Married at First Sight Australia (2015– ) User Reviews

Switch off, and laugh.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 6 March 2021]

I know this has some dismal reviews, and I get that, but of all the formats of this show, The Australian format is the most watchable. I was made to watch this, and I binge watched several.

Yes it's hideous, yes it's bawdy and outrageous, but I couldn't stop watching. I know this is a show I would normally avoid like the plague, but I had to keep watching.

Of course it lingers on the outrageous, and highlights the worst moments, but underneath that you see some good people.

The settings are glorious, as a Brit, I'm jealous to see all of that sunshine.

It's watchable, 7/10.

Totally addicted but not fooled....

[beverleyhunniford · 6/10 · 11 February 2021]

2019 series showing Jan/Feb 21 in the UK - I have to confess that I'm addicted. However I'll call it out on them flying the "reality" flag. Most obviously the strings are being pulled in the background. Some dodgy delivery of scripted lines.

I think it's common knowledge that the couples are not legally married in the Australian version - given away on the home visits. Cyrell still lives with her parents - mum very pointedly had them in separate rooms during the home visit. On the whole the program has the couples removed from the reality of life, putting them up in furnished apartments in Sydney. I appreciate there is a practical side to this. Then there is the wardrobe choices - the weekly dinner party dress code for the men = whatever they like, however for the women - cocktail dress displaying maximum boobage - really!

After watching the first few weeks of this I caught up with the first series of the American version - it was most certainly seemed to be more of a real experiment. The couples had to make decisions about where they were going to set up home together, weighing up their options of setting up in a new apartment, moving into one or the others existing home, costs and work. All a bit more real world but not as addictive as the Aussie version.

A good way to unwind and laugh

[mkay93 · 7/10 · 23 February 2022]

This show always brings my fam and I together and we sit in front of the show so invested in the unrealistic stupid drama. We hate that we love it so much.

If you start watching it, you can't stop....

[JetFlyinSOAG · 3/10 · 30 July 2020]

I started watching the series due to my liking for the British version and found that this is completely different. For the first few episodes I loved the show and looked forward to watching it of an evening but when I was 15 episodes into a 25 episode series (90 mins per show) I was sick of the amount of recaps of things I'd seen 1000 times before, and trailers for moments that turned out to be anti-climactic at best. I was so sick of the dinner parties and commitment ceremonies and there wasn't enough air time for the likeable and genuine couples. To be honest, I could be one of the experts if I state the obvious after something happens between a couple.

Perfect trash TV

[simonsaysmaybe · 10/10 · 4 March 2021]

Season 6 of MAFS Australia is perfect brainless, trash reality TV and for this reason it has to be awarded the full 10 stars.

All the ingredients are present - tears, laughter, love, anger, resentment, extreme humiliation and sexy, scantily clad bodies, edited for maximum effect and set against the beautiful backdrop of Australia.

The clearly generally emotionally dysfunctional 'contestants' are expertly exploited and often matched with completely incompatible partners, to provoke maximum tension and drama.

This is the modern, digital equivalent of an Victorian freak show. It's like that car crash that you drive past that you can't help slowing down to look at. It's absolutely fantastic.

How did the experts get the matches so wrong in season 10?

[valainenel · 1/10 · 14 April 2023]

I would like to know how the experts got the selection of contestants so wrong on the show this year? I feel for the contestants mental health and it was difficult to see how hurt they were! You would think the experts with all the vetting they do would have detected the contestants that joined the show with no intention to give 100% and looking for a life partner and love.

I hope that they will take on board this feedback and know that they are responsible for matching the couples, look out for manipulative and narcissistic traits

Would like to see the experts take some responsibility for the many uncomfortable matches made this season.

I couldn't believe TRASH TV can get so addictive!!!

[saadiahhamoudi · 9/10 · 23 January 2022]

It's just so funny to watch this horrible people do horrible things to each other and the experts are just always there to cause more drama - the most funny thing about it is that the 'experts' are presented as some sort of therapist that are suppose to match these people perfectly and help the couples later on but they do the exact opposite of it.. lmfao.

Don't take this show seriously, shut your brain down after a work day and LOL!

Producers are awful

[dolphin-sonia · 1/10 · 23 March 2020]

The concept of the show is great but the producers are so problematic. You can hear sentences being stitched together word by word. At that point, don't bother using "real people" to produce a reality show and just use actors with a script. It's honestly messed up and shouldn't even be classed as reality tv with this much editing.

Brainless addictive trash

[benhigton-97189 · 10/10 · 30 January 2021]

Turn off your mind and enjoy beautiful shots of Australia alongside humans at their best and worse. I've only watched season 6 and the show is obviously staged in places but you still see people , well being people. Cyrell and Sam are genuinely funny, Innes sets herself up as some sort of Cruella Deville character and Elizabeth will possibly need extensive therapy after this. The show has too many episodes and is floored as a social experiment but there are too many genuine moments of laughter and sadness not to love it. Rating it a 1/10 is like getting angry that avengers doesn't have the same complex narrative of fight club

Fake and awful

[rosariajferreira · 2/10 · 17 May 2023]

Watched the last season (10) of mafs australia and the couple Harrison and Bronthe ruined this show for me. They were clearly fake and just acting. The show didn't follow their relationship, only their drama. We had to watch too many hours of fake people with no morals, liars and deceivers. Why do we need to watch awful fabricators like bronte and harrisson if we are here to watch real marriages between people who care about each other.

Furthermore my heart breaks when I have to watch the cruelty some partners have to go through when matched with psychopaths. You should be able to fish psychopaths out prior to matching. It is mistreatment of the other person to entertain the public. It should not be legal. It is not ok.

