Shirin Kale

There's interesting language that he uses around him allowing her to do things.

And it's interesting to see how that behaviour wouldn't have come up in the pre-show retting.

He's talking about her in a coercive way on camera.

So you wonder how someone like that was able to get on the show to start with.

Yeah, so Married at First Sight UK is a really interesting show.

I think it's actually a bit of a throwback to an earlier era of reality TV because it has this concept at the heart of it, which is a social experiment, sort of like Happy Brother season one was a social experiment.

So the experiment is a couple and they are match made by experts for each other and then they get married.

These actually aren't legally binding weddings here in the UK, but they get married on the first day they meet.

They go on honeymoon together and then they move in together.

And at the end of this process, they have to decide whether they're going to stay together or get a divorce.

Oh, yeah.

And I mean, if you haven't watched the show, that's really kind of the golden TV moment, which is that they arrive at their wedding and the women walk down the aisle and then there's this just fantastically interesting moment where they both look at each other for the first time.

If you're a student of body language, if you're interested in the laws of attraction and chemistry and all of these different things, it's really interesting to watch people meet for the first time and see whether there is that spark there or whether they look incredibly disappointed and they're trying to hide it.

Married at First Sight is, I would say, like an international reality TV franchise.

And so we've got Married at First Sight in Australia, the USA, Israel, and here in the UK.

The format actually started in Denmark in 2013.

One thing I think is interesting if you've watched the show, so I've watched earlier seasons of the show than I've watched later seasons of the show.

And there's a big difference.

There's a really big difference.

So early on, you have, I would say, a kind of more sedate documentary style of filmmaking.