‘The Ultimatum’ Creator on What Happened When Four Cast Members Quit in the Middle of Filming and How It May Affect Future Seasons

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Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the first five episodes of “The Ultimatum” Season 3, now streaming on Netflix. Within the first few episodes of the third season of “The Ultimatum,” the cast was nearly cut in half.

After the six couples chose new partners with whom to live out a “trial marriage,” two of those couples — Vanessa Hattaway and Dave Adams, and Micah Hardeman and Chanel Watkins — decided in the middle of the night to leave the show.

In Episode 4, during the third day of the trial marriages, both Nick Tramontin and Mariah Zernick were shown arriving at their apartments only to learn that their respective partners, Vanessa and Micah, had packed their things and left without a goodbye.

Title cards revealed, “Earlier in the day, Dave, Vanessa, Micah and Chanel secretly met off camera. That evening, surveillance cameras captured them packing.