Married At First Sight, an American reality TV series that first aired in 2014, based originally on the 2013 Danish series, Gift Ved Første Blik. The show later came up with spin-offs along with several international versions including the UK, Australia, Bulgaria, and many more.
The show has wrapped up seventeen seasons so far and premiered its eighteenth season on October 15, 2024, on Lifetime.
Each season, the show chooses couples from different locations across the US, and they get paid up by the "experts" who guide them through their marriage in the show. The couples go through 8 weeks of trial where they stay married and test their relationship before continuing it or annulling it.
However, as per the records, the success rate of the couples has been dropping each season, and so far throughout the seventeen seasons, only 11 couples stayed married out of 69. Married At First Sight fans have been contemplating the poor success rate of the couples, and chimed in about the same on Reddit.
Tom67570 pointed out that changing the format and tweaks brought in the show, especially less involvement of experts resulted in the drop rate of success.
"Seasons 1-7 had only 3 couples. They experts worked them hard with a lot of therapy, challenges and exercises. Couples were also separated mostly throughout the show. This led to their most success."
Another fan, calm-state-universal joined the discussion and commented:
"5 couples all brought on at the same time going on vacation on tv is like a group trip. I think this changes the dynamic right from the beginning."
Objective-Dig992 commented on the "low success rate" of the couples and wrote:
"I can’t help thinking that a “success” rate of only 15-16% means that we could draw names out of a hat to create the matches, and probably do just about as well as the so-called experts."
Another Married At First Sight fan, AstronautDue7237 wrote:
"I love when stats can put things into perspective."
A fan named, sashie_belle wrote:
"I don't believe the so-called experts do much of anything except pretend they are experts and maybe they'll make recommendations, but this is so producer-driven otherwise you don't put together people with fundamental life altering differences."
_TheLonelyStoner commented:
"Excellent breakdown. Nice work. I think the experts going more hands off and probably some adjustments in how they select the final participants and the prospective candidate pool are probably big factors as well. You can’t ignore that it’s a show and potential ratings have to be some factor in how they’re choosing the pairings."
Married At First Sight Season 18 welcomes ten new couples into the series
Married At First Sight came up with another season in October 2024, and welcomed 10 couples in Chicago to try their chances at a happily after. This season, experts Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Dr. Pia Holec, and Pastor Cal Roberson will be assisting the couples through the process.
The season is focusing more on pairing the couples based on deeper compatibility standards, especially after a poor success rate of Season 17. Some of the paired cast members so far are Emem and Ikechi, David and Michelle, Madison and Allen, Camille and Thomas, Juan and Karla.
Season 18 also incorporated some changes in the show which would feature couple swaps and more dedicated expert intervention. However, so far in the run of nineteen episodes, the show has already witnessed some scandals, and falling apart of the paired couples. The coming episodes will have fans intrigued as they will be watching this season to have a better success rate.
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Married At First Sight Season 18 airs new episodes on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST on Lifetime.
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