‘Married at First Sight’ Returns for Season Two

The radical social experiment is back.

ByABC News
March 17, 2015, 8:09 AM

— -- The radical social experiment is back.

With two of the three couple’s from season one of “Married at First Sight” saying they’re still happily married one year later, season two is set to begin today on A&E.

About 7,000 applicants were whittled down by four experts who created what they believe are three perfect couples, based on scientific matchmaking.

In the end, six brave singles marry complete strangers. They never see their intendeds until they walk down the aisle at the wedding.

Over the course of six weeks, the show captures the couples as they journey from wedding, to honeymoon, to moving in together, showing the daily struggles of marriage and then the critical decision of whether the pair should stay married or get a divorce.

“Never in a million years I would've thought I was getting married through an arranged marriage," Jessica Castro, one of the featured singles, said.

Ryan Ranellone, another featured single, added: "Regular marriage ... the traditional way seems to be failing. People quit, you know, and I think with this experiment for example, we fight for our relationship because we believe in this."

Castro signed up for season one of the show but experts didn’t find her a match until season two.

“You know, sometimes you think you know what you want, and it's just really not,” Castro told ABC News.

From the moment they’re told they’ve been match, the couple typically have 10 days before their wedding. Jaclyn Methuen has just four days.

“I mean, it's go big or home, you know? And … I'm really an extreme person, too. It's either I'm all or nothing," she said.

Thousands of pages of scientific data go into each candidate in order to help the couples find their happily ever after.

“If and only if we feel that you're one of the very few people that we truly have an amazing match for, we're going to introduce you to that match at your wedding,” Greg Epstein, the show’s spiritual advisor, said.

Sean Varricho, another featured single, said he thinks the experts did “a good job.”

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