What Swedish reality TV can teach us

What Swedish reality TV can teach us GVFÖ/ SVT Can watching relationship-based reality TV help viewers to navigate their own relationships? Ulrika Malm/ SVT The Swedish version of Married at First Sight, GVFÖ, has the feel of relationship documentary "I think that to a big extent, people like GVFÖ because they feel that the programme is real," viewer Casper Törnblom tells BBC Culture. "The programme becomes a bit of a mirror or canvas for people to use to look at how relationships work," he says. MÄN Swedish equality organisation MÄN holds discussion evenings where participants talk about GVFÖ, the Swedish version of Married at First Sight "The moral and ethical questions – there is a big discussion about them in Sweden right now, whether it is ethically correct that we do what we do," says Kalle Norwald, psychotherapist, sexologist and the series' expert who visited the discussion evenings at MÄN. "It's like an ethical stance we have, to bring out the couples' stories so that it will be logical, because I think the participants get more hate when you don't understand them," Norwald explains.