It only takes a few minutes to realize clearly that "Matchmakers" takes a familiar format to a whole new level.

So far, dating shows with their courtship staff aroused the urgent desire to spend their own lives at any cost. "Matchmakers" is now campaigning to do without friends completely.

Because they could prove to be unscrupulous adders, the ally with ex-pop singer and now ally Ben (known by "angel" and permanent use) ally to one of three allegedly willing to bind people into single life to film the whole thing with a hidden camera and then enjoy spreading it on TV.

The opening episode features Sarah, who has a group of friends who seem to be cast together for a classic sitcom and whose members laughlessly say things like "It was a Sunday afternoon, we just went to a food festival". Ben makes everything worse and describes Sarah's sad solo life with "to cuddle she currently has only her cat Balu" - and thus meets all those staggering consumer drinks in the middle of the barren heart remnants, because you are after his highly sympathetic, completely credible appearance in the strange extreme twist format "Global Gladiators" would definitely have expected a less soapy performance. Now he uses bad greasy vocabulary such as "single-lady", and as a punishment for it coupler Svenja Kuppelopfer Sarah hissed at the first meeting with the presenter then "Do you know Ben?" to.

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Ben became known in 2002 with the song "Engel"

Sarah is briefed by Ben, that her three supposed chance acquaintances of the past few weeks were in truth chosen by her friends. And with "chosen" means "Matchmakers": After fleeting inspection drawn from a Willigeni of the production company, in which people are archived, to whom it is very important that in a relationship "laughs together and understands".

  • Candidate Nils is chosen by the Foodfestival friends because of his beautiful teeth, that is after all a valid criterion on the horse market, so why should not it also apply in love.
  • Candidate Franz evidently has a lightbox with the words "#Love 4 ever" lit up.
  • And candidate Sebastian is characterized by the fact that he cooks warmly twice a day. Krass, Ben thinks, "What happened yesterday?" - "Salmon with couscous, spinach," says Sebastian. "Old Swede," marvels Ben, "you can also clap, I think".

And you do not have to know more about the creaky studio talk that forms the frame of the show and are simply incredibly boring - specialist diagnosis: slipping couplings.

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In front of the audience, all participants look at each other as Sarah is lured by her friends to the café, on a painting evening, to a cooking class, where she then met with great succession on the candidates - and is left with hardly noticeable pretexts with them alone , it's very uncomfortable.

And quite boring, because the really urgent questions are not addressed. Firstly: Why do Sarah and Franz paint an abstract vagina in German flag colors when they get the theme "romance" at the painting class? Secondly, if Nils is a "private tennis coach" and Franz is a "sports and fitness salesman" - is Sebastian really a "strategic product manager for window fittings" or, in truth, any body professional? And thirdly: If Nils and Sarah have already met twice on their own after the "coincidental" meeting in the café - what is the point of this painful reunion on the studio couch?

Unfortunately, Ben proves to be a slippery buyer: what they would have done at their meetings? First they had a drink, then something to eat, says Nils. "Tapas," says Sarah. "Oh, yummy," Ben says.

At the end, Sarah then surprisingly chooses Nils, who is allowed to accompany her to Paris for a weekend, almost like the time before on the sleepless journeys in the "Herzblatt" helicopter. Meanwhile, their Judas friends are probably spending their time at a nice craftberry festival. Was Kuppelei not quite a long time as a criminal offense? It was earlier, seriously now, not all bad.