Autumn TV Finales - Married at First Sight - Season Nine

After 37 long episodes (including two reunions) the ninth season of Married at First Sight has concluded.

Commencing back on 31 January 2022 on the Nine Network, this series has surpassed the previous 8 seasons. With a glass breaking episode, an Onlyfans account photo sharing scandal and of course nice girl, gone bat shit crazy story of Olivia.

The "experts" return, Relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling, along with sexologist Alessandra Rampolla.

Season nine saw 8 brides and 8 grooms together, whilst halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 3 brides and 3 grooms together. The second batch were all bad matches. The first eight matches were also fairly average.

Aside from Mitch, Al and Daniel being eye candy. This shows how we can have such an appalling Prime Minister like ScoMo. The self obsessed nature of some of the contestants was truly terrifying. Olivia was an awful human being, however others were equally as vile.

It made for great drama this year have jokers/commitment-phobes like Al and Cody, in the mix with real life mean girls like Tamara and Olivia.

My favourite was the outrage after an arranged married between Dion (shown in extremely good light by the editors/producers) and Carolina went sour. Carolina followed (what we all do) our eyes after Daniel.

Looks, interests were all better paired between Carolina and Daniel. Dion just seemed exceptionally fake to me. The series either had interests in his upcoming property developments or there was an arrangement. Every other contestant was shown in way worse light than Dion.

For me if in "the real world" an arranged marriage was planned, it didn't work, so you move on, people would not turn on you. I felt this outrage (especially Mitch's drunken rage at a "boys" night) was over the top, staged and extremely fake. Good on Daniel and Carolina from my seat.

Overall whilst it was cringe, it was addictive AF. Some of the cast like Ella really surprised me that they couldn't find love. Either way it's over until 2023, however this series is the biggest show on Australian TV by a long shot.

Until next year MAFS! TV water cooler moments will be a bit more few and far between.