With Davina gone, Married At First Sight aims to redeem Dean

“Wow, sage relationship advice from Dean,” says one of the experts from their spy-room. “That’s actually valuable advice.”

Dean is somehow no longer MAFS's biggest villain.
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He also cops an odd hero edit in part two of his face-off with beloved Telv, after the first incident was hamfisted into last week’s explosive dinner party.

“You gave it to me, dude. You slammed me really hard,” Dean tells Telv, before copping some extra blows in return.

“Yeah, ‘cause I think you’re an arrogant asshole,” Telv replies. “The only reason I’m talking to you is because I work in an industry where I have to work with people I don’t like all the bloody time.”

He also reiterated the group’s feelings that Tracey should’ve ditched Dean following the cheating scandal.

“If that was my sister, I’d be like ‘What the f---ing hell are you doing? You need to get rid of this guy.’ But she obviously sees something in you that we all don’t,” says Telv.

Dean takes the hits, earning yet another compliment from the experts.

“Look, I hope that you can come to appreciate that I do have a heart and feelings. And yeah, I haven’t done everything right and I have made some mistakes, but I’m trying to be a better person,” he tells Telv, finally taking some responsibility for the cheating fiasco.

To make matters worse for viewers, Tracey introduces an encore performance of Hurricane Deano’s hip-hop serenade from last week.

“That was awesome, Deano,” says Justin with a wink and a gun, after Dean skip-hops his verse to the table.

Tracey also debuts her new rebuttal, a different verse from last week’s freestyle. It’s just as awkward, but a line about getting a “knife in the back” draws cheers from Charlene.

“The rap from Dean and the reply from Tracey was brilliant, ‘cause it’s really shown how they’ve come from a really dark place and they’ve worked on rebuilding their relationship,” says an expert.

Dean’s smiling mug fills up the screen. We all reach for our remotes.

It’s an odd tone change for the show, and rather abrupt. Thankfully, there’s a new villain to latch on to.

After a horrible fight during the brides’ home-stays, where Nasser childishly stormed out of Gabrielle’s “possessed” rental apartment, what with its collapsing bed and mysterious gusts of wind, Gab looks broken.

Telv's forced to listen to Nasser's complaints, too.
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“There are plenty of women who wouldn’t be here right now, they would have left ages ago,” she says, returning to the pair’s pad where Nasser vacuums the evil spirits off her.

In an uncomfortable display at the dinner party, she feigns good times, regaling the group with stories of Nasser’s clumsy horseriding prowess. No one’s buying it.

In an open chat with poor Telv, Nasser reveals he’s embarrassed that Gab wrote “leave” at last week’s commitment ceremony. He says she nitpicks, she’s annoying, that she could be standing naked in front of him and he wouldn’t even notice.

Charlene overhears and delivers the message to Gab. Gab sets her straight.

“The reality is that he didn’t even make an effort, he took so many steps backwards,” she says.

A broken Gab promises fireworks at Sunday's commitment ceremony.
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Charlene pogos back to Nasser for a grilling. “She wanted you to fight for her!” she tells him.

“I’m not gonna fight for anybody. I don’t even fight for my f---ing sister!” he yells. “I can’t change, I can’t be this knight in shining armour.”

To dig it in, he ends the night with a toast to “the family”, to the bond between everyone at the table, even Dean. Gab delivers the show’s saddest monologue so far.

“I’m just having this flashback to the last four years of being at BBQs, and having to nod and smile and laugh along with couples," she says through tears.

“I know that feeling really well – it’s very lonely. Here, I’m looking on at a dinner party, and I’m alone again.”

What MAFS taketh away, it gives back. That pocket of hate you had reserved for Dean? Siphon a little Nasser’s way.