Joshua Fox

See ya.

Hello and welcome back to the Maths Money Podcast with me, Joshua Fox.

And I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about the other fight that was completely cut from the second dinner party, the real life ramifications that are now happening, and also real life versus reality.

As I raise the question, when does narrative become more important than the truth?

Because what I'm going to get into today is only going to make you even angrier than you already are.

Now, in part two of my podcast about the night that changed everything, I theorized that the second dinner party would feature a big moment of redemption for Chris, as like his big finale to his story arc on the show, where there'd be some big emotional music as he broke down or cried and realized the error of his ways.

And we, the viewers, would then see that in contrast to Brooke being like next level mean girl.

And we'd all go nuts.

oh, he's not that bad after all, you know, he's just misunderstood.

And did that happen?

Pretty much exactly as I predicted.

Just going to be, pull this guy, and then... F***ing cool.

I know that I keep saying the word story arc on this podcast, but that is honestly how all reality television is structured.

And every relationship on a show like Maths is not actually a relationship.

It's a storyline, which means it needs to have a start.

a middle and an ending.

And that big ending is often planned in advance and completely manufactured.

And in this case, this was the best ending for the Chris and Brooke story arc, which the producers knew, hence why they were so oddly vocal throughout that scene, you know, during the big moment of redemption.

they set the entire tone they said the things that would influence how the public think and feel during that and they basically crafted that whole scene which we didn't even see remember we just hid it they they could have recorded their quotes afterwards and you know what it worked it was the perfect ending and it also fitted the narrative that the show pushes every year and you know when most relationships fail and fall apart and no one's together