Aight, so I'm finally getting around to this stupid matchmaking special because I ain't got **** to do right now. I know damn well this is all for entertainment purposes, but they still got me looking at this bs and breaking it down like NFL draft combine type scouting....In my head I'm yelling Cal Cal Cal Cal! in Mel Kiper Jr's voice, and it's ridiculous.
A few things...
I don't like how Pastor Cal is framing Zach. Using language like "hanging up your player card" and "entanglements" is very coded language when talking to, and about a Black man. I don't like it. Once again, I get the premise for this episode is made for tv, but that still doesn't mean I like it. I hate the fact that Black dudes get framed like this when they are being introduced. Their interaction definitely had me yelling Cal like Mel Kiper, but it's even more disappointing coming from another Black man supposedly "from the cloth"...but anyway, I'll take off my Spike Lee glasses and continue.
Brett and Ryan...mistake. He's a serial dater, and she hasn't dated in 2 years. I forsee struggle. I don't know why they keep doing this, but then I do.... It's definitely a science though....to a tv disaster lol. So hopefully they'll get on each others' nerves and make people watch.
Don't really have much for the other couples right now, but listening to it ( I was doing stuff around the house and not watching, but more listening and thinking), again... the show definitely skews towards women's pov on marriage and doesn't view it as an equal partnership as if men aren't looking for the same thing. I particularly paid attention to something Mikaela said during one of the montages in the beginning...she said "I want a renaissance man that can go out and fix a car, then come in the house and then bake a cake", seen as something men should want to do. Not that dudes like that don't exist, or can't or won't do it. It's just the fact that type of range from a man is expected from a woman and framed as something positive, but conversely (as an example of range) if a man said he wanted his woman to have stripper moves, give wopasaurus rex, and make a 5 course dinner and not be tired, they would look at him wide eyed and be like, this dude is a dinosaur lol.
Just my observations, but suffice it to say, I'm in it for as many train wrecks as possible now that this is strictly for entertainment purposes and not what it was originally intended for. F these damn "experts" lol. My early predictions are....
Mikaela & Zack = Dud
Bao & Johnny = Possible, but she might annoy tf out of him
Brett & Ryan = Dud, plus both of those names don't have good history with this show
Myrla & Gil = A possible. His financial situation might bother her, but too early to tell, who knows?
Rachel & Jose = No clue