[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Ultimatum: Queer Love finale and reunion.]
The Ultimatum: Queer Love delivered its finale and reunion (Episodes 9 and 10) on Wednesday, June 7, and after all of the interpersonal drama, only one couple is still together.
The Ultimatum requires participants to break up with their partners, date new people, and then get back together with their former loves in a two-month experiment. The time apart, the Netflix format argues, will show these people what and whose needs aren’t being met in their original relationships.
As Season 1, Marry or Move On, and Season 2, Queer Love, show, the issuers of the ultimatum were unprepared for the consequences of coming onto this show. And like in Season 1, some ultimatum issuers surprise themselves by connecting with their trial marriage partner, which throws a wrench into their original intentions.
Any person who follows a polyamorous relationship style would say these people don’t have to expect all their needs to be met by one person. But The Ultimatum doesn’t allow for polycules (a connected network of people and relationships predicated on consent by all partners involved) to form, although it doesn’t explicitly ban it.
While the cast of The Ultimatum: Queer Love seems largely monogamous, select cast members are certainly more OK with their partners falling in love with someone else. Some are capable of making space for their partner’s new connection to coexist with their own (as shown by the Mal, Yoly, and Xander love triangle in Episodes 5-8). Regardless of their openness to ethical non-monogamy, the ultimatums must be answered by the end of the season.
The answers were given in the finale, and the aftermath of said decisions is shown in the Episode 10 reunion. Here, we break down the relationship statuses of The Ultimatum: Queer Love‘s couples.
The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Available Now, Netflix