The One About The One: What is this show

In the next hour I will be posting  a recap about my new favorite show "Are you the One." It is a reality show on MTV created so kids with drinking problems who have yet to realize they have drinking problems can find love.

I have been writing the recap for a while and realized it is long. This is an hour long show and yet I found a way to write more for this than many of the papers I wrote in college. Now I understand why people with passion towards nerdy things did so much better than me in class. Classic nerds.

I thought I would spare you guys the pain of reading what the show is about and then finally getting into the episode. Instead I will just split it up. I am like Taylor Swift before she drops an album.

For those who haven’t heard about this fantastic show, “Are You the One” is about 23 twenty-somethings matched up with one another trying to find love in what some would call paradise, others a hopeless place. Like that Rihanna song, you know, Disturbia.

The goal is for each of them to pick their  perfect match during the light ceremony they have at the end of each episode. I am not sure of the name, but literally however many matches there are, spotlights shoot into the sky. The spot light business is reall struggling I imagine. This show is their big break.

If all ten are matched up, they all win a million dollars each. If not, then some people go home with love, others with a drinking problem, but all with no money. It is like college.

Trick is, no one knows if they spot lights are for them or not. This show just keeps getting more and more complicated. 

You may be thinking, I mean besides “why did you watch this show?”, “Kyle, 23 people? Shouldn’t there be an odd man out?” Yes! Some guy was good enough to be comparable to two women. While this may sound like a dream, it means one girl will be matched up with this dreamboat and the other girl will go home with nothing.  We know the extra girl is  Christina, but we do not know who the other girl is. If they find out Christina is a match with someone, the other girl goes home. If another girl gets matched up with guy before Christina gets to find out, then Christina goes home. 

Couples do not know if they are a true match unless they go into the Truth Booth. Basically, a white room with a lazer that “scans” the two people and tells everyone if they are a match are not. I could make fun of this but I love the truth booth.  If the couple is a match, they are sent to this honeymoon room away from everyone else. Which kind of sounds like a drag. “ Hey remember that parting you were doing? Yeah, well we found your match, you have to leave the fun and hang with this person full time. This show really preps people for life.

While all this could be handles by someone writing the answer on a card, MTV has money to blow on lasers, white rooms, and flight screen tv's. You also can't just not use the name "Truth Booth" once you have thought of it. 

Oh every week they have challenges. Three people usually win, get to pick someone to go on a date with. The people who go on dates have a magical time, while the others vote on which of those couples they want in the Truth Booth. 

If you are thinking "Kyle, this post was way too long. I didn't read it." Touche. Basically 23 people are trying to find their match with one another. There is drinking, heartbreak, competition, and a Truth Booth. It is basically the plot to any 80's movie. 

A recap will be up soon. Toodles.