The Ultimatum

During the season two reunion of “Love Is Blind,” Vanessa and Nick Lachey announced they would also host an upcoming Netflix series called “The Ultimatum: ...

In the finale, titled “Ultimatum Day,” the couples must decide if they want to stay together or break up. There's also the potential to form a relationship even better than the one they came in with. For extra drama, the show's men and women meet up to share updates about how the experiment is going. The first episode of "The Ultimatum" introduces the audience to the six Austin-based couples willing to put their relationships on the line. Then, the new couples see what daily life together might be like, a process that includes meeting each other's family and friends. Some couples went in with agreed terms, like Lauren and Nate. "I went in there saying, Hey, if if you hook up with another girl, we're done. If both see the potential for a budding romance, then a new couple is formed. Then, they each reunite with their original partner. Do the math, and that’s a lot of relationships to keep track of. The selection ceremony takes place at a long dinner table. The twist? "When you're in that little bubble, you get out of touch with reality.

If while watching Netflix's latest reality dating “experiment” 'The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On,' you keep asking yourself, “Wait, who did she come here ...

Who does Hunter choose to date? Who does Nate date? The couple with the most legitimate and thorny deal-breaker, Lauren and Nate disagree on the subject of children. He wants to “travel, have fun, and be financially stable” before getting married, but April wants to get married and fill her SUV with kids immediately. It’s a problem that could be easily remedied with a quick onscreen pop-up every now and then (instead of a chyron telling us their ages every single time), but as it stands, the show loses some of its steam when viewers are trying to remember several layers of relationship tension. It got to the point that I was distracted from The Ultimatum’s most dramatic moments by having to constantly ask, “Wait, who did she come here with?” and “Sorry, who is his girlfriend dating now?”

Nothing proves if your love is “true” like being forced to watch your boyfriend or girlfriend fake-marry some rando.

After that, they’ll then enter a second three-week “trial marriage” back with their original partner, and at the end of the show, they’ll decide whether to propose to the old person, propose to the new person, or leave single. Of course someone new can listen to your hopes and dreams without judgment—they haven’t had to endure two years of your farts, or your feelings on the merits of duvet covers. Participating in this social experiment, Vanessa says in all earnestness halfway through the series, is “about you as a person, and God willing, finding that other person. What’s crazier is this: Ultimatum has each couple pretend to break up, then makes every contestant enter a three-week “trial marriage” with another “newly single” contestant. Not so with the chaotic new Netflix show The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, an experiment from the creators of Love is Blind so torturous it should probably invoke ethical review by the Office for Human Research Protections. It features six established couples, all made up of pairs in which one has given the other an ultimatum to propose or break up. Contemporary matchmaking shows that corral heterosexual strangers to mix and mingle, demanding that they lock someone down after mere weeks of so-called dating—Love is Blind, Sexy Beasts, all the Bachelors and Bachelorettes—are a special kind of farce.

Netflix's 'The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On' delivered the drama in the first eight episodes — read our recap, and grade the season so far.

Madlyn backed up April, revealing that Nate told her 10 minutes before proposing to Lauren that he was going to choose her. When Nick asked Hunter what he was thinking in that moment, Hunter took the opportunity to propose to Alexis. This set April off because she felt like she wasted her whole week. Six participants issued an ultimatum to their partner to either commit to marriage or break up.

The re-coupling episodes of Netflix's new dating series 'The Ultimatum' were nothing if not chaotic. Here, we break it down.

Nate is pissed about what she said to the point of Jake stepping in to tell him to "let someone f---ing talk." Alexis jumps in to say she thinks a lot of people are feeling what April is about the experience and Nate's surprising move, because it doesn't seem like Nate and Lauren have settled the question of having a family. Alexis and Hunter and Nate and Lauren leave the experience engaged. Colby even presses Lauren about the lack of excitement he saw in her moments after she enthusiastically said "yes" to Nate's proposal. The shocking turn of events bums April out because she feels like her week was wasted and she still doesn't have a partner for the three-week trial marriage. Even Nick and Vanessa are concerned about what Nate is doing, which is proposing to Lauren. Given that it was Nate who initially gave Lauren the ultimatum, and that he just said having kids was an "all-encompassing" issue for him, several cast members ask about how they'll resolve that issue. After Alexis goes on to express the clarity she found, and confirms that even though she loves Hunter, she will walk away if she has to, Hunter stands up and declares, "Guys, I want to marry Alexis." Between her love for Randall and the connections she made with both Zay and Nate, Shanique is conflicted about who to choose. I want it to feel easy and to feel like it's always evolving, it's always growing," she says during the dinner. "I don't want him living with someone else, I don't want him dating someone else," says Alexis, who didn't connect with any of the other men during the first stage. From the creators of Love Is Blind — and also hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey — The Ultimatum tests the relationships of couples by having them enter into trial marriages with new people after one person in the relationship gives the other a choice: engagement or ending the relationship. He formed a strong connection with Rae, who was honest about the strangeness of the experience and feeling jealous about seeing her partner, Zay, going on dates.

