Why Do the Wrong Couples Keep Winning ‘Perfect Match’?
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Perfect Match Season 2 finale.
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: We all knew that Harry Jowsey and Jessica Vestal would never make it to the end together on Perfect Match, and sure enough, right at the start of the show’s season finale on Friday, Jessica gave him the boot. All told, Jessica was incredibly humane as she gave Harry the old heave-ho—especially given his slimy behavior at the guys’ retreat, which he mostly spent parading around with another woman. It turns out, Jessica didn’t have to do anything to humiliate Harry—he did it to himself, with help from the show’s producers.
I’ll give credit where it’s due: After years of watching dating shows leave their viewers hanging in uncertainty, I didn’t think that Perfect Match would show us the incriminating footage of Harry and Melinda Berry at the retreat, if it even existed. Imagine my cynical shock when the producers chose to show it during the finale’s final-act reunion. There Harry was, telling Melinda all the gross things she’d said he had done—and there he was, telling one of his fellow bros that he’d done “something really bad.” We don’t see the kiss on camera, but we do hear people talking about one. Oh, Harry, Harry! Did you really think you could get away with this?!