Compared to other reality shows, "Couples Therapy" requires much more sacrifice and personal exposure from its participants.
Documenting psychological treatment over six months and then broadcasting it in prime time requires rare courage from patients.
The scenes are authentic and intimate, sometimes embarrassing, and the internet is bombarded with patients' personal analysis and in-depth public scrutiny of their feelings.
So the obvious thought is why did people who look nice and sane, and seemingly unavoidable from the pursuit of publicity, volunteer to wash the dirty laundry of their relationship on TV?
In fact, why give up therapist-patient confidentiality and prefer the program over private care without cameras and nationwide exposure?
At the end of the 12 episodes of the season, which ended last night, we did not receive an unequivocal answer about the motives that led the four couples to participate in the project.
"Couples therapy" for its part did everything to make them comfortable with the complex situation.
For example, the cameras are hidden (they are behind the shelves, if you were looking), which allows couples to let go and open up.
Also, the program censors itself.
She chose not to show too yellow and intimate parts, and made sure to concentrate on the therapeutic process.
In fact, there was no tension if the couple stayed together or separated, although the option was discussed a bit on the psychological couch, because the casting was made up of couples who did not get there in an irreversible situation.
I mean, "Couples Therapy" is educational television, which adds value to the mental exposure and emotional undressing of the people who appear on it. It is able to empower viewers who identify familiar issues with them, and provides tools and solutions. As a result, it is common to think that couples see themselves as some kind of public mission, as if the God of television chose them as a representation of the plight of the human race and set them as an example for all of us. And the public really compliments its models - the couples are not perceived as advertising pursuers but as mannequins or experimenters, so it is necessary to pry into their feelings.
But beneath the romantic cover and educational value, “Couples Therapy” provides the most intrusive and intimate glimpse possible into the minds of its participants and their bedroom, at a level that no other reality show does.
Nowadays almost all of us are expected to share everything with everyone;
Most of humanity longs to be peeked at - in storytelling, on ticks or on television.
That is to say, the participants of the season experienced satisfaction and empowerment from our very glimpse of them throughout the process, which is why they agreed to participate in the experiment.
Couples therapy (season finale), here 11, 9:15 p.m.
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