top contestants.
Our Rating: ⭐ (2.8/5).