Please make a more real, humane show. I am extremely dissappointed by the production of this show.

Nope, no, not happening.

[matildawilson-38609 · 1/10 · 17 March 2021]

Totally scripted, fake, full of fake actors and petty drama! I'd rather wait for cows to come home than waste my time on this garbage television...

The Zenith of Brain Dead TV

[davidsfrench · 8/10 · 16 April 2022]

Gave it an eight because it's so bad it's brilliant. But in saying that it takes advantage of those with fairly transparent mental health issues. Still that appears to be the way TV in general is now.

Honestly this show has lost its purpose

[dungtran-87126 · 1/10 · 24 March 2019]

I enjoyed this show first and 2nd season when it was really married and first sight! And not with all these cheating and staged scenes. I can't stand watching it anymore or seeing and promos. Allowing Jess and Dan to stay was the last straw. This show is pathetic!!!

Worst show ever

[bevo-13678 · 30 March 2020]

I'm a very generous marker therefore I'll give this show zero stars

This is a 9/10 for perfect trash telly

[jdswinburne · 9/10 · 19 March 2022]

We all know it's edited, we know it's hammed up, but for the world of reality TV, it's on the high quality end. The different stages are enjoyable in different stages.

Whenever something happens where you feel like a participant needs to be called out on poor behaviour, the experts do it, and they do it brilliantly.

Minor criticism, I think they should speed up the pre-wedding section, it's less interesting than the ensuing drama.

The most awful show currently on Australian television

[coasterdude44 · 3/10 · 6 February 2020]

Dumb, meloframatic, fake, hollow and unfunny. This show will bore you to tears and invade your nightmares with it's thoughtless production desgn and unlikeable personalities. Begging it to be pulled off the air and be replaced by something that's actually funny and creative

Brilliant show...now

[marshjay-41572 · 8/10 · 31 January 2021]

Series 1,2,3 and 4 weren't great but series 5,6,7 and the new series 8 are all INCREDIBLE! Its definitely a drama full and love full show. I would recommend

Australia's experts are just tabloid junkies

[b4blue · 1/10 · 18 February 2019]

... or Australia's singles are the most promiscuous people on earth. I have watched US and UK version and it is clear that Ozzy's either have no clue or they just love a good drama, cause they pair up the most marriageable people, and really enjoy themselves when the drama unfolds. To be fair, the basic premise of the show is ridiculous but at least they could try to give the chance to people that are really ready and don't have severe personality disorders. Are they really that blind or do they chose those people on purpose. Normal people don't generate views? And in one case they criticized a man they paired up with a woman with severe PD, just because he is a man (probably also to cover their own incompetence). He was exposed to mental abuse, without an explanation and then criticized because he lashed out, out of frustration. These people deserve to be taken to court.

Incomprehensible Rubbish

[apkathompson · 1/10 · 2 March 2019]

A few minutes into watching this show you realise why these peple are still single. The premise seems to be " choose the most awful people who apply. Ensure that the matches have no chance whatsoever of success. Sit back and watch the car crash". I'm sure the producers are proud of their "social experiment". Avoid.

Not real television

[hillangela-59786 · 9 September 2019]

A man meets a woman they get married they have a honeymoon you think it's real but it's not it's an experiment it's research on how long married couple's can stay together

Let's poke the bear Bex enough now

[amawilliams-31090 · 10/10 · 4 November 2021]

God yes. Karma Becks. The whole of series 8 is about Bryce. I didn't like him to start off with but I think he has turned a corner. Leave him alone

So proud of you Jason x.

The promos alone make me sick

[elle_venus · 1/10 · 29 January 2019]

I can't stand the promos let alone watching this ridiculous excuse for a reality tv show. In the 21st century why is Channel 9 still promoting the idea that women have to get married? It's insulting to every woman who believes in equality and independence. The narcissism displayed by the women in this show is downright scary. No wonder they feel the need to go on a tv show to find a husband! Or is it that they think they will get "discovered"! I think it's the latter.

Scandalous

[hoffmanu-20725 · 10/10 · 21 August 2022]

There is NEVER a dull moment in this show. I can't get enough. It is so scandalous. Definitely Binge worthy. Even my Husband looks forward to watching MAFS Australia

Please hurry up with season 10!!!!!

Realism or Ratings..

[barry_j_kay · 4/10 · 30 October 2021]

The very premise of the show is a relationship lottery from which the majority beneficiaries of are the expert panel, the media company and on a rare occasion the individuals.

It portrays the image of science equalling love but yet we have seen some awful matches and very little love.

On the up side there are the fortunate ones but ... Is the science consistently correct.... No is offcourse the answer because science cannot account for physical attraction and connection.

I question the integrity of the panel as there portrayal does not always relate to them being professional relationship experts based on their comments/responses.

I watched season 6 and for them to decide to make a complete mockery of the show and ignore their own science, being the very premise of the show in which they allowed inviduals from differing couples to get together is a mere statement of actually how important their show is as opposed to the science and/or couples.

In my opinion the fact is that the majority of couples fail and they are simply playing with people's lives and feelings, all for fame, money and publicity ratings and viewer numbers.

Yes it is their choice to participate but I feel the show let's them down immensely.

The format needs a complete overhaul, if indeed not completely terminated.

My Favorite show

[kemmereru · 10/10 · 21 August 2022]

My Husband and I have been together for 12 years. This is the only show we have ever agreed on. We both love watching it and look forward to watching it. We snuggle up with popcorn and watch. It's so much better than the American version.