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i think in reality to them, it was just suppose to be another generic reality show. about their crazy lives, family etc.

and trying to make their relationship better (for entertainment purposes mostly, i think was the intention here. i think danny knows he's a trainwreck and just doesn't care, but never expected to really lose gretchen because of it).

but from what i've seen of the show, as danny said in one episode "before , he thought they were happy couple , seasoned with moments of unhappiness, now he feels like they are an unhappy couple, seasoned with moments of happiness" ...

he also apparently is going to flip out at the psychiatrist soon, thinking he is putting some voodoo curse on gretchen.

so far gretchen is simply trying to do some things for herself... innocent things like joined a band that she plays with a couple times a month, had a little birthday party with her girl friends... and whenever she leaves to do something innocent for herself, he flips out, first begging her not to leave , after she does, he goes crazy drinking like a madman , taking steroids , and just getting pretty psycho. he has major anger issues, too. which adds plenty of entertainment value.

in the sessions with the psychiatrist he's basically realizing that gretchen might really leave him, and is now going through some major breakdown.

at the end of sundays episode he realizes this reality show isn't going as planned (he didn't expect his marriage start to fall apart and is blaming the show or something) and they show him mkaing a phone call to gretchen at her little party saying "the show is done, i'm going to have to talk to some lawyers" and clips about him slitting his wrist in the future. and mention of divorce.

it's insane. but oh so very interesting.