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About to put a pretty controversial take about this season on here. Be warned.

I think people are giving producers way too much crap about creating drama this season. On some level, yes, adding the secret date cards and having SM choose the rooms are keep it a secret are them intentionally injecting chaos into the house. I even made a post last week about how producers are wayyyy more active and chaos creating, which I stand by, but I don't think it's somehow ruining the season.

I don't think the date cards or even them keeping the room choices a secret are meddling too much or ruining the contestants' abilities to form relationships. I think there might be something to be said about editing focusing too much on the times contestants are asking 'do you like me' etc, but people are acting like production is actually ruining the season.

And what I'm basically trying to say is what I touched on in my last His Man 3 post - the contestants choices in how they react to a given situation ( i.e SM refusing to just tell Hwi he wants to date) is equally or even more so responsible for the chaos that is unfolding.

I think that if all this stuff happened last season, it would not have been that big of a deal. JS was in a similar position to Hwi, but he was just way more relaxed and unbothered about SH going on other dates. Last seasons cast was just a lot better at not showing external stress and were frankly a lot less anxious. This season they're just much more...fiery I guess is the word? High energy is how I feel watching them.

If anyone is watching The Ampliverse recaps (which you should, they're the highlight of my week), they talked about how there's not anyone right now who has chemistry the was JS&SH or HJ&MS did. That may be a casting issue or it may just be because we're only at episode 6 (didn't get our best dates on His Man 2 until Day 4). And that is 100% playing into what is happening right now where no one is really sure they want to just commit to one person.

Last season, I also think the contestants had the advantage of going on dates they weren't as excited about first. SH went on a date with HJ and SW before JS and MS went on two dates with JS. Tbh, I think that if SH went on a date with JS first, last season would have been hella more stressful than the cozy little season it ended up being.

I would even make the argument that a secret extra date card would have made MS's life so much better because he would have gone on a date with both HJin and HJoon and the totally chaos at the end wouldn't have happened.

Contestants last season were just more decisive in what they wanted. Only like 1-3 people were interested in exploring multiple men. And I think that's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes when you cast. There's only 8 people, so maybe sometimes they just fall into place like last season. Or maybe it's less clear like this season.

I'm not saying production is saint worthy, and there's always room for improvement. The secret missions almost feel tooo on the nose for any given situation, and I wish they were much more random. Like maybe the person who got the least calls gets a special advantage or you just randomly find a card when you're outside smoking. IDK.

But, mdl and the His Man Youtube comment section are basically aflame with people saying they're ruining the show. And I just don't feel like that's an accurate placement of "blame".

I'm sure some people will have made it to the bottom and completely disagree with me. I'm not going to go bat for random TV show producers or put that much work into defending them. It's fine if the added stuff is making the show too high stress or dramatic for you. I was also expecting the show to be much more chill given the tone that last season set.

I also don't want to come off like I'm somehow blaming the very real people contestants on the show for making sometimes (frankly) boneheaded decisions.

But I do think it might be worth everyone asking if PD is actually sabotaging them or if this stress is a consequence of having real people with human emotions and faults be the center of a dating show.