If they figure out all the correct pairings before the end of the season, the housemates will win a million dollars.įor the past seven seasons, the men have been paired with women, and women with men. The cast enacts physical embodiments of the hell of dating, such as races where participants jump over obstacles labeled with problems like “fear of commitment.” Winners of these challenges are rewarded with one-on-one dates and the opportunity to vote on whom they think is a “true” pair. The housemates themselves have to figure out the “true love” couplings by undertaking a bunch of elaborate activities. The twist: Using old-school matchmaking techniques and complex algorithms, dating experts have paired the housemates with their supposed “ideal” mates, but neither the cast nor the viewers know the matches. A bunch of young singles are thrown together in a house, set in the kind of tropical paradise required for finding true love on television. Like all dating reality show franchises, MTV’s Are You the One? has a shtick.
