Before taking a trip to probability world, let’s look at the two key potential perfect matches: Justin & Max and Danny & Kai.

Justin & Max are a problematic fave of many fans. Their story iconically started out with Max denying Justin because of his only-bi-in-LA (internalized homophobia) lifestyle. This is a story with which most queer people are familiar: someone enters their first queer relationship and becomes fixated on the first person who is really giving them permission to be queer. It’s cool to see the story on television, although it would have been nice to see it addressed for what it is. This circumstance would have been an excellent opportunity for our queer relationship coach, Dr. Frankie, to open a discussion about a uniquely queer relationship issue, but alas.

When we hear Max talk about why him and Justin are a perfect match, we never really get any arguments other than the connection they’ve formed with one another. They are basing their match on Justin being the savior that Max needs to allow him to express his sexuality to its fullest, which feels like a somewhat big burden for the matchmakers to place on Justin, who doesn’t seem particularly qualified to do that job after being tagged as “the worst communicator in the house.” He is hot though. This isn’t to say that it’s essential to gamify every aspect of your love life in the house, but as a viewer it is painful to see a player seem to be so intellectually and emotionally disconnected from the fact that they are indeed playing a game — especially as it is impacting their 15 other teammates.

Danny & Kai have actually sat together at three separate matching ceremonies; a larger number than words they had spoken to one another up until this last week. So when it comes to thinking about whether it’s Danny & Kai, the strangers, who are a perfect match, or the absolutely smitten Justin & Max, it feels obvious that it is going to be Justin & Max. We have been fed an edit pointing to a false perfect match four times this season (Jenna & Kai, Amber & Nour, Kylie & Kari, Remy & Paige), and honestly I’m not ready for them to fool me a fifth time, so it’s time to start looking at the matchmaking algorithm.

This is the first time that the producers of this show are trying to make their algorithm work for queer people. This season we’ve seen them pair together two people who have chaotic energy and both love ranches(?), two hot people who honestly aren’t really that interesting other than being super super hot, and two nonconformist mavericks. The pairings don’t appear to be extremely subtle. As a result, it is not out of this world to think that the matchmakers would feel compelled to pair together the non-binary trans-masculine person with the person we’ve seen who feels comfortable playing with their gender and wearing women’s clothing.

This is all just my opinion though, let’s move on to math.