Like a dating app, Are You the One? purports to make finding the one simpler: the show’s creators have already chosen your perfect match for you, as determined by some inscrutable calculus involving high-level matchmakers, numerous interviews, conversations with family and friends, an IQ test, and a meeting with a therapist. You're here because you all have one thing in common-you suck at relationships.' As former host Ryan Devlin first said all those years ago, 'Welcome to the most ambitious matchmaking experiment ever attempted.
From the beginning, Are You the One? was unique, an insane combination of competition reality shows like Road Rules, and house dating shows like Big Brother, featuring a cast of diverse young people who somehow seemed to get through the experience without having their humanity entirely sucked out of them. The year was 2014, and America had no idea what had hit it. Thus begins Season 1 of MTV's dating game show Are You the One?.
As a title card reveals, it is day 26 of shooting, and things are tense.
