To be successful in the world of reality television, you have to -- in the words of Gypsy Rose Lee -- get a gimmick. The gimmick that has buoyed "Married at First Sight" for seasons centers itself around a universal desire -- the promise of love at first sight. The show partners up five couples and they get married on the same day they meet. The show chronicles what happens from the big fat wedding onward over a period of eight weeks. That includes a honeymoon, tracking all of the ups and downs of new couplehood as everyone adjusts to their marriages. Along the way, they're aided by relationship experts and counselors who help them through the rough patches. On decision day at the end of the season, they decide to either stay together or separate for good.

It's a formula that's resulted in a winner for Lifetime (and every other network worldwide that has adapted it from the Danish original). Season 12 was improvised in Atlanta, Georgia and paired up five Deep South-dwelling couples -- including a divorcee -- for the first time. Who ended up sticking together and who separated? Here's the skinny.