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Thank you!

Does anyone know of any decent textual recaps out there? I catch up on reality tv news while lying nex to my napping one-year old or after midnight, reading in the dark next to my sleeping husband. Excited (and horrified) that MAFS is back, but miss Tara's written recaps.

What I want to know is, how old were these four kids in diapers, Mark? Because unless you have two sets of twins, you really should not have four kids in diapers all at once.

@ChristmasJones--Episodes 4 and 5, at least, of Married at First Sight Australia are on youtube. I had trouble watching them on the ontv site--it kept freezing (even on Chrome). The YouTube episodes aren't the greatest quality--the picture doesn't take up the full screen--but it was good enough for me. I just hope the finale goes up on youtube, too. I like this cast so much better than the American version.

Chiming in here for the first time since the beginning of the season...As other posters have mentioned, UnREAL is awesome. I was addicted by the first episode. I think only two have aired, but there are four episodes up on On Demand. Totally recommend it.

And if his Instagram is any indication, dude doesn't know how to spell, either. Doesn't production check out candidates' social media before casting them?

Personally, I find Ryan D.'s use of "#yellow" on any Instagram post referring to anything Asian (mochi, a woman he refers to as his "Asian friend") offensive. He's probably the type of guy to argue that I therefore have no sense of humor and his "Asian friend" finds it funny, but, guess what, Ryan D., you're not Asian so you don't have the authority to use an Asian racial slur. It he looks like a douche, sounds like a douche, and writes like a douche...

Seriously! I know we're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but in the way we dress, style ourselves, and present ourselves, we make arguments about our identities. Yes, yes, mabe I'm being a jerk, but I would have called Ryan D. out as a douche at first glance a mile away. They might as well have cast Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. Gues those super-scientific, FBI-tested, uhhh..questionaires aren't all that great.

Seriously...I'm pregnant (it's not public yet to our friends or colleagues...just umm, to the anonymous Internet here). I waited until I was 8 weeks and had heard a heartbeat to even tell my parents. Who makes an announcement to their entire family the moment the pee dries? Get it confirmed, think about miscarriage risk (which, by the way, is frighteningly high at that early stage) and make decisions on who you want to know that early and who you want to be aware of it if something does go wrong. The awkward overly-precise way both Nadine and Erik speak is super annoying. Every scene they're in sounds to my ear like a drag queen version of Felix Unger doing a one-man show.

In my classes (I teach college courses on pop culture related topics), we proceed from the idea that race is a social construct. If you study the history of "race," you would find that its definition changes through history. For example, in nineteenth-century Britain, social scientists wrote whole books on the Irish as a race (not ethnicity). In the US, you could walk a few miles over the border and your legal "race" changed. In 21st century America, we are still wedded to the concept of race as determined by skin gradation--to put it crudely (because these categories are crude), black, brown, white, yellow, red. Genetic community does not, in fact, align with our categories of "race." So, before I stray off topic too much, perhaps we should leave the debate on race for now and keep discussion focused on the train wrecks that are our couples, their tacky generic weddings, and the annoying voice-overs of the "experts." It would be much more productive, no?

Somebody tell me that you watched "A Couple Contemplates Keeping it Country or Taking it to the City" with the "beauty blogger" and amateur race car driver. That Shayna is the worst. She hates the staircase? Who hates a staircase? She even hates walking on it? Huh? And how about instead of complaining about not being able to fit their friends in their dining room without adding a card table they just, umm, buy a bigger dining table? And I don't understand why a washer/ dryer on the second floor would be an issue. Okay, their master bedroom is on the first floor, but most two-story homes I know have the washer/ dryer on the first floor and the master bedroom on the second floor, so Shayna really is no martyr for (gasp!) carrying laundry up a flight of stairs. So many of her complaints (like paint color) could easily be fixed if she and her husband actually did a little work on the house--well, except her staircase issue. I'm really not sure how she thought that one could be fixed.

Oooh, it looks like the article was taken down. Wonder if FYI or Jessica got it taken down?

I know I'm in the minority here, but I found Jamie's repulsion for Doug at the altar in Season 1 kind of refreshing. It seemed like an authentic moment. I can imagine unrealistic people getting caught up in some fantasy of a reality-tv instant marriage and then getting hit by reality when faced with someone who doesn't look like their fantasy match. But, that was season 1. In this case, Jaclyn's revulsion for Ryan R. is just annoying. I mean, she saw Season 1, right? She knew it was unlikely that she would be set up with Chris Hemsworth, didn't she? She knows what Doug looks like, right? Personally, I actually think Ryan R. is pretty cute--much cuter than Doug. So Jaclyn should be pleased to be set up with anyone whose attractiveness is equal to or greater than Doug Hehner. Dr. Pepper-veteran-of-more-reality-shows-than-Jamie-Otis killed me with her cheesy, "Oh, now you're going to make me cry!" moment with Jessica. I think a pretty good rule of thumb is that anyone who uses a combination of Dr. + first name has sold any professional credibility.

I'll admit it: I'll watch both the wedding special (which I'm sure will be a snooze) and the FYI extended version of Season 2.

That line seriously irked me too! "I'm not cooking a turkey. I've never cooked a turkey." So just because you haven't done something before means you can never do it? Yeah, she totally sounds like the free-spirited, adventurous superwoman she makes herself out to be. (And yes, she alternately characterizes herself as a control freak and free-spirited, with no sense of contradiction). Oh, and cooking a turkey is not that difficult. I guess it's a really good thing she wasn't paired with Vaughn... I missed that but if it's true, Jason totally went up in my estimation.