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Just a bit about MAFS this week, because that was really bizarre

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Yesss, I was really looking forward to this week of Married At First Sight: Match Or Mistake. Because: the first dinner party and the first ceremony of the couples wanting to stay together. That means only one thing, namely a lot of drama. And that drama was already quite present. The first cautious steps towards partner swapping were already taken, but this week it was on. And of course, we need to talk about that again.

1. Would Marissa have looked back this week and thought: huh? Roy? And me? I don't think she was aware of that at all.

2. No idea if this is just me, but something about Wendy really triggers me, while she seemed so nice before the wedding – where is this mean side coming from in the last episodes? The way she keeps attacking Jeroen, seriously. Leave. Jeroen. Alone.

3. By the way, they could better call this season Wingmen: Match or Mistake, because by now the vast majority is chatting about ‘friendly’ connections and everyone is free to meet others. This dinner party is almost like a speed dating night.

4. Jack sitting next to Wendy because they have a click, with Marissa opposite them nodding approvingly? Oookay. Silio next to Rosa and Marissa, who see him sitting there? Oookay.

5. Not that Manuela is sitting opposite nodding approvingly, because five minutes ago she was happily telling that they were such good buddies, but the psycho (with a hard ‘P’ of course) is going to come out in 3, 2, 1...

6. Roy: ‘You can't say that Ginger, that people aren't honest. YOU CAN'T!!!!’
Also Roy: ‘Well, I felt a certain form of aggression.’
Seriously. SERIOUSLY.

7. Maybe I'm just seeing a completely different Jeroen than the rest of the Netherlands, because everyone else is already completely fed up with him. I need to think hard about what I'm missing here...

8. PARDON? Silio just kissed someone else – with Rosa? And that sly smile with it. Sam Smith in the background. Miiii gado, this is going to be drama.

9. It's also delightful that Rosa and Roy's parents are having a great time together while they can't even be in the same room for more than five minutes and Wendy even has to hang up his decorations for his birthday, while she in turn can't be in the same room with her husband. This season is messy, messy, messy and I love it.

10. This meeting with the experts is just too funny. Not the situation, of course, if it has been unpleasant for people, but how they sit there like a bunch of eighth graders who haven't listened to the teacher.

11. So Ginger has to go home because the group had such a good time during a ‘transition phase’ that they all went to the hotel room to have a drink. It’s giving middle school camp where the boys and girls mingle.

12. And makers, seriously? Ginger and Ollie were the only couple that was a hundred percent happy with each other, a nice addition to the group, no drama, just nice people, and then you send her home because she likes to have fun? I find a lot of this unacceptable. And she didn't even invite her friends herself. Well.

13. But why on earth would Ollie stay? For his personal process? The whole program is about a marriage, right?! What am I watching? Dr. Phil??

14. Experts to Ollie: ‘Are you going to explore with Ginger outside of this program to see if there's more to it?’
Eh... Correct me if I'm wrong... But aren't they just married? I would think you should still face each other.

15. Oh help, next week is going to be very intense. Awkward that Silio really wanted to prove that he is oh so honest, but forgets to mention that he actually kissed someone else. The experts call it ‘kissed’ because we still want to stay at the middle school camp level. Oh, is it already Tuesday?!

Is it fair that Ginger has to leave the experiment?

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