I like to watch these kind of shows because they have a romance/relationship foundation. Four broken couples agree to go on a two week trip where they will date other people. This is supposed to repair the damage in their relationships. Am I the only one that thinks this idea is risky at best?

The first thing that happens is you get to meet the commentators. Four people that are openly routing for the original couples to leave holding hands and walking into the sunset. At times I wondered if the commentators were even watching the same show.

Three of the four men were openly aggressive and controlling with there original partners but nice to the women they dated. They loved to demonstrate how they could aggressively talk their significant other into a corner and make them squirm. For example the math professor who treated his woman like a math problem. I found myself routing for all three of these couples to break up. But unfortunately two of the three women usually came crawling back to their aggressive controllers apologizing in humble obedience. The third woman who seemed to stand her ground.

The fourth couple I openly routed for. The only thing holding them back was his pending two year military requirement. Life interjecting itself in between a beautiful couple.

So one person would go on a date and when they returned their partners were presented with pictures of the date which brought on a multitude of responses. You were smiling too much. Were you touching him? We’re you leaning on his shoulder? You look so happy, you were never that happy with me. On and on it went driving me crazy, but I couldn’t stop watching. Trust was stretched to the limit. Patience and tolerance was non-existent. The commentators never called out the three men for their aggressive behavior.

The couple that stood out in my mind was Tae Wan and Hye Yeon. When they drove up in the beginning he quickly demonstrated his controlling behavior. Throughout the two weeks he pressed her with hateful language and a disrespectful attitude. In one case Tae Wan decided to go out and interrupt his partner who was on a date with another man. The show gave him the opportunity to do that for some reason. The commentators thought this was so sweet of him. I’m screaming, “are you kidding me”. As I expected it didn’t go well. He barged in on the date and sat there with his arrogant smile. His significant other wouldn’t even look at him. You could almost see the anger bleeding off her. He acts this way because he knows he can. I was so proud of her for standing her ground. Then at a date between the two of them he poured out his “feelings” and shed a few tears? Much to my surprise that seemed to work. She finally came back declaring that she was the problem in their relationship, although I could clearly see that she wasn’t. I was so disappointed that she came to that conclusion.

They are all peachy now and she is back in his clutches. He pats her on the head like a dog. Then he caught her with a text from a male friend of hers. Not a bad text, just a text from a male friend. He did an immediate 180 and wanted to breakup. He had the leverage he was looking for. She eventually came back to him begging. The creepy smile he had on his face was almost too much to watch. He had her, but did they stay together?

So if you want the see raw human behavior at its finest this one is for you. Jealousy on steroids. Heartaches and emotional ups and downs. I couldn’t stop watching.