Several years ago, MTV premiered what would become one of their top hits. Reality TV series Are You the One? has been a major success for the network, pulling in steady ratings from viewers, who often speak of the show like a train wreck they can't stop staring at. The show follows eighteen people, all paired up by expert matchmakers with some anonymous member of the house, who live together in a tropical destination for eleven weeks as they attempt to find their perfect match. If by the end of their time, they've managed to find all nine matches, the grand prize is a total of one million dollars to be split among the members of the house. If finding true love weren't motivation enough to play the game, the money probably would be.

Every week, a challenge is held, after which the two winners of the challenge may go on an organized date. Of the two couples who are allowed to leave the house, one is voted in by the rest of the house to participate in a feature called the Truth Booth. In the Truth Booth, the selected couple—and rest of the house—is able to see whether or not they're a true match. After each Truth Booth session, a matching ceremony is held, during which connecting couples may choose to sit together. Light strobes indicate how many of the couples sitting together are matches, but not which ones—that's up to the contestants to find out. Only two things are guaranteed in Are You the One?: plenty of drama and plenty of heartbreak.

It's now 2018, and MTV is launching its eighth season of the show. Eighteen applicants from around the country have all been carefully selected and paired up by a sophisticated algorithm. Now, these twenty people are set to jet off to Bora Bora to take part in the eleven week game. Will they manage to win a million dollars? Or, failing that, will they manage to find true love?