Social Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 11
November 2024 - 68 articles
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Cover Story: Lifetime’s “Married at First Sight” (MAFS) aired its seventeenth season in 2024, averaging 2.58 million viewers per weekly episode. Our article asks how MAFS reflects and intervenes in contemporary marriage politics in the U.S. To answer this question, we draw on scholarship about marriage as a political institution, and on reality TV as a window into contemporary socio-economic issues. Using interpretive, feminist methods of analysis, we find that MAFS attempts to provide a very traditional and exclusionary version of the institution at a time of socio-political tumult. However, the show’s “experimental results” offer something more complex, which both reflects the contemporary realities of marriage and attracts viewers. View this paper