Guilty Pleasure, 2010: TV Tales of Jaw-Dropping, Terrifying Marriages

Some television shows – hell, entire television networks – are built around the close-up of the jaw-dropping train wreck. Tales of voyeuristic catharsis, where us viewers can take a collective deep breath and thank the heavens that, no matter how bad things get, at least we don’t have it that bad.

I’m talking about the I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant and Hoarders‘ of the world, the TV shows that glimpse people going through traumatic ordeals, attracting the kinds of viewers who turned into Jon & Kate Plus 8 only after there was a tabloid scandal to match. For that crowd, there’s a new guilty pleasure that might just turn out to be the best yet: Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? which premiered last night on Investigation Discovery. Welcome to the bizarro universe where marriages go very, very wrong.