Tonight’s ‘MAFS’ Was An Exercise In Betrayal & Twitter Is Thoroughly Shook

married at first sight betrayal

Oh no, my friends. What have we done.

Our voracious viewing habits have brought about the continued existence of the slow, public, voluntary emotional torture known as ‘Married At First Sight‘, and at tonight’s commitment ceremony, the first of the season, we saw the experts’ dastardly techniques really start to take their toll.

At least there was a bit of light and love in the room, with Patrick and Charlene, Nasser and Gabrielle, and (especially) Telv and Sarah all looking genuinely stoked on each other. Aww.

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(I’m NOT crying, YOU are the one who is crying.)

But obviously we’re not here to see couples actually fall in love and enter into a stable, committed partnership. We’re here to see couples CRASH AND BURN, and tonight gave us exactly that.

We had Troy and Ashley, both of whom inexplicably decided to stay, despite the fact that every moment she spends resisting the urge to strangle her husband is clearly costing Ashley years off her life span (and despite the fact that Troy continues to act like a poorly-programmed android beamed onto Planet Earth by asexual aliens).

Then there’s the tragedy of Jo being deserted by her sweaty beau, Sean, in a move she found completely blindsiding – though the satisfaction of seeing her call him a douchebag to his face is pretty unrivalled.

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And THEN, to cap off a whole parade of betrayals, we’ve got Dean the Sexist gushing over his bride Tracey, before unceremoniously dropping her without giving her so much as a heads-up beforehand. She has the composure to sputter, “We were intimate this morning!“, which is a lot more polite than I would have been, to be perfectly frank with you.

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Don’t even get me started on Davina‘s cartoonish reaction to this plot twist, either.

Considering that if one partner wants to leave and the other wants to stay, the producers force them both to tough it out for another week – and considering the extremely infidelity-looking previews for next week – tomorrow’s show is going to be one wild ride.

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