Married At First Sight Australia is the best there is

Sometimes I wonder if I will always remain the most enthusiastic about guilty pleasures for the rest of my life. Because no matter how cool I found Kalifat (brilliant series and so good): in the end, I am most happy with Love Is Blind. Or Selling Sunset. Sex Education (although I believe that it is just really good and not a guilty pleasure). I can really watch it for hours, and I do, but to say that you actually learn something from it… Neuh.

But hey, what does it matter. I briefly had a good intention to start a qualitatively good series now, but then my eye caught Married At First Sight Australia on Videoland. Shall I give it a try? YES OF COURSE. And guys, I am really completely hooked. I dare not say how many episodes I watched in one evening (okay, six) and that I shortened my already scarce hours of sleep with love. Couldn’t stop watching.

Let me start by saying that I really absolutely did not like the Dutch version, so don’t let that hold you back. The concept is the same, but these people are so much more fun. Not necessarily because they are all genuinely good people, but seriously: SO MUCH. DRAMA. There is partner switching, people cheat, people get criticized; so much discomfort. It is truly pure enjoyment. And a unique aspect of this kind of series: it has 36 episodes. Yes really, that is not a typo. And they are an hour each. That’s just a work week of watching this series. Wonderful. The couples also have a lot to do with each other. You have Cyrell who mainly gives everyone a sermon (especially Jessika, rightly so), Ning who, based on the first episodes, may have never had any feelings at all (‘I’m here for the food and the drinks’ is what she said first at the altar. Uh, okay?), Mike and Heidi who find each other super attractive but gradually realize that that sexual attraction is also the only thing that binds them.

And oooh, then there’s the sweet Mick who has twenty sheep. Ines and Bronson, which is really a complete shitshow. Especially Ines. I won’t give you those spoilers, but it’s juicy. Sly foxes, those women in this program (looking at you, Jessika). As far as I’m concerned, it falls in the same category of addictiveness.

as Love Is Blind — a friend of mine even called it better than that. But you’re probably already out of here to go watch. I get it. I’ll continue. Married at first sight woman behind laptop.