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OPINION Tonight’s episode of Married At First Sight NZ includes the first dinner party of the season, leaving the future of one marriage in the same shape as a question mark, and another couple making a decision that has us stop, drop and rolling on the floor. But before we can practise how to get out of a house when it’s on fire, we catch up with Maddy and Nate, whose marriage is actually on fire. John Aiken suggests in an effort to save their nuptials that they pretend they’re a couple of best friends on a vacation who made it out of the group chat.

Naturally, we expect plenty of giggles, cheap picnic dates and fights about who booked the scody Airbnb. What we get in return is plenty of giggles, a cheap picnic date, and Maddy being really positive about the whole thing. “I don’t think it’s going to change the outcome in terms of going into a romantic relationship.



” Dang. Two out of three. Meanwhile, the producers appear to have left breadcrumbs on the floor leading us all the way to Jesse and CJ’s love pad.

What we find is better than any porridge Goldilocks could have dreamed of. “We’re so surface level at this stage,” CJ tells us. “It’s really hard to dig a little deeper and actually find out what does Jesse want in the future? Does he want kids? How many kids?” Exactly, does he want two kids or four? If he wants four they’re definitely going to have to look at a Mitsubishi Outlander instead of a VW Golf and that requires emotional preparatio.

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