If your idea of romance includes dehydration, awkward silences, and a crate full of emotional sabotage, Stranded on Honeymoon Island might be your kind of show.
Seven’s new reality experiment kicked off on Monday, June 23, 2025, with a format that feels less like a dating series and more like a controlled burn. Strangers meet for two minutes of speed-dating, get paired off based on “chemistry” and presumed psychological friction, and then are married off and dumped on remote islands with no creature comforts—just each other and a supply crate filled with vague threats.
It’s part Married at First Sight, part Survivor, and entirely dependent on its cast to fill the air with drama. In the premiere, that pressure falls mostly on Amy and Mike. She’s blunt, independent, and visibly unimpressed when Mike decides to open with a take on gender roles that hasn’t aged well. One episode in, he’s not just the heel—he’s the warning label.
Elsewhere, there’s soft-spoken grief (Byron lost his mum young), self-sabotaging fear (Georgia was left three days before her wedding), and the kind of emotional baggage you’d usually unpack in a therapist’s office, not a sand dune. Then there’s Chad, who’s so honest about his family obligations it’s hard not to root for him, even as you wonder why he’s here.
The structure works—at least for now. The crates drop timed twists. The islands limit distractions. The couples are just stable enough to implode on camera. Whether there’s long-term value beyond the shock factor is another matter. But as reality TV first dates go, it’s definitely not boring.
