In the video, our trio of contestants descends to the “trap room,” which is explained by the host only as a “very special room in the depths of the house” where they’re living. One clip from the show, a shorter version of which has been circulating on Twitter, is especially surreal. At the end of every episode, in place of a rose ceremony, there is what I’ll call a trap-door ceremony, during which - once more - a woman falls through a trap door upon being eliminated. The premise of Love Trap, which premiered at the end of October, is that a group of women compete for a man’s affections, except that some of them don’t care at all about this man (go off, queen!) and are instead vying for a cash prize that they’ll win if they’re selected by the bachelor. What you should really be asking is, does the host assure the other contestants that the woman who falls through the trap door is not dead? That one, I can answer: absolutely, yes he does. Is it safe, you ask? Has anyone gotten injured?

The newest gem from this fount of creativity is The Love Trap, a dating show in which women are eliminated through a literal trap door. There is no doubt in my mind that the most innovative thinking of our time is happening in the realm of deranged reality dating shows.

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