On Monday, the reality series "Married at First Sight"'s latest season ended with a season finale and follow-up "what-happened-then" program.

The result: Zero out of four couples chose to continue together.

The participants from this year's season

say that the experience of the production has nevertheless been good, but among the viewers several have been badly affected.

Couples who seem to thrive so badly together that pillow barriers are built in the shared bed are still encouraged to continue trying with the argument that it may just be fear of intimacy, or outdated view of the male role that haunts.

Last year, the production called for a sane tone among journalists and bloggers after a large amount of hatred was directed at one of the participants who was dissatisfied with their match and in 2016 several participants signed an open letter demanding that the production be stopped, because the participants felt cheated.

The term "A social experiment"

has been used to justify the reality genre since its inception.

In 1997, when SVT was to broadcast "Expedition: Robinson", this was exactly the phrase the host Harald Treutiger used to dress the entertainment in a more public service-adapted costume, and it has also been used about the idea of ​​letting production companies act as marriage brokers.

When "Married at First Sight" premiered in Sweden in 2014, perhaps the experimental label was a little more relevant.

Dating apps were a new phenomenon and many worried about the effect that conveyor belt dating, with seemingly endless options, could have on the love life.

Maybe an arranged marriage, where people were "forced" to commit and not give up at the first adversity, would give long-term relationships?

Two years ago,

researcher Emma Frans was temporarily involved in giving the program additional air of scholarship in addition to the staff of sexologists, psychologists and experts who will support the newlyweds.

But now it's time to drop the quasi-scientific claim and see "Married at First Sight" for what it is: a TV production with entertainment value as the main goal.

And if it is an experiment, the figures speak for themselves: four out of 21 couples have over the years chosen to continue to be married, just over 19 percent.

There are significantly fewer than people the age of the participants who have met their current partner via the internet and the dating apps you so desperately want to be a counterpoint to.