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Which ‘Perfect Match’ Season 4 Couples Survived the First Major Test?

Amanda Orlando

Five episodes in and the villa has already seen two eliminations, three women sent home in a single night, and more sliding glass door moments than most seasons produce in a full run. The dust has settled enough to take stock — and the results are more complicated than the surviving couple count suggests. Making it through the first five episodes is not the same as making it through intact.

Here is where every couple stands after “Perfect Match” Season 4’s first major tests.

Passed With Flying Colors

Yamen Sanders & Natalie Cruz

If there is a couple in the villa that has been consistently drama-free, it is Yamen and Natalie. They came in with a pre-existing friendship, matched early, and have been quietly building ever since. Natalie handled the Nick situation with more directness and self-awareness than most people manage, told Yamen she wanted him, and that was that.

No lingering triangles, no mixed signals, no confessionals about predicaments.

The only asterisk — and it is worth noting — is that Yamen’s post-filming relationship with his Love Island: All Stars match is publicly known, which puts a ceiling on how much viewers can fully invest.

For now, inside the villa, they are the most solid couple on the board.

Survived But Earned Every Inch

Jimmy Presnell & Ally Lewber

Nobody would have predicted at the end of Episode 2 that Jimmy and Ally would still be standing at the end of Episode 5 — and they almost weren’t. She kissed Dave. He went on a date with Kassy and came back saying he would have worked tooth and nail for a second date in the real world. She opened a sliding glass door on his conversation with Sophie Willett and said “love you” through the crack before walking away saying she regretted it immediately.

They got there in the end. Ally told Jimmy she had been freaking out and missed him and didn’t want to be open anymore. He matched with her with visible relief. He told her she was his favorite person and said “I love you.” She said it back.

Then the next morning he gave her every indication they were still open. By the end of Episode 5, she kissed Hashim Moore in a dare. The preview has her kissing Hashim outside of the mixer and voicing that her heart and her head are not agreeing, with Jimmy telling her it hurts that it’s not a no-brainer.

They passed the first test. The second one is already in progress.

Still Standing, But the Foundation Is Cracking

Demari Davis & Marissa George

On paper, Demari and Marissa are the season’s frontrunners. They won both compatibility challenges, have never been on the wrong side of a house vote, and have consistently presented as the most strategically aware couple in the villa. If you were betting on who makes it to the finale, they are the obvious pick.

The reality underneath that is considerably messier.

Demari called the new singles shiny new toys in confessional. He told Katherine she was his safe space. He passed on bringing his ex Bri Balram into the house at the boardroom — and then Bri showed up anyway, declined his hug, and told him he was so funny on camera.

Their Episode 5 matching conversation ended with Demari saying “let’s just do it, please” while Marissa processed her rejection sensitivity dysphoria out loud.

Then Marissa kissed Weston Richey at the mixer. Not a quick dare kiss — a long, deliberate one. In confessional, she said there was some possibility there. The preview has her telling Demari she kissed someone, Demari telling Bri he still loves her, and Bri saying she still loves him too.

They survived the first five episodes. Whether what they are surviving toward is still the same thing is a different question.

Survived, But Barely Tested

Jimmy Sotos & Alison Ogden

Jimmy Sotos and Alison have been the quietest couple in the house, which, in this villa, is a genuine accomplishment. He told her she felt like home when he matched with her over Katherine, and Alison has been steady and consistent about him since their first date. The problem is that their biggest test hasn’t happened yet.

Katherine LaPrell is coming back. She said in her exit confessional that she is so out of Jimmy’s league it doesn’t even matter, and the preview shows her back in the villa with unfinished energy. Alison told Jimmy she trusts him. He said he hoped he would get an A on the test.

That test is about to be graded.

Dave Hand & Sophie Willett

Dave and Sophie are the newest couple in the house and have had approximately zero time to build anything before the mixer arrived. Dave spent most of the first five episodes trying to figure out if Ally was his person. Sophie came in wondering whether Dave had enough substance. They landed on each other at the end of Episode 5 through a combination of genuine chemistry and process of elimination.

The preview already has Dave in a three-way kiss with Katherine and Kassy. They have not been tested yet. They are about to be.

The Ones Who Didn’t Make It

Chris Dahlan and Kayla Richart did not survive the first house vote — the speed and visibility of Chris dropping Mackenzie for Kayla was too much for the house to overlook, and Marissa’s tiebreaker vote ended it. Nick Pellecchia walked out after Episode 2 without a match, the first person eliminated. Mackenzie Bellows, Kassy Castillo, and Katherine LaPrell all left at the Episode 5 matching ceremony for three entirely different reasons — though all three are back in the villa by Episode 6, which means the door is not entirely closed on any of them.

Surviving the first five episodes of Perfect Match Season 4 is an accomplishment. Surviving what comes next is the real test.

“Perfect Match” Season 4 Episodes 1-5 are streaming now on Netflix.
Episodes 6 & 7 stream May 20 on Netflix.

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