Netflix's 10-part bin fire gets couples on the verge of marriage to ditch their partners and date someone new. This is reality TV so bad you will pray for ...

The answer is “Yes, absolutely”, and it is delivered in the form of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On. In this 10-part bin fire, the Lacheys introduce us to what is claimed to be six couples, but by my instantly anxious and fevered count, number at least 302, who have in common the fact that one of each pair wants the other to put a ring on it or else call a halt to their relationship. Homosexuality has not yet entered the Lacheyean universe, although they have promised a second season with an LGBT cast). “A” denotes blondness, “B” denotes not-blondness and that is literally everything covered that matters in this show. Anyway. The couples are split up and encouraged to lounge round a pool, have dinner, drink cocktails and see if they “spark” with anyone else. Shit or Get Off the Pot would have been a better title, but, alas, the US still clings in the strangest ways to its Puritan past, so to marry or move on is the decorous choice presented. This all goes exactly as well, which is to say as badly, as you would expect. The last programme presented by married couple Nick and Vanessa Lachey (fixtures in the reality TV firmament for the last 10-15 years, for reasons that need not concern us now, or possibly ever) was Love Is Blind. This was (indeed continues to be, until at least 2024, as a fourth and fifth seasons have just been commissioned) a show in which strangers communicate from single “pods” without being able to see each other until various pairs profess themselves in love, become engaged, then meet and get to know one another for a month before actually-factually getting married.

'FINALLY,' yelled every queer fan of reality dating shows.

A so far unnamed series hosted by Lachey will also debut on the streaming platform featuring cast members of Netflix’s dating shows that are still single. The Ultimatum‘s format actually lends itself to being a much easier structure for queer people and/or anyone experienced in polyamory and ethical non-monogamy. Chaos ensued as the trial couples lived together for three weeks — some forming strong connections, others waiting for the day they reunited with their original partners.

Vanessa and Nick Lachey host this series from the producers of Love Is Blind.

The oldest of the 12 contestants is 30, and the youngest is 23. And if there’s no incentive to do that, then what’s the point of watching this show? We get introductions to the original couples — Lauren and Nate, Zay and Rae, Alexis and Hunter, April and Jake, Madlyn and Colby and Shanique and Randall — and they spend their final night as a couple together, discussing what they hope they and their SOs get out of this experiment. It’s the details of the show that get us annoyed, and ultimately will lead us to stop watching. After a week of mixing and mingling, the contestants will select whom they want to be paired with. The Gist: Created by the producers of Love Is Blind, the contestants in The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On are already in couples.

Here's what we know about whether Lauren and Nate, who got engaged during Netflix's dating show 'The Ultimatum,' are still together.

Lauren has no trace of Nate on hers, and Nate's last post of Lauren was back in 2020, which would have been before The Ultimatum even filmed. Usually, when you go on a reality show like The Ultimatum, the producers have you hide a bunch of your recent posts so that people can't "spoil" the show for themselves by creeping on your IG. So it's possible that Lauren and Nate are still together, and maybe even married, but Netflix asked them to temporarily archive stuff. The premise of Netflix's new dating show The Ultimatum is absolutely bonkers.

Six couples must decide what's next for them when one partner is ready to get married, but the other is not in "The Ultimatum," Netflix's new reality show ...

How long have they been together: Pounds and Ruggles have been together for two and a half years. How long have they been together: Maloney and Parr have been dating for two years. How long have they been together: Imari and Griffin have been dating for one and a half years. Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the series follows these couples as one partner gives the other an ultimatum on marriage. How long have they been together: Marie and Cunningham have been dating for two years. How long have they been together: Williams and Wilson have been dating for two and a half years.

Are Lauren Pounds and Nathan Ruggle from 'The Ultimatum' still together? Let's investigate their Instagrams and Venmo interactions for clues.

But when you head on over to Venmo, things get a little more interesting. Nathan, for his part, made it clear that he wants to get married and have kids. It looks like Nathan never appeared in Lauren’s Instagrams, so that’s really no help. “I feel kind of awkward interacting with children sometimes. It’s a massive pressure cooker situation and, while some couples definitely crumble, others actually make things work. On Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, real-life couples are put on a dating show where they have to decide if they’re ready to get engaged or break up.