re: Are You the One? Season 6 - New Orleans

I'm hooked.

I already have gone back watching previous seasons. The show is such a trainwreck I can't turn away. Great stuff.

I think my two favorite dudes are Ethan, because he's so awkward, and Stoner Joe just because he doesn't seem to give a frick. Those appear to be the only two normal dudes. The rest have incredibly large egos and just want to stick their junk in something

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I already have gone back watching previous seasons.

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what are you using to do this?

MTV app probably has a lot of old seasons and I know I've used iTunes store to go back and watch old Challenge seasons before... Or you can probably do a little digging and find a very un-Kosher way to watch.

Just be warned though... The chicks on the first couple seasons are not nearly as wild, hot, and nuts as this year. MTV has really gone full bore unto the insane chick/douche bro dept this yr........and it's some fantastic television.

I posted before, but the first couple seasons I think the people genuinely wanted to get out of bad relationships... Well most at least. You had a lot of semi-emo, granola type girls on season 1 and 2. But there were also some extreme knockouts... Just fewer of them.

Paris from season 2 always stood out to me... Mainly because of this one scene LINK

She'd be incredible on the Challenge too, I think her dad played for the Broncos.

Season 3 had Devin playing mind games with Kiki the entire season which made for some great stuff, plus it also had Nelson, Hunter, Amanda, and Britni - all Challenge regulars now.

Season 4 had Tori and probably the best AYTO cast member ever, Asaf from Israel. But it also had the biggest douche in the show's history too, Gio.

All in all, this season is shaping up to be the best. I also like the new host better too. Ryan Devlin had gotten pretty boring and become kind of an arse.

The show is already a classic MTV guilty pleasure. When that network hits it right on these kind of shows, no else can do it any better.

I think 5 was the first season they didn't win. It seems like by the final ceremony, they've typically gotten it together. They "break up" with their original interests and figure out who they are supposed to be with. Season 5s issue was they found people they wanted to be with and stayed with them even though they were proven no matches.

here's my take on things....

through 5 seasons, we know that the matchmaking process isn't accurate at all. people generally aren't interested in their perfect matches, they end up dating non-matches (even across seasons), most of the times they find their matches through process of elimination. the only truly successful match is the couple from s1 with a kid.

it is a game, but it's just a game of problem solving and logic; feelings, love and emotion isn't a factor. a blackout actually helps them a lot.

every previous season the cast basically "plays the game" for the first 3 quarters of the season, and then just reverts to logic/process of elimination for the last few episodes for the win. this is why the producers kept tinkering with the format after the first few seasons.... had they kept it strictly 10 and 10, every season would win.

keeping in mind that each 1 hour episode is a week of taping (thus everything we see is heavily edited), my guess is the cast is aware of the above info, and most have decided not to look for love or their perfect match, but just to get straight into the logical problem solving aspect of the game, while partaking in random hookups. guys that can't get laid like tyler, the white rapper and the long haired dude are actually looking for love, so that's why they're so critical of everyone else.

You can't sell me on the idea that any of these guys have an LSAT logic games list going to determine matches.

Now don't get me wrong, that's what I'd do. But I definitely don't see any of them doing it.


I'd kill to get my hands on the test they take to get on the show. I'm assuming it's match.com style and they also have some tinder style algorithm to determine who they would find attractive. Or maybe the producers are trying to pick the most interesting mix and the matches aren't that important.

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You can't sell me on the idea that any of these guys have an LSAT logic games list going to determine matches.

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i'd assume most, if not all, of these contestants have watched the first 5 seasons. it's obvious that the matchmaking process really doesn't work, so anyone with half a brain would go in and say "no point in playing with our hearts and then using strategy the last few weeks, let's just go straight to strategy". based on the last matchup ceremony, it looks like that's what the girls are trying to do. There has to be one person with a brain out of the 20 contestants.

you gotta keep in mind that the producers edit down an entire week into 40 minutes of programming, and can manipulate the presentation any way they want.

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Not that this would ever happen, but what if they all marched two tries in during the selection process (week 2)...would MTV just rig it to get a full season?

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i've wondered this as well, but the odds are so low the producers don't even have to think about it.

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marched two tries in during the selection process (week 2)...would MTV just rig it to get a full season?

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I've thought for years that the show was rigged, it's just too easy for the producers to change matches mid way. Plus the show has to go 10 weeks.

I gotta believe the dynamic of TV fame whores and dudes only on the show for hookups is secretly what MTV wants, not people that are genuinely seeking loving, stable, adult relationships. The television is just too good with all of those idiots on there.

In saying that, I would hope that Dipshit Kareem never makes it onto the Challenge, he's just too big of a Dipshit, hothead a-hole.

There's also no way Clinton, who could seemingly have literally any and every girl in the house begging to be with him, goes for Jayda right after Uche. Seems a bit forced or stayed, but who knows.

Ethan, Joe and the rest of the lovable losers need to get it going and start making connections. But they are 100% correct that everyone is matched up already, and more than likely, those matches are wrong.

I'm not sure how any girl can like Kareem. He would be the guy that would come to blows because someone at Chili's looked at him the wrong way.