The Crush House is a “thirst-person shooter” that holds a mirror to reality TV production

Last night on Married At First Sight Australia, Eden revealed she’d be hiding a terrible secret. Another bride – who I won’t reveal because SPOILERS, obviously – had texted her asking if she could borrow a top, so she could wear it to… see her ex-boyfriend.

Shocking! Although honestly, for MAFS it’s actually not that shocking at all. A couple of episodes ago, at the weekly dinner party, a man – who always seems to be just moderately sunburnt – told another man to “put a muzzle on your wife”. Another guy decided to call it quits straight after the first week honeymoon because his match, a psychic medium, kept interrupting him mid-conversation to receive messages from the dead.

This stuff is horrible – but what brilliant TV! Pure reality television. In other words: thrilling and horrifying, potentially exploitative, low-brow, but also, maybe, if you squint at it, kind of profound?

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